1962
THE SCHLAVER CHRISTMAS CHIMES 400 S. I-Oka Ave., Mount Prospect, Ill., Dec. 25, 1962 - Vol. 9
Merry Christmas--a holiday wish to you and yours-- And here's the news from the Schlaver family of C.O., Betty, David, Paul and Marcia, a year-end report as has been our custom. It has been a year of work, happy activity, a bit of traveling, sorrow in the death of C.O.'s mother, a 50th Anniversary 108-page issue of THE QUILL, opening of exciting Randhurst Center in Mount Prospect...and so another 12 months have slipped by.
As a family we had a week in the East where we revisited Washington, D.C., David and Paul toured halls of byways of Congress and we all enjoyed a visit with Representative Marguerite Stitt Church. Then, off to Hershey, Pa., the chocolate town, for the National Editorial Association convention.
C.O. saw THE QUILL, of which he is executive editor, go ahead in advertising. As village president he has guided advancement of a program of annexation as Mount Prospect's destiny and he hopes to see the idea of a balanced residential-business-light industry community vindicated. He anticipates that the village share of taxes will be reduced starting next year.
Betty is now at the Randhurst Bank as note teller, exposed to the lure of merchandise in the fascinating 60 stores but with little time for shopping. But she still rides herd on the family finances and attempts, sometimes unsuccessfully, to cajole the menfolk of the family to help on household duties.
Marcia, just turned 14 and a freshman at Regina High in Wilmette, now is more help with housework and in increasing demand as a baby sitter. She's learning French and still interested in art, perhaps more so in baking cookies for the gang of college boys that David brings home on occasion from Notre Dame. (Five for Thanksgiving to tackle a 24-pound turkey).
Paul is a sporting goods salesman at the Fair store in off-school hours. Senior now and band president at Notre Dame High, he intends to enroll at the university of the golden dome next Fall. Butcher, baker, journalist, doctor, dentist? He hasn't decided.
After a summer of working in the Randhurst Center offices, David took our Chrysler west on a 6500-mile trip to the Seattle World's Fair, numerous national parks and a stop-over of the weary lot of five collegians at Louis Schlaver's farm in Wisconsin. There's other news about David, too. He has decided that teaching of history in the Holy Cross order is to be his life's work. Thus dedicated to this ambition, he is entering the seminary at Notre Dame next semester. Ahead is a year of study and contemplation at Jordan, Minn., perhaps long term of study abroad.
Such is the Schlaver family report for 1962. And we hope that the next year will bring our friends and kinfolk nothing but the best.