Matthew was to join us about midnight after he had cleaned up from the graduation at Independent. He did not get there. Henry did not sleep waiting for him to come. Matthew finally left MD about 5:00 am We left after 6:00 am on Friday to get to the airport and found out that Matthew had taken the wrong exit and was going down 95 instead of around 495, so he made a u-turn and got back on track. We told him to go directly to the airport and park in long-term parking. We got there about 6:45 or so and turned in the van we rented. Called Matt and he was taking the bus to the terminal, so it worked out fine. We met up with him at the elevator.
We also met Peter who had flown in on the red-eye from Los Angeles, so we had a mini-reunion in the waiting line. We also saw Pastor and Mrs. Calvert who were also going to Greenville on the same plane.
At Greenville we rented a 12 passenger van and loaded all the luggage and went to the college to find Stephen.
The Bob Jones University campus is a stately, old campus–celebrating its 80th year, so you get the feeling this place has been here a long time. We met Stephen and went to lunch at the IHOP. The banter between the boys on the way over was just like old times. I was getting choked up just to have my family back together again (sniff). In the restaurant they were all acting like they normally do. Henry had given Stephen a cell phone so he was figuring that thing out. Now the three boys
can call each other at no charge and hopefully, call home occasionally.
At 2:00 pm on campus was a performance of Henry IV by Shakespeare which was a really good production. I saw the second half of it. During the first half I met with Jim and Sharon Pitts, friends from our home church years ago. Now they are in VA. Their first and second sons are undergrads at BJU.
I also met Becky Mullenix (Hunt) who graduated with me from high school back in 1972! Her daughter was also graduating. I had met Rose in 2005 when I attended a Bible class with Stephen. She came over and introduced herself then. Looks just like her mom. We met during the play intermission. Come to find out that son Stephen had a girlfriend he never told us about! A pleasant surprise, but she was not there at the play.
Friday afternoon we all went over to the student center with the Mullenixes between play and concert and spent a couple of hours there. It was good to catch up with Becky and family. They are/were missionaries to the Mormons in the West and are now in Grand Junction, Colorado. Becky has MS and is in a wheelchair.
So, who is this girlfriend? We met her that evening at the 8:00 pm concert. Her name is Stephanie Jones and is a math major, also graduating. They had shared some advanced math classes. I may have seen her in the class I attended in 2005, but I don’t know for sure. Anyway, she is a very nice, pleasant girl and seems suited to Stephen. Now they did not say anything about anything and are just friends. After all, her mom only met Steve this past February, I found out Saturday. Stephanie is in the Army Reserves and goes for training this summer. After that she wants to get into grad school.
We checked into the hotel after 10:00 pm because of various things. Charlene Rider, who taught Shakespeare to our kids back in 2000, and her parents drove down from Indianapolis. It was really good to see her again and meet her folks. So the boys had one room, Teresa and Sara were with Charlene, and Henry and I had a room.
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