I got out of work 4 hours early tonight (the retail industry is struggling)
and I stopped by the NYA Ice Arena before coming down to the lab.
The mood at NYA was very somber.  One of the Casco Bay Youth Hockey
teams had finished a practice a short time earlier and I walked past at
least a dozen kids in the parking lot, and not one  of them was laughing
or smiling like they usually are.  A men's league game had just started
when I arrived and the crowd was much quieter than I remember them being
three years ago.  I went to the office to ask about Travis, and was told
that he had come through his surgery, and that the spinal cord was not
 
cut, but the swelling was still too severe to make any prognosis.
 
 
I'd like to thank the people who have sent their notes.  I'll be
mailing the letter tomorrow afternoon, but I'll stop by the lab
before I go to work and print up any other letters that come in
by then.  A note of interest: among the hundreds of people who have
already written to, or visited, the hospital for Travis are Bobby Orr,
who went to the hospital and sent a special note to Trav, and the Boston
Bruins, the team he wanted to play for one day, who sent a fax signed
by captain Ray Bourque.  As BU coach Jack Parker said, "These things
seem to bring out the best in people."
 
John Forsyth
 
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