Thank you for the organizational spearheading of the reunion of '60s Nu Chapter of Chi Phi last weekend in Austin . And thanks to Sunny and Bob Ernst for hosting the party Saturday at their stately lakeside home.

I only learned of the affair a week before, but knew immediately that I wanted to come see my brethren while we survivors are still sentient. I read with interest the biographical blurbs that you inserted in the reunion bulletin from some of the brothers. And since I seldom get to attend gatherings because El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than to Houston , I have set out here my life since graduating from UT Law School in 1967. Anyone is free to hit the delete control. I'm using your compilation of email addresses to send copies to all the brothers that I knew and had not seen for lo these 42 years.

No one knows that I was a legacy through my uncle, Carlisle Helber, and his son who were both brothers at Beta Chapter, MIT.

In 1969 I married Susan Gray, an attractive, divorced mother of a three year old daughter, Stormy, and we had a daughter, Gena, in 1971 and son, Gray Colbert, in 1972. We divorced in 1980, but since she stayed around El Paso while my children were growing up, I had the pleasure of being involved in their upbringing. I was Scoutmaster of Gray's troop and had some memorable 50 mile hikes in the Gila Wilderness and a horse cavalcade at Philmont Scout Ranch.

Gena went to UT and graduated with Honors at UNM and now lives in Albuquerque . She is the Executive Assistant at the Better Business Bureau. She has a daughter Jordy, age 11, who lives with her father in Valle de Bravo in the State of Mexico , which is a beautiful mountain area where the monarch butterflies spend the winter. Jordy's father has changed his name to Adnan Dilvar and is an inspirational speaker and spiritual guide.

Gray was an all-state swimmer and went to Wyoming U on scholarship. He is a computer tech at the Oklahoma Health Science Center in Ok City and recently divorced. (It must be congenital.) His son, Grayson, age 10, lives in Norman with his mother, Linda DeBerry Coldwell, who is the PR Director of the OU Museum of Natural History.

Eleanor Yanez and I married in 1992. We had met at a party in 1984 where we were teamed up in a Trivial Pursuit game. (She filled in my gaps of knowledge of entertainment celebrities and movies.) We were both involved with others at the time, but a few years later we started dating. She had issues of Gourmet Magazine lying around the house. It's like marrying Racquel Welch and learning she knows how to cook. She has two sons, John David Seebach, who with his wife Michelle are both getting PhDs in Anthropology from SMU, and Chris, who is Director in charge of security at the Blanton Museum of Fine Art at UT. Eleanor grandmothers mine and hopes for many of her own. Eleanor is a retired grade school principal and recently quit two of her three part time jobs to enjoy life.

My parents died within ten days of each other in 1976 in El Paso and were buried at Annapolis where my father taught Seamanship and Spanish. My elder sister, Clare, who graduated from Stanford, died in 2001. My brother, William Michie, graduated from the Naval Academy and Harvard Business School , is 83 and retired from IBM. My sister, Cory, taught English at the Tower School in Delaware , and he and she return tomorrow from an extended trip to Europe . Michie, Cory , Eleanor and I will all be visiting with Cory's daughter for the 4th of July weekend in Boston .

I started my law practice in a loose partnership with my cousin, El Paso County Judge Colbert Coldwell, who just died last month. I was in solo practice from 1970 to 1973 and then picked up by Peticolas, Luscombe Stephens and Windle, where I made partner. I joined Guevara Rebe Baumann in 1980 about the time I divorced and I have been partner there for 29 years. I obtained certification as a Civil Trial specialist in 1978 and became licensed in New Mexico in 1982. I have about 20% of my practice in New Mexico . I was a Trustee of the Insurance Trust of the State Bar of Texas and am now a Trustee of the Coldwell Foundation which was endowed by an aunt to provide medical research. Last year we distributed $260,000.-mostly to UTEP and Texas Tech Medical School . Lately, I am doing a considerable amount of work on referral from the Mexican Counsel, which comes since I am able to speak Spanish. I am still practicing full time and am looking for the "big one" but will try to handle pretty much whatever comes in the door.

I am in the process of writing a biography of my Great-grandfather, Colbert Coldwell, who started as a Santa Fe trader and first came through El Paso in 1842. He was interpreter and guide for Col. Alexander Doniphan's Missouri Volunteers during the Mexican War and figured prominently in the Battle of Brazito fought twenty miles north of El Paso . He had a tumultuous judicial career as the first post Civil War Republican District Judge in Houston and then on the Supreme Court of Texas, before he was appointed by President Grant as Collector of Customs in El Paso.

John Sucke has promised to guide me with a project of a screen play about the 1888 shooting death of California Supreme Court Justice David Terry by the U. S. Marshall who was bodyguard for U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field. It seems that Terry too violently disagreed with Justice Field's ruling on an appeal regarding Terry's client, who was also his new wife, and Marshall David Nagel forcefully intervened.

I flatter myself that some of my Chi Phi brothers might find some of this of interest, or, in time, it might do as an outline for my obituary. Eleanor says that it is too boastful. But it was either tell it or leave it out. I did leave out the unflattering stuff, of course.

Fraternally,

Colbert Nathaniel Coldwell