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Dale Ward

TAKEN FROM 2005 CLASS REUNION BOOKLET: Life’s journey over the last forty years has been one adventure after another with each becoming more and grander. I feel blessed that the passage has been rather smooth with only a few unpleasant memories. Today I stand thankful to my family and friends for all the love, joys, inspiration, encouragement, and personal fulfillment they have shared and brought into my life. In 2004, I retired after thirty three rewarding years working on many levels of public education. Since that time life has been filled with one adventure after another. Now I have more time to devote to my wonderful wife Janell and our families. Our immediate family consists of two sons, Kevin of which is unmarried and living in Ellabell, and Brennan, his wife Philavone and their children C. J. and Alea, who live in Athens. This lifestyle we have chosen is always filled with excitement generated by our children, grandchildren, extended families, friends, pets, church, hobbies, travel, and volunteer work. We even have time every now and then to do a little house cleaning, yard work, and home maintenance. Wow! “Life is an Adventure.” Speaking of volunteer work, in July of 2004, Janell and I had an opportunity to participate on a mission team, to El Pino, Honduras. Janell helped with Bible school and on the support staff and I led the construction team in the finishing of a new medical clinic. We went knowing that being a humanitarian means giving unselfishly of oneself and it was a joy, but we returned renewed in spirit, by the love and generosity shown by the people of El Pino. In October we returned to the same area, this time working on a church in the nearby community of San Francisco. While in the Honduras, Janell and I had the opportunity to attend a conference to discuss the immediate needs and visions for the Methodist communities along the North Coast of Honduras. Janell and I along with twenty-one church representatives from Honduras, and the United States in a round table discussion presented our ideas. As you can imagine from this group many visions were introduced, but as God would have it the vision I suggested was chosen. Since that time we have directed our attention to organizing, designing, staffing, and building a school in El Pino, which is the beginning step to a far greater vision for this impoverished community of Honduras. Today we are recruiting team members, assembling supplies and materials, and preparing a team to assist in the completion of the school at El Pino. Our next visit to our friends in Honduras will be in September 2005. This forty years, a speck in time, seems like only yesterday we were first together. Now we have an opportunity to once again share in its delights from a time whence it all began. Even though the toll of time and the loss of fellow classmates bring us sadness, we all rejoice in this our reunion as we reminisce of our high school days. Thank you!! “Our Planning Committee of 1965”.

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