Henry makes a match

e-mail from Joan on August 5, 2003

I am thrilled to report that Henry has made a preliminary match! Assuming all goes well with the rest of team training, he'll soon begin his new career as a skilled companion dog to a fourteen-year-old boy from Wisconsin. Henry will be a successor dog for the boy, who has a form of muscular dystrophy. We'll get to meet the young man and his family at a luncheon prior to graduation on August 16. I'm sure I'll have MUCH more to report when we get back home. 

A thousand thanks for all your good wishes and encouragement along this journey.

Joan