My Circle of Friends Got Smaller

Agatha Christie once wrote, "You'll know when you're old when there's noone around who remembers when you were young." I lost another of those friends last week. I've known Kay Bates since I started at BCPL in 1979. What a friend. We acted together in BCPL skits and laughed together over life's lighter moments. I remember the first time she gave me directions to her house in Towson. You just turn by the Amy J. She made the sound of the letter J when she told me. She then went on to tell me how the o and the y in the Amy Joy doughnut sign had burned out. I shall miss my friend with the quick wit, and her bigger heart, her Scottish ways and the Staff Day skits where she asked for The Joy of Sex year after year.