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Date Posted: 21:20:06 10/06/09 Tue
Author: Bill Christian
Subject: Re: Reunion Notes
In reply to: Marilyn G. 's message, "Reunion Notes" on 15:52:50 10/05/09 Mon

Marilyn,

Thanks, it was great to see you and so many others not seen in almost 40 years!!! It was not my intention to desert the class in 1950. I was asked how would I like to go to school in Virginia and before I knew it I was on the train headed to Richmond. My joke is that it was a reform school to get me away from the all-girls school, All Saints.

Mary Ruth said that I missed out on a lot of fun. I know I did. And thank you to all for your warm welcome back over the weekend. I thought that I was forgotten about but Clarence remembered that we sat next to each other in the 3rd Grade. Alfred Barfield also recalled amazing detail about our time together as classmates even though I knew him only in Jr. High.

I have memories of each and everyone of you all when we were at Bowmar or at Carr Central (for Jr. High). There is an unusual bond of friendship in the class and I am happy that you allowed me to rejoin the group and celebrate that friendship. At Dick Ferguson's house a few of us had such a good time telling stories about those school days. Dick could bring me up to date on so many different people who I have wondered about all these years. I wish I had had more time to visit with all of you, particularly Johnny and Mary Elizabeth Decell. I never got a chance to visit much with Velma and Bill at all. Visits with others, like you, Marilyn, Eddie King, David Hayworth, Richard Holman, Clarence, Natalie, Edmund and others were way too brief.

I wanted to see Kemper Meachem, Bill Fenwick and Buddy Hallberg before leaving town but time ran out. I had to get back to Houston. I am still working because I enjoy my work so much (I have a second career now as a financial planner after being a corporate lawyer for many years). I will continue to work as long as it's fun.

My grandchildren are 4 and 6 and since I run my own financial planning company as a solo practice, I take off to see them often. I keep in shape by regularly playing tennis, running, swimming and biking.

So things are going great, and I look forward to seeing all of you again 5 years from now, and some of you like Lee Davis and Bobby Shackelford (here in Texas)and others before then I hope. Tommy and Sue Grace get together with Elinor and me from time to time and it has been wonderful to reconnect with them here in Houston. All the best to everyone and thank you again.

Bill

website: www.capitalfinancialplanning.com
e-mail: bill@capitalfinancialplanning.com

>The Reunion was great! "Sunday morning coming down"
>doesn't begin to cover it. I keep scrolling through
>your faces and our coversations and thinking aren't we
>lucky! I had not seen Clarence or Bill Christian in
>so long but immediately got that old connection. What
>a pleasure to see friends, those I see often and those
>I see seldom. And Natalie and Phil coming from Maine
>was special; maybe it's the cold weather but Natalie
>never seems to change. I think of the many hours
>spent on her high porch on Belmont Street.
>
>I don't think there are many pleasures in life to
>compare with seeing and reminiscing with long-time
>friends (maybe kissing under a new granchild's neck).
>I'm surely filled with gratitude for the life we lived
>"back then" and the friends you are to me now.
>
>Til next time.

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