Yesterday we met up with Sharrol and Don Garrett and after visiting in the RV we toured their town and had a great time enjoying dinner and memories together. Don and Bill attended elementary school and high school together and they had lots of laughs about growing up together. Don is a retired Presbyterian minister and was going a sermon at a nursing home together - at dinner last night he decided to talk about Bill and what friendship meant. Pretty cool!
This morning we drove the rest of the way to Rochester and we are parked behind the new Alumni Center and have a very private parking lot south of the campus and across the Erie Canal. This is an area that has been connected via a bridge that crosses over the canal and a new expressway I-390. Lots and lots of growth to the medical center and the campus. The U of R is now the largest employer in Rochester!
Lunch today was in the neighborhood where Bill grew up and we ate at a little cafe about 3 blocks from 11 Cayuga Street with Dave Halter. Dave was our Best Man and it was great to visit with him again. Dave had cancer of one of his kidneys about 15 months ago and the next day threw a blood clot and the end result was he has had his left leg amputated above the knee. In spite of the medical problems, Dave was the most positive we have seen him = in many years!
We stopped by Mt. Hope Cemetary on the way back to campus and visited the graves of many of Bill's relatives including his mother, Aunts, and Uncles, and his Miller grandparents. His father is burried in the military section of another cemetary north or town.
This evening we attended a reception and then dinner of the Class of 57 and Bill was amoung a handful of those with full heads of hair! He looked just great amoung all those old men!!! Ed Morrison, one of our ushers, was there and we look forward to being with him tomorrow. Of Bill's class - about one third have died. Of those still living - about half have made the trip.
Bill is watching the Rutgers = South Florida football game - looks like the polls will have some more changes this coming week!
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