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William and Betty Jean Hixen Meredith Celebrate 60 Years of Marriage
Deb Spalding
Young Betty Jean Hixen was T h e n n o w the 1990s. The column has appeared
raised in a family of Polish and Irish in the former Emmitsburg Dispatch
descent, who were coal miners in when Bo Cadle started it, then for
Jordan, West Virginia. Just three the Emmitsburg Dispatch when Ray
miles away, her future husband, and Jennifer Buccheister ran it, in
William (Bill) Meredith, lived the short-lived New Emmitsburg
with his family of Welsh and Irish Chronicle, and now, it appears in the
ancestry. They were farmers. The Emmitsburg News Journal. About the
two were destined to love, and met column, he said, “I hope the reader
when she was a freshman and he will know things about ecology by
was a senior, on the school bus ride reading that they didn’t realize they
to East Fairmont High School. learned.” September’s issue will
Betty joked, “He said it was love include his 185th column, featuring
at first sight!” Bill parried, “It was an interesting story about his and
very sneaky, if it was.” She invited Betty’s wedding and marriage.
him to her 14th birthday party, Their three children have children
to which he brought her a gift of of their own now. Melinda and
Whitman’s Samplers candy. They Fred both retired from Verizon, and
liked each other and started dating Mike’s a jeweler. The three youngest
that spring. Bill was scheduled to of six grandchildren are in college,
attend college at Fairmont State, the lowest, and that’s what I was.” started entering the Thurmont and while a computer specialist, an
located in the same town, so they Here, they had two more children, Emmitsburg Community Show with international economics graduate,
continued to see each other. Michael and Fred. vegetables and baked goods, and and an events coordinator round out
Bill had a pony colt that he sold While Bill attended the University won many ribbons. She said, “I the group.
to get money to buy a ring, and of Maryland to obtain his doctorate, could paper this whole house with The family gathered at their
he proposed to her at Christmas, Betty raised the kids. The couple the award ribbons. It was fun!” home on August 23 to celebrate
1954. He doesn’t think she was then moved to Emmitsburg and Unfortunately, she suffered a broken their 60th anniversary.
surprised. They married at their settled into the town. hip a few years ago and couldn’t They’ve led an interesting
local Presbyterian Church, amid 100 Once the kids were in school, enter anymore. life together, impacting many by
degree heat on August 20, 1955, Betty worked at Sperry’s Ford in Bill has written his monthly imparting knowledge and nurturing
after Bill had completed his final Emmitsburg, managing business column entitled “The Retired growth. Bill and Betty, we wish you
year at Fairmont State. Betty started affairs; after a few years, she worked Ecologist” in local newspapers since many more years of happiness!
Business college that fall. as a teacher’s aide at Emmitsburg
Graduating with a degree in School. This job lasted a short
Biology Education from Fairmont twenty-seven years. Betty said, “I
State College, Bill thought he knew just about everybody in town,
would, “…get a job as a high school and now know hardly anybody.”
teacher and that would be that.” Family trips usually revolved
But that spring, a new professor at around National Science Foundation
Fairmont recommended that Bill go (NSF) grant-funded studies. The
to graduate school at West Virginia family went to Colorado for an
University (WVU) for free to serve ecology study, Arizona for a desert
an assistantship there. biology study, and North Carolina
The newly married couple moved for genetics. The whole family
to an apartment near WVU, where would go, and they met lots of nice
Bill received a stipend of $750 per people and kept in touch with them.
year. Betty joked, “We went to Bill received the Sears Award for
the 10 cent Saturday Matinee for Excellence in Teaching in 1990. This
entertainment. The question was was a prestigious national accolade.
whether we could afford another 10 After forty-one years at Mount St.
cents for pizza after the movie.” Mary’s, he retired. “It was my first
While at West Virginia University, and only job. I ended up as the
their first child arrived—a girl they Dean of Undergraduate Studies.” He
named Melinda. Soon after, the retired in 1998.
assistantship came to an end and Bill Bill received another accolade
had no idea how or where to apply when he was invited to speak at
for a job. His thesis advisor had Mount St. Mary’s commencement
heard about a vacancy at Mount St. after he retired—this was the first
Mary’s College. Bill applied and was time since the 19th Century a faculty
hired right on the spot in 1957. member was asked to speak.
