Bio's and Pictures
Class of 1958
Fort Vancouver High School
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It was fun and I learned a lot. In 1987, I took a leave of absence to save my self. It worked, and I finished my last six years teaching Orchestra and English, until I retired in 1994. Two years later, I taught part time for one year. That was enough. My contribution to the world was complete.

I am a musician and I teach private music students. I previously played violin in the Tacoma and Highline Symphony. I still play piano, and now I play violin in the Rainier Symphony and have for fifteen years. We play ten concerts a year, and twice we've performed at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Both performances were exceptional musical experiences for me.
In past years I did summer theater in Carmel, and went to summer school at the University of Hawaii. I lived in Honolulu for six weeks, a block from the beach. The entire trip cost a thousand dollars. I've been to Acapulco, to NY twice, where I sang in a wedding and was offered a singing job at the church. Didn't take it. I went to summer school for many years. I have 301 college credits and I'm very wise.

I own my home in Auburn, where I've lived for many years. I have two black standard poodles, twin sisters, my third set. They are wonderful, intelligent dogs. I have a Chickering grand piano and I like nice things. I work three hours a week as an appointment secretary for an astrologer. Oh, and I cheat at golf.

Like you, I too have suffered loss. My beloved brother Jerry died of Leukemia at age 55 in March of 2005. Jerry was a first call trombonist in Toronto, and Stratford, Ontario, where he lived with his family, and where I traveled many times. Looking back on it all, I received an excellent education at Clark and WSU. Over the years I taught many wonderful, talented students. I've worked hard my whole life and I'm proud of the work that I have done. I have a very good life now and I'm looking forward to this reunion."

Thank you Bill for all the work you have done preparing for our reunion.

Over the years we have visited Vancouver often to see family and take advantage of the great outdoors. I have often wondered if I would recognize any of my classmates if I saw them on the street or in a store. I am looking forward to seeing them again and making sure a chance meeting will result in a reconnection.

Milton Jones

50 years? Really? Oh, right, the mirror tells the truth and reflects the experiences of life in the fast lane since FVHS ’58. Graduated from CWSU in education, married Eleanor Hungate at 21, taught in Bellevue, WA, served in Peace Corps Liberia (West Africa), graduate school U. Pittsburgh, Fulbright Research Fellowship, Kampala, Uganda, taught, started international schools career as teacher/headmaster. Two wonderful children, Carl and Sarah. Headmasterships in Kampala (Uganda), Rabat (Morocco), Antwerp (Belgium), Bangkok (Thailand), Frankfurt (Germany), and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea). Divorced and best friends (make sense?). Lived in Bangkok last 13 years, teacher training, ESL. Back to Vancouver permanently December 2008. Closer to family and grandson, Noah. ‘Roots’ still lives on.

Beverly (Jorg) Gunderson McArthur

I moved to Camas in 1960; my husband Gary and I raised two sons, Rich and Todd Gunderson. We owned Gunderson Tire Center in both Vancouver and Camas for 45 years. I married my wonderful husband, Jon McArthur seven years ago after losing Gary to cancer. My hobbies are my six grandchildren, my friends, music and traveling.

I belong to that fortunate but oft strangely-looked-at group of individuals whose work is their life’s elixir (which is why I don’t have hobbies other than cooking, eating, drinking with family and friends; going to the opera, hosting musicians; travelling to faroff deserts with my daughter). Studying «simple» questions like why do we sleep, how does the biological clock tick, what is the basis of depression, has been a fascinating journey, leading me and my colleagues all over the world to use light therapy to treat seasonal (and other depressions), melatonin to shift rhythms and synchronise sleep. I still have students and projects ongoing, and will continue active in academia as long as my neurones tick (see www.chronobiology.ch; www.cet.org). My husband is equally addicted to his work (teaching sustainable urban development in London and Paris), so we have a colourful compatible life.

