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Abe and Judy Weidman
had their first date when
they were ninth graders at
Manheim Central High
School.
They went steady for most
of the next eight years.
After high school, Abe
went to West Chester State
College and Judy went to
nursing school. They had to
travel a lot to see one
another.
Then, in 1960, they broke
up. Judy had graduated
from nursing school, but she
wanted to get away from
Lancaster County and the
memory of her unlucky-
Judy and Abe Weidman
seeming love.
She got a job as an airline
stewardess, and moved to
New York City.
Judy says, ‘‘Airline life
isn’t as glamorous as it
looks. People told me before
I went in that it was going to
be rough, but I had to go
and find out for myself.”
In the summer of 1961,
Abe graduated from college,
and signed a contract with
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Judy came home to visit her
parents that summer, and
met her old boyfriend.
They had both seen a bit
more of the world, and the
Adam and Eve
old attraction was still there.
They got together again.
After an eight-year court-
ship, Abe finally asked Judy
to marry him.
Judy says, ‘‘Abe’s a little
slow deciding things.”’
They were married in
March of 1962. The newly-
weds had time for a week’s
vacation in Bermuda, then
Abe had to report to spring
training in St. Petersburg,
Florida.
They lived in Florida
while Abe worked as a
professional ballplayer.
In 1962 they moved back
to Lancaster County and
Abe became a teacher. Abe
also opened a garage and
began fixing up the old farm
house near Mount Joy
where the Weidmans live
today.
Abe has been working as
an educator and running
various automotove busi-
nesses ever since.
He ‘got an M.A. in
counseling in 1969, and is
now Coordinator of Cooper-
ative Education and Job
Placement for the county’s
Vo-tech schools.
This June, he formed a
corporation with Donald
Hess. The two men own
Mount Joy Citgo and A&A
Auto Sales.
Judy works two days a
week at the Manheim Auto
Auction. She also substi-
tutes as a nurse for Donegal
School District.
They have three children;
Jill, 12 and Chip, 11, who
attend E-town schools, and
Jodi, 7, who is a first grader
at Rheems.
Cheerful Jill Weidman
appeared several times dur-
ing the interview her pa-
rents had with the Susque-
hanna Bulletin. Jill is so
impressed with her parents’
marriage that she called
them ‘“‘Adam and Eve’.
The Weidman’s busy
schedule dosen’t allow
much time for recreation.
Most of their free time is
spent with the children.
Judy says, ‘‘As the kids
get older, you find it’s more
fun doing things with the
family.”
Both Abe and Judy agree
that the secret of a good
marriage is communication.
Abe says, ‘‘That’s the
key. Getting it on the table
and throwing it around.”
Abe and Judy have never
had a real, screaming
argument.
Abe says, ‘‘That’s be-
cause 1 refuse to argue.
There's compromise. It’s a
50-50 proposition.”
Judy says, ‘‘He’s very
easy to live with.”’
After eight years of
courtship and thirteen years
of marriage, Abe has
decided that he can recom-
mend marriage to any young
man.
“Of course’’, he adds,
‘‘we had time to get to know
one another.’’
Working at supposedly
glamorous jobs, and living
in the big city was good for
both of them, Abe thinks.
“You learn to appreciate
Lancaster county and be
satisfied with life’’, he says.
He adds, ‘‘One problem
in a young marriage is that
there’s always a question in
the back of your mind—
"What would it have been
like?’”’
“We know that what
we've got is the best.”’
Virginia gallery shows Shaub’s watercolors
A one-man show of the
watercolors of Jack R.
Shaub, Marietta has just
opened at the Dorsey
Gallery in Roanoke, Virgin-
ia.
More than thirty pictures
by Shaub, some of them
depicting local Pennsylvania
scenes, will be on display.
The art critic of The Daily =
Progress, Charlottesville,
Va., has discribed Shaub’s
work as ‘‘rendered with
poetry and grace...touching
the heart and delighting the
eye...rendered with such a
high degree of excellence
and sincerity.”
