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
   

Judy Tomlinson (Snowberg)

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Sales and Marketing Manager
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Bruce Tomlinson

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Small Business owner
Comment: This is for Bruce Tomlinson and Judy Snowberg Tomlinson.

Judy graduated from U of M in 1964 with a major in Spanish (Bob Brett was her favorite teacher) and a minor in English.  Taught Spanish in the Chicago area for 4 years.  Her daughter Holly has a wedding gown design business in Evanston IL.

Bruce spent 2 years in the army.  He worked for Johnson & Johnson in sales and management from 1967 to 1985.  He started his own company in 1983 by purchasing a product line from J & J.



Carole Onstrom talked Judy into coming to the 25th class reuniion - the first one she attended.  Spent the evening dancing. laughing and talking with Bruce.  We had 10 months of long distance "dating" (Kansas City and Tampa) and were married in 1986 on the beach at Captiva Island at sunset.  With Bruce's 3 daughters and Judy's one we have four girls and a large family including 7 grandchildren and 2 great grandsons.  Together we run a $10 million medical business with 47 employees selling supplies to anesthesioloogists in hospitals and surgery centers around the us and abroad.  We travel extensively and have had an apartment in Paris for the past 6 years where we spend about 22 weeks a year (check it out at Tomlinsonparisapartment.com).  The rest of the year we live on a canal in Tampa across from a wildlife preserve.  We have spent 24 hours a day together since 1988 and are still best friends!  We have enjoyed staying in touch with some friends from high school over the years - how did we get to be this age???

James Tourtillotte ( )

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
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Following graduation from RHS, I attended the University of Minnesota and earned a BA degree in 1965.  I was married one week later to high school sweetheart Sandra Carlson - RHS 1961.  We have three daughters.  They are all graduates of the U of M too.  All are married and have given us the joy of 8 grandchildren.



I owned a personal lines insurance agency in Richfield for most of my professional career.  I retired at the end of 2007.



I have never been able to outgrow my love of cars.  I have owned sports cars since my days at the U of M.  Also, I have been a member of the Porsche Club of America for 35 years.  GREAT FUN!




Marcia Treichel (Hansen)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
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Steve Treichel

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: VP
Comment: Got more in the memory book.  Here you go...Marcia Hansen and I married 45 years, 3 children, 10 grandchildren.  They are all great kids.  We love them a lot. We are blessed.

We travel quite a bit or as much as my job allows.  I still work.  Probably will for some more time too.  Do enjoy all of our friends and classmates.  There you go...50 years summarized in 50 words.

Sharon Tucker (Hoover)

Marital status: Widowed
Children: 3
Occupation: RN
Comment: Mostly retired with some "on-call" homecare.  Recently lost my husband Gene of 43 years.  7 grandchildren and 3 sons.  Interests are reading, travel, grandkids, and meeting "girls" for lunch or casino week-ends.

Judy Tucker (Thomson)

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Comment: I went on to the U of M and majored in "good times," and quit before student teaching.  I found out that a journeyman dental tech made twice as much as a school teacher and stayed with it for 44 years.  I now do deliveries for the man who bought my lab.  When I quit I never looked back.

We come back to Minnesota in the summer to our cabin on Sullivan Lake, and otherwise enjoy our 10 grandkids.

Sharon (Sherry) Tucker (Hoover)

Marital status: Widowed
Occupation: RN
Comment: I am finally retired.  Worked in hospitals and home care most of my career.  Do volunteer work with Store-to-Door to provide groceries for homebound.  Active in my Bible study and in 2 Red Hat groups where we can act our age, wear funny red hats and have a LOT of fun.  Love to travel and have mostly done Miedterranean cruises and Florida trips.  Have 3 kids and 7 grandkids, all living in MN so I am lucky.  Love getting together with "old" high school friends for lunch every month or so. 

Sherry Tucker (Hoover)

Marital status: Widowed
Occupation: retired RN
Comment:      Since my husbands death in 2009, I have retired and am living in Minnetonka.  I have 3 sons and 7 grandchildren and my first great grandson this year, so God has richly blessed me.  I also have wonderful friends I keep in touch with frequently, including High School friends, College Nursing classmates (just had our 50th yr Univ. of Minnesota reunion) and former work friends.  I do miss my hursing career but don't miss the long hours and working holidays.

     I have 6 friends (we call ourselves the traveling sisterhood) who try to travel at least once a year for long vacations , especially to Ft Meyers, Fla., but alo for short trips just to get out and away.  I have been diagnosed 3 years ago with Multiple Myeloma but am doing really well taking Tumeric and lots of vitamins.  No Chemo.  No tumors yet.  So again, I am richly blessed by God. 

Carolyn Turner (Krahl)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired
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