Dear Family and Friends,
This will bring you up to date on the happenings in the Templon household. Three Templon children are living in the Midwest. John is at graduate school in a one year Journalism program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is really enjoying it. He will graduate the middle of June. Matt continues to work for Clark Products and will be starting an MBA program at Marquette University part-time in January.
Megan is attending Marquette University. She and her roommate Nicole get along very well. Nicole is a dancer on the Marquette dance team. She lives about twenty minutes from campus, so Megan has gained a set of parents close to Milwaukee! Megan has been singing with the Liturgical choir and had a solo in their Christmas concert. Next semester she will be singing in the Marquette University Choir. She enjoys having her older brothers so close. Last March she traveled to Lyon, France and spent two weeks living with a French family. She really enjoyed it and hopes to study abroad in France as part of her Marquette experience. She sang in Carnegie Hall last June with the High School Orchestra, graduated from high school, attended work camp in Maine in July with a group of teens from our church and worked at Rita’s scooping water ice for the summer.
Andrew applied to six colleges, and has been accepted at four so far. He will not be in the Midwest as he didn’t apply to anything further away than Pennsylvania or DC. He received a varsity letter for Spring Track last year, the service award for the band and took a trip to Virginia with the High School Band (he plays clarinet). He continues to be an active member in his Boy Scout Troop, helping with the younger scouts. He volunteered for a week of vacation bible school last summer at our church and continues to attend the youth group there. He played recreational soccer this fall and just started the winter track season. Andrew has grown very tall and is now taller than Rod and his older brothers.
Rod was an adult leader at Scout camp this summer, and took more Japanese language classes at the Princeton Adult School. He really enjoys taking them and has become a fan of Japanese food. He continues as an Assistant Scoutmaster and merit badge counselor with Andrew’s troop. He and Andrew took the Troop for an overnight canoe trip on the Delaware River. Rod took Andrew on his college visits and in September. They went to Lycoming College to see the Lycoming vs. Susquehanna football game (two of the schools that Andrew applied to). Rod continues to work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. In May, Rod chaired a peer review team that assessed the purchasing system at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. In October, he attended a conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He now knows for a fact that Wyoming is “where the deer and the antelope play” (and buffalo, and elk!).
Michelle’s Girl Scouts were honored at a dinner in May to celebrate their 13 years of scouting. She had two girls in her troop receive their Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting. She continues her duties as the Treasurer of the Music and Theatre Parents Association. At Princeton she is currently dealing with three vendors that the University has contracted with to do billing and consulting services for some of the Treasurer’s office systems. She attended a conference in Pittsburgh in June sponsored by one of the vendors. She spent lots of time at Avon by the Sea this summer and fall as the weather in NJ was unusually warm. She spent almost a week in the Midwest in September visiting her three children and spending some time with friends that had moved to Chicago. In October she went to Maine for a long weekend with her friends from college. It was great to be able to spend the entire weekend with them and catch up.
Some of us traveled to Pennsylvania in August for Rod’s family reunion. Everyone came home for Thanksgiving and we spent it at Michelle’s dad’s house with her brother Conrad cooking dinner. It was delicious and a treat for Michelle to not have to cook. For Christmas Michelle's dad and brother came to the Templon house.
Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2008. Come visit if you are in NJ.
