This year we have ushered in the Class of 2014, a little bittersweet for me.
The year we moved to Cape was 2009, & our kids began 7th grade, and I subbed for a while--a lot at the junior high for the 8th graders who are now seniors.
I had a great time, and watched stayed connected when I could, even after I departed to attend college at Southeast.
This group of *Bo-Eric-Travis* kids has often acknowledged me for having been the fun sub, and asked me to come back over the years, and don't think I wasn't tempted. But radio is a career, and substitute teaching was never meant to be one. But I digress, and this was meant to be a letter to The Jungle.
Tigers, you made us proud tonight. You have shown great school spirit this first part of the football season, filling the stands--even tonight in the rain. We have been to games with better weather and far less Jungle present. Even when we were down 40-7 at the half, y'all stayed. And cheered. And chanted. Mind you, this was all without the band to egg you on...
To sum up: keep it going. I want to see you finish strong. Making the grades, skipping the drunken parties, and proving that your generation has just as much to offer as the ones who have come before.
What? Too deep? Fine. Whatever.
GO TIGERS!
*Bo-Eric-Travis? Yeah. Bo Wilferth, Eric Craiglow and Travis Simmons thought it was cute to switch names in class. I figured it out. Eric's a bad liar and Duncan McKinley and Jacob Boerboom kept laughing. Dead giveaway. Class of 2014, enjoy your senior year.
