Wish I could be with you all this weekend. I've never been to a reunion. I have such vivid memories of graduation and the feeling of devastation I had realizing that four years of being a part of the Maplewood family were over. When I was a freshman at Union I wrote a single copy book for an English called I called Maplemadness. I had kept journals throughout the four years and did my book from those entries. So 45 years later. I'm out of the workplace and my passion has become photography. I am going to be the featured artist on the cover of a quarterly newspaper in Lincoln that has a circulation of 16,000. I have been in an art gallery. My most recent photos were of Native American pow wows which have generated interest. They are abstract, semi-abstract and in focus. I have enjoyed meeting artists and authors in that community from all over. I attend a small church New Creation which is out in the country. We are enthusiastic and non traditional or I would not probably be going there. I have never married, live with a beautiful calico cat named Callie. I enjoy having Pauline Johnson Balta in Lincoln. Verna Lastine Thiel (not sure of her last name) visited a few weeks ago. Charles Shields came through awhile back. I have contact with Larry Heiman who was in our class 9th and 10th grades. I have so many memories -- special times like banquets, ski trips, weeks of prayer, traditions as seniors of decorating the dorm for Christmas and the many candlelight sing-a-longs we had. And the graduation traditions of walking around the campus in our gowns singing Halls of Ivy, wearing white dresses as juniors to line the aisles for the seniors. Do they still do those things? Sometimes I question families sending their 14 year old kids off to boarding school and know that was a sacrifice for them emotionally and financially but was something they believed in. Everyone has gone through ups and downs through the years and I would love to get caught up with each of you. I've enjoyed the contact I've had with several over the years. Maybe I'll make it to the 50th. Who knows. We used to think of the alumni as old codgers and now we are them! I just discovered this site so am looking forward to checking it out. Wishing the best for all of you!