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photo shows colorful sunset above a horizon of winter trees sillouetted without leaves. Green spring wreathes are on the white wall behind the wedding party and on podium beside them. All are smiling. On the left is Stephan, who is tall and wearing a blue button-down shirt, next to Dona wearing a brown blazer and long skirt, then is Paul wearing a suit and tie and holding his arms around Dona and his bride Jomania who wears a white wedding dress with straps, the bottom of the skirt is white translucent lace. She is standing next to Fred who wears a dark suit and tie. Standing in front of trees and smiling are Stephan with a mustache, goatee and short curly brown hair, Jomania with a black dress with black lace around the neck and shoulders, Paul with a goatee, Mark the groom wearing a dark suit and tie with Jill holding flowers and wearing a white wedding dress with straps and an opaque white shawl or jacket, Fred and Dona. All men have suits and ties, and Dona is wearing a cream-colored scoop-necked short-sleeved dress. Photo shows Fred, who has a beard, standing in front of an audience who is taking notes; Fred is behind a table and placing a large piece of foamboard on the table. Photo shows baby Thea about 2 weeks old, being held by her father Mark while Dona smiles and looks over Mark's shoulder, holding Thea's arm.
Welcome to Dona's personal / family page! For now, this is just a home for links to a few personal or non-professional sites, but one day it will have links to family reunions, weddings, trips, hobbies and fun. Meanwhile, enjoy!

  • Awards – acceptance speeches discuss innovations, best practice, and pride as a practitioner

  • Fred and Dona's Excellent Adventures on a tour of "Christmas in Austria" and Germany, to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Includes a trip to Minature Wünderland, the largest model railroad in the world, and an adventurous walk around Castle Sauerburg in Germany.

  • Civil War/Homestead letters – excerpts from book "I Seat Myself to Write you a Few Lines"

  • Sauerburgers Come Home At Last - Fred and Dona visit family property in the middle of the desert in Deming, Arizona, 2008

  • Nanta and her daughter Ann come to America - more than 40 years after we met at the school for the blind in Thailand, Nanta comes to visit, 2008.

  • Diaries from Asia – trip of a lifetime with a son who speaks the language

    Links to family websites:
    (Brother) David Bayard's Samurai Woodworks -- "You dream. I build"
    (Brother) David Bayard's Skyboy Photos
    (Cousin) Bruce Bayard's Digital Art
    (Cousin) Bonnie Bayard's Landscape Architect
    Captions for photos above:
    [left] View from atop the "thunder tower" in the home of Dona's brother David "Skyboy" Bayard in Kansas City.
    [middle left] Wedding of Fred and Dona's oldest son Paul and his Lebanese bride Jomania, March 4, 2003 (youngest son Stephan at the left).
    [middle] Wedding of Fred and Dona's son Mark and his bride Jill, July 9, 2004 (l-r: Stephan, Jomania, Paul, Mark, Jill, Fred, Dona).
    [middle, right] Fred gives a clinic on model railroading to an attentive audience in Pennsylvania, 2007.
    [right] Dona with Mark and her first granddaughter, Thea Carina Sauerburger, October 2007.

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