The former Jenny Whittington and the Rev. Daniel I. Bookhout have set up housekeeping in St. Augustine, Fla., after having been married over the summer. Some 50 people were in attendance at the church wedding, held at the Fountain of Youth Park, a recreational site devoted to the memory of the 16th century Spanish expedition led by explorer Ponce de Leon.
Jenny, 25, a graphic designer, is the daughter of Kathy and Ron Whittington. Ron is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration rocket scientist who works at Cape Canaveral. Dan, 25, is the son of William R. Bookhout esq. and the former Diane Jester, and the grandson of the late Hon. and Mrs. Richard Bookhout of Oneonta. Mrs. Bookhout was the former Florence 'Flossy' Fieg.
Jenny and Dan are graduates of Flagler College, where they met. They enjoy beach activities, especially pontoon surfing.
Dan is youth pastor at Good News Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, which has the distinction of being the oldest settlement in North America.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Bill Doyle to Visit Scandanavia; Baltics
Having recently returned from Iceland, where he has been studying the tiny North Atlantic nation's culture, history, religion and language, Bill Doyle will soon depart on a similar expedition to Finland and the Baltic states.
Bill, the significant other of Diana Fieg Monaco, daughter of the F.F.N. founder V.P. Fieg, is a member of the Union of Operating Engineers and has a relatively flexible schedule that allows him to indulge his fascination with European history when he is not tending to the repair and operation of graders, rollers, loaders and other types of yellow-colored heavy equipment. Bill studied the ancients at State University of New York at Buffalo. His specialty is the military.
He is considering retiring in Iceland with Diana, his life companion, or, to coin a term, "his old lady," with whom he takes occasional excursions to his rustic cabin the Adirondacks, and with whom he spends a great deal of time dining, traveling, reading or enjoying various other sorts of quietude at home, including weekend ballgames on TV.
Living the often unfettered existence of urban bonvivants, the couple resides in the stunningly beautiful lower Hudson River Valley community of Croton-on-Hudson, in a vicinity known to the people of New York City as "Upstate," but to the people upstate as "New York City." (See how that works?)
The vicinity, encompassing Rockland, Westchester and contiguous counties, includes West Point Military Academy, the palatial homes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Robert De Niro and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Cagney and Helen Hayes and numerous other luminaries. It was formerly known as home to such great robber barons as John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould and was regarded by other types of robbers in residence as "Sing Sing."
For this coming trip, Bill will attend the Trialogos Festival in the Baltic state of Estonia on the European continent. It's an event devoted to global enlightenment through the advancement of Western thought, dialogue and culture.
Bill is a former U.S. Marines non-commissioned officer and Vietnam War veteran. His son, Capt. Dan Doyle, is on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in Oklahoma, where he serves as a judge advocate. Dan has served in a number of posts, including the combat zone in Bagdad, Iraq.
Bill, the significant other of Diana Fieg Monaco, daughter of the F.F.N. founder V.P. Fieg, is a member of the Union of Operating Engineers and has a relatively flexible schedule that allows him to indulge his fascination with European history when he is not tending to the repair and operation of graders, rollers, loaders and other types of yellow-colored heavy equipment. Bill studied the ancients at State University of New York at Buffalo. His specialty is the military.
He is considering retiring in Iceland with Diana, his life companion, or, to coin a term, "his old lady," with whom he takes occasional excursions to his rustic cabin the Adirondacks, and with whom he spends a great deal of time dining, traveling, reading or enjoying various other sorts of quietude at home, including weekend ballgames on TV.
Living the often unfettered existence of urban bonvivants, the couple resides in the stunningly beautiful lower Hudson River Valley community of Croton-on-Hudson, in a vicinity known to the people of New York City as "Upstate," but to the people upstate as "New York City." (See how that works?)
The vicinity, encompassing Rockland, Westchester and contiguous counties, includes West Point Military Academy, the palatial homes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Robert De Niro and the late Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Cagney and Helen Hayes and numerous other luminaries. It was formerly known as home to such great robber barons as John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jay Gould and was regarded by other types of robbers in residence as "Sing Sing."
