50th college reunion

2nd July, 2010 - Posted by gaylecarson - No Comments

This coming weekend I am heading up to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts for my 50th reunion.  It is so hard for me to believe it’s that long since I left because I have been so active with them.  First on the Board of Alumni, then a brief stint on the Board of Trustees and then for ten years on the Board of Overseers, so I have seen how the college has grown and developed and wish I could attend all over again.  My girlfriend, Shelly Abrams and I are doing a skit at the reunion lunch and it has a few “dirty words” in it.  When I asked our chair whether it would be “o.k.” he said “Well, you know, they are older.”  I said, “That’s us.  We are them!”  Interesting how we don’t see ourselves as old but everyone else around us probably does.  Anyway, I am really looking forward to seeing my old friends, experiencing the “vibes” again, and I get to see the guy I cheerleaded for who I haven’t seen in 50 years!  I know I can still leap, but can he toss that ball?