Hi Everyone. Well looks like everything is going well with the festivities. We’re just waiting for a few more replies for the memory book. Lee has done an awesome job in forwarding to me what he has received through e-mails. I also want to thank everyone for all the e-mails to pass along to our classmate who has a “crappy life”, I was shocked to find out that our Classmate, along with myself, DOES NOT have a perfect life, yeah right, so far, looks like no one else does either, so what else is new. I guess we can all go back to being a kid again when something gets messed up in our present life and as the saying goes, do over. Where have those teachers gone with the chalkboard, chalk and eraser that would make you redo the math problem over and over until you did it right, I suppose they were getting us primed for Life outside Bishop O’Reilly. Speaking of days gone by, I recently read an article in a free paper we have out here called the Weekender, it spoke of some old things that we had and it sort of asked, we had it then, did we use it, not use it at all and do we really miss it, it referred to things I really forgot about and some things I don’t want to remember like the Houston Oilers, the article also referred to the Yumbo Sandwich at Burger King, The Smurfs, who could forget Smurfette, 8 Track Tapes, 45 rpm records, McDonald’s McBLT’s (I don’t go there much and thought they were still around) and on and on. I wrote something similar to this before but more of us should because I did forget about a lot of things, especially as a child, too bad I lost a lot of things during the 1972 Flood, I would be making Mega Bucks now on E-Bay as I can remember having a Chatty Cathy Doll, Barbie and an Easy Bake Oven, and how about the guys they had Match Box Cars, and for some classmates KISS Dolls, I recently even bought my husband who just turned 40 a Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots for his birthday, still in the original box and all brand new, he was even telling me how he collected Baseball Cards, now there’s some memories. Now think of everything we have now that we didn’t have before, like computers, we had typewriters though, I can still remember using that pencil type eraser for mistakes, you remember, the one with the bristle brush end, no delete button on a typewriter and no Pepsi Twist available either, we also had that laundry type book bag, no backpacks in school then, but there is a good side to all of this, when everyone makes a visit back home, there’s still Kirby Park, not too many changes there and there’s always Dairy Queen, a wonderful memory. Speaking of memories, no one helped us out by submitting pictures for our presentation, so that may be nixed, unless of course you, our classmates, intend on bringing whatever snapshots you took at O’Reilly to the reunion, everyone seems to be enjoying mine on the website, even though they’re not really good, they still bring back memories. If you get a chance between now and the reunion, many of you took lots and lots of pictures during our 4 years at O’Reilly, now is the time to pull them out of those drawers and start looking at them and bring them along to the reunion, what are you saving them for anyway. Think about it, I don’t think we had throw-a-way cameras either when we were in school. Well enough said for now, but when you take a look back at your old pictures that you have hidden away I guarantee you’ll look at them and say “I can’t believe I really wore a Leisure Suit”, and “what was I thinking when I bought that dress”, and then you’ll have a good laugh and think of all the good memories while looking back.