----- Original Message -----

From: Ron Winn

To: Maxine Adams

Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:45 AM

Subject: Karin Phillips Winn and BCHS Class of 1960 Reunion

Maxine,

September seems to be a pivotal month for me. As I am writing this, we are waiting for Hurricane Rita to hit the Dallas/Ft. Worth area as a tropical storm. In September 1970, I left Delmar, honestly not looking back, for the Bay Area of California, where my oldest son still resides with his family. In September 1988, I moved to Portland, Oregon with my youngest son when Ron and I married. Life happens, and often we have no control over events, so after 16 months of unemployment in September, 2003 Ron accepted a position in Dallas. As the Northwest is one of the most wonderful places to live (an hour to the ocean, an hour to the mountains, not much further is high desert), you can imagine how extremely hard it was to leave.

However, thanks to this move, I am enjoying retirement (after 26 years in customer service), while Ron toils away at a company specializing in theatrical and architectural lighting. If all goes well, we'll be out of Texas in 5 years. Where we will go, we're not certain, but it will be someplace that has cool summers with smaller/or no mosquitoes and certainly NO cockroaches, I don't care if it does snow!

Enjoy the Reunion. If photos are taken of the 4 Corners, I hope someone posts them.

Karin Phillips Winn