Class of 2010

Kamaldeep, Alisa, Jessica, Peggy, Nancy D, Coleen, Anne Marie, Nancy H, Alex, Clarissa - You guys are the best! This group of students has made me very thankful to have been an instructor at Whatcom Community College. They are smart, intuitive, and high achievers! I have been overwhelmingly impressed with their sense of compassion and respect for each other and the patients with whom they hope to work. Teaching is incredibly rewarding because of you and I'm inspired to do my best each day.

Okay, say it with me... cheaters never win and winners never cheat... failure is not a reason to quit, quitting is a reason to fail... Ahhh, THANKS YOU GUYS, you are the best batch of students ever!
About half the students are done or this close to being done with the Health Unit Coordinator or Medical Front Office or Medical Billing Coding Programs so we decided to celebrate at my house. What fun!

Clarissa, Alisa, and me (watering my gorgeous fuschia tree they just gave me! Wow! I love it!)

Anne Marie and Kamaldeep.

Mike, Nancy's boyfriend, brought the grill and cooked all our dinner. Too bad Crash ate his burger when he wasn't looking! Seriously, Mike, call me, I want to buy you a burger...

Thank You, Kamaldeep, for my beautiful scarves and bracelets from India! I love them and will think of you guys each time I wear them.

Thank goodness men work in healthcare! As the only guy in the class, Alex tolerated a lot of girl talk and showed that he can handle a job in healthcare. I'm impressed!

Alisa! Peggy! I miss you two already!

Nancy D, Thank You for the artistic cards you designed! I will use them to thank my future guests. The back row wouldn't have been complete with you. Hey, no photos of Jessica or Coleen or Nancy H?

Alex and Coleen's husband Steven jumped in the lake! Boys are crazy!

Keegan wanted to swim with his dad...

...even though his mom said No!

Oh wait, girls are crazy? Clarissa jumped in too!

WHEN IS THE NEXT PARTY? I'M READY!!

Cascade Hall, our favorite place...

Remember Fall Quarter 2009 and they put us in Syre...!!

Just Now

W.S. Merwin

In the morning as the storm begins to blow away

the clear sky appears for a moment and it seems to me

that there has been something simpler than I could ever believe

simpler than I could have begun to find words for

not patient, not even waiting, no more hidden

than the air itself that became part of me for awhile

with every breath and remained with me unnoticed

something that was here unnamed

unknown in the days and the nights

not separate from them as they came and were gone

it must have been here neither early nor late then

by what name can I address it now holding out my thanks.