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Brian Hazeltine
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Occupation: | Teacher/Principal/Professor |
| Comment: | This has been fun getting together again! I've enjoyed reading the profiles, and so will add mine. As Hugh Hegyi mentioned in his profile, he and I spent a gap year traveling. We hung out on a 53 foot yacht in Ft. Lauderdale for a week, and picked potatoes in Holton, Maine for a few days. The latter was backbreaking work that paid just 35cents for a barrel... but we needed the cash for gas, and we met some cute girls, so... We also hiked in the mountains of Colorado for a while. After that, I attended Gordon College for a year and a bit before moving to Saskatchewan Canada in 1973 to spend a bit more time with the girl (Kathy White, W&L'69) I would eventually marry in 1975. I graduated from the U of S in '77 with a B.Ed. as a history major and taught Adult Basic Education at the local community college for four years. After one year at Al Capone's old haunt of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, we moved to Alberta and a tiny (pop 300) town in the foothils of the Rocky Mountains where I became the principal and teacher for grades 3-12 in a group home for mostly delinquent kids. As a result of events that transpired before our arrival, we ended up in the middle of a court case that dragged on for several years and made headlines across the country. In 1985, we moved to Airdrie, just north of Calgary where I took a teaching position for two years. However, I had a lot of ideas about how schooling could be done differently, and so I started Airdrie Koinonia Christian School in 1987 wiwth 54 kids K-7. I began as a fulltime teacher and principal and finished as just a fulltime principal when the school reached 300 students twnety years later and was recognized as one of the top performing schools in the province. (Since Alberta was recognized as a world-leader in education in those days, it was a very gratifying reward for my efforts.) Between 1977 and 1987, we had four boys, so our home was a hopping place of tussles, laughter, sports, and chess. Two of my boys competed in the Canadian scholastic chess nationals, which allowed us to travel across the country many times. Plus, we our folks and friends still in Arlington or New England, and with summers "off", we traveled back east many times pulling a tent trailer and camping out along the way. It was a great way to raise a family. Then in 1996 with had another child, but this time it was a girl, the first one on my side of the family in 96 years! It was quite the surprise for us, but she has been a wonderful addition to our home. She is also the one who cut a music EP at age 17 and has done backup vocals for a rising Nashville musician. (Check out Moriah Hazeltine on Spotify where one of her songs has had over a million listens.) However, one thing that her late arrival did was to push our empty-nest experience back until she got married in 2019! Over the years I added a Masters degree in Christian School Administration from Grace Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Education from Walden University. We moved to the Grand Rapids area of Michigan in 2007. I finished my doctorate in 2012, became supreintendent of a nearby Christian school in 2014, and retired from K-12 administration in 2019 (just in time!). On the side, I have been able to teach for a couple of universities, and currently am a special appointment professor for Cornerstone University where I teach graduate courses in education and leadership. |
Hugh Hegyi
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Retired Judge |
| Comment: | Hi, All! Wow, it's been a long time! Hope life has been kind to us all. So, after high school, Brian Hazeltine from our class and I took a gap year together. We traveled the east coast from the Maine border to Fort Lauderdale. Visited a lot of our high school friends at their colleges and otherwise, including Jeff Nugent, Pam Wood, Jim Landon, Abby Okin, and Elaine Mellen. I worked as a water skiing instructor at a summer camp in the Adirondacks and built houses with a community in Americus, Georgia, that later became Habitat for Humanity. In 1971 I went to college at William and Mary, where I majored in Psychology. Jay Orr was my freshman year. RA Small world! After graduating in 1976 I worked as a staff assistant to Dee Huddleston, a U.S. Senator from Kentucky. Got married to my first wife that spring. Went to the University of Virginia Law School that fall. Graduated in 1979, went to work for a large New England law firm (nka Day Pitney), where I decided I really liked being in the courtroom. My first two children, Michael and Cara, were born in 1980 and 1983, respectively. In 1983 my first wife finished her medical residency and we moved to Fort Defiance on the Navajo Nation in northeast Arizona for her to repay the Public Health Service for putting her through med school. Loved the area and the culture, and worked for the the legal services group that served the Reservation area. Specialized in consumer fraud. Split up with my first wife in 1989 and moved to Phoenix. Mike and Cara joined me there in 1994 and 1997, but it was rough being without them. Air fares were cheap, though, so they visited most weekends until they moved here full time. Met my wonderful present wife, Diana, in 1994. We were married in 1996, and our third child, Justin, was born that year. Worked for the Arizona Attorney General specializing in financial fraud, ultimately with a focus on predatory mortgage lending. Then moved to the Superior Court (our state trial court) in 2003 as a court commissioner. Our then Governor, Janet Napolitano, appointed me as a Judge in 2007. Retired from the court New Years Eve 2018. I love being retired! I tell my friends, many of whom are loath to leave their jobs, that i's like being