Bill Papazian:  

Hi fellow classmates, hoping you and yours are doing well and are weathering 2020 as best as you can. My sympathies to all who have lost loved ones, whatever the reason. Back in 1979, I never imagined life for all of us would take the turn it has this year with the pandemic. I didn’t imagine that world violence would be worse today than back then, nor that racism and hatred would still exist in epic proportions. I didn’t imagine that “social media” would exist or change the world as it has, some for the positive and mostly for the negative. As an Editor of the school newspaper in high school, I wrote about the exciting future and world ahead for us, as well as satirical pieces about school that almost got me expelled ... Hopefully we have all had excitement, positives and good things in life to balance things out and keep our perspective no matter the times we are in. My story can be summed up like most stories. Ups and downs, triumphs and failures, joys and sorrows, gains and loss. I have been very happily married since 2015, and have 3 boys and a girl ranging from 18 months to 27 years old. I love parenthood more than anything. My wife is a very special person, a great Mama and the love of my life and soulmate. Her own story is one of courage, having fled Iraq to come to the U.S. with...Expand for more