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This blogsite is for alumni and friends of Archbishop Walsh High School (AWHS) in Olean, NY. Here you can share views on the school's future, along with memories of the past. It's also a great place for old friends and "old" friends -- separated by time, distance and circumstance -- to catch up. Welcome to the conversation.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Time for family reunion, WNY Tour

I'm departing Austin today for a solid week enjoying the company of friends and family in the summer green of New York State. First up is Independence Day in Plattsburgh and a few days with friends north of the Adirondacks.
 
Next week I will enjoy a nice, long drive down the Northway then to the Thruway and head for Western New York. Am looking forward to a Thursday lunch and meeting with JP Butler for a face-to-face update on AWHS, perhaps an opportunity to shoot some photos for the blogsite, and compare impressions of the school from someone who graduated 5 years ago and someone who graduated 41 years ago. Am also focused on the joys of a Beef on Wick repast, something that doesn't happen in Central Texas. This should be most interesting.

Then there's the family reunion ... I might even get to talk with Bob McFarland (AWHS board president) at the Steinbroner Nation Family Reunion on July 12. The following day, I'm headed back to Austin, no doubt my memory banks and cameras filled with images from a most enjoyable, but all too brief, vacation.