Good to be back again, although I must say I am disappointed that my great weekend is over. The handsome couple you see above is my beautiful sister-in-law, Sara, and her husband (The Little Woman's older Brother) Kevin, or should I say Dr. Kevin Manning.
Dr. Manning is the President of Villa Julie College (Soon to be a university) located near Baltimore, Maryland. http://www.vjc.edu/
As for my sister-in-law Sara, she is an executive in the marketing of and distributing info for the American Mushroom Institute. Her work is vital because I love mushrooms, and they do feed the world. In fact, Sara was dying to interview me, as she has never interviewed a talking mushroom before, but I declined the offer.
The Manning’s’ are the proud parents of three beautiful children, who are in a class of their own, bright, good-looking grownups that would make any parent proud. There is Elizabeth their sweet daughter. who looks like Dad and has two beautiful children with her husband Michael, Meghan their second child who has the most beautiful eyes this side of heaven, getting married at the end of this coming May ’08 to a very lucky fellow named Harry and their son, Kevin, tall handsome and a real gentleman who is working out his own career right now.
As for Dr. Manning, whom I will refer to as Kevin, he is quite a success story. As a contemporary of mine, it gives me special pride to point out a few things about him in his meteoric rise to success. It wasn’t easy, but he had a great determination, a belief in himself, and a great support staff in his family. They too should be commended for the sacrifice they endured on the way to the top. It wasn’t poverty, but it was hard work, experiencing rejection for inexperience, and then the great reward of perseverance and a college making a great choice, one that has been reaping huge benefits ever since for Villa Julie. It was Villa Julie's pure luck, for Kevin it was what God Intended.
I distinctly remember the day of Kevin’s installation as president of Villa Julie. A parade of faculty, board members and honor students grandly marched down the long aisle. The pomp and circumstance of it all, the march of triumph that best expressed the emotion of the day, and the glory of a common man making good in a truly valuable way for mankind, one that will benefit the college for years and years to come from his stewardship.
But if you take the guy away from the school, away from the pressures of leadership, you find a person of humble beginnings, only too happy to entertain you, and offer whatever he and Sara have, they are truly in love and there is a lot of truth in their love for each other and their family. But most of all, that love carries beyond the family boundaries and into your heart and soul.
So for once, a good guy wins, for once a beautiful family prospers, and for once the whole world should stand up and applaud.
joedelbroccolo@optonline.net
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