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.

It's recommended that you not share upcoming vacation dates, day & month of your birth, financial information and other sensitive information on the internet.

Important: Your contact information will not be posted on the site (however, others will be able to send you an email if you include your email address in the setup information of your profile).

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."

 
"Reflections"

   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
   

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Bill Leschinsky

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Insurance Services
Comment:

After graduation, did one year at the U of M, and then a couple years at different jobs before volunteering for 3 years in the Army, 1963-1966.  Vietnam was hot. Fortunately, I never made it that far.  I was stationed in Los Angeles for 2 years, working with the Nike Hercules missile coastal defense system - tough duty. 



After the military, went to South Florida for a winter, and never came back.  Met my waterloo, and this year C J and I will celebrate 40 years of marriage.  We raised three kids, two girls and a boy.



In 1971, I started my own business, insurance and investments, and am still working a bit.



The best thing that has happened to me was meeting CJ, AKA, Connie.  The very best thing that has happened to the both of us was to meet and know our Lord and Savior.



We still enjoy travel, and spending time with friends and family.  Occasionally play golf and tennis, and of course, walk on the beach.



Look forward to seeing you all again!



50 years - your kidding!

John Long

Then Then
Now Now
Comment: Retired in 2002. Was offred the position of Chief software engineer on first Stage of NASA's constellation project and could not refuse. My hobby is fishing and I do it every opportunity i get. The picture is myself on one of my many fishing trips.

I have 8 grandchildren ranging in age from 4 years old to 23 years old. Have 2 great grandchildren. Have been married to the same wonderful lady for 44 years.

Nick Lott

Now Now

Tom Lovetang

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Technology Consultant
Comment:

Leeanne Lund (Larson)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired
Comment: A retired RN, Leeanne and husband Robert, own Timberlunds Resort with an incredible view from the cabins overlooking Lake Superior and Grand Marais.

Mac Lutz

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment:
‘60- U of MN- a little basketball, 4 years of tennis and a BME degree with honors in 1965.

 

'63 to '85 Donaldson Company as engineering intern, engineer, foreman, engineering mgr, plant mgr, operations mgr, director quality assurance, & VP manufacturing Int'l.

 

Linda Samsel (RHS '61) and I married in 1964. We were blessed with 2 daughters: Cari '67, Mindi '69. We enjoyed those early family years with many RHS friends and family.

 

We moved to Kirksville, MO in '74. Linda completed her BA with honors Truman University '78. I got my pilot’s license and was active in the local community and leadership development.

 

We moved back to Bloomington in '79 with Donaldson Co. with broader responsibility and later the opportunity to travel and work with their entities around the world.

 

'85 - 91 Waste Processing Corp. as V.P. General Manager, President. 

 

'91 – present-  Various management positions before retiring.

 

Cari and Mindi are both married & living in Burnsville, MN.   We are lucky to have 7 wonderful grandchildren who live close enough for us to enjoy.   

 

Since Linda retired, we’ve spent the last two winters at our condo in Mazatlan.  A dream realized, after nearly 30 years of short vacations there; A perfect place for spending time with our girls, their families and good friends.

 

Linda & I are looking forward to seeing everyone at the 50th reunion!

Dennis Lynch

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Comment: Hi everybody! Looking forward to our 50th reunion & renewing old friendships from our high school days.



Upon graduation I joined the US Naval Air Reserve program & found myself in a anti submarine squadron running radar detection gear aboard patrol aircraft.



In 1969 I married my wife Sharon & we had 2 sons & now have 4 grandchildren, 3 boys & 1 girl.



Career wise most of my time has been in the Materials Management field working in the following positions, Materials Manager, Warehouse & Distrubution Manager, Buyer, Product Planner. Along the way I also managed restruants & Sharon I also owned a Maaco Auto painting & Bodyworks for 5 years. Im currently working parttime as courier.



Sharon & I also  have a small lake place located between Hayward & Rice Lake Wisconsin which we enjoy going to in spare time. Nothing big & fancy but neither are the taxes! 

John Magnusson

Then Then
Marital status: Single
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: I retired in 2001 after 39 years at 3M Company. My 1st 15 years at 3M were in the Central Reasearch Laboratories studing semiconductor materials, developing lasers and building fiber optic systems. The balance of my career was in various technical service positions which allowed me to see the country and world. Along the way I owned 6 apartment buildings and sold oil and gas wells. 



I was married twice, had a son and daughter and added a step daughter. I lived in Richfield until 1969, then on Grand Avenue in St. Paul followed by Tangletown by Macalester College, Inver Grove Heights and currently in Mendota Heights.



Not being one to gather dust I'm the president of the townhome board, the event planner for the Fork and Cork dinner club and a captain of a 3M golf league team. My current love is fishing (and golf) which led me to join my son and build a cabin near Cornucopia, WI, 10 years ago. This June we closed on a home by Washburn, WI. My preferred fishing area is the south shore of Lake Superior which required the purchase of the 4th generation of fishing boats. 



I'm in excellent health, too busy and enjoying life.   

Don Marks

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 9
Occupation: Retired
Comment: We are mostly retired and enjoying life.  Barb volunteers as a child advocate and I still have a few clients in the printing and mailing business.   We both have worked from home for many years, with Barb selling real estate and my business as a computer services dealer.  We have also remodeled and sold several homes and condos.  Our children live in San Francisco, Denver, Seattle WA, Cloquet, St. Paul and Minneapolis.  Together we have 12 grandchildren.  We enjoy golfing, bicycling the many MN trails, playing 500 with several of our friends, and traveling as often as we can, (especially to friends with lake homes).   We enjoy getting away in the winter to the southeast in GA and FL.  We are looking forward to more travel to the west coast to see some of the grandchildren.  I am very active in the Wayzata Lions Club as the club webmaster.

Jerald (Jerry) Martin

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Retired
Comment: I worked in a couple careers--Design Draftsman for 25 years, then as a Commercial Driver until I retired in 2005. Now I am 1st Vice Commander of American Legion Post 435. I bicycle with the TCBC and Richfield Community Center weekly. I enjoy hunting in the spring and fall. We bought a travel trailer & ATV so we can travel. I shoot trap & skeet with Post 435 Gun Club.  We have 1 daughter who has our one and only granddaughter--they live in the Chicago area. I seem to be busy most of the time.  I love running into old friends and classmates.