<p>Last year a number of you parents reached out as we held an Encouragment party for a midshipmen, who not only lost her Dad but less than a year later lost her Mom to cancer. You embroidered a pillow with a saying, knit comfort shawls, and sent a quilt with laundry markers for the students to sign the back of the quilt. Then the students spontaneously raised money to send this girl home to Florida on weekends to be with her dying Mom.</p>
<p>It's a year since this Mother died, but I just received an email from the midshipmen who has graduated. She wrote that she is enjoying sailing, her sister is doing well in college, and her teenage brother has been adopted by her cousin and wife and he is becoming a fine young man. She wrote that a year ago she never would have believed that it would have worked out this well. I just wanted to pass on this good news, as a number of you reached out in love, and may have wondered how things worked out.</p>
<p>We had more than enough comfort shawls handknit last year, so we put some away for another midshipmen in need. This week we just gave one to a plebe who lost her 19 year old best friend to a brain aneurysm. She can wrap it around her and feel comforted when she is feeling low. So, you ladies are continuing to reach out in love to the midshipmen at Kings Point. I thank you.</p>