on vacation every single day. During my first year of retirement we spent several months in Europe - Italy, Sicily, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and France. Last June we cycled through Austria from Salzburg to Vienna. I spent two weeks in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May training members of the Ukrainian Supreme Court and members of both the trial and appellate level dedicated anti-corruption court that the Ukrainian Legislature recently constituted. So, life's good! Diana's still on contract with our state supreme court, but when that contract ends in another year we'd like to spend several months a year living abroad in various places around the world. We spend lots of time in the mountains 2 hours north of us near Flagstaff, and on the Sea of Cortez 4 hours to the south in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. We love to hike, cycle, and run, and we like the sun, so southern Arizona's the perfect place for us. I still play guitar, piano, and sing, and we love to read. Our daughter and oldest grandson live 15 minutes from us. Mike and his family are in Little Rock, and Justin and his fiance are in NYC, so we try to visit those towns as often as we can. Hope all's well with you, as well. I'm really looking forward to catching up with everyone at our reunion in September, but, in the meantime, I'm on FaceBook, so friend me if you're so inclined. I'm the only Hugh Hegyi on FaceBook -I promise! Best, Hugh |
Holly Heilberg (Haseltine)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Career Counselor/Trainer |
| Comment: | I always felt I was behind everyone else on the path of "growing up". But, I ended up creating a great life as a Career Counselor/Trainer, wife, mother of two boys (born on the same date three years apart) and engaged member of the Charlottesville, VA community. The picture is of a group I sing with at area nursing homes and retirement communities. I thank Yorktown for helping me realize my love of music. I look so forward to seeing everyone at the Reunion and learning about your journey over these many years! |
Mary Lynn Hemphill (Luetscher)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | medical social worker |
| Comment: | For most of the 50 years since graduating from Yorktown I’ve lived intown in the blue dot that is Atlanta in the red state of Georgia. The only other placed I’ve lived is the music-saturated dot that is Athens, GA. Almost all of my professional life has been spent in health care – with people whose planned lives have been disrupted by a medical crisis. I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and have worked in women’s reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and oncology. In women’s health, from 1977 to 1991 I worked in a full-spectrum women’s choice clinic. I was able to be creative in founding a donor insemination program that was open to women regardless of marital status or sexual preference – a radical concept in Atlanta in 1986, thankfully mainstream now. And I joined up with a diverse group of Atlanta women to develop safer sex parties for women – since none of us believed Cosmopolitan magazine when they said women couldn’t get HIV-infection. I was one of Georgia’s first HIV-testing counselors – when there was no treatment available and giving those test results was pretty much uncharted territory. Since all the work at the women’s clinic followed getting a BA in Western European Studies from Georgia State, it became clear I needed some specialized education, so I obtained my MSW the week I turned 40 when my daughter was 6. Apparently, my karma has required that I put my soul into healing the challenges I faced as a high school student who lacked information to deal with my mother’s unfortunate and excruciating experience of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Somewhere along the line I unconsciously committed to making sure that other people did not feel so adrift. For 27 years after receiving my MSW I worked with individuals and their families during and following hospitalizations for HIV/AIDS, then adults diagnosed with all types of cancer. Working at Grady Hospital, Atlanta’s public hospital, throughout the 1990’s I watched the “face of AIDS” change from mostly young gay white men, to people of color. It was a life-changing experience from my perspective. I could say volumes about that but won’t do it here. I shifted focus from the world of infectious diseases to oncology in 2005 and retired from full-time medical social work earlier this year. Now all my contract oncology work is done remotely due to COVID-19. I don’t miss Atlanta rush hour traffic, but I do miss all the in-person partnerships that come with health care and the immediate bonding that can come with crisis. I married at age 19 (what was I thinking as a junior in college????), divorced at 25. I remarried, became a step-mother to kids in their early 20’s and had my only child all in 1987. Even birthing only one child, I became part of a much bigger family than I came from. I maintained family ties with my “out-laws” (first set of in-laws). Our daughter was blessed with two sets of para-parents: a gay male couple who were our neighbors and my ex-husband and his wife. We truly, truly believe it takes a village to raise a child. Relationships are everything. Life has been busy since 1970. I haven’t kept up with anyone from our graduating class. A year ago in the process of relocating my father close to us, I emptied the house where I grew up. I was overwhelmed both by the memories that returned in going through so much history and, more profoundly, by the memories of high school that I’m seeking to reclaim. Happy to say I brought two yearbooks home with me, so I know what you guys used to look like! This reconnection has been timely and I look forward to its evolution, even as we may de-evolve in this uncharted territory!!
