May 27, 2016. Madison, Mississippi. Galveston Days.

Our friend Marilyn reminded me in an e mail about Galveston Days.  She was remembering what an eclectic, energetic and international group we were.   Her recollection was that we all had tickets to The Alley Theater in Houston even though we lived in Galveston and she recalled that our friends included people from Denmark, Argentina, Germany, Ireland and of course Americans.  She specifically asked about Fritz Anderson who with his wife and two children lived in Galveston when he was completing his Internal Medicine Residency.  The whole group were from someplace else and were living in Galveston to further their education, all medical in some way.

I still have good friends from that time period.  Alice Anne, The DeGroots, Tupin, Tom and Carolyn and of course Marilyn but I had not thought about that group as a group for a long time.  We did have a good time and even though no one had much money, we enjoyed ourselves and each other, and we began raising our children.  We all attended an international film festival at the University and we had many parties.   Our group was lively, always willing to go and do.

Ken looked up Fritz on the Internet as Marilyn had asked about him specifically.   We knew their family had moved to the DC area and we continued our friendship although they lived in Northern Virginia and we lived in Bethesda.  All went well when I was at graduate school but when I became a real estate agent and then a very successful real estate agent, Judy, Fritz's wife did not like it.  In the meantime, she had finished law school and the last conversation I had with her was that she was taking a job in the settlement business.  We never heard from them again. Recently, Fritz had health issues but now is well and is retired and with a new wife.  The article about his health which was in the Washing.ton Post, said nothing about his first wife.   And that is all I know.  But it was an interesting visit down a very pleasant memory lane which took place many years ago, specifically from 1964 to 1970.