Frank Swyden

This is a year of milestones:

1. In April 2009 I met my wife Letticia
2. In April 1999 I formed my company, and
3. In 1969 - I graduated?

I'm still married, still workin' - but that last milestone...Whoa.

I'll tell you what I think we should do: I think we ALL should just buy the damn building - together [nobody really notices it anyway] and turn it into a co-ed dorm and live out the remaining years!! We could rename it Sovthwest. Who the hell wants to live in the current world as it is, anyway. Soul music piped throughout the building 24/7. I think I know where the guys can buy jade east cologne. So that's what I'm thinking. Big picture stuff. we can work out the nitty gritty details later like spouses, children and grandchildren etc.

I remember Winsteads on Friday night after a football game ordering from your car over a radio on the menu that I was always careful of handling since I was afraid of electrocution. The waitress would bring your food to you on a tray that would fit on the window of the car. There were always lots of cars full of friends.

I remember the car rallies on Saturday afternoons. The school clubs organized them, I think.

I remember a magical autumn night, in of all places the lagoon at Swope Park. I think we made a bonfire though I don't remember the occasion. It went on all night long and into the morning.

I remember always thinking we were the only true Kansas Citians that counted - Southwest… Interscholastic League. And mostly not knowing or caring where Lee’s Summit or Raytown or Oak Park was.