After attending my 50th high school reunion, I realized how fortunate I was to grow up in a Delaware community that supported public education. I grew up in Claymont, where the community was undergoing rapid changes and where family farms were becoming residential subdivisions. I now realize how blessed I was to grow up in a primarily blue-collar community where its residents, many on low and fixed incomes, were always willing to vote yes on referendums so that I and my fellow classmates had the opportunity to obtain an extraordinary public education with state-of-the-art facilities, and amazing teachers and administrators. Our Claymont residents in the 1960s even voted yes on spending money so that our new high school had a pool!
After working 45 years as a successful Delaware lawyer, I am now retired and living in Cape Henlopen School District. Most of the Claymont parents and residents who supported the referendums in the past that gave me the opportunity to prosper and live the American Dream have died, so I cannot personally thank them for the financial sacrifices they made to make a difference in my life.
However, on March 26, I hope you join me and vote yes on our Cape Henlopen School District referendum so that we can truly touch the future and keep the American Dream alive and make a difference in our community, our state and our country.
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