This July I visited the Heyde sisters in Vancouver with Noel Dorman, and Bill Cone organised a mini-reunion with a dozen or so FVHS 58’ers – a preview event!

And oh, Jaap and I still hold hands whenever we meet.

Activities: a member of Stewardess Emeritus Association, a group of former airline hostesses, raising funds for the Kidney Association of Oregon. Also involved with the Boise Cascade Community Outreach program, raising funds for The Cancer Association, Children’s Cancer Association, and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Roy and I keep busy with our part-time work. Roy at Hartwood Golf Course and Carol at The Quarry, a senior living community. We also enjoy golf outings and trips to the Oregon Coast. I’m an avid beachcomber, and never get tired of looking at the ocean.

I keep in touch with two former TWA roommates, who live in Kansas. We get together every year (since ‘93) for a “girls only” vacation …such fun!

Favorite vacation destinations: the Oregon Coast (Gearhart), and the island of Kauai.

I look forward to seeing my friends and former classmates in September.

David Larson

After high school, I attended University of Washington majoring in accounting.

I then hired out with Spokane Portland and Seattle Ry Co. Retired from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Ry. Co. after almost forty years of service.

Joined the Army Reserves in 1962 and served for six years reaching the rank of Staff Sgt. Active duty was at Fort Ord, CA. Summer camps were either at Ft Lewis or Camp Roberts, CA. My home unit was Headquarters Company, 104th Infantry Training Divn, Vancouver Barracks.

My wife, Pat, a Portland gal, and I were married in November 1965. We have four sons: Steve, twins Tim and Doug, and Jeff. We have one granddaughter and five grandsons.

I spent twenty years volunteering my services with the Columbia Youth Soccer Federation. Most rewarding was to see the Federation grow from a few hundred kids to a number that is in the thousands. Also, see soccer become a varsity sport in the high schools.

I like to travel but not as much as my wife does. She has gone on quite a few cruises with her friends. During Sept 2006, Pat and I were on a Celebrity cruise ship to Alaska (my first cruise). First day out from Seattle, Celebrity gave any passenger the right to stay in the 1200 sq ft penthouse if he or she won a certain bingo game. My wife won that certain bingo game and we got to stay in the penthouse for the rest of the seven day trip. Even had a 24/7 butler. What a trip!

Over the years, I have climbed some mountains and done some hiking. Even played a few rounds of golf.

Pat and I enjoy spending as much time as possible with our sons and their families.

My first job was at the Paramont Theatre. Starting wage was .75 cents an hour and $1.25 cents in the box office. I was married to Gary Case June 6, 1959. We had one son, Byron born 1-27-62. I divorced shortly after Byron was born.

Richard Stalcup came back in my life when he came back home from the service. We were married on August 23, 1963. We had two sons, Chris born 7-5-64 and Troy born 10-26-68. We had a wonderful marriage. We did everything together. We vacationed as a family every summer. Having a great time fishing, boating and camping.

My travels include Washington, Oregon California, Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Alaska, Mexico, Hawaii (Kiwi), 6 islands in the Caribbean, (fun cruse). I hiked down the Grand Canyon 7 miles (fun and very beautiful).

I enjoy every part of life, cooking, canning, gardening, hiking, white water rafting, boating. I am happy to be alive . I am a survivor of cancer. I have seven grandchildren, Angel, Jana, Heather, Scott, Clancy, Aaron and Cecelia. I have five great grandchildren, Miguel, Julius, Alyvia, Leo and Skylin.

