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As I was putting together the stuff to give back to EMHS after the reunion, I found a few e-mail addresses of people who were not at the reunion and sent out last call, as it were. Most of the e-mails bounced back, but as you can see in the comments on the picture post below, one found Cotton Bryant.

Another reached Albuquerque, NM, and Christopher Taylor. He writes:

Wow, what a surprise. Opened the Monday morning calender and email and got this reminder of the years gone by. Sorry I missed the get together. Got me thinking about the past 10 years. Finished my neurosurgery training in 2001.

[My wife] Mary and I moved to Dallas. Spent 3 years there. She taught school. I did specialized work in cerebrovascular neurosurgery. Practiced for a year and a half in El Paso after that.

We moved to Albuquerque in January of 06. We like the mountains and constant sunshine. I think we have settled down for a while. I’m in the Neurosurgery Dept. of the University. I do surgery and see patients. Lecture at the Medical School once or twice a year. I have a technical book being published this year. I shoot skeet on weekends and mess around with the guitar. Mary and I like to hike the desert and go scuba diving.

Mary has a jewelry business. She’s online at www.mhershberger.com. She’s been at it a couple of years and has earned enough this year to send herself to Italy next summer. I got all of the Europe I need bumming around with Chris Thompson. I think Mary is actually going to be in Washington, D.C., and in Harrisonburg in a couple of weeks doing trunk shows.

We tried to have kids for a while and gradually kind of gave up. Neither of us really felt strongly enough to go the adoption route. Otherwise we have mostly avoided tragedy.

More as it I track them down, and I’ll get right on that class directory thing.

Time to update the list of who’s coming to the reunion. The responses have slowed down, but you still have 10 days to reply or recruit. Since the last list, here are the additional people who have told me they are going to be there:

  • Cindy Brenneman
  • Conrad (Mark) Zapanta
  • Mark Showalter
  • Monica Ross Compagnari
  • Steve Gerber
  • Rodney King (I ran into all three of these cousins, Rod, Monica, and Steve, the other night at a birthday party for Rod’s daugher, Harriet, who turned five)
  • Rene Emswiler Rhodes
  • Shawn Yoder McDaniel

All told, I have heard from 25 people (36 percent, not as many as I’d like) and we’re looking at 59 people (29 adults and 30 kids).

If any of you got the EMHS Today today, you’ll notice that it claims our reunion is at 11 p.m.

It is not.

The previous edition said the reunion is at 1 p.m.

That is also wrong.

The reunion is October 20, from about 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., give or take.