Received: Sept. 8, 2008

Subject: Item for School Newspaper or Alumni Newletter


Dear Webmaster, 

I'm not sure if Analy High School currently has a student newspaper or an alumni newsletter, 
but if it does, I would appreciate your passing along this small world story. 

My name is Craig Schmid, Analy High School Class of 1980.  I recently made a trip to Tanzania in
 East Africa for a safari and to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.  Shortly after dawn on the morning of Monday, 
August 25, 2008, I found myself standing at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, 
at 19,340 feet above sea level.  I was not alone.  I believe about 100 people tried to reach the summit 
of Mt. Kilimanjaro that morning and at least a third of them made it. 

I heard a young man in front of me say that he was from California, so we started talking.  I told him that I 
was from Berkeley.  He said that he was a teacher in Marina del Rey (Los Angeles County) and was in 
Africa on a honeymoon with his new wife.  His name was Marty Brewer.  He said that he grew up in 
Sebastopol.  So, I said that I went to Analy High School.  It turns out that Marty graduated from Analy 
High School in 1996.  He asked if I knew Marty Webb and I said that he was my World History teacher 
during the 1977/78 school year.  (I now see that Marty Webb just retired as principal last spring.) 

So, I went to the opposite side of the world and climbed to a remote mountain top in order to meet 
someone from my home town who went to the same high school as me.  It's definitely a small world. 

Thanks,
Craig

Craig Schmid