I was happy to be hired by the owner of the Barbizon of Houston, Texas as Director and Sales Manager, only working five days a week. I have two wonderful children, Michael Jay and Colette Marie. My two beautiful grandchildren Carly and Dustin live in Orlando, Florida where my son Michael lives. He is truly a free spirit and writes his own music, plays the guitar and has several CD recordings out. His website is www.michaelbarrymusic.net. He and his fiancé, Francesca are engaged in more ways than one. They are both professional massage therapists and own their own massage business. Too bad they do not live closer as massage is so important for stress….no kidding!! My daughter, Colette, runs our agency called First Models and Talent Agency. Even though I own the agency, she works seven days a week booking models not just in Texas. But nationwide. Our website is www.firstmodelshouston.com I could not run my businesses without her…..she is never off the phone. She took time to marry a wonderful man named David who is an air traffic controller……and he could tell you some stories, but, of course, he is not allowed to especially after 23 years. Talk about stress……. As for me? I am still single, but have been engaged to Bob for ten years.
We didn’t want to rush into anything Bob is Vice-President of a structural engineering company and good for me to keep me grounded as I travel through life at a hectic pace. We like to travel (in our spare time) to St. Lucia, St Martin, Hawaii, Colorado, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Florida, New York City ( I scout for all the New York modeling agencies , so I am there at least three times per year taking new stars around to be signed with top agencies.) Our favorite places in the United States are Oregon and Washington……..
We love the Washington and Oregon coasts and especially the down to earth people.
Of course Vancouver is the best of all. As a side note the current Miss U. S. A. Crystle Stewart is one of my models I discovered 11 years ago. She was just on television July l3 and was in the top ten finalists for Miss Universe. Even though she fell on national t. v. she will truly become a star and was on the Today show two days later. For you guys who like Sports Illustratated, my super star, Julie Henderson started training with us at Barbizon at age l5. She is now twenty and this is her third year modeling in the swimsuit issue which comes out each Valentines Day. She is currently in Turkey shooting for the next issue. Julie appears regularly in Ellle , Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, Vogue and several other fashion magazines along with traveling to Paris, London, and Milan doing
Runway shows. You can see lots of pictures of her on www.barbizonhouston.com Bob and I are having a Lake house built with white cedar from Canada for our weekend house and for when I semi, semi retire. We will see you Saturday P. M. for sure. We are flying in Friday night, but will be there to hug you all on Saturday P. M.

Chaio and Hasta La Vista.

Love, Gail (Lund) Love

Ed Marchbank

After attending Clark College and the University of Washington, I started teaching in 1962. I taught thirty-two years in the Highline School District in South Seattle-twenty-six of them at Highline High School.

My wife Ann was also a teacher. We have two daughters; Melanie Ellis, a Nordstrom store manager in Honolulu, and Many Ambrose, an elementary teacher in Ellensburg. We have three gransons.

We built a cabin in Ocean Shores, Washington, so after retiring we moved to a permanent home on Duck Lake in Ocean Shores.

These days I keep busy playing piano several weekends a month in the restaurant of the local casino, doing some volunteer work, and playing tennis, badmitton and pickleball with a bunch of other old guys.

on the Mall and volunteered in the Merchandise tent for 3 days. It was the experience of a lifetime. I served as the Finance/Merchandise Chair for the local chapter of the NAMES Project in Portland for 6 years.

After my grandchildren arrived my volunteer opportunities became smaller and I actually retired from banking early to help out. Jobe was born in 1997 and he my daughter Kristin reside in Bellingham, Washington. Jenifer adopted her daughter, my granddaughter, from Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. Gracie was born in Yi Chun City as far as we are able to determine. Jenifer traveled to China in December 2002 to formalize the adoption and bring Gracie home.

Now that Gracie (6) and Jobe (10) are older, I am known as the carpool grandmother. Between track, swimming lessons, little league, dancing, gymnastics, recitals and homework, I stay very, very busy. I wouldn't trade this time for anything.
I look forward to sharing their pictures with you when I see you in September!

I have been blessed with 4 grandchildren. Amy 17, Justine 13, Samantha 9 and Ryan 9.

The summer of 1962 I had a thrill of a lifetime, went on a 500 mile depends cruise on the USS Ranger.

In 1992 my husband and I traveled to Europe and spent time in England and Scotland. We found this trip very interesting and even made a few friends.

