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Glitterati and Luminaries

The current St. Louis Magazine (December) includes two women of local interest. 

Janice Mudd, artist and wife of Concordia Seminary's facilities director, is featured in the magazine's Glitterati section.  She attended the St. Luke's Hosptital Spirit Girls Night Out and is seen painting in her photo.

Clayton Mayor, Linda Goldstein is highlighted as one of St. Louis' Luminaries, "people whose ideas glow so brightly, they illuminate a path for the rest of us."  Her efforts in sustainable environmental work in Clayton has made Clayton the area leader in this area.  She is also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet.

The Luminary story is not yet linked on the website. 

Morning dogs

Trick or Treat 2009 version

Everyone in a good mood because there is no rain with an extra hour of sleep as the real treat.

First!

A monkey

Look at Ferdie laugh!  Click picture

They just kept coming

Wha'cha got in that bag

The littlest pumpkin and her princess sister

Somewhere in Clayton part 2

Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus-Concordia Seminary

Touch football on the old CBC, now Wash U, soccer field.

The Woods at Concordia Seminary, a spot of red

My front yard

Red with a spot of Gold

Red, green and yellow at CBC (Wash U)

Married student apartments, Concordia Seminary

With more rain expected, the leaves will be falling fast and losing their color

Good-Bye big, beautiful elephant ear Hostas.  We'll meet again in the spring

Taste of St. Louis 2009

For the 5th year in a row, we've put on a Taste of St. Louis preceded by a location scavanger hunt for the Concordia Seminary Women's Association. 

After following clues to find places, everyone meets back at our house to sample some foods unique to St. Louis.

 

Everyone met in front of the chapel to begin.

And then the eating finished the day.

We ordered a cake from Kruta's Bakery in Collinsville which depicted a bit of seminary history.  Tomorrow will be the 85th anniversary of the dedication of the cornerstone of the present campus.  On that day the famous Dr. Pieper was the speaker, giving his address in Latin to a large crowd when a bi-plane flew low over the proceedings.   Everyone stopped to watch the plane and that was the moment when many realized one era was being passed to another.  Latin was on its way out and the modern age was beginning.  We have a framed drawing which was the model for a stone carving on one of the campus buildings which is an artist's rendering of October 26, 1924.  Jim Kruta was able to turn that image into a cake.  Kruta's have the best cakes too.

St Louis area Lutheran schools cross country meet

Concordia Seminary was the scene of the first annual St. Louis Lutheran grade school cross country meet featuring races for grades K-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8.

The sun shone on the campus for the first time in probably 10 days which made everyone feel like being outside for a bit of racing.

Over 20 schools participated, bringing lots of people out to the campus.

All cross country meets, no matter what age level, brings dogs.  Here's Eiger, Molly and Ferdie.

 

This was Ferdie and Mollie's first meeting.  They liked each other.

The seminary's director of admissions, Kyle Castens gave a welcome and opening prayer.

Waiting to run after the prayer.

The first race goes off.  The youngest girls

Then the youngest boys and so on up to the 8th graders. 

They're off.   whoops, one guy took a tumble

 

The older the kids, the longer the distance they ran.

A fun, lively morning around here.

October Fest 2009

It's cold.  It's gray.  It's damp.  But that didn't stop a large crowd of Concordia Seminary students and staff from coming out to the quad for German food and music.

Filled up.

 

Every year there's one guy in lederhosen.

The band.  They're really good, the music is very lively in that German polka way.

Under Luther Tower.

Dale went over to the children's play area and jumped into the giant, inflatable obstacle course.

After we ate I went home and got Ferdie.  Little kids just love to touch him and he is very gentle around them.  What he wanted most was to sniff out food that may have been dropped on the ground.

Shark bait

While teaching his homiletics class the other day, Dale told the students that they should go after the main point of their sermons like a shark.  Don't be swimming round and round aimlessly like goldfish.  This class illustration was a prank waiting to happen and, students, even seminary students, never let an opportunity go to waste. 

This morning Dale went to his working office around 5.  It was dark in the hallway and he thought he saw someone standing by his door...and he was 'sort of scared'.  So he went back into the main hall and turned on the lights.  When he went back to his office, this is what he saw.

Glory Days

The Great Forest Park Balloon Race.  Not much wind today.  For the first time that I can remember the balloons floated southwest rather than northwest, drifted over Skinker down to DeMun and then just above the south edge of the Concordia Seminary campus. Click to enlarge

The American Airlines balloon passed right over me as I stood in the seminary parking lot next to I-Dorm.

The dorm roof has another balloon pass by.

But, the most exciting part came with the Old Glory Balloon.

Up in the air and heading our way.

uh oh

Coming down behind the library parking lot and heading for the old CBC soccer field.

Old Glory comes in for a landing as some guy begins to clamber over the fence.

Down it comes and the pilots go to work

They decided to give it up, no wind, a bit of rain starting to fall. 

This brought out lots of excited people from the seminary campus and the San Bonita which runs alongside the soccer field.

Oh no, here comes another one

This balloon clipped part of the stadium, but managed to get back up in the air and keep going.  This is the most fun we've had during a balloon race.

Field Day 2009 at Concordia Seminary

Normally Field Day is the Saturday before Labor Day, but because of a day long rain it was postponed until today.  This is quite the busy weekend we're having.

There were games

Games Ferdie like too

Bubble blowing

Face painting

Coloring

Observing

Tight rope walking

And, of course, Ferdie petting

And the most favorite part, being sprayed by the Clayton Fire Department