Ingram Chronicle
Volume 2 Number 4
We are now in The Great Month of April! With Conferences all over the place, Yuma Arizona Stake, General and Yuma First Ward. We were able to participate at many meetings with really great speakers. We are enjoying relatively good weather--a few short rain showers have passed through--just enough to get the freshly washed cars dirty! And not enough to do more than stir up the dust. And not really enough snow in the mountains of Utah, Wyoming and Colorado to recharge the reservoirs along the Colorado River! Maybe more snows next year?
The general health of all here is still good--with a few minor ailments as usual with the onset of Spring--just normal, I presume.
Here is a recent photo of your Mom and I taken at the Wal-Mart Studio here in Yuma.
We are nearing the end of the school year, with final exams just around the corner, and winding up the class in metallurgy. I hope to see more students follow this large class--14 attending classes! We've had some good experiences in the classroom and in the laboratory. There will be continuing growth in enrollments as time goes on--more welders and machinists are needed as the area gains in industrial and agricultural needs, along with the ongoing military establishments. I have a number of men from the MCAS, military and civilian, seeking to improve their understanding of the trades and crafts that they already endeavor to use in their employment. I will lose about three or four of the class before the final exam--they will be deployed to the East Coast in the next two weeks--to service the F-18s and other aircraft in the Carolinas. I'll have to establish a method for them to take the final remotely, before they go on their way, to ensure that they earn their full credit for the course.
I've been using an electronic process for their homework and class and laboratory assignments--to show that they are in tune with the new technology for communicating with the world. I am still getting used to this idea myself, seeking to further ground myself in the technology--there are many glitches in the system--such as images and organization of the work on the electronic page. I hope that I can manage to learn the new along with the students. I'll just have to keep trying to learn the ins-and-outs of the system.
I am glad that Bob has seen fit to forward the letter from Brandon to us--I have shared it with your Mom and Rosy--I will have to add the e-mail address for Brandon to the distribution list for these Ingram Chronicles. We've also received snail mail from Sister Wendy Camerena--who's bound for the Switzerland Bern (French Speaking) Mission--from the Yuma First Ward! She is a niece of Moses Camerena of AWC, daughter of Adam Camerena, who's married to Suzanne Parker. She is a really sweet young lady, a real go-getter, and will be very successful on her mission! Her dad was a student of mine some time back.
Time has flown and I am just getting back to this issue with some small news. I've been busy with the Eagle Scout affairs of the Ocotillo District--I've been the Advancement Chairman of the district for some time, and have been responsible for setting up and holding the Eagle Scout Boards of Review! We've had about six or eight young men complete the Eagle Scout process so far this year. Tonight (11 May) we had Darrell Skousen of Hyder Branch here with his parents--a very fine young man.
We got an e-mail this week from Caroline Ugolini, in Sandy, UT, informing us that my sister Genevieve Bennett had fallen and broken her pelvis and was undergoing physical therapy for the recovery process--she had been helping your Uncle Clyde about the house and fell in the back yard. Times are tough. We all hope that she will recover quickly.