"Redcoat and McCormick"

Sue,
How can we possibly be 50??!!! Seems like just yesterday we were a couple of wacky, love-stuck, teenage girls who rivaled Lucy and Ethel in their crazy antics!! Pick ONE memory with you????? Impossible! I felt it would be more fun to run through all those things that come right to my mind & that are still vivid to me even today! This rambling won't mean anything to anyone but you, but I hope you enjoy......(I actually ran out of room & had to re-write it in briefer form!....

My first memory of you is in Mrs. Butler's 7th grade Spanish class, right before lunch. Your mom would always pack you a nice lunch in a brown bag; I remember you frequently had pecan bars (I hadn't seen them before), and you would open the NOISY crinkly plastic on it during the middle of class.......it drove Mrs. Butler crazy!! For 8th grade graduation we lined up by height........being tall I was hoping I would get paired with someone like Dave Mokros. But they ran out of boys & we got paired with EACH OTHER!! Was that fate?? GS Summer Camp at Skylark was a blast! Against all the rules, we had our moms send us care packages of food because "we were starving" (yeah, right!). Against all the rules, we put the food under our cots....& I woke up to look into the eyes of a raccoon under your bed going through our snacks!!! We also lit the homemade candle, again, against all the rules, & I ended up with singed hair and you had singed hair and EYEBROWS!! We were just warming up for High School.....

As Awalt Spartans: remember "$50"; Christopher Robin, Pooh, Eeyore; The MAH! Club; "The Ride"; riding our bikes EVERYWHERE; "Redcoat"; "Vestie"; sneaking behind Jim's house and you waving to him when he saw us??!!; pouring soda down Jim's car grate; relying on Lou Miller for "information"!!??; TP'ing Mr DeBolt's house; you obtaining a pix of Ken as a surprise for me; you were the 1st person I knew to watch "All My Children"; filming the gangster movie with Jim, Twin, etc. at the SAN JOSE AIRPORT & GETTING STOPPED BY SECURITY!!

We had many laughs. Thanks for making the teen years fun!! Happy, Happy 50th Birthday, Sue, and welcome to the decade!!

Love, Jennifer