7/26/2009 SHS 45th Reunion!
A great time was had by all that attended the 45th Reunion at The Little Creek Casino in Shelton on July 18th. We missed all of you that could not attend and wanted to share with you some o
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After changing majors six times in six quarters, I joined the Army in 1966 and returned to the UW in 1969, finally graduating in 1971 with only one more change of major. I then completed law school and an LL.M. in coastal zone management, a degree I have never used, but had fun acquiring.
In 1973 I mustered the courage to ask my best friend, Penny, for a date. That date was a complete disaster and we were married 10 months later. In our 27 years of marriage Penny raised two great kids, while I looked on in awe. Bronwyn graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Theater Arts and is now living in Redmond. She is engaged to a great young man named Brian Conner. They will be moving to southern California in the spring and will be married off Newport Beach, california, on October 1st. Owen graduated from Emory University with a degree in biology and is currently preparing for the MCAT, with plans to start med school in 2008.
Penny passed away in October 2001 after battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma for 14 years. I miss her every day, but had the great good fortune to meet and marry Paige in 2003. Paige is a massage therapist and personal trainer and really helps hold my aging body together.
I worked as an attorney and administrative judge for the Federal government for 30 years and retired in January 2006. I found that the less I had to do, the less I did, so I started a new career as a realtor this January.
I have been running marathons on and off since the early 80s and completed the Goofy Challenge (a half marathon on Saturday and a marathon on Sunday) shortly after retiring. Unfortunately, I have developed some pretty severe arthritis in my knees from all that pounding, so I will be walking my next marathon. I enjoy travel, hiking, photography and reading and I am strangely obsessed with Walt Disney World.
A bit of an update - in the Fall of 2007 I left Paige and moved to Washington temporarily while we sold our home in Dallas. The divorce was final in January 2008. In April I had some chest pain and a quadruple bypass. I recovered well enough that I was able to run a half marathon in August. I bought a home in Joplin, Missouri in October and have spent about 22 months there, the rest being spent in travel. Paige also lives near Joplin and we remain close friends.
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