Obert got an email

Cub Reporter Tom Obert writes:
I received an e-mail this week from an old friend from D.C. days - he retired about 10 years ago to one of the Sun Cities. [He was originally from New England, the most beautiful part of the country . . . and yet he retired to a place where THERE IS NO WATER! (See past references about Harlan Hoffland.) Of course, all future wars will be fought over, not oil, but . . . water! We're keeping Lake Superior - and the 15,000+ other lakes all to ourselves, thank you very much. But I digress.]

Anyway, friend Bob wrote that his optician in the land of NO WATER is Tom Tessmer, a fellow orginally from Alexandria, Minnesota. Bob said Tom remembered me as a little league pitcher of some repute (my athletic flame burned brightly but expired early), and I remembered Tom as a classmate but knew he didn't graduate with us? Fortunately, cub reporter-in-LosAltos, Sara Sevey, reported that Tom moved to Phoenix when we were in high school.