Anne Stanfield:  

This year is a big reunion year... am happy to hear from folks,, to dissect, with humor and horror the time that we were together and how youth was the best of what we had.... ok.. MY FIRST high school was Annandale. I wore white short socks the first day and realized that I had made a serious mistake and shown myself to be oblivious to growing up. I was sorry that I had not known better, to wear weejuns without socks... but I didnt and didnt have any weejuns anyway. I was an "also ran".. happy in the back of the pictures... .. abashedly boasted that I batted 1000 on the soft ball team for the season.. as I had only been let go to bat one time.. and actually hit the ball. I won't be at the ruining but have found memories of many of you there... and would love to hear and see pictures. I was a nerd.. invented little people who I told stories about and played the accordion. There is no way to tell you how important my year in Newport was. It left a lasting and fond impression.. I sometimes tip toe back there.. and each time sit at the Creamery and smile and think of my trips back to the festivals and to commune with the star fish......I come up to New England each fall to participate in a music conference and am flummoxed by not finding the ferry terminal from Jamestown... and that La Forge looks pretty fancy. To me, it was ...Expand for more