My husband and I spend time at Long Beach, Washington clam digging and walking on the beach. At home I enjoy knitting, crocheting, baking, working in my garden and going to Ryan's games.

Kenny and my kids as well as my darling granddaughter Samantha, continue to fill my life with pride and laughter, a great combination.

We moved to Idaho in 1970. We started a successful electrical contracting business while raising our three children. Was married 34 years and then I moved back to Vancouver in 1990. Started working at Vancouver Mall and volunteering at Southwest Washington Medical Center. I have now been married to Tom for 9 years. We enjoy traveling, time with our families and friends and attending our grandchildren's activities. I'm active with church, an avid walker and belong to Lake Shore Athletic Club. I'm really sorry I'm unable to attend the reunion this time because of a prior commitment on that weekend.

We have ended up in the Midwest not because we like it so much, but because we got involved here in several ways. The whole family loves the Pacific Northwest but as long as there are grandchildren here, grandma is not going anywhere. The same will go for grandpa.

Gene Nordstrom

After graduating from Whitman College in 1962, I was accepted to U.S. Air Force Officer Training School, Lackland AFB, Texas. Beyond that, I earned three graduate degrees from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington and the University of Southern California respectively. My doctorate was earned at the latter school as a National Institute of Mental Health fellow.

My professional career spanned thirty years with the Kaiser Permanente Health Care System as a clinical psychotherapist. Two of those years were dedicated to a federally funded project providing health care to families in poverty.

During that time, I also served on the Oregon State Board of Health as a member of the Home Health and Extended Care Regulatory Committee.

My practice involved working with children and adults as well as marital/family therapy and group therapy. Administrative positions included being a team leader and associate chief of Kaiser Mental Health.

During my tenure as associate chief, the mental health department saw significant growth. In one year alone, I hired thirty-five new therapists. In addition to that, I designed a number of Kaiser mental health clinics.

After retiring in 1997, I reinvented myself as an author. Since that time, I have written and published two novels: The Honeymoon Car (2005) and The Road To Glory Land (2006). My third novel, Reflections In Gold, will be published sometime this year.

My wife, Barbara, and I have been happily married for thirty-five years. We have a son, Eric, who performs with a professional dance company. We adore classic cars and own the 1940 Packard which inspired my first novel.

Barbara and I also enjoy traveling and have been all over the world. Even though every country we have visited has been an amazing adventure, I must admit that my favorite city is Paris and my favorite country is Greece. This year we will be cruising around South America with stops in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, The Falkland Islands (close to Antarctica) and Chile. In spite of all that traveling, we still live in Vancouver and love it.

moved several times, quite a turbulent decade!! I lost my dad in 1970. He had worked for the Washington Cannery Co-op since 1944. He taught me to drive truck and at the time of his death, I went back to trucking. I worked at the Wa. Cannery Co-op till fall of 1970. I started with Western Kraft Beaverton Corrugated Box Plant. I found one of our classmates. Tim Campbell was the plant manager.

Our daughter, Jacki went to Pacific Lutheran University on a softball scholarship in which her team was National Champions and Jacki is an NAIA All American softball player. Jacki is now with Shari’s Corporate in Beaverton. Our son, Bobby graduated at WSU with a football scholarship. He met his wife there and they reside in Bellingham. Bobby teaches 1-2 grades and asst. coach for Burlington-Edison High School. They have two boys, Drew –11 and Brady –8. Yes I am a very proud father!

After the kids graduated, I decided to go back to school. I finally graduated from Clark and then transferred to WSU and graduated in1996. Once again I needed money to either continue my education or survive. I discovered that going back to a Teamster driving job, I could retire in 3 years. Since 1958 I have been on a quest to find my mother that I had not seen since I was 4yrs. old and spent another 40 yrs till I found her. In finding my mother I found a brother that was born in 1958 in Tacoma, Wa. Penny and I had been divorced about 4 yrs. when she got a call from a Cary Parker. He said he thought he was related to me. Well we were! He was my half brother. We went to meet him and discovered he was very easy to find as he looked just like our son. So the good and bad of this was I only found where my mother is buried in Las Vegas. She died 5 yrs. before I found my new brother. The good was discovering I was so much like her. I look just like her, my voice was the same and our expression the same! That answered a lot of questions that I had over the years.

