For Cindi,
Message Board
March 4th, 2008
Dear Former Classmate,
The Class of 1980 Contact List, which you receive twice per year, was always designed to help bring long lost friends together and keep open lines of communication between everyone who participates. And for the most part, it has done its job admirably. Pulling together the Contact List affords me the luxury of staying a tad more "connected" to our alumni. But it's a double-edged sword, as I also hear about the plight that several of our classmates are either presently dealing with on a personal level, or have dealt with in the past. So there are occasions when other communications are necessary and this is one of those times.
Cindi Shore, whom most of you may remember for her ever-present smile and good natured attitude, continues to battle with cancer. Many of you have received previous communications on this, as Cindi's fight has been a long and protracted ordeal (several years now). Last week I reached out to her to simply ask, "How are you doing, Cindi?". Well, the response was somber. Two blood transfusions and another dose of chemo therapy pretty much sums up current matters. This lady has been pulled through more knot holes than one deserves.
Whether you're Christian, Jewish, Buddhist or Muslim, whether you bow to God, Jesus, Yahweh, Krishna, Allah or some idol made out of clay, it doesn't matter. Even if you bow your head to another higher being/force, or maybe even none at all, it really just doesn't matter. I'm asking that you collectively take a moment of meditation and self-reflection, and in doing so please keep Cindi in those thoughts. She needs our collective help right now and that's one way to provide it.
Another way would be to send her a note. She can be reached at:
CinNumber1@aol.com
I'm confident a quick "hello" would do more for her morale and spirit than most anything else. I know it would do miracles for me if the shoe were on the other foot. And someday it will be...it's called being mortal.
In closing, I hope that the majority here don't feel that I've abused the privilege of having e-mail access to over 300 of my fellow former classmates. Some of you are lifelong friends, and for that I'm eternally grateful. So we have a tool here at our disposal...I say we start using it in constructive ways that it was never intended for. We also have another tool available, a chat forum at http://wphs.sitespecifier.com/ that is grossly underutilized. Bob Veazey maintains this web site, for all of our collective benefit, not by request but by choice. As long as the Internet stays essentially free, we should continue to leverage each of these, again, in constructive, non-commercial ways.
All the best to you and your respective families, and thank you in advance for lending some kind thoughts and words to Cindi during a time when she needs all of us.
Be well,
-Dean Harisis
