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Dear friends,
For the second (and she tells me the final) time Polly Sabin is retiring! I put an exclamation point there, not because I am happy for me or for the church (so very far from it!) but because I am so happy for her and because I hold her with so much regard. The church will carry on, but we will miss her spark and wit and kindliness and calmness at the front desk.
It will have been six years and a week that Polly has served as your administrator and my right hand woman at the church. She took control of a calendar that I had managed to completely mess up, double book or otherwise ignore in just the space of a few months. She keeps her office space clean and tidy and periodically reminds me that I should probably do the same for mine. To say I will miss her steady presence and happy mien is the understatement of the month. I will miss the jokes we shared and the fact that nothing was off limits for a bit of fun and I will miss our shared antipathy toward our copier / printer and the “I feel your pain look,” everytime one or the other of us had to do something even only slightly complicated with it. Polly held with utmost confidence your calls and conversations and the overheard conversations. She was a consummate professional on the job and shall always be a dear friend.
Polly’s last day of work will be Monday, November 15. I hope you’ll stop in for a piece of cake, a cup of coffee and a chance to say “Thank you!” for her seven years at the desk in service to this church.
Thank you Polly. |
