RTB Christmas Celebration
December 5, 2021
 | Colin and Tracy Green hosted the RTB 2021 Christmas Social at their lovely new home in Locust Grove. We have enjoyed talking with them about the planning and then construction of their home. It's location is convenient for Colin's access to the Airport as a pilot for Delta. Tracy's accounting business is in Locust Grove and her Mother lives there. |
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Thanks to Colin and Tracy for their generosity in providing their home for the occasion. Everyone seemed to have a great time. |
| It was a pleasure to visit with Rebekah and Richard Howe. Richard is busy with online courses with students distributed around the globe. |  |
 | We enjoyed fellowship with Richard and Rebekah Howe and Jefrey Breshears at the table. |
| It was a great time of fellowship around the food collection. Don had his camera and took this picture. |  |
Don presented a remarkable gift to Rod and Brenda, a glass sculpture of the Reasons to Believe Logo symbol - an image of a cross in a distant spiral-armed galaxy. The galaxy is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, and the cross structure is described as a NASA Hubble discovery.
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| Brenda and Rod with the gift of the RTB glass sculpture. |  |
 | It is a beautiful gift and it triggered quite a discussion between Howard Deutsch and myself since it was created by Thom Lillie. Both Howard and I had worked with his father, Don Lillie, who was the glassblower and operated the glass blowing facility at Georgia Tech when we were both graduate students. We both had creations of glass in our research laboratories. In my case it was a glass vacuum system with multiple detachable glass containers which we used to introduce gases into a long waveguide for the purpose of studying them with microwave spectroscopy. We both knew Don Lillie well and even played volleyball with him occasionally at lunchtime on a nearby court. |
| We have enjoyed sharing with Nancy and Don Taylor as he prepared to assume the position of President of Atlanta RTB. We appreciated their graciousness and the generosity of the gift from the Atlanta Chapter. |  |
We had a lot of fun with the galaxy sculpture and placed it among the fabulous desserts and snacks that Tracy had prepared for the celebration. The desserts were out of this world!
We appreciated the very nice card signed by those who attended the celebration. They signed for Glen and Barbara Leckman who had intended to come, but Glen had a serious auto accident on the way to run an ultra-marathon in Tennessee and is facing shoulder surgery and dealing with cracked ribs and vertebrae.
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