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R: Tell us who the girls married.
D: Virginia married Robert Jeffers,whomshe met in Germany. She went to Germany
right after she got out of college. He was doing his G.I. stint. He is now
a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Susan married James Wiltshire, who's
from Ft. Meyers, Florida and who was at the University of Florida. He was
two years ahead of Susan, and he was majoring in Engineering. They were
married a year after Susan graduated. She went up to work with General
Electric in New York for a year.
R: And where do they live?
D: They live in Hamilton, a small bedroom town in a lovely section near Boston.
R: How many grandchildren do you have?
D: I have six.
R: Tell us their names.
D: Virginia's oldest son is Robert Davis Jeffers, who finished at Duke two
years ago and now has a job in advertising in New York City. He's an artist.
He just had his first television commercial recently. They have a daughter
named Susan and she is a senior this year at Genrgl Washington University in
St. Louis. Susan's oldest is James Denham Wiltshire. He finished at
Dartmouth a year ago and he is with IBM in Chicago in computer sciences.
Their daughter Elizabeth Wiltshire is a junior at Harvard this year. She
took a year off last year to work in Washington. The next son is William
Morton, named from John's brother. He is a sophomore at Princeton. Caroline,
the youngest, is a freshman at Yale.
R: My goodness. They really did make the best colleges.
D: They're very fortunate because they seemed to inherit the right genes.
They all made very high scores on the SAT's. The youngest one actually
made a perfect score.
R: I'll bet you're very proud of them.
D: Well,you know, you'd be very proud of grandchildren if they could just
say "boo".
R: I can't understand how your grandsons got to be so much older than mine.
I guess it's because I had...
D: You had boys.
R: I had boys and they married late.
D: I had girls and they married early.
R: Right. That'makes a big difference.
D: It does.
R: Do you see them often?