I received this email from my best friend this morning. He sent it to 10 recipients. He is a banker in Lynchburg, TN. He gets a lot of good perks banking in Lynchburg.
Anyway, I thought some might find this story interesting:
I know everyone has heard this morning Pat Head Summitt has passed away. I was on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Young Bankers Division many years ago and Pat's husband at that time, RB Summitt, was the president of Tennessee Young Bankers. Wyanne (my friend's wife) and I shared many meals and lots of good times with RB and Pat and a very close Young Bankers board. In those days it didn't matter if you worked at different banks, you made close friends and Wyanne and I still get cards and calls from our banker buddies all across the state.
This morning while Wyanne and I were getting ready to leave the house we were both thinking about a retreat our board went on and at supper Pat stood up from the table and said with a STRONG, DIRECT voice, "I want all the ladies to meet me at 5:30 in the morning for a 1 mile power walk to warm up our legs and then finish with a 5 mile jog and we will have breakfast together after the run." Wyanne looked and me and I could see in her eyes it was like she wanted to yell out "what the hell!?"
I got to have a friend I will never forget. She was larger than life and when she came in the room you could just feel the energy. To my friend I can say this about her: if you looked in the dictionary for the word class, that's where her picture should be.