Class Agent: Dianne Walter Hale

After flying for Piedmont Airlines and then USAirways for 20 years, I decided it was time to keep my feet on the ground. I took a company buyout in May 2005 and have spent the past year trying to keep up with my13-year-old son, Dylan. I am currently doing some free-lance work for Business North Carolina magazine which I am mostly able to do from home.

Gary and I will celebrate our 20th anniversary this year. Gary is the sports editor for The Herald here in Rock Hill. Before coming here we spent 2 ½ years in Bloomington, Indiana where he covered Indiana University sports, mostly football and basketball.

Dylan plays the saxaphone in the school's Honor Band and qualified for South Carolina Region band this year. He will begin marching band at the high school this fall. He also plays the guitar and is very involved in baseball. Two years ago he played with a team that competed in a week-long tournament in Cooperstown, New York.

We all enjoy travel though we generally prefer road trips. Our most memorable trip was a 17-day, 21-state trek. We went out west with just a general plan of the areas we wanted to see. We visited nine national parks including Mt. Rushmore, Jewel Cave, Yellowstone, Tetons, Badlands, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon and Devil's Tower. We also drove parts of Route 66 and visited the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa.

In my spare time I have become hooked on scrapbooking. I'm working hard to put all those great memories into books I can enjoy when I'm too old to travel any more. It's always fun to look back and occasionally I pull out those old Fletcher photos too.

-Debbie Moffitt McCann