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Cathi Ryan Sandquist
I really enjoyed seeing all who attended the twenty-year reunion and am looking forward to this one. Wow! Forty years. Thanks to all of you who are putting this event together. Wish I could have been there to help out.
Professional update - I went to work full-time five days after graduation for an insurance company in downtown Denver. Moved to Southern California in 1969, married in 1971 and first son was born in 1972. From 1972 to 1989 was a stay-at-home mom doing various things to keep the money coming in. When my youngest son Leif was five, went back to school. I do not have a degree. However, I have completed Certification Programs in Legal Terminology and Transcription, Legal Office Procedures, Business Accounting, and Business Computer Applications and re-entered the workforce in 1990 as a Legal Secretary/Paralegal. Worked for two law firms in Southern California in Family Law, Criminal, Bankruptcy, Probate, Personal Injury, and Labor Law. Moved to Fresno in 1994. Decided to try the corporate world again - Administrator of ADP’s Fresno office for eight years and the Assistant to the District General Manager of Air Touch Paging/Verizon Wireless for two years. Went to work for another law firm here in Fresno but, unfortunately, had to leave that position to care for my terminally ill mother. Have been at my current position as Office Manager for Ronald Bolt & Associates, Inc. and insurance adjusting firm, since December of 2005.
Personal update - Married Martin Anderson in May of 1971. We divorced in 1990. He died in 2002. However, we had three wonderful sons. Ryan, 35, wife Jen, West Covina, CA, manager with Tech Data, two boys, Matt 10, and Paul 6. Aaron 33, wife Venette, four children, Kyle 10, Kendra 8, Kael 3, and Koen 2, sales rep/installer for Direct TV, Pavo, Georgia. Leif 23, single, grad of the Center For Advanced Research and Technology attending at the same time he was in high school, does technical support for Kenwood and Funai.
Married Jerry Sandquist in 1994, have two stepdaughters, Tammy Keach 34, husband Kirk. Tammy & Kirk already married when Jerry and I met, have a tanning salon in Vancouver, WA, two children, Morgan 8, and Mason 6. Jolene Salas 29, husband Effren, two sons, Anthony 5, Diego 2. Effren is a Probation officer and Jolene works in accounting for Home Depot, Madera, CA.
Jerry is a Chief Engineer, Department of Buildings and Property Management, State of California. Approaching twenty years, we are beginning to make retirement plans. Hope to sell our home, pay cash for one somewhere outside of CA and either travel in the north in the summer and live and spend winters in the south or live and spend summers in the north and travel in the south in the winter. Finally will get to spend more time with our grandchildren who are all over the country. Considering several areas to retire. Jerry loves Colorado - its on the list of possibilities. He is from Jamestown New York.
Interests include remodeling and decorating my home, working in my yard, entertaining friends, spending time with my grandchildren, singing/performing. My newest creative outlet and passion is jewelry making. We have enjoyed shopping (me) and golf (hubby) vacations in Palm Springs, Ventura, Carmel, & Monterey, CA, Tucson, AZ, St. George, Utah, Snow Mass, CO, and Lake of the Ozarks, MO. We have two dogs, Wally and Melody, who are like our kids.
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