Classmates Now

 
 The year was 1962.  Jack and Jackie were in the White House, Elvis and Lawrence Welk were vying for supremacy on the radio.  Kids were doing the twist. We know where you were, 1201 S. Warson Road.  The question is where are you now and where will you be October 14 and 15, 2017?  Here's the spot to blow your own horn.  Tell us some of what's happened since you last updated your profile.  Not too much.  Don't be intimidated.  If you can't think of anything you can always make it up.  Who's to know!  Just let us hear from you.  Those of you who didn't create a profile for our 50th -- please do.
 

Linelle Valentine (Funk)

Marital status: Single again
Children: 3
Occupation: Sales Manager, FDA Colorants
Comment: I am grateful to be fully employed in the industry I have worked in since 1985, as I am putting my youngest son thru his bachelor's degree at SIU in Edwardsville. It is a treat to have my office in my home now. With my 7 year old granddaughter living with us also, we are a youthful household and that is keeping me young and on my toes. I want to thank everone on the committee for the wonderful job and hard work that goes into a weekend such as you have planned for us.  See you in September.

Mary Weinstock (Wasserman )

Then Then
Now Now
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: Having retired I have become a knitting savant, a beader and a volunteer. I'm enjoying our grown children and almost grown grandchildren, lots of travel, trying to keep up with Rich, and functioning as the web mistress (make that web goddess) for this site. Hope you are all enjoying this site and that we'll see you at our 55th.  Ok so this photo is not quite from High School but almost.  Rich still looks exactly the same.  I do not.

Rich Weinstock

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: In August I climbed Quandary, my first 14,000 foot peak.  Next year I'm thinking about Pike's Peak.  Anyone want to come with me?  By the way, the letter jacket on the web site still fits me and I plan to wear it on Friday night,  How about you?

Jim Winnerman

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment:



After high school I graduated Missoui and then went to St. Louis U for an MBA.



From 1968 until 1971 I was an officer in the US Army.



I retired in 2000 after spending 30 years in marketing positions at Maritz in St. Louis. The last 17 years have been spent traveling and turning a hobby of writing articles on travel, art and architecture into an unplanned second career.  A third unplanned career has been drawing and turning my art into note cards. Check out:  itsawinnerman.weebly.com



My wife of 49 years (Barbara Silverman, Ladue '64) has ben a professional calligrapher for 40 years.

Our  son lives in Denver (three grandchildern..2 girls and a boy,) our daughter in Boston (two grandsons.)



For the last 17 years we have spent the three winter months hiking in Sedona, AZ where it took four years to carve my likeness in stone.  The small bush on top that might be hair is wishful thinking!

Mike Wolf

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired
Comment:

How can it be a half century since we graduated!  The mirror tells me it’s so, but my psyche says “no way”.  I think that this has been one of the best decades of my life.  I’ll catch you up.

I retired as the financial officer of a toy company ten years ago.   Susie and I bought a villa in Naples, Florida and started spending winters there.  Three years later, our younger daughter Kim moved with her family to Naples.  We sold our home in St. Louis and have been here full time for seven years in the house we built.  Wow, what luck to have two of our grandchildren living ten minutes from us.  They sleep over every week (they are 9 and 11) and we have a ball together.  Our older daughter, Stacy, lives in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley, California.  She and her husband have four children ranging from 17 to 7.

Susie and I have always enjoyed traveling and last year we fell in love with India.   About a month ago we returned from the trip of our lifetime; we took all our children and grandchildren on a Mediterranean Cruise.  Seeing many of the world’s most famous sites with the people you love the most was truly magic.

 I keep busy playing golf several days a week.   If I’m not on the golf course, I am at my computer and occasionally help people with tax returns.  We enjoy foreign affairs lectures and I am fast becoming a political junkie.

Here’s to another healthy and happy decade for everyone.