Family Photos

Cartoonish image of my wife, Alicia, a long-suffering computer widow

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.

Lee's WISC3TV stenography 2015 interview

Lee Leigh (Lili) demonstrating a cheerleader's standing split

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

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

Gwen & Jane Carey back to school in 2013

... 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, also on scholarship.

Jim and Lee' dancing at her wedding in 2001

Our 2001 wedding dance photo...

Jim & Lisa at 1992 Father-Daughter dance

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

Dawn Marie and Lisa in their Music Man costumes in 1990

...which was about the time that Dawn Marie (and Lisa) were in the 1991 musical, The Music Man.

Dawn Marie and Todd leaving the alter after their 2004 wedding.

Dawn's a lovely 2004 bride for Todd Irby also.

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

Clara James Irby heading to her Prom in 2023

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

Dawn Marie posing with her 2014 diploma in her Arkansas Tech gown.

Dawn persevered

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

2022 Pulaski County School District Teacher of the Year announcement with Dawn Marie highlighted.

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

Chris Mula playing on 1992 Poway Hight School lacrosse team.

Chris was deservedly proud of being on Poway's California 1992 state champion lacrosse team.

Chris Mula & Vanessa Campet posing after their 2008 wedding

More recently, he convinced the lovely Vanessa Campet to marry him in 2008.

Catherine Lynn Mula born in 2012 with lots of hair.

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

Brooke Alicia Mula born in 2014, a seeming twin, again with lots of hair.

Here's our latest (Sept 2014) 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.

Daddy (Jimmy Karam) talking with Bill and Hillary Clinton

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.