KC Retiring?
Hi [KC].
Hey, I heard that you’re retiring this year along with Dr. Simon. Is that true? If so, we should get together at least once before you go. Also, make sure you send me your away-from-work email address, because I definitely want to keep in touch.
Yes, the book is going okay. That is, at least I’m writing about 1000 words a day into it. 
It’s a sort of cathartic exercise, although I hope my readers won’t rib me too much for that.
Do you have any experience publishing? I’m wondering about using people’s actual names and places in the book. Most of the writing is positive and complimentary, although there are some sticky negative situations that must be described for completeness and to avoid sounding like I have the Pollyanna Syndrome. Much of my current philosophies and moral codes of living derive directly from both the positive _and_ negative experiences at WPSBC. So my thinking is that all of it must be adequately represented.
However, I wish to avoid needlessly offending anyone. It may be required to talk about the way kids used to badger [Watts] for example. Or, in order to show why I hold my current attitudes regarding women, I’d have to discuss my extraordinarily happy yet extraordinarily sad relationship with [First Love] during those years. I’m thinking that I’ll have to change all the names, just to be safe. But if I go to that length to conceal identities, I’d probably have to change the places as well; everything from the city and street names to the school name itself. Renaming [Tad] to [Bob] for example would offer little concealment if I left the school’s name unchanged. People would still know to whom I was referring if they realize that I’m a 1979 WPSBC graduate. What are your thoughts?
Speaking of your 37 years of employment, I think our class had you in 5th grade for TDL. We were one of the first ones to be taught by you (1971-1972) That just seems like yesterday. It really does. I also remember you skating in the old gym with the kids. That was a sad day when they tore that building down. Luckily, I have numerous pictures of it that I snapped in 1986, although I have none of the inside of it. Were you ever a photo buff, and did you take many pictures of the school in the 70s? [Ann] has quite a few, and with today’s computer technology, it would be a cool project to assemble an electronic scrap book of our era at WPSBC.
Thanks for writing back, and do write again soon.
Later,
Tom Hesley