Sunday, October 22, 2006




After many years of not being a student, but attempting to be the instructor... I haven't given it much thought in returning to my beloved Geneva college in Beaver Falls, PA. With each passing Autumn, and its splendid array of changing leaves and crisp, cool air never failed in reminding me of fond moments and memoires shared with close friends and visiting parents. This is my favorite season, although each of the passing seasons hold very endearing qualities unique to its given place on the calendar page. However, knowing that I am happiest during the few short weeks between September, when summer has ended, and the time when November starts to dull into a saddening gray, and bleak preview into Winter... Bob agreed to join me for Homecoming weekend as I made the journey back to this campus in celebrating my 15th college reunion. We were joined by my close college friends of whom we haven't seen in 10 years. It was amazing to see how much their children have grown, and yet seeing one another, in our eyes (as adults looking at one another's physical traits)... it was as if no time had passed at all. Seeing many of my past close friends and aquaintances of the graduating class of '91 was hilighted with new introductions of their spouses and young children. It was truely a blessing to be back in this company, when the anthem sung at a football stadium sounds like a choir and a lost pair of sunglasses is kindly picked up and placed upon a nearby table for it's owner's return. How far is the distance between the two points in the state? Immeasurable in many ways.