Thank You Scott
Posted Monday, July 18, 2011 10:08 AM

Well,

The 20 will happen this month.

For those of you who attend from out of town, remember to update your GPS if you don't use the autofunction on your phones...

It has changed just enough...I had to ask for directions to find my childhood home...

Surreal showing my son where I lived, and current residents invited us in to look around. Showed my son (girls stayed at home with mom), where grandpa is buried, the litte street sign named after him...

Got to see Wildcats route ASU at McKale -- my first game at McKale since 1984...(before Lute had annual sell outs).

On a different note, thank you Scott for doing such a fine job as class President. It is my understanding that your duties will conclude after this. Future reunions, social networks nothwithstanding, are cateroized by the schools as either self-organized or "All Classes".

I understand there have been mini and micro reunions since 1991, and (undulge the humor), some people never really left...

There is nothing wrong with carving a life out in Tucson. It just wasn't for me.

I pray spouses enjoy the sights and sounds, and the ambience is peaceful. Lord knows we spent 13 years (give or take) getting on each other's nerves. "Best friends" for those formative years went on to take on other such friends as life unfolded. I praise the day I met my wife...

And, in regards to the classmates who died, known or yet to be, I pray they knew Christ as their Savior before they left this world. I know Jennifer Hoffman did. She wore her faith in Jesus Christ on her sleeve. Her friendship help me through my senior year, stamped with the loss of my dad in February. Her memorial in Dec 1996 was the first time I entered a Calvary Chapel.

I pray the same for everyone else herein.

That doesn't mean we'll all get along - I believe our free will carries over from here to there, and let's face it, we all enjoyed being done with high school more than entering it. :)

And for those who have quietly wondered, what became of that movie guy?

I had my chances to sell my soul to Hollywood. Met a bunch of A list talent including comedy teacher Rodney Dangerfield. The Lord claimed me for His own in 1998 and I never looked back.

Today, as my colleagues say, "There's a lot of unemployed Oscar winners out there."

The reason why James Cameron takes ten years and $150 M to make a single movie is that's how much and how long it really takes to be done right these days -- and that's just to get you to pay $1 at Redbox, watch it, and react to it with the same enthusiasm as eating a bologna sandwich.

Most A list talent are 20-years in the making. So, as some of you take your teenage kids, (or even young grandkids) to see one of my three big-budget films before I retire (you heard me), know I am thinking of (some of) you as I make them...along with the 6000 people necessary to make a film like Spider Man.

A search of my name (no "e" in Cory), on Amazon reveals my latest...

...and for those cheering for me to fail...I did that in the '90's except for my Salvation.

Goodbye everybody!