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Miki Maslyk (Fenn) (1969)

Hi Bob Kepner, 

Thanks for your greeting! I do remember you. I hope you have had a good life also. At this stage it's like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes! Ginny and I are both doing well. It was nice to hear from you.

God's peace and blessings over you, 

Miki

Ray Palmer (1966)

My condolence goes out to John's family and friends.

Ray Palmer

Ray Palmer (1966)

Good to know that Mark Wilson is doing better with his recovery.  Happy Thanksgiving to Mark and family.

Ray Palmer

Cynthia Murphy (1977)

I lost my son of 31 years july 10, 13. i am just asking for prayers. it is realy hatd with these holidays and his birthday is in jan. losing a child is the hardest thing that has happenend in my life.

Vicki Bailey (Woods) (1975)

Cynthia:  I will be praying for you.  I cannot imagine how hard it must be to lose a child.

Marilyn Morris (1960)

I'm waaaaay too old to be on this high school list, but I did attend 3rd and 4th grades in 1945-46, when my dad was sent overseas with the occupation. I believe we were some of the first dependents deployed overseas.

We lived in a housing area known as Camp Sobingo. Is it still there? My dad went back to Korea after the Korean War as a military advisor to KMAG and he sent us photos of our former quarters HQ G-27 being ransacked by troops tearing up the floorboards to use as fuel. It was pretty unnerving to see the window of my bedroom being blown out and pockmarked with shells. We had no running water and only sporadic electricity, since the Russians above the 38th parallel loved to pull the plug on us right in the middle of a movie, or while I was doing homework. The theatre had generators, though, and we were rationed Coleman lanterns.

I have written about my army brat experiences from my birth in 1938 to my dad's (and my) retirement in 1958. We were sent to Linz, Austria a couple of years later, where I spent 3 years living in that beautiful country. Stateside, we lived in Fort Bragg, Fort Sill (twice) Fort Hood and I graduated from Lawton High School, Lawton OK in 1956.

I'm active in Overseas Brats, an organization founded by Joe Condrill, and listed in Marc Curtis' database, Military Brats Registry.

Currently, I am re-vamping my book, Once a Brat, Always a Brat, since I have decided to self-publish after a terrible experience with my former publisher....she embezzled from me and about 14 other authors. It should be "live" on Amazon.com in a couple of weeks..Thanksgiving and the approach of Christmas somewhat limits my writing time.

I'd love to find out if Camp Sobingo still exists, and if anybody is interested in reading an excerpt of my book, especially the part about living there in the years right after WWII, let me know and I'll post a portion (not too long.) My school was down a lane where I could walk back and forth; it was part of a larger building with a huge dome over the auditorium, where I understand church services were held. (The area caught fire one night, but didn't do much damage except a few hymnals were scorched.)

Okay, I need to finish this up. But I get so excited when I see a forum for Army Brats, I want to tell everything. Recently, I got a telephone call from a woman who said she loved my book and wanted to thank me for it. She then said, "I was in Linz, Austria, at the same time as you, but I was in high school and you were probably in the same class as my brother, Joe Grotenrath." I'm sure I screamed, "Joe Grotenrath! He was my first boyfriend!" We have been emailing back and forth about our life in Linz, Austria; I'd love to share my experiences with any of you from Seoul Dependents School.

Thank you for your website and the opportunity to meet those of you who are currently attending, or have attended, Seoul Dependents School.

Best to you all,

Marilyn Celeste Morris

Fort Worth TX

Michael O'Brien

Aloha Marilyn, 

I taught art and photography at Seoul Amerian High School from the fall of '63 to the June of '97.  I am one year younger that you.  I met my future wife that same fall.  She was a new teacher that year from Maine.  I was an Iowa farm boy from the beautiful NE part of the state.  We were married in Korea '68 and our son was born there in '75.  And, he graduated from SAHS in '93. We saw Seoul grow from a very poor two and one half million to a very prosperious thirteen million.  I published a photo book on Korea that some say they still find on Amazon or ebay - Far-Reaching Fragrance - Photographs of Korea.  Sobingo is an area of Seoul in Yongson Ku just east of the 8th Army Compound.  There are a couple of camps/posts that could have been yout Camp Sobingo with a name change.  There are those that I can check with on that. 

Michael F. O'Brien - onggi@hawaii.rr.com