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Jonathan "Jonnie" Ingram
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Freelance writer |
| Comment: | I am looking forward to catching up with my fellow Yorktown graduates 50 +2 years later. Currently, I am working on my ninth book on motor racing and pitching one on craft beer. In addition to NASCAR and sports cars, I’ve regularly covered Indy cars, the Le Mans 24-hour, Formula 1, etc. My high school and college French came in handy at times while traveling to five continents on assignments. During the 1990s, I realized a childhood dream by regularly writing for Sports Illustrated. My book “CRASH!” can be found in the library at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, quite an unexpected development. I’ve been married twice—for five years and 20 years—and divorced twice. My first marriage was to an African-American woman from Atlanta, where I’ve lived since 1979, and the second to a Puerto Rican woman who grew up in Texas. In between, there was a woman of Scottish descent whom I met in Australia and traveled with extensively. Sadly, my only child, a beautiful and talented daughter from the first marriage, died shortly before her 40th birthday following an eight-year illness. Having grown up in Arlington playing stick-and-ball sports, there were a number of local influences that eventually led me to motor racing. My older brother built some really fast street racing cars that I loved riding around in before I had a driver’s license. Bill sometimes took me to the stock car races at the Beltsville Speedway in Maryland. When it came to getting admitted to Duke, it sure helped to be interviewed by a Yorktown graduate, Bill Goodrich. Following a sabbatical, once I graduated with a degree in history “Our Man in Arlington,” Charlie Clark, helped me get a career-changing job interview. I had worked on Duke’s school newspaper as the editorial director and in sports. As a “postgraduate,” I decided to begin the hunt for a sports writing job at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. I bought a Honda 400 and traded my Smith-Corona for a smaller typewriter that could be strapped on the back with a bungee cord and headed north from Durham. After all, every sports editor in America would be there. Fellow Yorktown and Duke graduate Tommy Clark had let me know that his brother Charlie, a student at McGill University, would also be in Montreal at summer school. Charlie welcomed me, despite little notice, and invited me to stay at his fourth-floor apartment for the duration of the Olympics. I had a recurring Olympian dream that I would discover a drunken sports editor passed out over his typewriter, jump in and write the story, then be discovered. That didn’t happen. As it was, “Bruce Springboard,” as Charlie called him, was often heard on the radio, and we had quite the time. I eventually landed an interview back in Durham at the Morning Herald newspaper as a result of hustling quotes from the American athletes in the Olympic Park and trying to pass them along. During my interview at the Morning Herald, which I considered a dream job, I was asked about covering golf (in addition to the ACC football and basketball). I recalled my days caddying at the Washington Golf and Country Club. Quite frankly, I wasn’t impressed by some of the golfers I met while caddying—and those bags were heavy for a skinny kid like me. So, I demurred when that question arose. When I was asked about covering NASCAR races, I nearly jumped out of the chair and said, “I used to go to the races! I’d love to do that.” Of course, the races were just Saturday night events at the Beltsville short track where I went in order to ride around with my older brother in his ’55 Chevy. But I knew that a sports staff inundated with UNC grads needed at least one guy from Duke and I just had to go along with whatever the editors wanted. Once hired, the Herald sent me to Darlington to cover the Southern 500 on Labor Day. I was told to interview David Pearson, who was on the verge of winning stock car racing’s Triple Crown. It was like sending a rookie baseball writer to interview a starting