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."
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
Bill Rowe
| Marital status: | Single |
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| Occupation: | retired/advertising(media buyer) |
| Comment: | In anticipation of the upcoming reunion, here is what I've been doing all these years: I moved to New York City in 1968 after college at the U of Minn and a period of time as a scenic designer at various theatres in Mpls and elsewhere. I worked for a while in the theatre in NY, but soon fell into (by chance) a job as a trainee in the media dept of a prestigious Manhattan ad agency. This turned out to be a lucky move, and I continued with a career in that field for over 30 years, negotiating the purchase of Tv & radio commercial time on behalf of many different clients, including candidates for 2 presidential campaigns and other political offices During that time I have continued to live in Manhattan, with interludes in London where I had a flat for a good part of the 1980's. I've had a series of horses, mainly to ride hunting with hounds, but also one racehorse. WARNING: don't ever buy a racehorse! Living in NY all these years has been a great experience. I wouldn't trade it for anything. But I still have a soft spot in my heart for Mpls and return frequently to see family and friends. |
Larry Rupp
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: | I got my degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University in 1965. Married my college sweetheart and moved to California. I spent 30 years in the banking business, finally retiring from US Bank in 1997. I've spent the last 12 years traveling around the country, bird hunting and coaching soccer. I've been a coach for 34 years including 19 years as a high school coach in the Boise area. We have two kids....Julie is a lawyer working in Portland and Suzanne is a CPA working in Seattle. Two grandchildren, a boy and a girl. I get back to Minnesota a couple times a year. We have a townhouse in Phoenix and we spend the winters there. Beats shoveling snow! |
Peggy Sanford
Randy Schmidt
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Comment: | I enjoyed my years at Richfield where I spent lots of time day dreaming and had many great friends. After Richfield I went on to Hamline University in St. Paul from 1960-1964. I majored in fun, fraturnity life, and finally Art. After graduating I went on to Grad. School picking the University of New Mexico as it had a good reputation in Art and was in a far off and interesting land. I headed off in a stock 1932 Chevrolet, which I still have, and drove back roads the entire trip. I graduated from UNM with a Masters in Art and a double major in Sculpture and Ceramics including a profound love of the Southwest. In 1968 I was hired by Arizona State University, then a mid size university to teach Ceramics and to build their Graduate Ceramic Program. Thirty eight years later in 2006 I retired as Professor Emeritus in Art from the nations largest university, the same one but now with over 62 thousand students. I was proud that our Ceramic Graduate Program was rated as one of the top programs in the country with our graduates teaching in colleges and universities throughout the country. In addition to teaching, making and exhibiting Art, I also worked in Architectural Restoration having worked on most of the states historic buildings including The Arizona Territorial/State Capital. In 1991 I was invited by The Soviet Union as a guest artist. While there I traveled with Soviet Artists in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bella Russia and Russia. This time period was especially exciting not only to me but strange and confusing as this was the last month of the Soviet Unions existence. In 2004 I was invited back to Eastern Europe to work as a guest artist for a month in a Gothic Convent at The Vilnius Academy of Art in Vilnius Lithuania. My lovely wife Katie was in business, county government and academia. We have a blended family of four girls. three boys, and 8 Grandchildren. We love to read, travel, and just do things together. Katie's PhD. is in Gerontology so we recently took up Golf for mental stimulation. We had avoided it our entire lives but now spend lots of time trying to catch up. I still love making Art, our Casita in Columbus NM. black powder deer and elk hunting, now called "armed hiking", sailboats, jeeps on back roads and day dreaming. |
Karen Schoenecker (Espenson)
| Comment: | I have been married to the same wonderful guy for 48 years. It is hard to believe how fast time flies by. We spent our early years living in Sioux Falls and Topeka but have been living in the Twin Cities or nearby ever since. I retired after working for J.I. Case Company for 30 years, mostly in the Credit/Finance department. As a sideline, Paul and I were/are antique/collectible dealers and have traveled most of the United States from time to time doing antique shows. The bottom has really fallen out of that market the last couple of years so we are no longer very active in it. We only do occasional shows in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Update: My husband died in 2012. In March 2021 I was diagnosed with bladder and bone cancer and am still being treated for it. |
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Robert Schuller
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Sales |
| Comment: | I married Bonnie Wharton (class of '62) in 1963. We have 2 children, Rob and Richelle, who also graduated from Richfield High School. Bonnie and I divorced many years ago, but have remained great friends. I have never remarried, but I did have another child, Lucy, almost 8 years ago. I have 5 grandchildren and 3 step grandchildren. I am still currently working. I have been in the sales business most of my life, with roofing sales being my specialty. I have played hockey all my life and I continue to do so. My son, grandson(s), and I all play together on a team here in Richfield. Fun for me to have 3 generations of Schullers playing hockey together. Fishing is also a big part of my life. I have some land and cabins in Canada where I have spent a lot of my time fishing with friends and family. I live in Richfield with my youngest daughter. Raising a daughter by myself at this time in my life is quite a challenge, but it has kept me young. |
Russell Schuveiller
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: | I can't believe that 50 years has gone by since high school! Having gotten married as a senior and I suddenly realized that I had to get a job and support a family - that was ... scary! My 2nd goal was to get my high school diploma - to do that I went to West High as that was how it was done back then. Some how all has turned out very well. |
Nancy Skraba
John Slonski
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Occupation: | Retired Engineer |
| Comment: | I have to say that supplying “a short bio about what you’ve been up to the last 50 years” is a bit mind-halting and rather daunting! I’ll ignore the interpretation, “give us an accounting of your life since RHS so that it can be judged”, and take up instead the challenge of condensing 50 years into less than one minute: I live in I’ve been married since 1974 to Marie, whom I met in the JPL volleyball league. We share interests in skiing, traveling (motivated mostly by Marie’s wanderlust), camping, and hiking. Other interests of mine are or have been scuba/snorkeling, sailing, pool, photography, and (lately) the great time sink of the internet. |
Erle Smith
| Comment: | Life goes on.......doesn't it. Not that anyone cares.....but: in 12/62, my life changed when I was pumping gas on Penn Ave and freezing my butt off. Joined the Navy and spent the no extra 3.9 years in San Diego but never aboard a ship...North Island on Coronado. After almost 4 years, came back and went to the U of M and met Sally Cutler. Married in July and immediately drove back to SD. Went to San Diego State University and also achieved a commercial pilots license which I didn’t pursue. Also divorced. After graduation, joined Wrangler Jeans and moved to Sacramento then promoted to larger territory in Seattle. Met and fell in love with the most wonderful woman in the world. Transferred as a team back to Sac and then Sherry got promoted to Merchandise Manager of Woman’s Jeans in Greensboro NC. After 7 years in corporate (and with a newborn daughter, Sherry got tired of traveling the world and the “corporate life”. Moved to AZ in ‘93 as she continued with Wrangler Sales and I put together a “rep” company in the mattress industry calling on all the western states selling everything it took to make a mattress. But, like many of us have, I lost the love of my life a little over 9 years ago. Sherry lost her battle with cancer in May of '12. So, after a total of 43 years, I find myself alone again but it certainly is nothing like being single in your 20's. I guess 75 is a good age to "give it up", so I closed down my company and retired. I volunteer at the only hospital in N Phx that births babies and work in the NICU area each week.. Just returned from a long weekend in a little 48' Hattaras boat that 3 friends and I keep in San Diego.......what a change of pace to chill out! My great afternoonn is sitting on my aft deck view staring directly at downtown SD holding onto a good glass of wine. It's also a excellent relief to get out of Phx when the temp's start to rise. The picture attached is current from last week. |
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