[Oe List ...] Celebrating the Completed Life of Shirley St. John.

[Jann McGuire]

I went on a teacher exchange program with Lindsay's Sister City, Ono City,
Japan, in 1989. I stayed a few days to visit the Tokyo House. Shirley was
my team prior in Chicago 17 years earlier. I wouldn't have survived a
difficult year but for her tender/tough care and sunny disposition. What a
privilege to have known her!

Grace,
Jann McGuire

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:42 AM Karen Snyder via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> Was it 1990 that the ICA Assembly was held in Taipei?  On the way home I
> spent a night in the Tokyo House.  Shirley and Wendell St. John and Joan
> Knutson took me to dinner. They smilingly told me what dish I was to order
> – a dinner of flowers. I can hear Shirley saying, “We are not getting this
> dish because we have had it before; but we want to treat you with this
> experience.”  (It was the most expensive item on the menu!)  I remember
> there was salmon with a salad of flowers, the ‘vegetables’ were flowers and
> the dessert was rose ice cream.  It was the most delicate and delicious
> meal I have ever had and the memory of it continues to this day.  But the
> greatest memory was the generosity and happiness of the three in giving me
> this gift – and Shirley was in the midst of it.
> Peace,
>
> Karen Snyder Troxel
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