Joan and John Inglis celebrate 50 years together Joan and John Inglis celebrate 50 years together (July 06, 2005)

Four members of the wedding party of Joan and John Inglis were on hand to help the Menlo Park couple celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary June 12.

The party was held at the Palo Alto home of Joan and Gordon Campbell.

Dr. Gordon Campbell, Barbara and Leo Kirby of Santa Rosa, and Albert Kennel of Novato were members of the wedding party in 1955. Barbara Feinberg Kirby was Ms. Inglis' matron-of-honor. Other friends who attended the 1955 wedding were also at the Sunday party.

Joan Inglis was woman's page editor of the Menlo Park Recorder when her engagement was announced in the newspaper December 30, 1954. She told readers there was a wedding in June that would not be written up by the women's page editor -- her own. The couple was married June 4, 1955, at the home of the bride's parents in San Mateo.

Joan and John Inglis both grew up on the Peninsula and graduated from Burlingame High School. Joan graduated from Stanford University; John attended the College of San Mateo.

The two are longtime residents of Menlo Park. Mr. Inglis is a stockbroker; Ms. Inglis is a docent at the Cantor Center for the Arts at Stanford University.

The couple's two sons, Christopher and Jim, and their families (including five grandchildren), joined them for a family celebration at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite late in May. They also celebrated the 21st birthday of their oldest grandson, Christopher. The Inglises' son, John, died in 1983.

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