Today's Featured Biography

 
Richard Huffman

Hi to all that may read this. Perhaps like everyone, I could not imagine there being too many persons interested in reading high school biographies; but then found myself reading some of my classmates’ biographies and I found out it was a great way to remember and re-connect before our big FIVE-OH reunion.
    So here in short form is my story to date:
After a very fun Summer of ’61, enjoying my new status as a graduate of EMHS, it was off to the University of Michigan to play on the Freshman football team as fodder for the upperclassmen. They didn’t welcome me in a kind way as in mid-football season I tore up my kneecap and was out of collegiate football. After one year at Michigan, I came back to the University of Minnesota and joined some of my Edina classmates living on campus at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The next three years of college went by way too fast, aided by a three-month Summer grand tour of Europe in a rented ‘63 Volkswagen bus with 4 of my buddies from the U of Minn. and the U of Mich.
    After graduation from Minnesota with a bachelor of everything degree, to my surprise, I was accepted into the University of Minnesota Law School, where, to my further surprise, there were about 4 of my ’61 Edina classmates similarly enrolled.
    At the end of my final year in law school, I married Elise Reed who was in the Edina Class of ’62 and who I had originally met when she asked me to the Sadie Hawkins dance at EMHS in the Fall of 1960. Elise and I were married until 1972.
After passing the bar exam in the Summer of ’68, I joined a small law firm located in downtown Minneapolis and concentrated my practice in Real Estate law. After four years with the law firm, I left to partner with a U of M law school classmate and form our own law firm. Now, almost 40 years later, I am still practicing law in Minneapolis with the law firm that I founded back then.
In the course of those forty years, I married my current wife, Carol, and we live in the lakes area of Minneapolis. I cannot seem to bring myself to retire. Instead, Carol and I take many weeks off in the Winter to travel and enjoy our sporting activities. I continue to enjoy sports such as golf, skiing, scuba, tennis, hiking, sailboarding, paddle tennis, hunting and fishing. We are lucky enough to have a condo on the beach in Florida and a house in Aspen, Colorado where we can go to enjoy our outdoor activities.
Looking back, my life has taken many different and wonderful turns, but one of the very good ones was when my parents moved to Edina in 1956 and I joined all of you in eighth grade at the then-new Edina Junior High School and we enjoyed two years of being the oldest class.
It will be fun this September to re-kindle old memories and re-connect with old friends.
Dick Huffman

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