1. Higher Education
2. Other Remembrances

Dianne (Heiden) Houpt - Did you get my reply to your E-mail?

Ralph Heiden - Yes. Isn’t that amazing.

Dianne (Heiden) Houpt - Ralph says on his email to me, “This is a long way from the farm, isn’t it? From the farm to email.”

Ralph Heiden - Myrna (Drake) Bishop’s husband, Jim, (left) is a professor at Notre Dame so we have been emailing things back and forth for a while now. It is a local call so it doesn’t cost anything.

(Note: This was in "ancient" times (1995) when internet connections went through a modem and a telephone line. I had a second phone line installed because while you were on the internet, you couldn't get regular phone calls to your land line which is another ancient technology.)

Helen (Henning) Heiden - Who is that now?

Ralph Heiden - That is Bertha (Heiden) Drake’s son-in-law. He is married to Myrna.

Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - Where is Walter Berns’ daughter? She’s a professor too.

Ralph Heiden - Margie (right) is a professor of linguistics at Purdue University. She has her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.

Marie (Heiden) Tommelein - She got married recently didn’t she?

Ralph Heiden - Yes. I think they are both professors at Purdue. There are also several medical doctors in the family now. Linda’s daughter, Erin, is a doctor. And so is Connie Sedelbauer and she is married to a doctor. She has a pretty responsible position at the University of Michigan Hospital.

Dianne (Heiden) Houpt  - That’s where I work and I see her all the time there. She’s partly in our department now. She is so pretty.

Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - Where is Linda’s daughter a physician at then?

Ralph Heiden - I think she is at the Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis.

Helen (Henning) Heiden -   I think both of Linda’s daughters are moving back to Michigan now. Linda mentioned that at the reunion.

Ralph Heiden - It’s also amazing to look at where all the kids have gone to college. Some of Carol’s (Toburen) (left) children went to Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Janice’s (Clark) (right) went to Louisiana Tech and Northeast Louisiana.

Dianne (Heiden) Houpt  - That’s interesting because before I came over here today, I went back and looked through all that stuff to see where all my nieces and nephews went to college.

William Frank Heiden - Millersburg. Isn’t that were Mike (Toburen) was taking a class and it turned out the guy teaching wasn’t even a professor. They arrested him and found out he did the same thing somewhere else too.

Helen (Henning) Heiden -   Mike said the kids knew more than he did!

Ralph Heiden - I asked people to write down a little remembrance of Grandpa and Grandma and those have turned out to be really nice.

Brick Tommelein -   Here, one of our kids says that Grandpa used to reward him with a little sip of beer.

Marie (Heiden) Tommelein - Pa always knew all of his grandchildren by name. When you think of it, that was amazing since he had so many of them.

William Frank Heiden - And it’s not like today when your grandchildren are spread all over and you don’t get to see them very often. Back then, they got to see them all the time.

It’s hard sometimes to keep track of them especially with the names they come up with now. You don’t see many Johns or Bills.

Marie (Heiden) Tommelein - Tell me about it!

Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden - My grandchildren go from A to Z. Adam to Zachary.

Helen (Henning) Heiden -   Tom and Janice’s last grandchild is named Peyton.

Marie (Heiden) Tommelein - Our neighbor’s have a little girl they named Montgomery Alicia! That poor kid when she goes to school. She has a long life ahead of her.