EMP-11

Don Reynolds says he thinks he'll get a T-shirt saying, "I survived hurricanes Charley and Frances." The eye of Frances went over their house and lasted "only" three hours with winds of 105 miles per hour. No damage to his home. His subdivision, however, looked as if the Air Force had been using it for bombing practice. Then came Frances for 30 hours, and again no damage to his home. Lost power both times, though. Don writes that before Ivan actually made it to the States and was again predicted to hit Florida, things nearly went too far. He thanks God that he made it through both storms. Reach Don at donald.reynolds@att.net.

I am always on the lookout for classmates. Found two and here are their email addresses: Jane Burke's is jane@jaburke.net and Steve Wertheimer's is swertheimer@wcapgroup.com7.

Ruthellyn Musil, Denise Guardino and Mark Mallory have volunteered to plan a reunion for EMP-11 next year. Well, Ruthellyn actually said Mark would help since they work together so well at the Tribune. Mail them with your thoughts. Ruthellyn still remembers fondly the Cubs game we attended so long ago as classmates and thinks we should do this again. It would probably take a whole weekend to catch up on old times, don't you think? The three of them would like to hear from all of you very soon about getting together next year, so don't hesitate to contact them. Reach Ruthellyn at RMusil@ tribune.com, Mark at ... well you can probably figure that out, and Denise at denise.guardino@billjacobs.com.