Since you're "Out the gate in 2008", here's a flashback in your honor, Sandy: We have 30 plus years of wonderful memories and history with you and Russ.

Berry School began it all. I met you, Sandy, a top-notch teacher. Your entire career you always gave 110% to all your students, parents, peers, and profession. This doesn't include all your superior teaching skills, people skills, leadership skills, and positive personality needed to accomplish a single teaching day.

While still at Berry, our sons provided us with another common bond and our friendship began to blossom. Our twosome evolved into a foursome. Eventually, soccer and cub scouts became items listed on our calendars and the foursome became a sixsome with Tommy and Russ joining the ranks. It was so nice having you two good friends to chat with as Tim and Jeremy were growing up. When Jeremy and Tim went to college, our sixsome became a foursome once again.

"Field trips" became an operative word for the four of us. We managed to squeeze in many unforgetable short and longer trips in between family and job commitments. Here's a sampling of some of those trips:

  • Lake Tahoe
    • 4th of July fireworks over the lake
    • Interesting sightseeing
    • Great and inexpensive prime rib dinners
     
  • Palm Springs
    • Thanksgiving in the desert
    • How cool is that!
    • Jeremy and Tim were with us
     
  • San Francisco
    • Nob Hill in the spring
    • Macy's flower displays
    • Walking and sightseeing
    • Super early bird Italian dinners
     
  • San Diego
    • Sightseeing comfortably during the winter
    • After-Christmas shopping bargains
    • Attending an unique holiday football parade
     
  • Kauai
    • Nature's paradise
    • Fantastic sightseeing
    • Exotic tastes and scents
    • The Oki Diner dinners
     
  • New England
    • Walking the Freedom Trail in Boston
    • Gorgeous fall colors
    • "Taking the road less traveled" with Russ at the wheel
    • Interesting side trips and history
    • Witnessing Russ' expertise at backing a car up at 50 mph!!!!
    • Lunch in Bethleham, NH
     
  • Arizona
    • Tucson and the Sonora desert museum
    • Bird sanctuaries
    • Prescott sightseeing
    • Local Native American ruins
    • Flagstaff and nearby areas
    • You two were the first guests at our AZ home on your Route 66 trip.
     
  • Annual field trips
    • San Francisco Flower Show
    • The White Elephant Sale
     
  • Weekly field trips
    • Happi House!!!
    • Mini Gourmet----The new kid on the block

Sandy, you can look back on a stellar teaching career and be very proud of what you've accomplished with children and professionally. Enjoy a well deserved retirement and have fun inventing your personal lesson plan. Here's to 30 plus more years of memories and friendship.

Love and Happy Retirement,
Tom and Sandra