Anniversary

Happy Fathers Day! Woo hoo! I’m feeling bad because I missed saying “Happy Birthday” to my dad. His birthday was Friday. I’ve stopped looking at calendars since school ended, so I missed the date. Dang.

Speaking of calendars, yesterday was the 50th anniversary celebration for my old school here in Baltimore. I didn’t know it was happening until about a week ago, when I got a letter in the mail from someone who was doing a slide show of pictures from the school’s history and asked me for a “now” picture to follow my “then” picture from an old yearbook. This is the picture I took:

I think I’ll make this my Facebook profile picture.

I didn’t end up sending the picture, because his letter seemed to suggest that teachers who would be present didn’t need to include a picture.

I wanted to go, so I texted Michele. She said she could get tickets and said she would go if I did. I’m glad she went, because she helped me remember some names. I did do pretty well though. I remembered quite a few more than expected.

I saw some former students, but not too many. The alumni who were there were mostly from longer ago. Most excitingly, I saw former co-workers – some of whom I haven’t seen in more than ten years. It was really fun seeing them again. I saw sixth grade teacher Donna, for those of you who know her. I think it’s been more like fifteen years since I’ve seen her. She hasn’t changed a bit. Ha!

There was food at the event, and it was from Silver Spring Mining Company (one of my favorite restaurants in Baltimore). Mmmm…

The program was a little long, but it was fun. I was glad I went.

The banquet was in a tent on the site of the field house that collapsed from snow this past winter.