Just a cute story about our growing up years....  Lee Ann stood out even in our early years at Tanglewood. To my eyes she was definitely the most beautiful girl in our class. Beat me out for a role in one our class plays. To be honest she deserved the roll. I don’t know why I was in compition for the role in the first place. I was never good at anything that put me center stage. Then the summer  before we started 7th grade I move across the street from David E. Welp I was quite taken with him and I thought we had a pretty good time getting to know each other that summer. That all changed the first day of school. Lee Ann stold  his heart and he never looked back. Glad now they had that time together. 

Lee Ann and I'd kept in touch always after that life-changing summer of 1969 in Atlantic City, NJ, when Lee, Debbie Reese, Nora Nugent and I went there for the summer, oestensibly so that Lee and Dave Errickson could be together. Little did we know it would cause our lives to change. sometimes with turbulence-- it was definitely a defining moment.  Lee and I'd come together at her parents' home in Sherwood Forest several times a year after that.  Our lives diverged but we be in contcact by phone. Bryan, Heather, Billy and I moved to Portland, OR, in 1992, but Lee and I didn't let the daily ins and outs of raising families and working get in the way.  We began meeting in Golden, Co, in October, where Barbara had moved, to celebrate Babs' birthdays and do girl things together.  Today, October 21, is the fifth anniversary of her passing. Barbara passed away a few weeks later.  These two kind women were a great influence on me, and their love saw me through some tough times.  Terry