Trip to Ann Arbor

There's nothing like being in "Big Blue" country!

We spent the past three days in Ann Arbor to attend the 5th "LeRoy Townsend" Symposium. When Dr. Townsend retired the Chemistry department honored him by creating this annual lecture series. When this symposium was first started, Tom was asked to be the first presenter since he was the first to graduate with his PhD from the U of M under Dr. Townsend. It was a great honor and he looks forward to attending this event each year.

There is a lot of work being done on the "Big House".

$30, 000 box seats are being added.

We couldn't even afford the $90 annual football

tickets when we were there.

After the lecture was over we all gathered at the

local bowling alley to bowl, eat pizza and visit.

Besides being Tom's major professor, Dr. Townsend

and his wife have been very close friends and

were like surrogate grandparents to our children.

Tom will always have great admiration for LeRoy.

After bowling and on our way to the picnic and softball game, we drove by student housing where we lived. It hasn't changed a bit except the trees are a little bigger. Our place was the second window to the left.

This was our front door.

They did take the "moon house" out of the sandbox.

The boys use to love playing on it with their friends.

Our last day we were able to spend some time with LeRoy and Sammy really getting caught up on how and what our families are doing. Tom even fit in time to hit golf balls.

We also went and saw "Angels and Demons." It was an excellent show. I have no idea why the critics have been so hard on it. I would recommend it to anyone.