I read to day about the passing of Bob Tomonto.

 I received an email from Elvis today.  Apparently Bob Tomonto has passed away.  I was very much saddenned by this.  He was one of those guys I would have liked to have met  and spent time with after we graduated.  In fact I did spent some time with him but that was really during College at the University of Miami and later at the fifteen year class reunion.  Both families sat together at the reunion.  It had already been a long time since even then.  I would have liked to spent more time with him after we graduated.  

For some reason I kept thinking about him in the past week.  This is interesting since he passed on Sept 21 of this month, exactly one week ago.  I wonder... but then again I may have been thinking about him before and never would have thought about it.  I just wondered how he was doing and if he was still working at FP&L.  

The last time I spoke with him I was sitting at the Student Union at the University of Miami.  Both he and Chip were there and all three of us sat together.  We sat at a table outside.  It must have been close to our birthday since one of us brought up the fact that we  had a birthday recently.  All three of us were shocked since everyone at the table was born on August 24.  Bob and I on the same day and Chip a few years later.  I also mentioned that Gizmo was also born on the 24th.  I do not think Giz was there but it has been a long time and I may not remember.  Bob and I think also Chip were in the school of engineering, I was in Arts and Sciences.  I do not think we ever were together after that day at the UM. 

The one "Bob scene" I remember was in Koziol's class.  We were working on a play by Neil Simon.  the name of the play was "Plaza Suite".  The lady who was about to get married had some type of panic attack and hid in the bathroom.  Both her mother and father were pleading with her to get out of the bathroom so she could walk down the aisle at her own wedding.  The parents were in a panic.  They could not get her to go outside the bathroom and walk down the aisle.  Right at the end the parents decide to call the future son in law, played by Bob Tomonto, in our class.  He has one line, "Mimsy, this is Borden.  Cool it!".  She then comes out of the bathroom and goes on to marry the guy.   He did it in a traditional Bob Tomonto accent.  I think Giz played Borden in the other class but I am not sure.  It may also have been that Giz was imitating how Bob would have said it.  Right now I am not sure.  I hate getting old. 

The only time I saw Bob afterwards was once during one of the reunions.  We sat together at the reunion and had a wonderful time indeed.  

Bob, I wish we would have spent more time together.  Your friend, Moose.