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Profiles:
Doris Lehr
by Marilyn Young |
Doris plays tennis for all the right reasons: good health and fun. If she doesn’t always win, she just comes back for more.
Doris started late. She and her first husband bought a house in Arnold, California. Everyone there played tennis. If you wanted a social life you played tennis. People met at the court and that’s where the day began. Her husband had not played tennis, but he was a natural athlete who had been a coach and active in sports all his life. Doris had been active in music all her life, so it was more of a challenge to her to learn the game. Tennis is a way to make friends, so Doris joined the Los Altos Tennis Club when she first arrived in Los Altos. She is another one of those members who found the club through Marijke’s pathway from Monday tennis to LATC.
Doris and her second husband, Wendell, have lived in Los Altos Hills for eight years. They met through a mutual friend, discovered that Doris was moving to the town where Wendell had lived for forty years. A friendship ripened into a marriage and they have lived happily ever after! Doris and Wendell still play at Arnold when they are vacationing there. Wendell has three children, Doris also has three. They have a large close family.
Doris teaches one day per week at Castlemont School in Campbell. She is teaching music in the same school where she taught full time for many years, so she feels at home there and enjoys her contact with the faculty and students. Doris did not get her degree in music from Ottawa, University in Kansas, but in education. If she has any regrets about her life choices it is that she did not finish that BA in music. But it has not hampered her. She enjoys symphony, opera and jazz. She sings in the choir at the First Methodist Church. Her only other regret is that she does not play the piano enough. Wendell gave her that piano for a wedding present and expected to hear more notes from it.
In addition to music, tennis and an active social life, the Lehrs do a good bit of traveling in Europe, concentrating on France. They found a cousin in Denmark and have become fast friends. Their next trip will be to the South Seas. They may find tennis courts or another cousin there! |
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