So now I have 2 dogs, 1 cat, 4 pigeons, 1 ring-necked pheasant rooster, a great retirement, renewed our friendship with Penny and have season tickets to the WSU football games! Go Cougs! I love to hunt, fish, and snow ski, water ski golf and
Bike. My retirement lets me officiate 150 baseball games a year. As you see, I talk too much.

I am looking forward to seeing old friends! Bobby Norvell

I married my high school sweetheart and had a beautiful baby girl. I went to work for Jantzen, Inc. in 1959 and was trained as a keypunch operator. I then continued my employment with Jantzen as Secretary to the Shipping Manager.

In 1963, I was hired at Clark Public Utility District (PUD) as a keypunch operator. After a couple of years, I progressed to Secretary of the Commercial Department (Sales Dept.), and then on to salesperson, actively marketing the use of electricity. After the energy crunch of the 70’s, and the passage of the National Energy Act (NEA) in 1980, the utilities role and, consequently, my role at the PUD changed. The NEA mandated the conservation of electricity and preservation of the salmon in the northwest. The NEA provided funds administered through the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)

to develop and operate conservation programs. I was responsible for the development and operation of these programs at the utility, which included the multi million dollar weatherization and water heater wrap programs. Moving on to the Technical Services Department, I continued as liaison with BPA in conservation with program evaluation and also worked on conservation legislation. I retired in 1993, with 30 years service.

I was divorced from my first husband after 17 years of marriage and spent most of my busy career at Clark Public Utilities as a single woman. Shortly after retirement, I married my husband Jack and have been married 15 years. We do some traveling and particularly enjoy Puerto Vallarta and Maui. We also spend time at our beach house in Ocean Park, WA. I enjoy quilting and tending to my rose garden and fuchsias.

I have a daughter, Debbie and a grown granddaughter, Angela and 2 beautiful great grandchildren, Jamie, 8 and Amber 5. I feel so fortunate to have a beautiful family, many wonderful friends, relatively good health and a great life.

Between us we have three wonderful children, six grandchildren and one horse. Daughter Carrie lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and three kids. Son Todd resides in Bellevue, Washington with his wife and two small boys. Daughter Kelly and her husband have a new baby and live in Portland. We like to spend time with all of the grandkids and enjoy babysitting whicle our kids travel.

Life is good!

Ronald D. Parry

After graduation I attended Washington State University for a short time. I served in the Army from 1962-1965 in the United States and Seoul, Korea. In 1968 I married Mary Catherine “Kitty” Kiggins and we resided in Vancouver. We have one son Michael, a daughter, Anna and one sever year old grandson Cody Parry. I worked in the beer business at Crown Distributing for 29 years in Vancouver and the last nine years of my career was at Pepsi-Cola in Vancouver retiring in December, 2003. Shortly after I retired my wife passed away. I enjoy spending time attending sporting events and with my grandson.

certification in San Francisco Bay a couple of years ago and my latest endeavor is attempting to write a historical novel about a relative who was sailing ship skipper almost a 100 years ago.

Sally and I have stayed in Dallas since retiring and we love to travel visiting Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Japan, St Kitts, the Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, Germany, England, South America and Antarctica (burrr). But I still love Washington where my soul is anchored and we usually get back to Long Beach and Willapa Harbor where I grew up every year.

Dixie Lee (Plunkett) Douglas

HAPPY TO

Become a Dental Hygienist working in private practice and teaching at Mt. Hood Community College.
Being married to John for 32 wonderful years. We are now retired after selling a successful Computer Company.
Have three loving stepshildren and spouses, eight grandchildren (from 9 to 19) who are smart, active, fun and accomplished.