For this coming trip, Bill will attend the Trialogos Festival in the Baltic state of Estonia on the European continent. It's an event devoted to global enlightenment through the advancement of Western thought, dialogue and culture.
Bill is a former U.S. Marines non-commissioned officer and Vietnam War veteran. His son, Capt. Dan Doyle, is on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in Oklahoma, where he serves as a judge advocate. Dan has served in a number of posts, including the combat zone in Bagdad, Iraq.
Friday, October 9, 2009
McGonigal Walks Out on Hollywood
Robert J. McGonigal of Kendall, N.Y., recently completed his first year of retirement from Eastman Kodak at Rochester, N.Y. where he had worked as a line mechanic in the production of bulk film stock for thousands of major Hollywood movies.
Recruited almost providentially at 21 by Kodak after graduating from the automotive program at Delhi Agricultural and Technical College, Bobby completed 34 years at the company, enabling him to accept a buyout at the age of 55.
Bobby's departure marks an ongoing corporate purge, which has seen his company diminished from a sustained workforce of some 60,000 to a mere 10,000 or so, with further cutbacks anticipated. The once bustling complex has been reduced in many sections to an almost desolate sprawl of building after building silenced and shuttered as Kodak downsizes to keep pace with overseas competition and cutthroat off-shore production costs, which in some cases are government subsidized.
Bobby has spent much of his first year of retirement at home with his family and indulging himself with his hobbies of off-road and highway motorcycling, fishing and hunting large and small game with his 12-gauge Remington pump or with bow and arrow. Not long he ago returned from a three-week adventure seeking elusive, 1,200-pound elk in Colorado.
Bobby and his family each summer visit historic Cooperstown, where his son Kyle McGonigal, 27, works security during induction week at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Kyle works for the Buffalo Bills during football season, and is on a first-name basis with quarterback Trent Edwards, running back Marshawn Lynch and other stars.
Continuing to work as a secretary at State University of New York at Brockport is Bobby's wife Mary McGonigal, easily the most beautiful debutant ever to emerge from Portlandville. Come to think of it, she is the only debutant ever to emerge from Portlandville.
Bobby and Mary were Milford High School sweethearts, and have known one another since childhood, as Bobby's boyhood home in Milford Center is just a short jaunt to Portlandville.
Bobby is the son of the late James McGonigal, plant superintendent at State University of New York at Oneonta, and the late Emilie Fieg McGonigal, who was an avid gardener, cook, antique collector and doll maker.
When Bobby was a toddler, the family's 1825 homestead was memorable for its black cast iron wood stove on which his mother prepared all the family meals, an original, old-time, wooden, handcranked magneto wall telephone, and even a two-hole indoor privy (which had been replaced by indoor plumbing sometime previously).
In Milford Center Bobby can still be remembered as Teedee, the name his playmates gave him after hearing his mother addressing him as such. Teedee is how you say "Sweetie" in baby talk. Please be advised that it is no longer permissible to call him Teedee.
Recruited almost providentially at 21 by Kodak after graduating from the automotive program at Delhi Agricultural and Technical College, Bobby completed 34 years at the company, enabling him to accept a buyout at the age of 55.
Bobby's departure marks an ongoing corporate purge, which has seen his company diminished from a sustained workforce of some 60,000 to a mere 10,000 or so, with further cutbacks anticipated. The once bustling complex has been reduced in many sections to an almost desolate sprawl of building after building silenced and shuttered as Kodak downsizes to keep pace with overseas competition and cutthroat off-shore production costs, which in some cases are government subsidized.
Bobby has spent much of his first year of retirement at home with his family and indulging himself with his hobbies of off-road and highway motorcycling, fishing and hunting large and small game with his 12-gauge Remington pump or with bow and arrow. Not long he ago returned from a three-week adventure seeking elusive, 1,200-pound elk in Colorado.
Bobby and his family each summer visit historic Cooperstown, where his son Kyle McGonigal, 27, works security during induction week at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Kyle works for the Buffalo Bills during football season, and is on a first-name basis with quarterback Trent Edwards, running back Marshawn Lynch and other stars.
