Kenny Benoit
To Donna and the entire reunion committee,
Thank you so much for your untiring efforts to make this very special reunion a great success.
I've known alot of you for at least 50 years through attending Riviera Beach Elementary, Howell Watkins Jr. High and my freshman year at RBHS. I was "ushered" off to Cardinal Newman after my freshman year, much to my chagrin. Although I attended another high school, my heart and soul were always with my friends and RBHS. I feel very honored to have been included as a classmate of yours.
I was also honored to be a part of the entertainment on Saturday night and hope that we contributed to the overall success, as well.
It was great to see as many of you as I could to spend some time to catch up.
For those of you who have spouses, significant others, yourselves, and/or family members who are facing health issues, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
I sent an email to Danny Stiles a few days ago and he suggested that I share with you all something I wrote in my email:
"What a great bunch of people we have as classmates, and more importantly, wonderful friends. As we travel this path of life, we start out as kids, make lots of friends, graduate with these friends, then, we
each go our own way to experience this life. We get married, have children and raise them to the best of
our abilities. Then, they go off to start their own lives, just like we did years before. They now have families of their own. And, they do visit from time to time.
But, what remains are the friendships we've cultivated and nutured along our life path. And those friends are still with us, and for that, we ALL are so very blessed..
Especially, this special bunch of friends of the RBHS Class of '69!"
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