Dear Group, I had a very special lunch today with Carol (Greenwald) and Bill Scouler from Niagara Falls who now live in Massachusetts. They're members of our list and over the past year or so Carol and I have exchanged memories of Mr. Atkinson's Dancing Class and other such old memories of Niagara Falls, and I have done a bit of local research on her Greenwald family from LaSalle (you know, Greenwald's Hotdog stand! The best hotdogs ever!!) Well, today was the day that we finally got to meet each other. We agreed to meet at D.J.'s Restaurant on Main Street in Youngstown at precisely 12:30 p.m. I made certain I got there a few minutes early and I waited in my car in front of the restaurant for them to show up. Shortly thereafter, a car with a man and women in it parked nearby and I just knew it must be them. I got out of my car and waved to them. They waved back and got out of the car. However, comma, another car pulled up just then and parked and I noticed that it had Massachusetts license plates on it-AND it had a man and woman in it! Whoops, I had waved at the wrong couple! Carol and Bill got out of their Massachusetts car and I got a chance to finally hug both of them. We headed for D.J.'s and so did the other couple. I apologized to the other couple and let them know that I really didn't know them-it had been my mistake. However, the woman corrected me! Hey, Vee, it 's me Doreen Roth from High School! Oh MY GAWD, DOREEN!! And there I stood with my Niagara Falls High School Class of 1949 yearbook in hand to show Carol and Bill-and there was Doreen whose picture was in it!! The four of us entered D.J.'s, I introduced Doreen to Carol and Bill, and then Doreen and I babbled a bit about how exciting our 50th class reunion had been. She asked me if I had seen the pictures that had been taken of me when I was the "Ginger Rogers" of the dance floor that evening and when I told her that I hadn't seen a one, she promised she would mail them to me. Oh my, what an evening that was! Carol, Bill and I then sat down in the coziest section of the little restaurant-the smoking section. It had a lovely view of the Niagara River and even though there weren't any sailboats moored out in the river, it was the best scenery that I could scrape up at this time of year for them. All three of us promptly ordered Beef on 'Weck and then Bill dove into my yearbook. He had graduated in 1951 but he knew that he would know some of the kids in it. Oh boy, did he ever! Not only that but Carol had dated some of the guys in the yearbook and between the three of us, we had a great old time talking about mutual acquaintances and teachers-especially our Physics teacher, Mark R. Bedford! In addition, there was a couple "our age" sitting at the table next to us who was thoroughly enjoying our conversation and a lot of laughs were exchanged between our two tables. They were total strangers but by the time they left, we all exchanged warm goodbyes. Carol and Bill and I sat at the table long after we had finished our lunch. All three of us talked about Jack Viele who all of us had known-both Carol and I had responded to the query about him that showed up on the list-and, well we just talked and talked as if we had known each other forever. And so there you have it. Just a Saturday lunch at D.J.'s in Youngstown overlooking the Niagara River with two people I had never met. Now why do I get the feeling that it was something beyond just an "ordinary" lunch?? :-) vee