Tom, you were always the smartest person in any room you entered. I will find you wherever you are and go for a little run eh.

I was running and Tom popped into my head. Of the Wild Boys, Tom and David Wiggins are no longer with us. I don't know what happened to our drummer, an amazing, small and powerful guy who lived in the basement of the Home For Wild Boys in East Lansing, with his tiny girlfriend and tiny car. May not have been an actual human, but a great drummer. Those times, early 70's, were very different, and while the Wild Boys did not achieve great recognition, I am sure we were notorious. We lived up to our name, and excess was our standard, but Tommy was clearly a dedicated and serious musician. I greatly admire him for persisting, and finding new ways to get his music out. Whatever tales have been told about the Wild Boys are probably true, and may only be the half of it. All these years later, miss you Tommy. Mike Lewis, rocky mountains.

This thing you do is incredibly wonderful. Let's keep it up. Tom shared a hospital room with me after the car hit us running back to the field house Oct of 1969. It was a Thursday evening and that was steak night at coach Gibbard's house two days before every home cross country race. My ACL reattachment was successful by the best leg surgeon in America at that time, Dr. Lanny Johnson. People still talk of him out here in Colorado where I found my life after graduation. In 1984 I was the 22nd American to finish Boston Marathon and the first Colorado finisher. I got the American record for 38 year olds in the 5,000 meters, 1987 Carlsbad California but enough about me right. My advertising degree and a special project won me a ski trip to Aspen in 1971...I never left here. But one summer visiting family in Southfield I drove up to EL to reconnect. Tommy was living with a bunch in a really cool old house on Grand River I think. They were baking weed in the kitchen oven. I was so out of the loop and straight that he just had to take me out to the backyard and show me something. It was this ginormous xmas tree but really it was the biggest weed tree I have ever seen in my life up to this point. I'll be 73 in December :-)