The Bulletin was impress-
ed by his pictures on display
at the Union Gallery in
Jack Shaub
Marietta. Some showed
sturdy Pennsylvania Ger-
man stone farmhouses sur-
rounded by bleak, rolling,
show-covered fields and
framed by the bare skeletal
branches of trees. They
conveyed -a strong mood of
human warmth in a cold
world.
Other pictures of flowing
brooks amid summer or
autumnal foliage were al-
most sensual in their rich
assortment of colors.
Shaub’s paintings hang in
the permanent collection of
the Kern Graduate Center at
Penn State, the York Art
Center, and the William
Penn Museum in Harris-
burg.
Shaub sometimes paints
his scenes from memory, or
fantasy.
He makes painting sound
as though it is something
that happens to him instead
of by him.
He says, ‘‘There is an
unpredictability about
painting with watercolors. A
thing happens between the
watercolors and the paper
which is beyond my con-
trol.”
Jack Shaub lives with his
wife Joanne and his son
Matthew at 220 West Front
Street, Marietta, which also
houses their Union Gallery,
including both Jack’s art
and Joanne’s crafts. (Jo-
anne’s interest in crafts will
be discussed in a later issue
of the Bulletin.)
Peggi Ridgway
Peggi Ridgway writes
and paints in Tulsa
Readers of Tulsa maga-
zine in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
look forward every month to
Peggi Ridgway’s lively arti-
cles and realistic penciled
drawings in the magazine.
Peggi (Mrs. Charles Co-
dy) Ridgway is the former
Margaret Fuhrman, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. (Marty)
Calvin S. Fuhrman, 35 N.
Chestnut Street, Marietta.
She was graduated from
Donegal High School in
1960.
Peggi started working for
the Tulsa Chamber of
Commerce as a secretary,
but her literary and artistic
talents were gradually dis-
covered and revealed in the
Chamber’s publication,
Tulsa, a sophisticated re-
gional magazine.
This past March she
authored the cover story for
the magazine, about a play
called ‘‘The Drunkard”
which has been running for
twenty years in Tulsa.
In June her pencil draw-
ings illustrated an article
about the Arkansas River.
Her portraits were so
realistic they won compli-
ments like: ‘‘That looks
more like Tom Jones than
Tom Jones does.”’
Peggi also draws cartoons
for the magazine and paints
landscapes, seascapes. and
western action on her own
time.
In August her acomplish-
ments were celebrated in a
feature story in The Tulsa
Tribune.
Peggi is not entirely
self-taught in art. A few
years ago she attended an
art school for four hours.
Also a wife and mother,
Peggi lives on a ten-acre
ranch 35 miles from Tulsa
with her husband and two
sons. Her husband, Cody, is
a breaker and trainer of
horses. Her son Brian is 8
and Reed is 2.
Kathleen Goodall back
from trip to Far East
by Hazel Baker
Mrs. Kathleen Goodall,
fifth grade teacher at
Riverview Elementary
School, visited a number of
countries in the Orient this
summer. Flying to Seattle,
Washington on July 23, the
tourists left on the 24th for
Tokoyo, Japan.
During the 27 day jour-
ney, the local group visited
Nikho, Kamakuro, Hakone,
Atami and Ryoto in Japan.
They also saw Toipei,
capital of Taiwan, National-
ist China, Hong Kong,
Bangkok, capital of Thai-
land, Pattaya shore resort
and Singapore.
On the return trip the
group spent time in Honolu-
lu, Hawaii, and flew from
Seattle to Dulles, Washing-
ton, D.C.
Accomanying her mother
on the trip was Kathi Proi,
Dean of Women and chair-
person of Humanities and
General Studies at Strayer
College. Mrs. Proi was a
former teacher of the
K-Dettes, a local baton
twirling and dance group in
the Columbia area, who
performed 10 consecutive
years on the Tony Grant
Children’s show on the Steel
Pier, Atlantic City, N. J.
September 17, 1975