pitcher the night before the seventh game of the World Series. I filed the story after catching up with the “Silver Fox,” as Pearson was known, in the parking lot of the Swamp Fox Inn. Once at the track the next day, Jimmy Carter launched his 1976 campaign with a pre-race speech, followed by vice presidential candidate Bob Dole, introduced by stem-winding U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, all of which impressed this kid from Arlington. A typically high-speed, wild chase at Darlington—won by Pearson—made it unmistakable that racing was a great subject to write about in terms of characters and the grand-scale theatre of the tracks, not to mention the danger. I was intrigued by the subculture of racing, a “crucible of life” as one participant called it. After three years at the Herald, I quit my job, moved to Atlanta and the rest is, well, where I’ve been. Having read the profiles on the website, I’m looking forward to catching up and filling in details on my fellow graduates’ stories and hanging out in Arlington. We’ve led valuable lives and have much to discuss and be thankful for. |
Deborah Johnson Fox (Johnson)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | clinical social worker |
Martha Kahn
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: | After graduating from Yorktown, I went to Washington University, but didn't like it, and junior transferred to UNC at Chapel Hill where I majored in geology. I worked in mining and exploration for almost ten years, living in New Mexico, DC, and Colorado, and also working in Montana, Texas, California, Vermont, Indiana, Georgia, and Mexico. I got laid off in 1984 and got a master's degree in computer science concentrating in artificial intelligence from the University of Denver. I moved back to the DC area and worked for about 13 years for MITRE and some smaller companies, mostly on DARPA projects. In 1994 I married the love of my life, Simeon Kriesberg. We took in two foster babies, Micah in 2002 and Shoshanah in 2005, and later adopted them. They both have special needs, which has been an interesting learning experience. After Micah came, I quit my job and thoroughly enjoyed being a stay-at-home mom. When much younger, I did a little backpacking and kayaking. In my old age, I enjoy family, friends, walking, reading, and going to plays and concerts. I don't remember much about high school, but reading about all my classmates on the website has me looking forward to the reunion. |
Alan Kersey
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | VP Engineering Services (almost retired) |
| Comment: | BS Georgia Tech MS Georgia Tech BS University of Maryland Under construction |
Betsy Kuchler (Sheridan)
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | dental hygienist/retired |
| Comment: | Hard to believe we’re coming up on 50 years post High School. I’ve come a long way from that long, curly haired, anti-establishment hippie, sitting in section “H” at pep rallies.
I was a late bloomer and didn’t go to college right away. I worked as a bank teller for 2 years and then started attending classes at NOVA Community College. From there I attended Dental Hygiene School and graduated in 1976. Better late than never. I enjoyed a 40 year career in that profession. Along the way I got married, had 3 kids, and got divorced.
Lived in Arlington most of my life, born at Bethesda Naval Hospital, moved to Newport, RI and then Puerto Rico when I was very young, and then back to Arlington for 6th grade. Summers were spent at the Knights of Columbus Pool, and visiting relatives and family friends in Long Island , NY and Newport,RI. Anything water related, especially the ocean, is in my blood. In 2015 I moved to a beach town in Delaware.
I officially retired when I came to Delaware, however I did get my Delaware hygiene license before moving. I fill in, as a temp, part time. It’s that fear of running out of money, or maybe it’s just that I really know how to spend it, that keeps me working.
My 3 kids and 5 grandchildren all live in Loudoun County, so it’s not too far to go back and forth. The best way to keep a captive audience is to buy a beach house.
