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.
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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
Loren Nelson
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Retired math teacher |
| Comment: | After many years of traveling back and forth, Barb and I are finally New Mexicans. I found Silver City in 1999 when two other bikers and I mountain biked the Continental Divide from the Canadian to the Mexican border. Our Minnesota home finally sold after 16 months and we lugged our stuff here this January leaving our roots in Minnesota but finding our purpose here in New Mexico. My riding buddy and I have had some amazing adventures over the last 20 years, biking from the Pacific to the Atlantic, tracing the Mississippi from Itasca to the Gulf, and recently following the Lewis and Clark route from St. Louis to Astoria, WA. The posted photo was taken in the Columbia River Gorge. Other solo trips from Taos to Minneapolis, from Minneapolis to Denver, and other junkets have filled in between the longer adventures. Barb was a music teacher and professional singer during our working life often as part of the "choir" on the Garrison Keillor show or singing in one of the many professional choruses in the Twin Cities. Our 3 daughters live in Denver, Sioux City and Waconia. We visit as often as we can, as much to see our 5 granddaughters as anything. |
Gary Newman
| Comment: | Don't know user name and won't let me move forward |
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Nancy Olson (Swenson)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | int. desgn |
| Comment: | Some hi-lights of 50 yrs. Happy marriage, 37 yrs. 2 sons,2 stepdaughters, 7 g'children. 1st place food shopping spree in Rogers, Mn., game player PLAY YOUR HUNCH( Merve Griffin in NY City '60) ass't desgn'r Dear Abby's husband's office, decorated restraunt, Gr Rapids, Mi, charter member Single Parent's Christian Fellowship, Master Gardener, started Four Season's Garden Club, Cambridge, Mn. U of M courses: Interior Design, Architecturall Design, and Norwestern Bible college 1 semester.Taught community ed courses(5 different communities). Hobby farm, milked/showed 20 dairy goats, won 3 G Ch's. Known as 'goat lady' after moving to Rogers, Mn and up until that time had been called interior designer!Bought and remodeled numerous homes with my husband Dick and designed and or remodeled appx 30 homes for others.Now live in Alma, Wi on the Mississippi River and currently I have a field of over 20,000 daylilies with which I hybridize-it's like Christmas in July when I see a brand new "baby" that has never been seen before! They say that gardeners live longer, and by God's grace I am working towards that! The flower field is called Glory Gardens and it is my desire, To give God the glory, great things He has done! Hi everyone...I was just given a video of my gardens from a lady photographer that goes to my church ....as I have told others, it is wonderfully professional, even if I look horribly less-than-professional! I know many of you from afar, over the daylily auction network and the dayliliy forums I belong to, some of you are as close to me as my neighbors, family and old friends, or somewhere in between. Hope you enjoy it.... May you have a good day! Nancy -- ALMA, WI zone 5 A NANCY OLSONCREATIVITY IS SO DELICATE A FLOWER THAT, PRAISE TENDS TO MAKE IT BLOOM, WHILE DISCOURAGEMENT OFTEN NIPS IT IN THE BUD |
Kathleen Palmen (na)
| Marital status: | Single |
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| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: | Is it really Fifty Years?? What have I been up to? After graduation, I attended the U of M. While I was there I intended to go into Home Ec. During the summer of my freshman year, I was Miss Richfield in the Aquatennial. That lead to an offer for an interview with Northwest Airlines.I was hired in July of '63. And, In Sept 2006, I retired after 43yrs 3 moths of batteling bad crew meals, more than a few irate customers, weather, delayed flights and on and on. I finished the last years flying with a flight attendant friend to London ,Honolulu and Japan. Lots of all night flights. But, I wouldn't trade all of that for any other career. I have met so many wonderful people. Have gone to so many great places and had many good times. Longest flight-Hong Kong- from Mpls. 151/2 hours. Best vacation- New Zealand and the great trout fishing. No kids. Some great guys. What more could a gal ask for. After over 43 years of having to be somewhere on time ,it is just nice not to have to commit to any time. We had the greatest class. Look forward to seeing you all in 2010 |
Linda Palmer (Nelson)
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Paralegal |
| Comment: | I left Richfield in 1959 and moved to Rhode Island. I married Ron Palmer from Bloomington. We had 3 children (Kim, Scott & Kelli). We lived in Chanhassen while they were growing up. After the kids started school, I went to work for a law firm where I was trained as a paralegal and have been in that field since. Ron and I were divorced in the early 80's and I've remained single. I currently work as a compliance officer for a fundraising company. I work 3 days/week and plan to fully retire in 3 years. I have 5 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Twenty years ago, I bought a house in Richfield where I currently live with my cats, dog and an occasional grandchild. I love to quilt, garden and travel. I thank God for my friends who have been with me through the good times and the bad. The picture is Sandy, Mary, Me and Gayle at Loria's cabin. |
Grant Patterson
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | pastor |
| Comment: | Since high school, I have been a social worker, a nurse and most recently a pastor. I have also been married and widowed. I am now the pastor of Bethel and Bethlehem Lutheran churches in and near New Town, ND. My wife Manda and our children, Hannah Ruth, 17, and Adam, 16, live in the country a few miles west of Minot, ND. |
David Pearcy
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | After graduation from RHS, I graduated from Mankato State College with a double major BA in Business Administration and Economics coupled with minor in Psychology. |
Larry Pearson
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: | Hello, classmates. Where did the years go? After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1964, I got married and began a career in technical support with General Mills. By 1973, we had three children but the relationship didn’t hold up and we were divorced. I became a single dad raising two girls and a boy and living in Blaine. Four years later I met a young woman of great courage who had not been married before but was willing to take on a man with three preteen children. We were married in 1981 and had two more children. With an age range of 22 years between my oldest and youngest, I seemed to be going to parent-teacher conferences forever. I left General Mills after 25 years and changed to food ingredient sales with a small brokerage in St. Paul. My wife and I have lived in Bloomington for almost 30 years. I retired from the food business in 2008 and my wife retired from teaching last year. In addition to being active in our church, we enjoy traveling and spending time at our time share in Hawaii. I became very interested in Civil War history about 20 years ago and visited many eastern battlefields such as Gettysburg many times. |