Family Photos

My wife Alicia is quite pretty and elegant, but she values her privacy greatly. As a long-suffering computer widow, I'll not compound her displeasure by keeping her photo on that blankety-blank screen for all the world to see.

Lisa was a skilled dancer and cheerleader and obviously very limber.

Gwen Jasmine and her little sister Jane Autumn will likely follow in mother Lisa's footsteps.

... since they just keep getting bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier.

Gwen (L) is attending Purdue on a full Eli Lilly corporate scholarship and Jane (R) is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin.

Our wedding dance photo...

is a little bit different than the sixth grade Father-Daughter dance...

...which was about the time that Dawn Marie (and Lisa) were in the musical, The Music Man.

Lili's stenography WISC3TV interview in 2015

Dawn's a lovely bride for Todd also.

Hmmm, this just seems to happen when folks get married. Clara James Irby is another beauty.

Clara is our family's 4th generation female attending Ouachita Baptist College.

Dawn persevered

and graduated in 2014 from Arkansas Tech and can now formally teach youngsters.

Dawn was "Teacher of the Year" at Robinson Middle School in 2022.

Chris was deservedly proud of being on Poway's California state champion lacrosse team.

More recently, he convinced the lovely Vanessa Campet to marry him.

In March 2012, Chris and Vanessa graced us with another beautiful granddaughter, Catherine Lynne. And, yes, that is indeed a lot of hair.

Here's our latest (30Sep14) granddaughter, Brooke Alicia Mula, who is almost a twin of her sister Catherine.

Catherine's first and last day of Middle School

Brooke's first and last day of Elementary School

My sister, Mary Anne Williams, has retired from teaching school in Arkansas, and does a great Patsy Cline on the side. She sang in the choir at Immanuel Baptist in Little Rock for years with President Clinton, although she likes me to note that she was a soloist, but he was not.

My mother, Mary Louise Sexton Eoff Register, whom we buried in 1996 on her eightieth birthday. I chose her inscription to be "She Taught By Example". Her many students and her family will so attest and sorely miss her love and guidance.

My father, James Thomas Karam Sr., known to literally all in Arkansas as Jimmy -- first, because of all the TV ads he ran for his Men's Stores where he worked almost 50 years until his May 2000 passing; and second, because of his wide witness for the Lord.

And, yes, President Clinton was gracious enough to allow my father, and my lovely step-mother Eleanor, to spend the night in the Lincoln Bedroom. And, anyone who knows him will just laugh if you suggest Daddy paid for the privilege. How anyone could catch so much grief for being kind to friends and elders is beyond me.