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George Peck

After graduation I entered the US Navy for four years, then attended Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction, CO, for two quarters. I then decided to reenlist in the military, and this time it was the US Army.

In 1965 I met Kathleen Marney in Pittsburgh, PA, and, when I returned from Korea in 1966 we were married, and immediately headed for my next assignment at Fort Lewis, WA. (Tacoma, WA) The children were all born during our duty at Fort Lewis.

In 1971, I was assigned in Thailand while the family remained in Tacoma, WA. Upon my return in 1972 we were assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, MO, (near Springfield, MO) then two years later, to Fort Gordon, GA (Augusta, GA) where I retired in 1980.

We then moved back to the Northwest (Yelm, WA), where I drove a school bus, and was a bus driver trainer for 18 years.

After the children graduated and left home in the late 80's Kathleen and I started doing a lot of motorcycle touring and traveled to all but a couple Northeast states.

In 1998 my mother passed away in Denver, CO, and left us her place in Windsor Gardens...a big retirement community in Denver. We moved there and almost immediately decided we were not yet ready for that lifestyle. We then started to "snowbird" to Arizona. Each year we seemed to stay a little longer.....and now live here in Mesa, AZ fulltime (with a second place at an RV resort in Munds Park, AZ (near Flagstaff, AZ) which is in the mountains and WAY cooler in the summer. (For those of you that don't know.....Mesa can get to around 120 during the summer!!)

We really look forward to seeing everyone at the 50th Class Reunion in August!!

It is now December, 2012, and Kathleen and I have now been at Viewpoint RV & Golf Resort here in Mesa, AZ for almost 15 years. We are both in pretty good health and do quite a bit of volunteer work. Most of my volunteer work is with the tennis club, which is quite large.....usually around 400 members. I do a lot of scorekeeping for league matches, and am currently a team captain at the 2.5 level. Kathleen does a lot of work here in the park, and with the local church. We enjoy attending several of the local theater plays, and during the summer at our other place in Munds Park, AZ, Kathleen works backstage and has performed in several plays.

In the spring of 2013 Kathleen and I decided to make another "life change". Since that time we have moved to Flagstaff, AZ, and into a Senior Retirement Community called "The Peaks" which has all levels of senior living. We are currently living in an independent living unit call a bungalow, which is 1270 sq ft, with two bedrooms, two baths, kitchen & great room. The move has worked out very well for us, and we have now sold our unit in Munds Park, and in June sold our place in Mesa, AZ. We will be going on the Alaska Cruise, and look forward to seeing fellow classmates in about two weeks!!

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