I will be thinking of all of you, during the weekend of the reunion. As I left teen age angst behind, I came to understand how much I treasure my memories of all of you. Whether we were friends, acquaintances or total strangers - you populate my high school memories. The sounds of you all as you changed classes, or cheered at a basketball game or nervously whispered at the prom or homecoming dance are part of the happy sound track of my life.

Over the past 40 years I have lived in Manhattan, Chicago, Cincinnati, California's Silicon Valley and for the last 6 years in historic Wilmington North Carolina and Northern Virginia. It has been a culture shock to move to a rambling, old city like Wilmington. And, after living in a home we built in California, a 125 year old victorian is simultaneously fascinating and frustrating. The one thing I can attest to is that southern hospitality is real.

As much as I'd love to see all of you, I am happy to say that I will be spending reunion weekend with my grandson Andrew Donald Hauge Jr. in Washington DC. Although we live in Wilmington, my wife of 34 years, Nancy, works in DC. My son, Andy, his wife Ginger and Drew and I will be up visiting her. Drew is 6 months old and I don't want to brag obnoxiously about how gorgeous, bright and sunny he is: I will just let you know that right now he is translating the works of Goethe from the original german into Golden Book.

If any of you are ever on the Carolina coast, please look me up.