A Learning Experience

This quarterly meeting of the Oklahoma area committee started just like all the others I've attended since the fall of 1978. I crossed the room with stops for smiles, handshakes, howdys, hugs, and similar greetings on the way to my customary front row seat. Two past delegates stopped to embrace me and one took the vacant chair beside me. The area chairperson and his stunning blonde wife, whose sponsor I have the honor to be, came up to involve me in a three-way hug.