And now for something completely different.

Although the blog seems to be working, Tracy and I want to solicit more material from more readers. Although pictures and updates are always welcome, we thought we might try a different sort of posting: Reminisces. The idea is that people will provide a paragraph or so of a specific memory of Williams. As long as there is at least one person in the class who will recall your reminisces, then that’s enough. We are looking for items that are longer than a phrase (Dodge Daytonna), but shorter than an autobiography. (Actually, we would gladly link to an autobiography, should anyone have one.) It might be nice if they could each start with a catch phrase, like “I remember.” But, as always, we publish whatever we get.

For motivation, allow me to point out that, if no one else e-mails us their reminisces, Tracy and I will be forced to keep posting ours, day after day. Anyway, he is mine:

“I remember . . .

the first few weeks of JV soccer tryouts our freshmen year. I was under the (misguided) impression that I could play soccer pretty well and that, in particular, I could juggle a ball for a fairly long time. I had certainly spent enough hours practicing this in high school. So, I was pleased to see that our coach, whose name I can’t recall, enjoyed having a juggling contest during practice. Basic set up was that we all started juggling. Once you dropped the ball, you had to start doing sit-ups (or push ups) until the last man dropped his ball. I lasted a pretty long time and, by the time I started doing sit ups, there were only a couple of people left. But one of those was Jonathan Hollenberg. And he just kept juggling and juggling and juggling. He could go on foreover. At some point, the rest of us had to move over next to him and start doing sit ups into his legs to end the contest.”

There are probably less than a dozen people in our class who will remember that episode, but I can see it like it was yesterday. If there are images that you have of Williams, I am certain that your fellow blog readers would like to be reminded of them. Please contribute.