I had such a nice 4th. Gerda, our boys, and I went to a party with guitars, frisbee, and salmon on the grill. It was so much fun to sing old Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt etc. The hosting couple have four wonderful boys and there were many teens there, all well behaved. Must be good parenting! We drove home through 3 or 4 little towns that were shooting off fireworks. Really cool!
Be good, have fun!
-Richard

Hope everyone had a great 4th and nice relaxing weekend...........take care,

Hey everyone.

Brian the CD is made and I will be sending you one. Anybody else that wants one should let me know. It has all the pictures of everything from start to finish.
Happy 4th of July to everyone.

I sent an email to John Lewis to tell him we missed him at the reunion, Roger Belville told me he wasn't there because of business reasons. Anyway, John just emailed me and asked me to tell eneryone he really missed being there.

HAPPY JULY 4TH EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!

Hi John, I think IM is a great idea. . . but I am usually not on line when I am at home (like now) and IM at work would not work for me (Brian is already saying to himself that the answer is obvious to him. Quit the job!). I think there are others that would love to connect thru Instant Messenger when they are on line. I hope that you get some emails and are able to set it up!
All for now,
-Richard

Hey has anybody thought about using Instant messenger so that we can chat with each other when online.
Then we would know if or when they are online and would like to chat. They don't have to chat everytime they log in.
Ok you all know my email address and I am on instant messenger so it was just a thought.

Hi Everybody, I talked to Jane (Haseltine) Kinney last night for two hours, it the first time we have been able to catch each other since we found we are so close to each other. I told her about the reunion and how wonderful it was, she was sorry she couldn't make it and really sorry she missed your song John, I told her she had missed a real treat. It was so wonderful to see everyone again, and I agree with Brian, there wasn't enough time, and along with email there is IM's too assuming you have the same service, that's a good way to "chat". Well, just wanted to add my two cents worth. I had a great time and thanks again to all who had a hand in it. It really was a wonderful weekend.

Brian, I am getting mine developed, and will try and get them to you as soon as I can. I know Lori and Karen are anxious about seeing everyone that we have been talking about as well as all that were there. Sort of builds up the interest, eh? I think you said the right thing, Brian. Our class was the greatest and it looks like we have more talent than we thought 30 years ago.........I really have to be honest and say that I think we do have the best class, lets keep in touch, though. I won't let another 30 years go by, for sure.........we'll be almost 80, then. WOW.........

Ok Ok Ok ...... I am on vacation right now but I will post the pictures for everyone. Brian thanks for the compliment and the rest of you all. It was a wonderful world that night.
Hey hang tight I will get the pics out and post some more info on what is or might be up our sleeve. Going to Hampton Beach and soak up the salt.
Hey talk to you all in a bit. Hey Brian maybe I will just send you a cd of all the pics so that you can enjoy all of them. I will get that to you in a short.
I will just mail it to you . Bye for now.

Wow. That was fun! I had a great time from morning to night. Thanks to everyone for being the marvelous people you are! It was great to catch up, to hear about your lives and families. There wasn't nearly enough time for all the questions I would have liked to ask, but that's why we have email, right?

Wasn't John LaPlante amazing? What a guy! One of the brightest highlights of the evening was when John sang Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World". Eveyone around me was positively stunned and delighted.

And thanks to Nancy Cordle for buying me my first drink of the evening, and getting the party off to rockin' start.

Linda LaBonte kept me spellbound with tales of horror and happiness, not to mention the "Bump": )

I was sorry that Ron and Debbie couldn't be there, after all the work they did to get this party off the ground. We are all most grateful for what you've done, thank you.

I started to list names of all the people I enjoyed talking to, but that was going to be a list of everyone there, so I'll just say "Thanks, everyone, you are the greatest class of '72 in the world!"

So send me some photos willya? If you can't do it by email, my street address is in my profile (click the "Team" button in the Edit your Blog section), I will send the photos right back after scanning them.

Hey everybody, I had a good time at the reunion too. It was great to see everybody. I am wondering where all those photos are that John LaPlante and Bob Dunham took? I thought they would be posted here by now. Get off your duffs and post a few photos for us! I am sorry for your husband's loss Nancy. Losing a mom has got to be the worst. Hope to see some pics here soon. Bye for now.