Goodbye to Bob Bogigian

I want to say goodbye to Bob who will be leaving the Worcester School Committee at the end of this year. Bob was my boss when I taught Level 3 and later Level 4 ESOL at the Worcester Adult Learning Center. I can say that he always treated me fairly which I cannot say about others after he left. Whenever there was a new venture to try out, Bob would look to me and I would always welcome it. I never told Bob about the Tufts University adventure though because he had just retired when that came up and I didn't get the chance to relate it to him. This is what happened: It was right at the end of the school year in June. Bob's assistant called me into the office and asked if I could do him a big favor and go down to Tufts University that weekend to a conference. He said I would have to stay over in one of their dormitories and apologised for not having any money to compensate me for my time. I was somewhat skeptical as you might imagine, but consented to go.
Well, when I arrived at Tufts, I met a lady who was in charge of this project that disseminated television equipment to learning centers around the state with the idea that it would be used by adult classes to communicate with each other from center to center. The project had begun the previous summer and this lady was looking for THE TWO YOUNG LADIES from the Worcester Adult Learning Center who had been there the year before?????......I, of course, had no idea what the lady was talking about but said I was there to represent the center and would carry on the project. Apparently the equipment was already delivered and this lady was thinking of taking it back!! In the end, all was smoothed over and everything was fine at the end of the weekend. I recall using that television equipment the next year for the purpose for which it was intended and taking an ESOL class over to Sullivan Middle School one night and with the permission of the Principal communicating with another ESOL class up in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was an interesting experience, Bob, but who the "two young ladies" were that that lady from Tufts was talking about remains a mystery to this day.