There were more than a few very special people who never walked that final walk to get their MHS diploma. As Herman said, Gene was one and as I said at the gathering, Emmet was another. Emmet stood up for me when I got married, went up to Chillhowee Lake more than a few times to ski and was never seen by anyone without a SMILE! I remember bumming a place for the night off of him in Atlanta and although it was a few years after MHS it was just like we were still hanging together as dork ass 17 year olds. Anyway, he is on a good path right now and I want all of us to hold him close as I do!

Here is a note I got from him last week, lord help if we could all be about a third as cool and NICE as this guy our nasty world would flat shine!




"Things here in the big city of Houston are doing great. On my last visit to MD Anderson my M-Protein level, which normally should be 0 and mine was at 5.6 with a goal of cutting that in half before the insurance would consider doing a stem cell transplant, well after several rounds of Chemo mine was lowered to .5, my doctor really couldn't explain it other than we know that prayer works. I meet with both my Myeloma and the transplant doctor on Sept 1 to firm up our plans. We will probably do the transplant the first part of October.
Thanks for the pictures from the reunion, it looks like a good time was had by all, really could have used some names to go along with some of the pictures, of course you are always the easy one to pick out. One of these days we might just surprise you in Tennessee. Wth our oldest daugher living in NJ with our only grandson, it might just call for a car trip up that way. Both daughters and family were here last weekend and we had Michael baptized and then it was my birthday so what more could a Dad ask for. It is tough having one in NJ and the other one in CA, at least we are half way.
I will keep you up to date with my happenings"