Lee Olson:  

I'm sitting here with Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" washing over me and feeling very nostalgic. Oh well... To fill in anybody that might care, I actually didn't graduate from Newport, but wandered off to another school halfway through our senior year. Still, having grown up with you all, I think of Newport as the school I defiled the most and therefore landed here when I felt a need to get in touch with beings from "the past." I always admired the people at Newport that seemed to know why they were there and where they were going, but the same was not true for me. I certainly had good days with some of you, but I truly hated most of the time I spent there and had no idea what was going to happen after I got out. I was pretty angry and really wasn't sure why. Still, I think very fondly of my friends and the times we had trying to figure out what the heck was up. In fact, Mark Erickson, you old freak, if you ever read this--you had a very positive effect on me and I have so often wanted to tell you. You and I sat around so many times trying to unwind the universe, and I'd try to tear your faith apart. I have a clear mental picture of a day out in the woods when I presented about 50 irrefutable arguments against the whole IDEA of a transcendent being, was CERTAIN that I had destroyed the possibility of any thinking being believing in God, and point blank asked you "do you mean you still really believe in god?" You just looked at me kindly from under that long blonde hair and said "yes." That SO ticked me off. I could argue and argue, but you simply believed. That belief shook me, and I must tell you, was a big factor in the beginning of my own spiri...Expand for more