FORTUNATE TO

Enjoy good health, have many friendships over the nation, enjoy an active lifestyle and participate in volunteering efforts where we live and play.
Have a home in Portland for these greatest of all summer locations, and to have another home in Palm Desert, CA. for the best winters on earth! We have been doing this for 17 years -- and -- love going and then coming home again, enjoying the outdoors and playing golf year round and spending time with family and friends.

Since high school, I have continued to enjoy a happy and rewarding life. Each day is a gift! I can't wait to see and say hello to each and every one of you at our milestone 50th.

Barbara (Reed) Zamorano

After high school, children and a failed marriage, I went to business-college, worked for American Cyanamid for many years. I then worked for Boeing for five years. I then moved to Denver, Colorado, and worked for Petro Lewis for three years. After returning to Clark County, I worked for Larson Electronics until I retired in 1990.

I was able to retire early, because of my marriage to Roger for 15 years. He passed away in March of 2004. We were able do may things together, before he passed and I am grateful.

In November of 2004 I traveled for a month to Australia and New Zealand. What a trip!!!! All I can say is if you ever have the opportunity to do so, it is a wonderful place to go.

I have since married Dave, a long time friend of 30 years. We used to hunt, fish and ride our horses. We were young at that time and eventually each went our separate ways. I am a lucky lady that we connected again after all these years.

Dave is also now retired and we travel a bit around the Northwest, going to a few bluegrass festivals and trips here and there. We also spend four or more months in Arizona every winter, usually in the Mesa area. He is still a hunter and I do some, but as time passes we are just a little slower. Now we really need those horses. Ha-ha

I have three children, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Throughout all these years, I have been truly blessed.

Valerie Roberts Gerry

Hello from sunny Bend, OR
I am anxious to see all of you again! For several of us it is our 63rd year reunion because we we started grade school together at Lincoln School as early as 1945. That is a very long history together!

Vancouver will always be home for me. There are so many good memories. After our time together at Fort, I attended Clark for two years and then went on to Portland State. In 1961 I married Randy Ferguson and had three great boys, Brian, Greg and Ken. I wanted to be at home with the boys so I gladly put my education on hold. Our marriage ended in 1976 and I returned to school and received my B.S. from the University of Portland in 1978.

Over the next eleven years as a single mom I held various positions in education and law - tutoring elementary children, teaching English As A Second Language at Clark and working for the ESD as a Specialist in the JTPA Program. For five years I was a Legal Assistant for a Vancouver domestic relations attorney and then worked for a bankrupcy attorney in Portland. In 1987 I took a position as a Loan Officer in a small Vancouver bank which started a new twenty-one year career for me in mortgage banking.

I married Jim Gerry in 1989, gaining a step-daughter and a step-son, and moved to Bend, Oregon where he is a builder. As a mortgage loan officer for the past 19 years, together we have done our part in aiding the growth of Bend!

Jim and I have seven fantastic grandchildren - six boys and one girl - who give us so much pleasure. Since the real estate slowdown in Bend and everywhere else, I am semi-retired which has given us time to be out on the beautiful lakes of Central Oregon in our boat. We enjoy cruising the Caribbean and Alaska. We laugh alot and we agree that from here on out it is all about having fun!

See you soon!

P.S. My mother, Eleanor, is 87 and lives at the Pythian Home in Vancouver. She told me that she was sure that she saw Chuck Furno cruising the Pythian parking lot for some reason just last week. Could that be true?

Donna (Rufener) Chronis

Inexhaustible love of travel---Taking groups to England, Italy, Austria, France, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, Africa, Egypt and China---Great friends---Laughter---Feisty conversation---Conservative politics---Ocean Park beach house---Cooking and entertaining friends---Good Movies---Time spent in Maui---
Joy in having four sons, three grandkids and wonderful
memories with Bill.

