Tunney Dong:  

Sunday, 3 August 2008 To All Classmates Who Made the 30th Reunion and Those Who Wished They Could Have: "Super Seniors Wild and Great, We're the Cats of '78 !!!!!" It was so ironic that this reunion was at the Patrick Henry Hays SENIOR Center. Yea, we're about to really be seniors all right, but you can't join the Hays Center until you're 50. So those of you still living in NLR, you might have 2 more years before you can join officially. I've just driven home to Dallas from NLR. I had several hours to think about who and what I wanted to write about, but this email will be the first of many to go out in the next week or so. I've been married to my wife, Leslie, for now 20 + years, and I've learned at least one of many things well from her. She says that it's always important to recognize the things that you appreciate and to be thankful for, and to those who enabled those important things to be available. I'm so very thankful for Lonnie, Susie, Andrea, Becki, Karen, Kathy, Mike, Alan, Rickey, Kelly, Kelli, and anyone else that I may have forgotten. I'm appreciative that a team of classmates planned, organized, and executed this reunion (and all those that preceded it), and allowed me the opportunity to simply pay, attend, and visit with everyone from start to finish. I may have jokingly gotten a picture of Karen sweeping and Lonnie mopping up at the end, but that's just evidence of the hard work that it took to pull this wonderful event off for us. Throughout the whole event and the days leading up to it, I thought about an endless list of things, and I wasn't sure ...Expand for more