How many years? It cannot be! 38 summers, autumns, winters, and springs have passed since our class graduated Columbia High School? Well…it’s true. Tonight, October 23^rd, 2008, several of us “gathered” together across the miles in a teleconference to start discussions about our upcoming 40-year Reunion.

Rob Fricton kicked things off a few weeks ago, when he sent out the initial e-mail asking who would like to contribute to our plans. (Plans? We have no plan; yet.) Participants this evening included:

• Andy Godwin
• Rob Fricton
• Don White
• Rev. Jim Wooten

Andy and Rob are in the Atlanta area, Don now hails from Richmond, Virginia, and Jim Wooten is pastor of a Presbyterian church in Nebraska. (I don’t know, Jim, how you live so far from The Varsity. I mean, Richmond isn’t within the delivery range, but…)

Anyway, we discussed a number of starting points:

• Offer multiple events, such as a golf tourney and a picnic, as well as the reunion dinner-dance
• Investigate the use of a local reunion company to help find classmates and make arrangements
• Costs and limitations (purely conjecture at this point)
• Coordinating mailing lists to help find classmates
• Communicating between those who help put this shindig together

One thing that Jim very clearly expressed was how good it is to have the means to reconnect with old friends and classmates.

Andy and others will poll you soon to help us decide when to host our next teleconference planning meeting. (Of course, this doesn’t mean that everyone has to call in individually; several can get together and call in using a speaker phone.) So, watch your e-mail for an announcement through our class mailing list and, also, check out the Events for meeting announcements.