Classmate Profiles
Sixty Plus years since we graduated!
Please create or update your biography.
Tell classmates about yourself! Click on "Add Your Profile" and fill out the form so that we have up-to-date contact information. You may also wish to add a short bio about what you've been up to the last 50 years. It's a great way to "reacquaint" ourselves with one another. Please note that there is a limit of 220 words - about 22 lines.
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Some ideas when writing: Did you attend college/where? What do/did you do for a living? What kinds of things do you like to do for fun? Have you done any traveling? Any other thoughts/memories would be great too.
Don't forget to add a recent picture (can be individual, with significant other, family, etc.)! We will upload your yearbook picture for the "then" picture, but if you would prefer to use an alternative picture, you may do so as well. Just click "Edit Entry."
Our paths began as a blank page to be written on by experience. Our parents and friends escorted us down the path that curved and rose and fell shaping the person we are today. Like the proverbial moss we gathered acquaintances and life longfriends to traveldown our mutual paths. Each footway had epiphanous moments perhaps changing our path.
A pivotal event in our lives was graduation from our twelve years of education - from there we looked toward the future with hopes and dreams. Within this set of reflections are some of examples of how these dreams manifested themselves into fruition. Stories, memories, education, family, activism, etc. all of that brought us to here pondering is that all there is?
...pondering by Patricia Strot and Carolyn Turner; Photo by Loren Nelson
Peggy Knopp (Callicotte)
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | retired |
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Al Kranz
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired engineer |
| Comment: | After high school I attended 2 years of technical school followed by 4 years at the U of M for a BSEE degree. Upon graduation, having attended AFROTC, I immediately entered the US Air Force. I was an officer for 4 years on the Titan III launch vehicle program in Los Angeles. There I met and later (1968) married my wife, Donette Henry. Upon leaving the service we returned to Minnesota where I went to work for Univac in engineering. That company eventually morphed into Sperry Univac, Sperry, Unisys, Paramax, Loral and Lockheed Martin. After 32 interesting years with the "same" company, I retired. My wife and I have 2 children and 6 grandchildren. We share common interest in #1 grandchildren; then genealogy and travel. In 2008 we put our genalogical findings to work and travelled to the Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg followed by Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. We rested in 2009. When Donette scrapbooks I fish or hunt. |
Kay Kurtz (Belknap)
| Marital status: | Widowed |
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| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | So! I graduated, wed and turned 18 in that We have loved travelling to When at home, I belong to a garden club, a group called “Dusty Wings” and an advanced learning That’s my st |
Alice Kuzay (Kittell)
| Marital status: | Widowed |
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| Occupation: | retired |
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Tom LaBelle
| Comment: | Boy these things are hard to write. If you had a great life, it'll seem like you're part of the brag-o-sphere. If it wasn't so hot, well . . . In truth, I suppose everyone's life is a mixed bag - it's the individual's perception of what's in the bag that tells the tale. So here goes. After RHS, I muddled along for six months or so, then joined the Air Force. They made a propeller repairman out of me. After the USAF, I gave college the obligatory shot, but it wasn't going any better than high school so I bagged it and went to work. My career, if indeed it can be called a career, was as a salesman. First, it was selling phones, then consulting work and, finally, pimping my own telemanagement software. I got into selling for the same reasons most of us salespeople do: A lack of better alternatives. Sales requires no degree and no state credentials but can provide a far better income than the stoop-labor jobs to which we would otherwise be damned. On the bright side, sales work is a pure meritocracy. If you make a decent living, it's because you're good at selling; there's no hiding behind subordinates or the other kinds of monkeyshines management types use to cover their spoor. The first Mrs. LaBelle (ptoo! I spit!) and I produced two fine daughters and they, in their turns, produced four grandchildren, the first of which recently married. The second and current Mrs. LaBelle - Pam, by name - and I had no kids. However, thanks to my kids, her