耿中平 (Peter Chung-ping Keng)

耿中平

Picture taken in November, 2008

Greetings from the Keng’s family! We hope our greetings find you all well, happy and healthy.

Dear Classmates,

This year was quite eventful for us. Both Suzan and Peter retired from their jobs. Suzan lost her job from Carestream (a company which acquired Kodak’s most profitable Medical and Health Image department) after 1 year working there, so she retired completely, and busies herself in daily workout in YMCA group lessons, swimming, Taichi, ballroom dancing, plus several choir groups. Peter retired as Professor Emeritus from University of Rochester, but still works part-time. He loves to work, and enjoys the stress-free job situation. Peter enjoys the ballroom dancing class too. We got a new dog from Suzan’s church friend, a 5 years old black lab, Suzan’s dream dog, and are trying with her to cope with this big change in her/our lives.

After the retirement, Suzan and Peter have traveled to Las Vegas, Utah, and Arizona in
September, and joined a 16 days river cruise on Rhine and Danube in October. Both trips are very enjoyable thus the idea of retirement surely is a great one.

Our son Michael is in Salt Lake City working for ACS company as a business manager. He is doing well with all a young man can hope for, and takes good care of his body with a lot of workout and sports, and still waiting for the right girl to appear in his life.

Our daughter Jennifer is in Washington D.C., still working for the government’s Census Bureau. She got her master degree in Statistics last May, and met a wonderful young man Matt. They were engaged in November, and are planning to get married on May 23, 2009.

Our youngest daughter Melinda is in her last year of college in Salt Lake City, majoring in finance. She almost got married in 2008, but the timing didn’t work out right for Melinda and Chase, so that didn’t happen. Now they are still going together, but they are more careful in planning now so there is no immediate decision. Melinda is working several jobs, and it seems she will have a good job offer next year when she graduates.

We are truly blessed greatly in this very eventful year, we thank our Heavenly Father for all the joyful things in our lives – our friends, our children, our health, this country, our church, and our Savior Jesus Christ. We hope the spirit of Christmas brings great joy and peace to your home and family.

Love,

Peter and Suzan