Don Engler, Michigan — I retired December 31, 2003. Now we can go visit our kids & grandkids and not have to worry about burning up vacation days. Our oldest daughter lives in Baltimore, with husband Rick and her kids, Bryanna (12) & Amanda (8).

Cheryl is Global Accounts Manager for T. Rowe Price and Rick works for a courier service. Bryanna is big into AAU basketball and her team (Dad is the Coach) has gone to the Nationals the last two years as 10-year-olds and this year as 11-year-olds. She might have a future in basketball if she keeps growing, 5'4" in 7th grade.

Middle daughter Lori lives outside of The Woodlands, north-west of Bush International-Houston. She is the registered nurse for an elementary school with about 600 kids. Kevin works for EDS and has about 70 employees working for him around the country. Both are doing very well. Ashley is 14 and in 9th grade, on the Varsity Cross Country team, and has been on the basketball teams the past two years. Kelsey is 13, 8th grade, currently playing volleyball & will be playing basketball soon. Zachary, 12 in 7th grade, is†running cross country now and will be playing basketball soon. They have two horses the girls spend lots of time with, including Lori, and they have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks in the family.

Son Brad is with a small company in Indianapolis which contracts with Indiana counties bringing properties up to speed on the tax rules, then buys and sells property, doing very well at this point. His wife, Andrea, is coordinator of student orientation at IUPUI. Alex, 8 now in 3rd grade, has been in figure skating and now swimming. Scott, in kindergarten, also has been figure skating and now swimming. So there you have it, a quick synopsis of our kids and grandkids.

Jan and I stay very busy these days. She's into her exercise routine daily and going to Curves. She has been doing some special sewing for some friends making draperies for their houses. She still has that special sewing talent. When polyester fabrics were popular, she made all my clothes for me, but that's quite a few semesters ago. We are both very active in our church and getting ready for a huge building program moving the church and our Day School about 7-8 miles from where we have been since 1956. In the summer my golf partner and I keep very busy going to various venues in the state, probably 3-4 days per week.

I'm getting ready to start my 31st season coaching our school's 7th-8th grade boys basketball team. It still is fun working with this age group and I'll continue as long as it is fun and I can relate to the kids. Being 67 now, some day they might want a younger man to coach them. When our season ends on 2/24/07, Jan and I will go the MSU-IU game here that night and then take off for Texas on Sunday after church. We've been spending the better part of March at Lori and Kevin's the past three years since I retired.

Well, there is a quick snapshot of The Engler family. How about the Boone family? So you get back to campus to see many football games or basketball games? I haven't gotten back to anything since the 20-year reunion they had for the 1961 team. Just seems like something always has been in the way.

Oh, last September, Charlie and Corky were here and we had them over to catch up on them and their kids. Fun talking about all the times we had, especially the basketball team. Well, so much for now. I'll get to the blog and see what's on there. Nice to hear from you and hope to see you in the near future. Where do you live now? Still in the Central Indiana area? How about your family? Fill us in please. Take care, Don.