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
   

Patti Zawadski (Pedersen)

Comment:

After Graduating from High School I married my


HS sweetheart Ted Trapp in Spring 1961.  We


moved to Virginia, Ted was in the Army.  From


there we moved to Augsberg, Germany in early


1962.  We had two awsome years in Europe


traveling around.  Our oldest son was born there


in Spring 1963.  Upon leaving Germany we 


relocated in Richfield where we raised 4 kids.





In late 1981 Ted and I divorced.  I remarried


in Summer of 1985.  Mike and I have been


married for 24 years.





I retired in June 2004 after a 31 year career


as an Office Manager for a General Contractor


in Bloomington.  Upon retiring Mike and I left


for an Alaskan Cruise.  When we returned I


spent 2 weeks cleaning cupboards, closets,


drawers and so on.  Then I knew I needed


to do more.  So, I contacted a friend that owns


a Scrapbook Store and started teaching and


designing for her.  I'm still there about 3 days


a week loving every minute of it. The store is


on 105th & France Ave. So.  Drop in and see


me there.





Mike and I have 8 children between the two of


us and 9 Grandchildren.  Seven of them are


from my children.  I feel blesssed to have all


of them living in Mn.