Hi Ray,

  Great to hear from you.  But first I must tell you that I have a new
email address: Hankeo7@comcast.net.  I still check the old one
occasionally but mail may sit there for weeks so if you wouldn't mind
please update your address book.

  When I received the picture I felt sure that I would recognize folks
from the class of 1969, not realizing it referred to the year they
graduated from GE and not the ordination year.  I couldn't recognize
any of the faces or names.  Man, I thought my memory was getting even
worse than folks tell me... until I figured out my mistake.

  I went to Map Quest to see if I could locate the novitiate in
Hingham which is where it had moved from Bedford just a few years
before our class arrived there in 1965.  I didn't have an address but
thought it's a small town and I should be able to find it by looking
at aerial photos but no such luck.  Not sure if it even is still
there.

  I been hearing a lot about IBM or Oracle acquiring Sun.  Has this
effected you.  My son, Chris, got notice that he and many of the
employees brought on board by the Storagetek acquisition several years
ago are being let go.  He seems to be taking it in stride.  If it were
me I'd be frantic.  The prospect of having a new house and a young
family and no job in this economic downturn would be scaring me ----
but he must know something I don't.

  I was mentioning to Karen after I received your email that everytime
that I read an email about Maryknoll, I am flooded with so many
menmories.  She asked why.  I guess that I feel that it was such a
simple time of genuine innocence that is gone forever.  The memory is
something special but in many ways unexplainable.  Its a memory that
is shared with just a few others.  Sadly their numbers are decreasing
and with them the memory is slipping away too.

  What a cheery note to end on.  Anyway I hope you are doing well and
always enjoy hearing from you,

Hank