Tanagers in Flight

I am a week past the beginning of my high school 40th Reunion.  (I know, I know... that dates me.)  It was a fabulous time.  I saw friends (and "rivals") and folks who really didn't have much to do with me in high school -- but it was really fun to get caught up on what everybody was doing.  and everybody talked to everybody.  (fun that old high school "cliques" have long since melted into the past like butter on a hot, humid Minnesota afternoon and flowed far downstream carried on the Missouri (or Souris, or Mississippi) River flood waters.  The Alma Mater written for Inver Hills Community College I rewrote for my high school and will donate that in the name of my class (Class of 1971) to the school Vermillion High School {South Dakota} 

[The words are below:

(1)V. H. S., V. H. S., How we love you V. H. S.;
from your wisdom we all grow strong!
Tanagers, Tanagers, all are loyal Tanagers;
we, your children, will for-ever sing your song!  

It's a song of standing tall, knowing one can conquer all;
so to you let us offer praise.
V. H. S., Tanagers, we'll be always Tanagers;
and remember you so fondly all our days.

(2)On the top of the hill gentle winds are never still,
And the whole world wants to know
what is right, what is true, that our lives are ever new;
like the sound of waters rushing far be-low.   

At the inver are the streams of the wisdom of our dreams
for the inver is where rivers join as one.
In the sky, day or night, Tanagers are taking flight;
and we share a common ground and distant sun. 

So, my advise is...  go to your high school reunions -- all of them -- and see how your classmates have become so -- "grown up."  :-)   [It truly was wonderful!]

...until next time... :-)