I wanted to wish
you all a warm Christmas morning – it is even brisk here in Central
Florida this fine morning and gives me somewhat of the taste of
those Christmas mornings in CNY... Ron Fairbank sent this to a number of us
this past week but I thought it was worth sharing with all of you this
wonderful morning as I contemplate memories of previous Christmas mornings …
Another year gone—
Judy Norton did her stage manager thing again with Rudolph the Red
Nose...and the local children’s ballet schools.
Suzy Becker is back in Arizona
Bill Little even got a
taste of cold weather down in usually sunny Florida
Steve Bernardelli despite the weather probably still played golf.
Dick D'Orazio returned a few weeks ago from another successful hunting
trip with his son down in Montana
Dawn D'Orazio continued teaching the kids at Cazenovia
Pete Dardaris still can't believe he screwed up on the date for our
re-union
Ron turned another year older, continues procrastinating on completing
the story of the "Purple slip" for the blog. And Carol is seriously
considering retirement next June but concerned about too much free time.
Imagine?
Louise and Al put the bikes up, and got out the wax and skis.
Barb Clark --I
loved her pearls Friday night-no doubt has been busy doing something...
Lee and Jim Wilson probably continued traveling to visit their kids.
Ed Hutchinson our ever faithful record and web keeper has passed the torch
to Bill little-we all owe him a huge debt of appreciation for all his reliable
tracking and keeping us up to date on J.D. classes. Big thanks for the
numerous hours you devoted to all of us Ed.
Our classmate Jim Robb remains at James Square--I plan on taking my reunion
photo disk and laptop and pay him a visit in early Jan.
The time is here for the Syracuse
group to reconvene for a breakfast or lunch, catch up, and take some photos to
share. Will contact Louise in January.
Lastly, Anne Brennan sent
in a short note to the Post Standard Editorial page last week--reminiscing
about the monorail at E.W. Edwards at Christmas time--how many of you remember
that. Dick Case in his weekly column brought it all back about 2 weeks
ago when he interviewed some folks who grew up here and shared their memories
of the attraction. I remember riding it and ending up in the toy
department and Santa Claus. Progress (?) and time moves on.
Fondly,
Ron Fairbank
