Deborah Moin Day's Comments

Debby,

What a great distraction from a paper I'm supposed to be reading! Your memory is far better than mine. I remember Steve Kant, but not the accident. I went through as divorce as well. Met my first wife in Chicago, we lived in New Orleans for a while, then up to SC where we got divorced. I was lucky and met Lauri and got remarried about five years later. We moved to CO in 1995, then here to Lawrence in 2005. I seem to keep moving to places so distant from anything I ever expected as a kid. Now I live with Dorothy and Toto! But we absolutely love Lawrence, one of the great college communities in the country. I'm lucky in that I always wanted to be a college professor and lived that dream. Now I travel a heck of a lot more than I would like, but have friends and colleagues in nearly every nook and cranny across the land.

Karen Gang! Yes, of course I remember her - another major crush for me (don't worry, you were there, too!). We connected a bit after college - her husband and my older brother were friends. Years and years ago my dad used to pick up Gina and Karen and we all went to a Bowling League - first in Whitestone, later at Regency Lanes. I think Karen was also in my driver's ed class at Jamaica. Strange what we remember. I always thought highly of her.

My step mother is a ways from you in Boynton Beach. My dad remarried years after my mother passed away, and he lived about ten years down there. I get to southern FL a few times a year for work-related stuff and always visit my step mother when there.

Reading teacher...God's work! Good for you. Those who aren't teachers never appreciate the importance and difficulty of what you do.

Hey - thanks again. This is fun. I think Jamaica is planning another reunion this spring and I'll try to head back if I can fit it in.

Rick