Looking forward to this reunion. |
Kenneth Kuck
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired Systems Engineer |
| Comment: | Wow, 50 years, how time flies. To be honest, I don’t recall a whole lot from back then. I wish I had Mr. Peabody’s Way Back Machine so I could go back to Yorktown in the 60’s to just observe and update my memories of that time. Some things do come to mind: The English teacher, Catherine Burns helped me to write better. Coach Jesse Meeks, not as football coach, but boy’s gymnastics coach, who let me stay on the team even though I had very little talent and I stayed close the ground on pommel horse. The Psychology teacher, Mr. Lee, who got us to sign up for the magazine Psychology Today. Other fun memories were the outings that the Youth Hostel Club went on. Hikes up Old Rag, one time we rode in a school bus that drove all the way up to the trail head on the narrow road, and actually turned around to go back down. Another time in my Dad’s Dodge Dart, and I could not turn around, so backed down the hill and broke the speedometer. (Not sure how fast I was driving down the mountain or home!) And the multi-day bike trips to the Pennsylvania Dutch area when we stayed at Youth Hostels each night. I went to Georgia Tech in Atlanta, drove down with my parents, and started there sight unseen (who did college tours in those days?). Graduated in December 1974 with a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering (BEE) (one extra quarter to make up for my bad start freshman year). Not a great GPA, but I had fun hiking, caving, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, rafting. You should start to notice a trend here. Started working for the US Geological Survey, Topographic Division, Branch of Research and Design right away, starting in a non-descript four story building in McLean (easy commute from home in Arlington). Eventually moved to the new USGS building in Reston (still an easy commute except when it snowed, not many ways to get from Arlington to Reston in the mid 70’s). After five years there, I realized I had no advancement potential until my immediate boss and his manager retired. In 1979, I took a job as an electrical engineer at the Melpar Division of E-Systems (remember that ugly brick building on the north side of Rt. 50 just before the beltway?) Spent the next 37 plus years there (and 4 other locations in NVA), gradually advancing into management, and then as a Chief Engineer. Worked on DoD and three letter agency projects the whole time. Communications systems, SIGINT ground stations, UAV programs. Got to travel some: Philippines (Clarke Air Base before the volcano), Hawaii (for three months), West Germany (three trips to the Hunsruck area, drinking lots of Mosel wine), Berlin (before and after the Wall came down), London (just for meetings and the local pub for a beer with Brits during lunch breaks. Afternoons were hell.). This really sounds boring compared to some of the curriculum vitae I have seen posted here! To continue the outdoor activities trend. After moving back to Virginia, I started kayaking with the local club, Canoe Cruisers Association. Paddling Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, I soon realized that with an inconsistent roll in my kayak (not good when paddling whitewater), I needed to switch to open canoe. Then I started racing canoe slalom, raced in local races and several national championship races (never won, closest was fourth place), got involved with the national organization, American Canoe Association. That took up a lot of my time, as chair of a competition committee, on the governing board, travel to annual meetings all around the country. Then I got married (see the next chapter). Did not marry my high school sweetheart (like many of you did)(I don’t remember if I had a high school sweetheart?), nor my college sweetheart (like many of you did)(I know I did not have a college sweetheart!) Instead I met Susan at work (Melpar) during a Christmas party (remember when we used to have alcohol at work for those parties in the 70’s? Looking back, that was not good!). Her brother (a coworker) introduced us as I was sitting on our secretary’s lap (boy have times changed, for the better). Married in 1985 (me at the ripe old age of 33). Our first son arrived in 1986, second in 1993. After marriage, and kids, with the amount of time I spent traipsing around the Mid-Atlantic and the country, and traveling for work, something had to give. So I stopped serious paddling and dropped any official participation with the ACA. Clearly the right thing to do. Both boys grew up to be engineers, the first a Mechanical Engineer from Virginia Tech (Susan’s alma mater), second one Computer Science from University of Virginia (that was a controversial decision that I stayed out of). We have one grandson, our youngest son has a significant other. Retired April 2017 from Raytheon, moved to Ashburn, Virginia to a 55 plus community in an 8 year old single family house (no maintenance, small yard, great amenities) and started hiking again. My goal is the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, and lots of trails in Shenandoah National Park and GW National Forest. So far just day hikes, no overnight backpacking trips yet. So the trend continues. |