Continuing to work as a secretary at State University of New York at Brockport is Bobby's wife Mary McGonigal, easily the most beautiful debutant ever to emerge from Portlandville. Come to think of it, she is the only debutant ever to emerge from Portlandville.
Bobby and Mary were Milford High School sweethearts, and have known one another since childhood, as Bobby's boyhood home in Milford Center is just a short jaunt to Portlandville.
Bobby is the son of the late James McGonigal, plant superintendent at State University of New York at Oneonta, and the late Emilie Fieg McGonigal, who was an avid gardener, cook, antique collector and doll maker.
When Bobby was a toddler, the family's 1825 homestead was memorable for its black cast iron wood stove on which his mother prepared all the family meals, an original, old-time, wooden, handcranked magneto wall telephone, and even a two-hole indoor privy (which had been replaced by indoor plumbing sometime previously).
In Milford Center Bobby can still be remembered as Teedee, the name his playmates gave him after hearing his mother addressing him as such. Teedee is how you say "Sweetie" in baby talk. Please be advised that it is no longer permissible to call him Teedee.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Josh McHenry to Command Armored Platoon
Robert Joshua McHenry recently completed his studies at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and has been promoted from ROTC recruit to second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, where he will command an armored platoon.
Armored platoons comprise four tanks, each with a 10-man complement, for a total of 40 field trained soldiers answering to Josh. His unit is "combat heavy," with orders being awaited. He is scheduled to begin service in January.
Josh, who majored in agriculture management at Cal Poly, is the son of S. Craig McHenry and noted children's author Janet McHenry of Yreca, Calif. His maternal grandmother is Doris Fieg Holm of Elk Grove, Calif.
He is a direct descendant of James McHenry, who served as secretary of war under presidents George Washington and John Adams from 1796 to 1800 and for whom Baltimore's Fort McHenry is named.
Armored platoons comprise four tanks, each with a 10-man complement, for a total of 40 field trained soldiers answering to Josh. His unit is "combat heavy," with orders being awaited. He is scheduled to begin service in January.
Josh, who majored in agriculture management at Cal Poly, is the son of S. Craig McHenry and noted children's author Janet McHenry of Yreca, Calif. His maternal grandmother is Doris Fieg Holm of Elk Grove, Calif.
He is a direct descendant of James McHenry, who served as secretary of war under presidents George Washington and John Adams from 1796 to 1800 and for whom Baltimore's Fort McHenry is named.
McHenrys Awaiting Stork in Bakersfield
Megan and Justin McHenry of Bakersfield, Calif., are awaiting a bundle of joy next spring.
It will be the first child for the couple, though Megan has a child from a previous marriage.
Justin, son of noted children's author Janet McHenry and grandson of Doris Fieg Holm and great-grandson of Max Fieg, was recently promoted to general manager of production and packing for Bolthouse Farms , a 90-year-old internationally recognized Southern California produce processor which, among other things, is the nation's largest domestic wholesale marketer of fresh carrots.
Megan, a former interior designer, has set aside her career for the time being to devote herself to Justin and the new baby.
Justin's career has been virtually meteoric since his granduation from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obisbo, where he majored in agriculture management. He is only 29.
His kid brother Robert Joshua McHenry, known among his peers as Robert but among family members as Josh, also recently graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in agriculture management as a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps for the U.S. Army.
It will be the first child for the couple, though Megan has a child from a previous marriage.
Justin, son of noted children's author Janet McHenry and grandson of Doris Fieg Holm and great-grandson of Max Fieg, was recently promoted to general manager of production and packing for Bolthouse Farms , a 90-year-old internationally recognized Southern California produce processor which, among other things, is the nation's largest domestic wholesale marketer of fresh carrots.
Megan, a former interior designer, has set aside her career for the time being to devote herself to Justin and the new baby.
Justin's career has been virtually meteoric since his granduation from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obisbo, where he majored in agriculture management. He is only 29.
His kid brother Robert Joshua McHenry, known among his peers as Robert but among family members as Josh, also recently graduated from Cal Poly with a degree in agriculture management as a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps for the U.S. Army.
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