siblings and several close friends, we've had children a-plenty in our lives. Jenny, the oldest daughter has a son and daughter while Vickie, the younger of the two, has two daughters. Lately, a couple of Great Grand kids have made appearances. Pam and I moved to the Seattle area in 1974 when my boss at Western Union arranged a transfer. What a mind-blowing experience. Living on the flatlands of Minnesota I'd never seen a mountain. In fact, the Clearview hill, on which we live, is steeper and longer than Lutsun. I like it here. Today (2017), I soldier on. During the Christmas Season, I play Santa (tomlabelle.com) and in the off-season, I'm a minder for four intellectually impared fellow. All this is part time so I get to sit on my rear end and gaze at the dazling green profusion of all the conifers and broad leafed maples that run down into the vally of the Snohomish River Vally, then up onto Lord Hill beyond. Oh,and the Cascade mountains beyond. The humdrum of life was punctuated by travel. We've been to all but three of the states plus England, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Canada and Korea. I'd like to do more. Hope we can. To me, bliss is a high-powered car with a full tank. I could go on, but you've got the highlights. More would just be a tedious recital. |
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Judy Lacher (Bartosh)
| Marital status: | Widowed |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: | HI!! I don't much like to talk about myself but I want to hear about all of you so here goes - I was married for 40 years (my husband passed away suddenly in June 2008), have two daughters, two sons-in-law and two granddaughters. I was in the educational field for thirty-four years as a physical education teacher (even at Normandale Community College during it's first five years), asst. educational center director and academic advisor during our 23 years in Moorhead, MN. I had non-Hodgkins lymphoma and was told I had six months to a year to live in 1986 SO I have been given twenty-three extra years of life!! We moved back to the Twin Cities area in 2001 after both Bob and I retired. I LOVE all sports and attend as many events from grade school contests to pro games (if I can get a good deal on tickets) as I can and have three television sets in my living room so I don't have to switch channels when more than one sporting event is being televised. I'm no longer the shy chubby principal's daughter so I try to be around people as much as possible. I'm really looking forward to visiting with ALL of you at our 50th. TRY TO COME!!!!! |
Pamela Lackie
Robert Larson
| Children: | 2 |
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| Occupation: | RETIRED |
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Sandra (Sandy) Larson (Rothe)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | What an amazing adventure life has been. In 1960 who would have imagined where we would go? After graduation I tried to find a way to make a living, I even moved to L.A. to become a Minnesota version of "Gidget". No luck! I moved back to Minnesota married and settled down to raise my son. In 1982 I divorced and went back to school. It was a whole new world for women. I studied medical electronics and became the first woman field service Bio-medical technician my company ever hired. 125 men and me. that was fun! Met and married Gene somewhere along the way and the adventure really began. We moved to Cincinnati for my work, and we built (one log at a time) a log cabin in the woods. I retired in 1995 and we moved to an island in Florida. Ever southward, I love the sun. We lived in a small fishing village by the sea. Now Gene and I live in "The Villages" the most incredible retirement community in the country. We drive everywhere in golf carts and there is music and dancing in the town square 365 nights a year. Check it out at TheVillages.com. It really is an amazing place. In 1999 I bicycled across the country with a group of women all over 55 and since then, bicycling has become my passion. I have pedaled all over this country and all over the world. In May I will lead a group of 5 women on a 1000 mile journey along the east coast. Gene and I have put 135,000 miles on our last RV. Can't think of much I've missed. When I was 18 I wanted to try it all. They told me girls can't do that! I spent the next 50 years proving them wrong. life has been an incredible journey. I can't wait to see what's around the next bend. I make it back to Minnesota a couple of times a year. Most of my family, my son, and my two young granddaughters live there. I don't miss the cold and snow one bit, I've always known I was a tropical girl born in the wrong place and time. I do miss Minnesota people though, they are the best in the world. Sandy |
Sue Lary (Saunders)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Sales |
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