Happy 2021, Everyone!
As Charles Dickens said, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Whatever happened or is happening to you in this ongoing pandemic will dictate where you stand on Dickens’ continuum. My sincere condolences to all of you who lost family and friends during this time. I hope you were one of the lucky ones and had time, albeit lots of it, to contemplate what is truly important in your life. It certainly wasn’t the best of times, but it was a definite pause.
A big shout-out to Creighton Fuss, who is almost single handedly working to make our 55-year class reunion a success. I knew Creighton by sight when I was at Luther, but our paths did not cross in class or on the sports fields! Now after numerous phone conversations and emails, I consider him a friend and am looking forward to seeing him and his wife at the reunion. That’s one of the benefits of these reunions. Generally, our group of close Luther friends from our four years together, is relatively small. At our reunions, I realize how many more interesting and fun people there were in our class. Every year I have met someone that I wished I had met while at Luther.
By now you will have received an “itinerary” from Creighton with all the possible ways to meet while you’re in Decorah for the weekend. I sincerely hope to see as many of you as possible.
This is a difficult time for all colleges right now. We are trusting that we will be able to meet in person, but as always, the health and safety of the current Luther students must be our first priority.
The rest of Dickens’ opening paragraph reads
…it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Soli Deo Gloria!
Sincerely,
