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A Call for Papers and Addresses
Tong Sheung Yuen
As you may already know, we are in the process of updating the addresses and phone numbers of our classmates and soliciting articles for the 1999 class reunion book to be published at the time of the reunion gathering wherever and whenever that might be.
We would like to publish a new address listing by Christmas time this year.
For those of us who attended the 1994 reunion at Vancouver, each received a fairly comprehensive and reasonably accurate address list of our classmates. This morning, I decided to check a few of the phone numbers on the list. Of the six classmates I attempted to contact, two are not even on the list. Three of the numbers are no longer in service and one did not answer. A complete loss. I had expected a couple of changes but six strikes in a row is a bit of a surprise.
To make the next address list useful, we are going to need everyone help. If you have moved in the last few years or change phone number or if you know a classmate who has moved or change phone number, please drop us a note as soon as you can. You can use email if that is more convenient. Phone call is fine too. My address is
| Peter S Tong |
| 2727 Spartan Road |
| Olney, MD 20832 |
| Phone:301-774-2426 |
| email: pstong@erols.com |
| or fill in on-line form |
As to the class reunion book, we have a bit of good news. Tony Kwok, who has masterfully created the beautiful Light Net WEB Site, has agreed to be our editor. In case you did not know, he was one of the main contributor to the 1965 class book. If you do not have a copy of that book, you can get one from Tony. If you have a copy of that book, read it and I think you will agree with me that was a very worthwhile effort.
However, the 1999 book will not materialize without contributing efforts from all of us. Masterful as Tony may be, we want to include a diversity of articles on different subjects and from different view points. Some of you may feel that you have had a totally uneventful life and therefore have nothing interesting to share with your classmates. If so, you have had an extraordinary life and I, for one, would like to do how you manage to lead such a peaceful life.
Seriously though, I like you to give the class book some thought and should you decide to write an article, be it a short story, an essay, a funny joke, a poem, in Chinese or in English, let me know or let Tony know. In a month or so, we need to decide whether we should go ahead with the project or abandon the effort. Sure, it will take time to write an article. Maybe quite a bit of time. But then, everything worthwhile in life takes time and effort. I believe there are few things you can do in the next year that will be as rewarding as sharing your experience with your classmates.