Prayers, Prayers, and More Prayers!!

TO: Our OMS Alumni Family

RE: Catherine“Duff” Martynick ‘61

Duff is gravely ill in Taylor Hospital. She, John, and the kids need all of the prayers they can get from Our OMS Alumni Family. Patty, Little Duff, needs our prayers and best wishes as well.

Three years ago this spring “Duff” and I returned to the old neighborhood on a beautiful, sunny, warm day. We toured our old streets and tried to retrieve eleven cents she and her little sister Patty had put in a drain at Shanahan on the last day. Sherlock and Mr. Holmes could not complete the assignment!! She said I talk to everybody…

She purchased a disposable camera (neither of us being camera buffs), and every time I would get out of the car she would yell get back in this car. We laughed until we cried.
It was just one of those meant to be things!! I had her climbing over tombstones in Ghost Town. When I made a U-Turn on Lancaster Avenue she thought I was taking her to the White Horse Tavern for lunch…I said, but Duff look the door is open and you can see the beautiful wood mahogany bar…

Duff and I did not go home eleven cents richer but we did rekindle a deep childhood friendship. Duff is my memory…for me she is “OMS Revisited”!! I need for her to get well soon so we can finish up the details for our Alumni Day Event.

Duff has worked so hard to locate Alumni data and she gets five stars because she did not
miss one Alumni Committee meeting…HELLO!!

I will never forget when my telephone rang…Eileen, its Duff!!...nothing more needed to be said, it was all there in those three little words and they meant everything.