If you think 50 years ago was a long time, what about 90, when Winnie was born?

We were amused the other week by two stories in The Weekly Challenger, not so much by the stories themselves, which were appropriate celebrations of two separate and unrelated occasions. It was probably more by the juxtaposition of the two articles within the scope of our reading at that particular moment.

One article was the account of the apparently quite wonderful celebration by the Gibbs High School Class of 1967, celebrating its graduation half a century ago. The article and accompanying video are worth taking the time to read. Fifty years is, indeed, a long time and the classmates deserve to gather and remember, and wonderful memories they do have.

Then we read the article about community activist Winnie Foster's 90th birthday celebration and her memories, and it occurred to us that those of us who concur with the Class of 1967 that much has happened in the intervening years, that we experienced so little compared with the likes of Winnie Foster. Ninety years. Indeed.

Congratulations to both the Gibbs Class of 1967 and to the legendary Winnie Foster.