We did have some fun in March...

March has been very hectic between the seizure episode and the trip to Duke at the end of the month. I will have a post regarding the latter at some point as there was promising news.

However we started the month with an excellent time at Santa Clara University's Golden Circle Theatre Party aka GCTP.  It is a long-standing, annual event in the Valley.  This gathering is opportunity for alumni and friends of SCU to raise funds and make new friends for the school. A little on the history of the event and its hosts, the SCU Board of Fellows, can be found here: SCU Golden Circle History

It is a night of entertainment, dinner, and dancing held in downtown San Jose. Melanie and I have supported this event for several years, inviting friends and family to join us at our table. We had long planned that when John graduated from college one of the celebratory events would be having him host a table of his friends at GCTP.  With all of the uncertainty regarding his health we held off on acting on our plan. However, life itself is uncertain and we decided to push ahead, inspired by John's own example of perseverance in the face of adversity. It was a good choice.

Now I speak of the Board of Fellows as being the hosts of this event, but it is a mammoth undertaking and the yeoman's work is actually done by a small staff in the University Events office. Karrie, Mary, Blake and Lizzie, who keep this shop humming, had some help this past year from John Foster as, coincidentally, he works for them part-time! In fact, when we told him a couple of weeks before the party that he was going to host a table his first response was, "I can't. I am working the event!".  Now that is a dedicated employee!

The evening was a great success both for the Board's goal to "raise some funds, make some friends and have a good time doing so" and for our own group of friends and family. The evening started at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. There we were treated to a performance by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2014 inductees, Hall and Oates. They were preceded by a fine a Cappella group, Supertonic!, comprised of Santa Clara students. Check them out on YouTube.

The balance of the evening was spent at the Fairmont where we enjoyed an excellent dinner and attempted, some of us less successfully than others (cough, cough), some dancing to end the evening.

Here are some pictures from that night.

Pre-show at the CPA

Waiting for dessert!

Pre-show at the CPA