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2011
Sept 16 Michal Miller Crowe writes to us about how much she appreciates our website;
Dear Friends, our Gander Academy website has changed my life. I am so amazed by what happened this week, I thought I would share it with you. What a wonderfully exciting email I received from my first cousin on July 11. The last time I saw my cousin, Tim May, was in England during the summer of 1975, so it has been 36 years since we were in touch. Thanks to the wonders of the internet and our continuing Gander Academy website, my cousin was able to look up my high school and found - ta da - the Gander Academy photos and articles about our activities. The email for alumni coordinator Carol Mercer Walsh was listed and he wrote to her asking if she could help locate Alex and Michal Millar. Carol forwarded his request to me and to Alex and now we have our cousin Tim and his brother John back in our lives. I feel so lucky Tim found us and so blessed he is now part of my life again. We were quite close at one time even through he is eight years younger. Somehow those years don't mean much now. What had happened was that both my Scottish cousins divorced and left England. Tim went to Australia where he remains to this day and his brother John moved to New Zealand. At about the same time, I got divorced and moved as well. Also their mother, my aunt, passed away and it was just one coincidence after another. Despite many attempts on my part to find them over the years I was unsuccessful. No wonder - they were far away. Many thanks to Carol Walsh for helping us reunite. We ran into a bit of a snag after Carol had forwarded his email to me as my response went into his spam box and therefore he did not know I had responded. I spent two days hovering over the computer and wondering why he did not write back to me immediately. Carol contacted him and eventually we sorted out the problem. Now we just have to catch up on all the 36 years which have passed. We have had long chats on the phone and it was wonderful to hear his voice. Oh yes, the day he contacted us just happened to be my father's birthday - he would have been 94. Tim's birthday is July 26 and his brother's is July 24. What do you make of those coincidences? They made my neck tingle. Just one more reason for keeping the website going. You never know who may come knocking on your door. Michal Millar Crowe
Thanks Michal Audrey
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