30th
Jeannie Hall
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Steve Coleman
I was just thinking of you, although not dreaming you pushed me into the Lake (even though you did, in a manner of speaking....).
I want to see everyone. It seems like there are so many people we haven't seen in a long time. I think the last time I saw Laura Collins and Jen Ham was '86. Michael Sanders even longer ago. Montilla? One of the many I haven't seen in 30 years. Where is John "Death is Pure" Banta? Curtis "I'm a teapot-- boil me!" Carroll? Jon Vance? Elisa Barbour? And so many more. And for all those I have seen all along, it's great the way that so many of our relationships have grown and shifted and sustained through the years, now with some of our children becoming good friends.
What is the power of the bond at Westtown that has me riding my bike downtown with my son, when suddenly I am doing my imitation of Curtis singing "Mongoloid, he was a Mongoloid -- one chromosome too many! And he wore a hat, and he had a job, and he brought home the bacon so that nobody knew -- he was a Mongoloid!" Not exactly what I thought they meant when they talked about the stuff of immortality.
I also want my son to meet all you amazing people who have in so many surprising (and ridiculous) ways helped shape the life that I have led. Does everyone remember the characters you became for our "50th Reunion" the night before Graduation? It's neat to compare who we're becoming to who we thought we would be.
Maybe the way to get everyone back is a full retrospective of Don Wildman's entire oeuvre, from Vainamoinnen to Extra Strength Medicated Denorex, from the Dime a Minute Man to the Man Who Makes History. Heck, why not a YouTube channel for all of us to show off snippets of what strange and wondrous turns our lives have taken.
Funny that it's been almost 30 years. There was a commercial recently for the Time Life Series on Soft Rock Sounds of the 70's (not the one that Don was on), and it brought so much flooding back. I'll leave out the part about how really old the two people selling the video looked.
It will be great to see everyone and to see how gracefully (and gratefully?) we're all heading toward half a century.
much love to all,
Steve
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Steve Coleman
I was just thinking of you, although not dreaming you pushed me into the Lake (even though you did, in a manner of speaking....).
I want to see everyone. It seems like there are so many people we haven't seen in a long time. I think the last time I saw Laura Collins and Jen Ham was '86. Michael Sanders even longer ago. Montilla? One of the many I haven't seen in 30 years. Where is John "Death is Pure" Banta? Curtis "I'm a teapot-- boil me!" Carroll? Jon Vance? Elisa Barbour? And so many more. And for all those I have seen all along, it's great the way that so many of our relationships have grown and shifted and sustained through the years, now with some of our children becoming good friends.
What is the power of the bond at Westtown that has me riding my bike downtown with my son, when suddenly I am doing my imitation of Curtis singing "Mongoloid, he was a Mongoloid -- one chromosome too many! And he wore a hat, and he had a job, and he brought home the bacon so that nobody knew -- he was a Mongoloid!" Not exactly what I thought they meant when they talked about the stuff of immortality.
I also want my son to meet all you amazing people who have in so many surprising (and ridiculous) ways helped shape the life that I have led. Does everyone remember the characters you became for our "50th Reunion" the night before Graduation? It's neat to compare who we're becoming to who we thought we would be.
Maybe the way to get everyone back is a full retrospective of Don Wildman's entire oeuvre, from Vainamoinnen to Extra Strength Medicated Denorex, from the Dime a Minute Man to the Man Who Makes History. Heck, why not a YouTube channel for all of us to show off snippets of what strange and wondrous turns our lives have taken.
Funny that it's been almost 30 years. There was a commercial recently for the Time Life Series on Soft Rock Sounds of the 70's (not the one that Don was on), and it brought so much flooding back. I'll leave out the part about how really old the two people selling the video looked.
It will be great to see everyone and to see how gracefully (and gratefully?) we're all heading toward half a century.
much love to all,
Steve
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Jeannie Hall <jeannie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jeannie Hall <jeannie...@gmail.com>
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> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:34 PM
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-oreo-ads-flash,0,5336228.flash(doesn't
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I would love to see both of them.
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:32:48 -0400
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Subject: Re: 30th
molly deisroth-kim
woops, my fault and thought that you were referring to the earlham email that tracy sent out! I'm a bit more inclined to go to the westtown reunion than EC based solely on location. I also would love for tyler to get a better sense of what westtown school is. I was in target and ran into a young kid (student) with a George School t-shirt. I of course stopped he and his mom and asked...sure enough he is going there and his mom went there and he has Pacho Gutierrez as his bio professor!! I asked what fancied him to go and I believe that he said he went back often for his mom's reunion and kind of liked the place!! small world.
xo, m |
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