I'm looking forward to this 50 year reunion. There are missing years when some of our friendships went dormant-but they didn’t disappear.

Ruth (Smythe) Cushing

50 years! I feel like I’m just getting started.
Married in September of 1959 to Darryl Cushing .
I enjoyed being the stay at home Mom of three active boys. You know the one, with the station wagon that went to every Boy Scout event. There were plenty of trips to track meets, swim meets, soccer games, and school events. I wanted to have a T shirt printed up that said (I am Mike, Mark and Christopher’s Mom). What a great time it was.

The boys grew up and I decided to go to work, putting all my unpaid volunteer skills to work. I applied at Hunter Douglas, and found in a short few years I had become a production supervisor for three departments. I have just recently retired from Hunter Douglas after 18 ½ years.

As I worked with all races of people, with all kinds of talent that they had not yet found and with English as their second language, a wonderful challenge presented itself. I learned a lot from these people and I hope that I was able to help them become better providers for their families. I was always encouraging them to take more classes in English so they could become more valuable to the job force. They became a second family and I felt proud of them as they became citizens of our nation. We shared pictures of families, and potlucks were always great with all the wonderful foods from around the world.

While I was with Hunter Douglas, I completed courses and graduated from Hunter Douglas Corporate University.
I have also become an Alumni member of Phi Mu Fraternity for Women.

Our family has grown and to the three sons we have added two wonderful daughter-in-laws, Kim and Annie and six grandchildren Alexis, Matthew, Kayla , Patrick, Joey and Tyler.

Other than two years in Houston, Washington has been our home.

We travel occasionally, the island of Maui as our favorite spot. Favorite vacations were in 1995 to Disneyland with then 4 grandchildren and to Maui in 2002 with our two married sons and six grandchildren.

Now that I am retired I can get back to my hobbies of sewing, gardening and photography.

We share our home with (or they share their home with -I am not sure which) three Havanese dogs. Mitzi and two of her 7 puppies, Sandy and Nume’, they are delightful and loving dogs.

Looking forward to seeing long time friends .

What have I been doing for the last 50 years?????

Many of the same thing you've all done. Continued going to school.... moved form Vancouver to Portland, spent time traveling in Europe. Married and then divorced.

I was hired by IBM and moved to Seattle. IBM then moved me to San Diego and that takes care of the first 20 years or so.
While living in San Diego and working for IBM, I met my husband to be who also worked for IBM in Boulder Colorado. (Love those business trips.) IBM moved us to Santa Barbara, CA., where we married and have lived happily ever after for almost 30 years.
We love Santa Barbara, it's one of the most beautiful places in the world and we enjoy all it has to offer.

After graduating from FVHS, an unsuccessful attempt at higher education,
Clark College & U of W (too much Monopoly);
Short stint in US Army Reserve;
Six years on the Seattle Police Department;
Graduated from Seattle University with a BA degree;
Went to work at Allstate Insurance Company with Gary Zepernick, who has
mysteriously disappeared into the Vancouver underworld;
Worked for several national insurance companies;
Formed my own independent insurance agency in 1983;
Operated my office in the Woodinville WA area since 1990;
Son, Steven, joined my business in 2004;
Still working and I vowed to continue working until I can beat Leroy
Ostrem at golf.

Resides in Kirkland, WA with wife, Linda.

After active duty in 1960, I took my first real job at Tektronix in Beaverton, OR. In a few years, I worked my way into the job of my dreams--Electronics Design Engineer. My first design project was Tektronix’ initial entry into the Hospital EKG monitoring arena. Most of my years at Tektronix I worked as a Design Engineer and Project Manager in the Medical Monitoring product area. In 1981, Tektronix sold our Medical Products Division to Squibb Corporation. Length of service, retirement, etc went with the sale. Squibb bought up about ten such business units and companies in the early 80’s. By 1986, Squibb had combined the acquisitions and spun-off two publicly traded companies, ATL (Ultrasound) and Spacelabs (Monitoring) which were based in Bothell and Redmond, WA respectively. I was transferred from the Beaverton area to Redmond in 1990 and continued working in the same new product design and project management areas until I retired in 1995 with 35 years LOS. After a few years working in Real Estate, I retired for good in 1998.

