Truro Get Together at Donald's

Donald, AKA "the Duck" has been at the center of our class reunion for as many years as it existed.He is an old class mate of mine starting at grade one in the old Red Brick School in 1941. We more or less travelled through our educational journey in tandem although he was a better scholar and gained the attention of the teachers by his positive contributions. I had similar experiences with some of my teachers although I was demonized by a few who never took the time to understand my needs and untapped ability.

We attended teachers college and were in the same class along with 25 others and were even twinned for our long term practise teaching in Cape Breton. We go along way back and still communicate in a special way.When visiting Truro, Theresa and I become house guests and love our shared time with The Duck. This year there was a smaller number of people coming to the reunion. However when it came time for us to get tickets for the banquet and dance there were none available. Donald in his own way decided to turn in his ticket in a move to make a point.

A couple of well intended classmates jumped to the rescue and found some tickets and asked us to purchase them and keep the class united for the important final event of the reunion. I in my stubborn way did not accept the kind offer and instead decided to take Donald out for supper and join the group at his house immediately after.

The mood of our group is always great and this year it was no different as we usually think of our reunion as the pre festivities hosted by a class member. This year we visited Yarmouth and had a wonderful time experiencing the special hospitality in spite of the famous Yarmouth fog.

We are coming up to our 60th year and are trying to decide how to celebrate. With the exceptional celebrations our class has experienced over the years we will be hard pressed to match or exceed the past events. Our class is solid and whatever is decided I can assure you that it will still have that wonderful warm feeling you get when we share time together.