Message from Pat BROADWAY Stover

Hey Lori,

Thanks for doing such a great job keeping us all up to date on BMC happenings. I'll fill you in our family. August 2007 Dan and I moved to Beaufort,SC. We already owned a lot in Habersham, a planned urban community, and rented here until our house was ready. We got into our house just before Thanksgiving and are still in the throws of unpacking between holidays and family obligations.

Dan is doing well and is working from home and only traveling once or twice a month. Right now he is working with the Army consulting on construction and operation of facilities built to destroy chemical weapons. They are literally making plowshares out of swords. John Deere is buying the cleaned metal. He is enjoying the lack of yard work. We traded 100 acres with a 2+ acre yard for a 1/4 acre lot with just enough grass in front to be able to use an "ole-timey" reel mower. Our community has many green spaces and beautiful live oaks and we're about a block from the river, so we still get to enjoy nature without having to keep it up.

I thought I had retired when I moved here, but I guess I didn't have the teaching bug out just yet. I applied to sub for the Department of Defense schools here serving Parris Islalnd and Marine Air Corps Station. A kindergarten job was available. I applied and got it. I really enjoyed teaching there and felt like it was something I could do to help our military families. Please continue to keep our military and their families in your prayers. The spouses and children left behind are often forgotten in the big scheme of things, but they are extremely brave as well. I decided to just sub this year, and I've done a nine-week Spanish interim for second graders and a two week lst grade stint. I took this year off from full-time work so I could travel with Erin, our daughter, while she went on interviews.

Erin is a 4th year medical student at Univerisity of Tennessee, Memphis. She'll be graduating on May 29, 2009. During November and December we traveled throughout the southeast. She interviewed from Memphis to Charleston, SC and Savannah to Washington, D.C. We'll find out on March 19 where she'll be spending the next four years for her internship and residency in OB/GYN. We hope it is near us!

Chris graduated from the US Naval Academy, following in his dad's footsteps, in May 2007. He majored in mechanical engineering and his first assignment is aboard the USS Philippine Sea, a guided missile cruiser. He has been deployed several times already, once to the Middle East last winter. He is just returning from Rhode Island, where he finished the last steps to receive his Surface Warfare Officer pin. In March he will be deploying again we think. With the military, you don't count on where you are going until you get there. Please keep Chris and his shipmates in your prayers as they serve our country.

Well, that's the Stover family bio in a nutshell. Unfortunately, I will not be able to be with you in June. My sister, brother-in-law and their three daughters and families are coming to Beaufort the first week in June to celebrate Erin's graduation. Have fun and hug Nona Kay for me.

Beaufort is a gorgeous place to visit. We are about 90 minutes from Charleston and 45 from Savannah. Hilton Head is about 30-45 depending on traffic.
If you get over this way, please call. I'll be your personal tour guide. My home number is 843-379-8268 and cell is 931-205-4829. Our new address in
47 James Habersham, Beaufort, SC 29906.

Take care!
Love,
Pat Stover

P.S. While unpacking I found Darlene Hutson's 1975 Mountaineer. Obviously I am finally getting to boxes I have carried but not opened throughout all my many moves. If anyone knows Darlene's address, let me know. Darlene, if you're out there, contact me. I'll send it to you.