Agnes Phillips: Such fun to have a birthday celebration for Janet. We apparently were not taking many pictures when Janet was with us but I will enclose the one and only taken at Mt. Charleston in the snow February 1955. I have been trying to reminisce about our activities at that time. You might ask her if she recalls the three of us going out on the Las Vegas Strip one evening to show her the night life including the Embassy Club. Another incident she will recall is the story of our neighbor, Marylou's parakeet "Tweetie Pie's" tragic demise. Sad but on the other hand---! Janet as you probably know worked at the Henderson Clinic for a short time when she was with us and then moved to Las Vegas to work at the Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. Of course we missed her as our visits had to be less frequent. This is not much help but it is all that comes to mind except that we loved having her with us and it created a friendship that I treasure dearly. Best wishes, Agnes Phillips Jeanette Olson Pfeffer: Well, we did have fun times in Las Vegas. It's remarkable, we comment, that we survived intact and chaste as we met some really crumby people. Ask her if she recalls: • The golf bum who was nuts about her and wanted her to rocket around with him and live on her nurse's salary! • The two teachers we made dinner for on Thanksgiving and didn't know beans about stuffing and put too much sage in and the whole thing tasted like Fels Napttha soap! • The party we gave - booze and all - and all our friends dropped money in a bowl- we kept our door open - and 3 guys came up, drank our booze, ate our food, flirted and stole all the money. • The ambulance guys who we took up with and they'd haul us anywhere in the ambulance. • The mentors and supervisors we like so much who hauled us to dinner, wrestling matches, etc and turned out to be a lesbian clan who wanted our sweet bodies - wah! Shock City! • The fun dinners with the Mikulich clan. • The dancing and drinking in North Las Vegas with real cowboys and coming home at dawn - down in the desert - so beautiful. • The two handsome navy ensigns who we took home and when one got fresh the Murphy bed fell on him. God, was he angry - they slammed the door when they left. I don't even recall how we got together. I was alone in a raunchy little apartment. My friend from Michigan went in the Navy and I believe your Mom was living with the Phillips and wanted a place of her own. We moved to the bigger nicer apartment on the second floor soon after. Blessed girl she bought most of the furniture we had and then left it with me when we parted. What a wrench that was. I've been so lucky she's written all these years. Your mother was always so beautiful. It's like a light shone out of her face. My kid brother saw her picture and thought she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. But she's beautiful inside too - the kindest, sweetest, most compassionate woman I know, with the tenderest heart. I don't regret the time in Vegas but I couldn't have made it without her. Give her a hug and a kiss for me. Thanks for contacting me and, love to you all, Jeanette Olson Pfeffer