A Dinner to Remember Gretchen in PA

Gretchen's been gone for a month. Thanks everybody for your emails and support, and for contributing to the blog. It's been nice hearing from all of the people who cared about her.

Christine and I have been talking about it a lot, and we still feel that we would like to get together to remember her, and to get closure. We're still looking at the weekend before Christmas. It seems like a terribly busy weekend, but also a time when a lot of us will be here around Berwyn visiting family, so probably the best chance for as many of us to get together as possible. I initially though Saturday, but I know several people are travelling out of this area on Saturday, so how about Friday, December 22nd, around 7:00PM.

Please leave a comment on the blog if you plan to attend. It's not an RSVP, but I need to know approximately how many people we'll have so that I can find a place that can accomodate us. I'm looking at the Main Street Cafe in Berwyn, which is owned by one of our former classmates.

At the dinner, we will collect donations to Light the Night, a leukemia charity for which Gretchen did a lot of work in New York, to donate in her name. I'm not sure about a plan for the rest of the evening. I've never planned something like this before. I'm open to your suggestions. I think that it would be nice if those of us who wanted to had an opportunity to say something or read something about Gretchen. I think Total Eclipse of the Heart should be involved somehow.