Classmate PROFILES
Entering Your Profile
Soon after you enter your information, we'll add your picture from the Echowan. Besides tons of information about you, you can upload a current photo and a paragraph or two about your life. What has the last fifty (plus) years meant to you? Marriages? Children and grandchildren? Careers? Travel? The meaning of life?
For security, only you can enter information on your personal record. You will establish an ID and a password. Any information you enter will be displayed (with the exception of your Email address), so if you want to maintain privacy over certain items (phone number, for example) don't enter it in your record.
Please do include your Email address so that we can communicate with you from time to time. (We will NOT display your Email address.)
A reminder to those classmates. If you entered 'retired', it would be great if you would add what you did 'before you retired'.
For security, only you can enter information on your personal record. You will establish an ID and a password. Any information you enter will be displayed (with the exception of your Email address), so if you want to maintain privacy over certain items (phone number, for example) don't enter it in your record.
Please do include your Email address so that we can communicate with you from time to time. (We will NOT display your Email address.)
A reminder to those classmates. If you entered 'retired', it would be great if you would add what you did 'before you retired'.
Judy Lear (Lear)
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Volunteer |
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Comment:
I've had a great life, especially the last 20! I've travelled all over the world and worked on public policy for ageing and women's issues. I live in New York City now and am the National Chair of Gray Panthers, a multigenerational social and economic justice organization. I have 4 grandchildren -- 3 girls and a boy. They are wonderful! |
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| How would your friends describe you today?: Active! | |
Vickie Lee (Anderson)
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | retired kindergarten teacher |
| Comment: Went to St. Cloud for a B.S., got married, had 2 girls and a boy, taught for 36 years,...8 years in St L.P. and 28 in district 196..(went to Mankato for a M.S. and was divorced during that time). Now have 2 wonderful grandkids and a 15 year relationship with a great guy. we enjoy spending time at the lake in Crosslake and Ely as well as traveling elsewhere around the Americas. We are very busy with our ski club activities as well as volunteer work at Lebanon Park, and Feed My Starving Children. Have not kept in touch very much with H.S. classmates since the divorce but enjoy running into them, especially "up north". Hope to reconnect at the reunion. | |
| What are your favorite activities?: | golf, genealogy,walking,traveling, x-c skiing gardening,reading,bridge, camping,park volunteer, grandkids. |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | , Belgium , Germany,Switzerland,Austria, Italy, Monaco, England, France,, Lichtenstein, mexico, Grand Cayman, Tortola, St. John, St,Thomas, Antiqua, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Canada, |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | Most except rap |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Busy, organized, happy | |
| What would you change if you could?: Taller, thinner. Otherwise, life is good. I loved teaching, but love retirement more. | |
Jeffrey Levy
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Occupation: | attorney |
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Comment:
After graduating high school, I abtained a BA in liberal arts from the U of M. I then went on to get my Masters degree from St. Thomas College in their Master Arts in Teaching Program. After that I attended Law School at the U of M in 1969. I have continued to practice law full time-out of choice I guess because I still like it after 41 years. I have also done some adult teaching part time. In 1984-1987 I took an extendsd sojourm to San Francisco, with my partner of 32 years, Martin. We then returned here. |
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| What are your favorite activities?: | Reading,travel,exercise,,times with friends |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | All of Europe from Portugal to Russia on numeroustrips |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | and Mexico, most of the US and Venuzala |
Kurt Libby
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Purchasing Manager, Cal Berkeley |
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Comment:
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| What are your favorite activities?: | Golf & bicycling |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | I have visited many countries around the world, but have not yet been to South America |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | I still like the old tunes we listened to. |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Easy going, honest, fair | |
Gary Lindberg
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | Communications Consultant |
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Comment:
I've started over a dozen companies, written and produced nearly a thousand films and commercials, been a Hollywood movie producer, and traveled extensively. I am now a bestselling author of thrilers and historical fiction; in 2012 my thriller THE SHEKINAH LEGACY was the #1 most popular thriller on Amazon. More importantly, I've been blessed with four smart, loving, successful children and a wonderful wife. What more can you ask for?
