Don't for get the Remembrance Program @ 2:00pm in the Richardson Room.  It's on the 1st flr.  1st door on the left down the only hallway on the 1st flr. up near the front of the hotel.  

Also, a big Reception will be held each night from 5:30 to 6:30pm in the foyer outside the ballroom.  The ballroom is in the back of the hotel and there is lots of parking in the back.  You can walk right in the back doors and you are at the ballroom and the Reception.

Remember - Pick up your packet on Fri night and put your name badge on.  You should also wear it Saturday night, at least through the Reception and until we are seated for dinner.  I think we should do it as a courtesy to all the new comers who don't know who we are. 

I have just retired after teaching English and Philosophy at El Centro College and in Richland College's Human Rights program. I taught 43 years as a full-time professor -- always in the Dallas College District where I also did administrative work for a few years. I'm married, and we live in southwest Oak Cliff just west of Hampton/Ledbetter across from Red Bird airport. I've bought, rented out, and sold houses and my partner and I built many, many redwood decks back in the 80s. Marian and I have dozens of former-student-kids from around the world we count as sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, and sometimes our Thanksgiving days seem like the United Nations in our home.

One highlight for us was back in 2005 when we traveled to Uganda, East Africa with some of my former students from that country, and we stayed in orphanages for kids who had lost family to the AIDS epidemic. The next year I received a Fulbright grant to study for a month in Senegal, West Africa. Over all life has been an adventure, but except for college years I have lived in various homes in Oak Cliff. My wife is an Oak Cliffy too, and she will teach third grade in a little elementary school not far from the house for another few years before retiring.