Dear Sandra,

I wish you a very Happy 40th Birthday
and many happy returns of the day

It has been more than a quarter century since we first met. Time flies, people and memories fade, yours survived;)

We first met at the bus stop at Klusplatz, we were both on our way home from school waiting for the bus no. 37.

For many years we would follow similar paths.
• We had the same route to and from Zurich.
• We attended the same school for a period of three years, the Freies Gymnasium Zurich.
• Our class rooms on the same floor.
• Even sometimes same teachers.

I have this strange sensation while looking at the pictures on your website. I can see them move and long past memories and images of days long past resurface.

“I see you limping up and down the stair cases in school with you foot in a cast.”
“I see you walking down the stairs in school wearing a summer dress.”
“I remember that look on your face when you found out years after we first me why I had this funny accent in Swiss German. I was never able to quite lose my American accent.”

I am happy to read that you have followed your dreams of so long ago and had success in your career. I wish you all the best and hope that somewhere, sometime our paths may cross again.

Have fun

Thomas Melchior

Congratulations Sandra May all your dreams, hopes and wishes come true

Mr. Melchior's somewhat odd message for a public board notwithstanding, here's to you Sandra! Enjoy your birthday, but I refuse to believe you are 40. 33, max.

"CK"