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| What are your favorite activities?: | Writing, travel |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | Literally around the world. I've traveled all over Europe and the England, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Soviet Georgia, Central American, Venezuela and Brazil, and the Arctic. Next on my list, Australia and New Zealand. |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | Jazz, contemporary |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Creative, full of energy, always seeking adventures and new opportunities. | |
| What would you change if you could?: Greater unity and understanding among people, more civil discourse, much more appreciation of our differences. | |
Mitzi Litman (Cheese)
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired special education teacher |
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| What are your favorite activities?: | times with friends and family, attending theater and musical performaces, golf, reading, first grandchild was born April, 2010 so lots of trips to Chicago now and in the future. |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | classical, pop, show tunes and of course good old rock & roll. |
| How would your friends describe you today?: I hope -- caring, fun, interesting. | |
| What would you change if you could?: Don't ask | |
James (Jim) Loeffler
Last updated 1 month ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired - Consulting |
| Comment: 1966 Graduate of Iowa State University B.S.E.E., Retired from Medtronic in 09. Have wife Pam, son Jeff & daughter Teri - 2 grandkids. Live on Lake Mallilieu in Hudson, WI. | |
| What are your favorite activities?: | 2010 Corvette, Digital photo/movie processing, sports car races |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | Holland, Belgium, Germany, Japan, England, Mexico, Caribbean Islands |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | 50's, 60's, Classical, New age |
Bonnie Loncorich (Vogt)
Last updated 1 month ago
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Secretary (retired) |
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Comment:
After high school, Sharon Herrmann and I became freshman roommates at Mankato State College. The summer of '63 I toured Western Europe with 27 others from Lutheran Student Association campuses across the US. Also visited the home of Mort Kelstrup in Denmark--they were wonderful hosts. |
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| What are your favorite activities?: | Past and present: travel, volunteering at church, genealogy, gardening, family/grandchildren. |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Switzerland. Celebrated our 25th anniversary in Hawaii. |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | Light classical, easy listening, oldies, old time |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Hopefully, caring, thoughtful, conscientious, giving. | |
| What would you change if you could?: Had I known earlier what I know now, I would have been more assertive with doctors about having scoliosis surgery at a younger age when my frame was strong enough to support the hardware. | |
Jeff London
Last updated 1 month ago
Then
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: I'm a lucky man. Two wonderful children and three grandchildren to keep the dream alive. Life just gets interestinger and interestinger. | |
| What are your favorite activities?: | sailing, tennis, reading, dinner guests, and the conversations of life |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | Mexico, Virgin Islands, Med.countries. Hope to see China, Russia, and more? |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | Classical, Bluegrass to Bono |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Always busy, energetic, interesting. | |
| What would you change if you could?: Fear based intolerance. Lack of civility and willingness to debate differences in productive ways. | |
Rick London
Last updated 1 month ago
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Now
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Vice President, Fisher Investments |
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Comment:
It's been a long strange ride. I am fascinated to learn more about the lives you have all lived and continue to live. Many remarkable experiences for so many of you. It seems like just yesterday when Bunny Fiterman and I snuck out of graduation practice to drink screwdrivers at her house. Our class is really a transition group, from post-war to baby boomers. Too early for good weed or reliable birth control. Just in time to fight in Vietnam or avoid the draft. Most important, we were there when rock 'n roll was born. And the beat goes on. |
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| What are your favorite activities?: | Golf, hiking, snowshoeing, reading police procedural mysteries, collecting watches, wine and Toikka birds. |
| What countries have you visited and/or would you like to visit?: | I just spent nine days in New Zealand and plan to go back again next Christmas. After that, maybe Italy, the Galapagos, and Costa Rica. New Zealand is incredible. |
| What kind of music do you like today?: | It's still rock 'n roll for me. |
| How would your friends describe you today?: Multi-tasker. | |
| What would you change if you could?: I would not have voted for Jimmy Carter. I would have gotten the wife thing right the first time. | |