At Mount St. Mary’s, Bill was On the home front, the
an instructor in biology. He said, Merediths have raised a garden
“They have ranks, and instructor is since the summer of 1954. Betty
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William and Betty Jean Hixen Meredith Celebrate 60 Years of Marriage
Deb Spalding
Young Betty Jean Hixen was T h e n n o w the 1990s. The column has appeared
raised in a family of Polish and Irish in the former Emmitsburg Dispatch
descent, who were coal miners in when Bo Cadle started it, then for
Jordan, West Virginia. Just three the Emmitsburg Dispatch when Ray
miles away, her future husband, and Jennifer Buccheister ran it, in
William (Bill) Meredith, lived the short-lived New Emmitsburg
with his family of Welsh and Irish Chronicle, and now, it appears in the
ancestry. They were farmers. The Emmitsburg News Journal. About the
two were destined to love, and met column, he said, “I hope the reader
when she was a freshman and he will know things about ecology by
was a senior, on the school bus ride reading that they didn’t realize they
to East Fairmont High School. learned.” September’s issue will
Betty joked, “He said it was love include his 185th column, featuring
at first sight!” Bill parried, “It was an interesting story about his and
very sneaky, if it was.” She invited Betty’s wedding and marriage.
him to her 14th birthday party, Their three children have children
to which he brought her a gift of of their own now. Melinda and
Whitman’s Samplers candy. They Fred both retired from Verizon, and
liked each other and started dating Mike’s a jeweler. The three youngest
that spring. Bill was scheduled to of six grandchildren are in college,
attend college at Fairmont State, the lowest, and that’s what I was.” started entering the Thurmont and while a computer specialist, an
located in the same town, so they Here, they had two more children, Emmitsburg Community Show with international economics graduate,
continued to see each other. Michael and Fred. vegetables and baked goods, and and an events coordinator round out
Bill had a pony colt that he sold While Bill attended the University won many ribbons. She said, “I the group.
to get money to buy a ring, and of Maryland to obtain his doctorate, could paper this whole house with The family gathered at their
he proposed to her at Christmas, Betty raised the kids. The couple the award ribbons. It was fun!” home on August 23 to celebrate
1954. He doesn’t think she was then moved to Emmitsburg and Unfortunately, she suffered a broken their 60th anniversary.
surprised. They married at their settled into the town. hip a few years ago and couldn’t They’ve led an interesting
local Presbyterian Church, amid 100 Once the kids were in school, enter anymore. life together, impacting many by
degree heat on August 20, 1955, Betty worked at Sperry’s Ford in Bill has written his monthly imparting knowledge and nurturing
after Bill had completed his final Emmitsburg, managing business column entitled “The Retired growth. Bill and Betty, we wish you
year at Fairmont State. Betty started affairs; after a few years, she worked Ecologist” in local newspapers since many more years of happiness!
Business college that fall. as a teacher’s aide at Emmitsburg
Graduating with a degree in School. This job lasted a short
Biology Education from Fairmont twenty-seven years. Betty said, “I
State College, Bill thought he knew just about everybody in town,
would, “…get a job as a high school and now know hardly anybody.”
teacher and that would be that.” Family trips usually revolved
But that spring, a new professor at around National Science Foundation
Fairmont recommended that Bill go (NSF) grant-funded studies. The
to graduate school at West Virginia family went to Colorado for an
University (WVU) for free to serve ecology study, Arizona for a desert
an assistantship there. biology study, and North Carolina
The newly married couple moved for genetics. The whole family
to an apartment near WVU, where would go, and they met lots of nice
Bill received a stipend of $750 per people and kept in touch with them.
year. Betty joked, “We went to Bill received the Sears Award for
the 10 cent Saturday Matinee for Excellence in Teaching in 1990. This
entertainment. The question was was a prestigious national accolade.
whether we could afford another 10 After forty-one years at Mount St.
cents for pizza after the movie.” Mary’s, he retired. “It was my first
While at West Virginia University, and only job. I ended up as the
their first child arrived—a girl they Dean of Undergraduate Studies.” He
named Melinda. Soon after, the retired in 1998.
assistantship came to an end and Bill Bill received another accolade
had no idea how or where to apply when he was invited to speak at
for a job. His thesis advisor had Mount St. Mary’s commencement
heard about a vacancy at Mount St. after he retired—this was the first
Mary’s College. Bill applied and was time since the 19th Century a faculty
hired right on the spot in 1957. member was asked to speak.
At Mount St. Mary’s, Bill was On the home front, the
an instructor in biology. He said, Merediths have raised a garden
“They have ranks, and instructor is since the summer of 1954. Betty
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