The Sleight family with Ginger and Susan Rutherford on Ginger's birthday cruise in July 2010.

 Photos from the July 16, 2011 wedding of Annie Sleight and Thomas Disher can be found at the bottom of this page.

Nancy and Dick celebrated their 30^th wedding anniversary March 14^th.  Annie’s birth in 1987 prompted our first “Christmas” newsletter and her wedding this July brings this second — where did the time go?  We home-schooled Annie, Nathanael, and Jeannie Beth until high school, when all three attended Bellevue Christian School (BCS).  Now Jeannie Beth has graduated and is following her mom, sister, and brother to Seattle Pacific University (SPU).  We’ve never had a dull moment with church; reading; Shakespeare and musical theatre camps with Taproot Theatre; the Pacific Science Center, zoo, and other places; skiing with Susan and Ginger; and videoing and photographing our three children in sports and drama.

Both of Dick’s parents passed away this spring: Jean, age 90, (who lived mostly under our care since December, 2007) in March and Richard, age 92, in April.  Life has been especially hectic.  

Dick is Manager of Information Systems / Instructor in the business school at Seattle Pacific University.   In “free” time, Dick leads a weekly men’s Bible study at First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue and volunteers as sports photographer for Cross Country (XC), Track, and Wrestling teams at BCS and SPU.  This spring, the BCS girls’ Track and Field team won the State Championship for the 3^rd consecutive year and Dick’s photos were again in the local newspaper which sponsors him.  His sports photos are online at www.Bellevue1.net.  

Nancy continues videoing sports and drama, helping BCS senior ladies apply for the new P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for college, and supporting University Presbyterian Church’s summer Day Camp for preschool and elementary students, a family tradition for 21 years.  She just “graduated” from ten years in the Bellevue Christian School “Moms In Touch” prayer group, which met weekly to pray for BCS student and staff families.

 Nancy’s mother, Ginger Rutherford, is still living with Susan in Redmond, since Bob passed away in 1990. 

Sue is again working a lot with Evergreen Hospital as Medical Director of Women’s and Children’s Services, which keeps her at home more.   

Ginger and Susan had spent lots of time visiting and caring for Ginger’s sister Eleanor Uhthoff Manning (Ellie) who passed away in November of 2009 at 100 ½. 

At that time, we gave Ginger a kitty, Pearl, to keep her company when Susan traveled.  Pearl is sweet, but a handful, and gives Ginger lots of stories to tell!  

As well as matriarch, Ginger continues to serve as hostess par excellence for family and P.E.O. gatherings and Susan’s numerous visitors and professional and volunteer meetings.    

Susan and Ginger are great supporters of Dick and Nancy and kids.

Jean just graduated from Bellevue Christian School and will attend SPU this fall.  For eight summers, she has acted in Taproot Theatre’s student acting  program. Last August, she played Beatrice in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing.  In April, she led two BCS teams to a 1st and a 2nd place at the State Mathematics Championships. (She was also on a winning team in 2009.)  She received many honors and awards at graduation time, including the Director’s Award in Choir.  She ran on the varsity Cross Country team for four years, including three trips to the state championships.  Her interests span theatre, music, mathematics, literature, video production and much more.  She enjoys her Facebook friends.

Nathanael just finished his junior year at SPU.  He is a double-major in Physics and Chemistry, and hopes to become a teacher.  

He has competed in Cross Country, Indoor Track & Field, and Outdoor Track & Field now for nine seasons.  He has qualified for the conference championships each season, and he finished 2^nd on his XC  team the past two years.  He’s also been named Academic All-Conference all three years.  He specializes in the 800m and 1500m distances in Track. 

Nate has developed an interest in English Country Dancing. 

He has a part-time job working in the business school computer lab for his dad. 

He plans to make the most of the tuition discount available to him because his dad is an SPU employee and graduate after a 5^th year of study, just like his sister Annie did.    

Her high scholarship was not surprising, as she was also a high school Valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar. 

During college, she studied abroad in Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, Portugal, and South Africa.

This past year she has been tutoring Korean students at the nearby Bellevue Learning Center in the evenings and substitute teaching at her alma mater, Bellevue Christian.  She even got to finish the year as a “long term substitute” for junior high social studies.