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Today's Featured Biography
Stephen Goranson
Hello Classmates –
This is an updated autobiography (as of July 26, 2020 since the last one in August 2015:
Since September 26, 2008, I have been retired for USEPA after a career of 39 years and 4 months. My wife Linda passed away on January 29, 2020. She and I moved to Evanston in 1973. We were to celebrate our 49th wedding anniversary on April 3, 2020 and our unofficial 50th anniversary of meeting on August 1, 2020. Our son Adam has been a media sales account manager in Chicago and Alicia (Lecy) is no longer a starving actress, playing the part of “Becky” on “The Conners” and living in Los Angeles. Linda had retired from teaching high school English after 27 years in 2001 and then began her own energy psychotherapy practice. Linda was a very special person – a beautiful and intelligent mother, friend, wife, teacher, student, doctor, healer, dreamer, philosopher, designer, and empath with a great sense of humor and pragmatism. She is missed greatly
I still spend time on hobbies and puttering, and joining the Evanston Lighthouse Rotary Club has kept me busy in community service and leadership roles. Golf continues to be a mainstay hobby (I lead a group which plays twice a week), while sports viewing, cooking, gardening, house maintenance, reading, theater, symphony, travel, and computer related work (and fun, e.g., Internet research) fill the majority of spare time. Other goals are master gardening, Spanish fluency, and helping others at home and abroad. During this pandemic, I have become a “Zoomologist” and a virtual events planner.
Over the years, Linda and I loved to travel and spent one week each month this winter in a warm climate (Mexico, Florida, California, and South Carolina). After retirement we have gone to Alaska, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia, including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Finland, Sweden, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Russia, China, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. I still want to visit Australia and New Zealand, as well as attending the Masters Tournament and playing Pebble Beach!
I still remember quite a lot about high school. Football games and marching band in the summer, basketball in the winter, running the “one-ways” in the spring and summer, stopping by the A&W or DQ, dancing at MHS or the Coliseum Ballroom in Davenport on the weekend, lots of golf in the summer, learning to play bridge with Bob Ericson and Bill Olsen. The teachers I remember the most are Dr. Louis (“Louie”) DeIulio, Fern Slusher, and Barbara Garst. I never went far in music or English although I did finally use the latter in writing many business-related tomes.
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All our best to you and your families, Steve
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