Several great things have happened to me since graduating from Churchill, I have been maried for 35 years to the love of my life, Brigid, an Elementary School Counselor in Joppatowne, MD. We have two children, Mary an environmental engineer and Jack working in Sports Management, my father, Colonel is still with us at age 89. I work for L-3 Communications making Night Vision goggles which help save our Warfighter's lives everynight in Iraq and Afganistan. Worked for Dave Shrum (class of '68) before Electro-Optical Systems was sold to L-3 Communications. From the photos on the website most of you have aged better than I. I spend most of my time between Tempe, AZ and Garland, TX with a few days in Belcamp, MD with my bride. Retirement will be paced by Brigid who seems a long way from the rocking chair. Cheers

41 years OMG!

Where does the time go? My apologies for the tardiness of this entry - over a year late! I attended the reunion and enjoyed it so much - had to reconnect.

After my junior year at Churchill my Dad was transferred to CA with his job. Our family settled into the sleepy picturesque town of Solvang, 30 miles east of Santa Barbara. I graduated from Santa Ynez Valley Union HS and married my HS sweetheart, Bryan, 2 years after graduation. He was a Navy man at the time and I was a student at Santa BarbaraCityCollege. We moved to San Jose for school in early 70’s and then followed a dream to Alaska. We spent 5 years in Naknek, a fishing village in the Bristol Bay region of the state where my husband worked as a pilot and I worked at the borough offices. It was a life lesson on the uniqueness of living in a remote village with no stores, no phones, no roads, no sirens, no gangs, abundant fish & game, amazing glimpses of nature and of people with simple life values. In ’78 we relocated back to SB with two infants and worked and went to school. The call to return to Alaska took us back in early 80’s this time to Wasilla. I continued working on my degree and working part time while raising our two sons. Bryan worked a week on and a week off managing the remote ColdBay station of Peninsula Airways.

Today our sons are married and have families of their own. Brent is a commercial pilot for PenAir and Justin is a 3^rd year resident at ProvidenceHospital in Anchorage specializing in family med. I have retired after 20 years in local government, most recently after 7 years at the City of Wasilla as an assistant planner.  Bryan now commutes to his office in Anchorage, approx 50 miles south of Wasilla via his Piper Cherokee, where he is VP/Director of Ops for PenAir, the largest state regional airline.

I enjoyed the reunion so much even though I didn’t get to visit with all of you. It proved to be an emotional trip for me not having been back to DC in over 40 years; memories of a simpler time, of family and dear friends came flooding back. Thank you to all who made the reunion possible and for your hard work and dedication. I look forward to reconnecting with many of you – if Alaska is in your travel plans please don’t hesitate to get in touch.