BIRTH OF YOUNGEST SON PROVIDED A PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR COUPLE.Byline: Bettie Rencoret Senior columnist Parenting is No. 1 with Curtis and Joan Holt and they've been at it a long time. Their children were 17 and 15 in 1974 when their youngest came as a midlife mid·life n. See middle age. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age. surprise and they suddenly had to begin all over again. ``Bruce and Ann were pretty well raised and we had just started to feel like we could concentrate on our own activities when we got our big bombshell. There we were, starting with the diapers and other stuff again,'' Joan Holt said. That was 24 years ago and in retrospect, they have to admit it was a great experience. When the Holts' son, Peter, was born, the older siblings were attending Antelope Valley High School Antelope Valley High School is located in Lancaster, California and is part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It was founded in 1912[1]. It is located in the Mojave Desert. . Bruce, the oldest, played the trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. and daughter Ann the clarinet. ``We never missed a performance of the Antelope Valley High School band while they were in it,'' Holt said. ``We were band boosters and the whole ball of wax ball of wax n. Slang An unspecified set of items or circumstances: went shopping, had dinner, saw a play  the whole ball of wax. . When Peter arrived, we just took him along in his stroller.'' When Peter got older, it was athletics rather than music for him, according to Curt Holt. ``He was particularly interested in football,'' Curt Holt said. ``Then, when he became friends with AVHS AVHS Apple Valley High School (Minnesota) AVHS Avon View High School (Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada) varsity kicker Chris Yergensen, he decided that was what he wanted to do.'' The boy prevailed upon Yergensen to show him how to be a good kicker and then started to work on it. Curt had retired from the FBI by then, so he had time to help, ``but being a good kicker was something Peter had to accomplish on his own.'' ``I was just his holder,'' he grinned. Encouraged by his parents, Peter put his heart and soul into it. At 5-feet-10 and 170 pounds, he was too slight to be a linebacker or tackle. He made it onto the AVHS varsity team as a kicker. His parents were hard workers in the Antelope Valley Football Booster Club and never missed a game. They worked the snack bar, took tickets and did anything else they were called on to do. Curt Holt still serves as timekeeper at all of the stadium games even though Peter is long gone from the campus. The Holts were especially proud when Peter's hard work and talent resulted in a full football scholarship to San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. . He received a bachelor of arts degree in physical education in 1997 and is now employed there as assistant strength coach while he works toward his master's degree. The Holts were born five months apart and raised in North Dakota, he in LaMoure and she in Grand Rapids. They both graduated in 1951 from LaMoure High School and knew each other but didn't date. ``It would have been hard not to be acquainted in a class of 30,'' laughed Curt, ``but we were too busy to do a lot of socializing. I was playing baseball, football, basketball and band.'' ``I was in nurses training in St. Luke's School St. Luke's School can refer to several schools:
In September 1955, with a diploma from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., Curt Holt started to teach and coach football at Granite Falls, Minn. The head coach was an ex-FBI agent who decided to go back to the bureau. In 1962, Holt joined the FBI at his urging. Curt covered Dallas and Tyler, Texas, then was transferred to Phoenix and Tucson. In 1965, he came with his family to work in the Los Angeles and Lancaster divisions. ``There was only one agent at a time in the office then. Now there are five,'' Holt said. After 22 years, most of them in Lancaster, he retired from the FBI. He then went to work as district representative for the Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance Co. Both Holts are active in Our Savior's Lutheran Church and Curt is the church treasurer. Joan works as an office nurse for Dr. Warren T. Doerfler, but she still has time to host gatherings of church organizations and other groups in their home. They keep fit with exercise, walking and swimming in the pool that has provided entertainment for all their children and their friends over the years. LANCASTER - Menus for the week at the senior life nutrition sites in Lancaster, Palmdale and Pearblossom have been announced. All meals include bread, margarine and coffee, tea or milk for the suggested congregate donation of $2. Monday: Hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes, parsleyed carrots, marinated beets, apple. Tuesday: Tuna casserole, rice pilaf, stewed stewed adj. 1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes. 2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk. stewed Adjective 1. tomatoes, lime gelatin gelatin or animal jelly, foodstuff obtained from connective tissue (found in hoofs, bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) of vertebrate animals by the action of boiling water or dilute acid. , pineapple. Wednesday: Hamburger, macaroni salad, cauliflower cauliflower (kô`lĭflou'ər, käl`ĭ–), variety of cabbage, with an edible head of condensed flowers and flower stems. Broccoli is the horticultural variety (botrytis); both were cultivated in Roman times. and carrots, tomato and lettuce salad, cantaloupe cantaloupe: see gourd; melon. . Thursday: Pinto beans with ham, cornbread, broccoli, lettuce and tomato salad, lemon pudding. Friday: Baked chicken, au gratin potatoes, peas and carrots, coleslaw cole·slaw also cole slaw n. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise or a vinaigrette. , Apple Brown Betty Apple Brown Betty is an American dessert that dates back to Colonial American time. A ‘betty’ is a baked pudding, made with layers of sweetened and spiced fruit and buttered bread crumbs. It is usually served with a lemon sauce and/or whipped cream. . CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Curt and Joan Holt were pleased by the arrival of their youngest son, Peter. Bettie Rencoret/Special to the Daily News |
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