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
Susan Peterson-Pope
Mary Pfleiger (Seward)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | We moved to Nashville, TN in 1967, one year after my husband Bob and I graduated from the U of M. We were transferred here by Honeywell for what we thought would be just 2 years. We fell in love with the idea of a climate consisting of four seasons of equal length (what a concept) and also the friendly people of Nashville. In 1982, my parents moved here and live a few blocks away from us. My husband left Honeywell in 1980 and started his own wholesale business selling energy efficient control systems. We had 4 daughters and now have 5 grandchildren. We are both now semi-retired. We plan to go to Germany (where my husband's family is from) a second time later this Spring (May 2010). We look forward to the reunion. The last one I went to was the 25th back in the 1980's |
Peter Pollock
Bob Potts
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | President Geneva Companies |
| Comment: | I arrived at Richfield High School during my senior year, transfering fron Fort Wayne, Indiana. Therefore I am barely eligible to be part of the class of '60'. I attended the Univerisity of Minnesota graduating with a degree in accounting. I was hired by Touche Ross [now Deloitte] and stayed with the firm for 27 years interrupted by active duty with the Army. I was Area Managing Partner for Touche and after our merger, Deloitte. I spent 5 years as the President and COO of Greentree Financial in St Paul. Currently I am a principal in three manufacturing companies. My wife Judy [St Louis Park] and I live in Minnetonka and Edwards, Co. We have two daughters and four grandchildren all of whom are doing well. |
Geri (Geraldine) Rasmussen nee Johnson (Johnson)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | Looking forward to coming back for reunion - have not been back to Minnesota since the 25th class reunion |
Dennis Reierson
| Marital status: | Single again |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired Truck Driver |
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Kent Richardson
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Semi-retired |
| Comment: | After graduation, I achieved a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering degree at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Having been enrolled in the Air Force ROTC, I served a four year tour of duty with the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM. There I met my wife, Linda, who was a student at UNM. Our daughter Stacey was born there in 1970, 6 weeks before I said farewell to the USAF and we moved to California. My dream of a career in aerospace went unrealized due to the fiscal effects of the Viet Nam War. But, my experience in the Air Force as a scientific computer programmer paid unexpected dividends. I found my true calling when I was hired by Bank of America for their Systems Programming department in San Francisco. That led to a 36-year career in the Information Technology sector of banking. Our son David was born in the Bay Area in 1975. After a 13 year detour to Southern California, we have called Concord, in the SF East Bay area, our home. Stacey lives nearby, where she is raising 6-year old twin girls. David, now a lawyer, settled in Sacramento, where he and his wife have a 17-month old daughter and a son due in July. My present interests include astronomy, photography and videography, woodworking, do-it-yourself home repair, reacquainting myself with golf, and greatest of all watching and helping our grandchildren grow. |
Paul Riemer
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
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Karen Riggs (Bergquist)
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Retired closer, teacher |
| Comment: | I retired last year after 13 years as a closer for Edina Realty Title and currently do closings there part-time. I have 3 married children and 8 grandchildren, all living within 2 miles, and we are a very close family. I do a lot of babysitting of course. I'm in a bridge club and a golf league, and enjoy spectator sports, especially football and pro golf. I enjoy travelling, especially to a warm sunny beach in the winter. |