JoAnn and I married in 1964. JoAnn’s first job, after graduation from the University of Oregon in 1963, was in the Beaverton School District as an Elementary Teacher. She retired from teaching in 2000 from South Kitsap School District, working in Port Orchard, WA.

JoAnn and I have lived on Fox Island, WA since 1991. Our shared interests include gardening, sail boating, traveling (especially to Arizona) and classical music. We also closely follow the Mariners and the Seahawks. We are both active in our church here on the Island. I keep busy with projects both JoAnn and I dream up. I especially enjoy construction projects around the house and working on our sailboat.

Sharon "Sherri" (Wellington) West
& Dave West

Dave West and I dated our senior year at Fort Vancouver and married in June 1960. We were active in Vancouver JC's until Dave went into the Army in 1963. Our traveling for the next 23 years began with a trip to Vietman. As the only American woman in our Vietmanese town or at the American Air Base I taught ESL at the high school, worked as a "midwife" at the hospital and was the foreign attraction at every official occasion in the town.

Our son was born in Germany in 1965. Our daughter was born at Ft. Lewis in 1967. The kids and I moved back to Vancouver while Dave spent a year at Johnson Island in the Pacific in 1968. After three schools in Indianapolis we moved to Turkey, Spain and back to Seattle. I was an orthodontic assistant for

six years while living in Renton, Washington. We moved to Bangkok in 1979 with two teenagers for two years where I was a substitute teacher and worked for the principle of International School Bangkok. When Dave received orders to Washington D.C. in 1981 we expected to stay three years till he retired and move back to Washington -- that was 27 years ago!

Dave retired from the Army in 1985 and continued to work for Defense Intelligence with retirement plans for September 2005. But Dave died suddenly of a massive heart attack in 2005 before he could retire. I worked with the Arms Control Intelligence Staff and spent two months a year for 12 years in Switzerland or Austria during the peace talks for START, Nuculear Testing, CSBM, and INF (Stars War). I retired from the CIA in 2003 but after Dave died I went back to work part time for the State Department and now work overseas several months each year.

Besides traveling for pleasure I enjoy needlework and genealogy. A two week safari in Kenya is still one of my favorite trips. My oldest granddaughter is graduating from high school in June and she and I are heading for France and Italy. I have seven grandchildren ages 3 to 17 and hopefully I'll pass my wanderlust on to each one of them.

Beverly (Winsper) Miller

After graduation, I went to work at Nabisco in Portland, where I worked until I got married in 1962. I was a housewife until I got divorced. I have four beautiful children: Tami, Danny, Kenny and Terrie. Around the time of my divorce, my mother became ill. Since my dad was blind, I agreed to move in and take care of my parents. I also started work at Frito Lay. I took care of my mother until she passed in 1991 and then took care of my dad who had dementia until his passing in 2000.

I also retired from Frito Lay in 2000. I then married my long time friend, Jim. We do a lot of traveling and spend our winters in Arizona. Jim is a guitar and mandolin player as well as a singer. We enjoy bluegrass, gospel and old country music and go to a lot of bluegrass festivals.

I am also blessed with seven grandchildren: Jeremiah, Jennifer, Danielle, the twins Jacob and Jessica, Amber and Trevor. I also have four great-grandchildren: Noah, Vanessa, Corina and Taylor. I have been truly blessed. I have a great husband and a wonderful family. The only really sad time was when I lost my youngest son Kenny in November 2007 to a heart attack. He was only 43 years old and was a wonderful person. Other than that one dark moment, my life has been wonderful, filled with great friends and good times.