Thank you

Greetings to the World Wide Galvin Clan from the Reunion Committee!

Well, we had our Final Reunion Meeting last night. Our plan was to tally up the last of our expenses, make arrangements to pay them and officially close out our books.

Much to our surprise, we were told that an envelope had been left by "The Killorglin, San Francisco,Florida and Ferris Cousins". The envelope was opened during our meeting. We were all stunned at the extremely generous monetary gift that was enclosed. There was a wide range of emotions and great discussion was had as to how to handle this unexpected windfall.

There is no doubt that there was going to be an outstanding balance left once the final expenses were totaled. We used "the Windfall" to pay off the last of all outstanding expenses. Due to your generosity, our books could be officially closed and certified as closed by our accountant, Mary.

We are also thrilled to report that there was a surplus left after all the bills were paid. The Committee discussed it at great length and we decided that we would use that amount to permanently memorialize our first World Wide Galvin Reunion. We will purchase a brick at Buffalo's Famine Memorial on our Waterfront and have it inscribed as follows:

"World Wide Galvin Reunion
Buffalo, NY
June 2008"

We are completely overwhelmed by your generosity. We want to thank each and everyone one of you. We are so happy that you were able to come and spend some time with us - though all agree that the time was too short.

A poll has been taken, and it's unanimous - the World Wide Galvin Reunion exceeded everyone's expectations. Everyone had a great time and we have the pictures to prove it.

E-mail addresses have been exchanged and promises have been made to stay in touch. Let's see to it that we do.

Thank you again from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity and for helping to make our Reunion such a great success!

May God continue to bless the Galvin clan . . . and the Kingdom of Kerry!