Marge and Steve Beck recently received an e-mail from former I-House student Niklas.  He was their I-House student 10 years ago and came back to visit them this summer.  He marveled at the bridge and so many new things in Redding.

From Marge..."We really like him a lot.  You can even mention that we did not have to ply him with alcohol like Parrish to get him to like us (tee hee).  I love the last comment in his email since he and I had talked a lot about his feelings about becoming a dad."

From Niklas...

Dear Marge: hope all is fine in Redding. May son Paul was born 3/11/11, i.e. he will  approach an age of 4 weeks this Friday; he is quite cute and calm (unless he gets hungry or so ... ;-) ) We are happy that there were no complications and everybody is fine. Here is pic 1803 at age of 2 days (my hand who feeds him), pic 1903 coming home for the first time and pic 2618 with mom as of today.---Would not have thought it would change my additude towards life that much ;-) Best wishes to all the Beck's,

Nik