I have been haunted for the past twenty years since writing my Bio for the ten year reunion. It seems that as I wrote about being married to Miss Nude Black Vermont, living on welfare, driving a Cadillac, etc., some of you actually believed everything I wrote. Well I lied and I want to set the record straight. My favorite group was not the Bay City Rollers, and I did not like S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night. My favorite song in 1979 was “Happy Birthday”, it meant I was eighteen; I had a baby’s brain and an old man’s heart, I felt as though I was living in the middle of doubt (thanks Alice). Now I have old man’s everything and I don’t live in the middle of doubt, I’m right smack in the front of the doubt line.

 

I spent the last thirty years preparing to run the Boston Marathon. Imagine my surprise when I sent in my application and they said I had to live in or near Boston. Wow, what an eye opener, I guess I could run the Williamsport Marathon gas station, seems as though everybody’s pumping their own gas nowadays, maybe I should have acted on that impulse back in the day.

 

Changing channels now, are you ready for the digital age? I recently had one of the digital exams by a doctor who I now feel knows me a lot better than I know myself. I was digitally re-mastered. I still shudder when I think about it; it was so cold and sterile, if only the good doctor made house calls.

 

Too much information? You don’t have to read this stuff! If you are still reading I’m glad because now it’s time for some gossip. I happen to know that two members of the Seeger class of 1979 are on the Board of Directors of the Warren County Community Foundation, check out the website to see the good things this foundation has done and is doing for Warren County. Then become a contributing member of the foundation, send big checks if you can, of course any amount will help the cause. Tell them Tony Martin sent you.

 

As far as attending the reunion! Well if I had a job I might have to work that evening and if I had to work I would have to decide whether or not using vacation to spend time with a bunch of relative strangers outweighed spending vacation time with my stranger relatives. If I choose to not attend here are my responses to the questions I might be asked if I did attend. I have two, kids, not grandkids. I try not to work.

 

And my parting thoughts if I attended would be as follows. Stay just as you are! Don’t ever change! You’ll go far! Good luck in the future! We are fine, we drink wine, we are the class of ’79.