1971

THE SCHLAVER CHRISTMAS CHIMES — December 25, 1971

400 S. I-Oka, Mount Prospect, Ill.

We use this method again in the season of Nativity to give a year-end report as has been our custom for more than twenty years.

The year of 1971 was a time for Dad and Mother to find happiness in the ordination of son David and in the smiles of little grandson Matthew Boyd Steffens.

Seems like only yesterday but instead it was nine years ago when David came home at Thanksgiving while a junior at Notre Dame and told us he intended to dedicate his life to Christ. Now, he is being ordained into the priesthood of the Congregation of Holy Cross at Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame, December 18. To follow are Masses of Thanksgiving at Christ the King Church, South Bend, December 19 and at St. Raymond's in Mount Prospect December 26. The latter is to be followed by a St. Raymond's Parish reception before relatives and friends gather for dinner at St. Paul Lutheran School Auditorium. Thus is climaxed years of study and preparation by David at Jordan, Minn., Notre Dame and Washington, D.C., the acquiring of a Master's degree in theology at Notre Dame, two years as a "Dutchman" in Holland and service there as a Deacon at Maarssen.

Grandparent status was achieved for C.O. and Betty when Marcia and Mark presented us with Matthew, born on Saint Patrick's Day of 1971, ushered in without a brogue but instead almost continual cheerfulness. He already crawls and his adoring parents expect him to take his first steps almost any day now.

A welcome telephone call early in December from son Paul brought the news that he was back in Ohio at Chesterland where he and Diana hope to settle down with her four children.

C.O. faced mandatory retirement after a happy decade of editing the QUILL for Sigma Delta Chi and so he became editor of the American Press in Wilmette June 1. When that publication was sold he remained with M-G Publishing Co. as managing editor of the American Automatic Merchandiser. Editorship of the American Press has been on a free-lance basis.

Betty continues as an assistant cashier at First National Bank of Mount Prospect. She had the opportunity to go with C.O. on his last two trips for Sigma Delta Chi, to the Awards ceremony in Las Vegas and to the National convention in Washington, D.C.

Warm as the glowing logs in our fireplace and bright as the full moon's glow on a clear Illinois night is our closing wish to all: "A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR"