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Dan Olson

I spent the year after graduation at San Diego State College, followed by a FANTASTIC year at Olympic College. About thirty of us commuted to Bremerton daily in my VW bus until we moved up there so we could increase our study time.

Gail and I married in 1966, then traveled around the country for a couple years on a free government travel plan. Much of that time I was outrunning torpedoes aboard a diesel submarine.

We returned to the NW and I graduated from the UW in '73, then taught for a year. We lived around the NW until settling back in Shelton in 1979. I sold real estate in Shelton for a few years.

While helping out in a one-on-one reading program, I realized I wanted to be back in the classroom, so I sold my business and began my current life in the Shelton Schools. I taught 6th grade for 10 years at Shelton Middle School, then moved back to Evergreen Elementary where I had originally started with a lot of you guys in 1952. I've taught 4th and 5th grade there for the last 10 years. July, 2007 I retired and began my new carees as a personal travel companion/guide/consultant.

Gail retired in February, 07, and has been traveling most of the time since. We are headed to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East in August. We intend to end the year in Dubai where our daughter and her husband teach English at Sheikh Zayed University. If the energy and money hold up, we want to continue on to India and SE Asia.

Gabe lives locally, manages a paint store in Olympia and is the father of our only grandchild, 12 year old Alexis. He plays hand percussion for a reggae band, High Ceiling.

Life IS good. See you soon.

Just a quick update: We got back from our trip after only four months. We had a fantastic time, saw amazing sights, met some wonderful people. It was too cold and nasty to stay in Shelton, so we spent a couple of months in Phoenix with several members of both our families, who live full-time down there. We came back too early in the spring-who would have thought we'd have snow all the way through May?

We spent a couple of days in Mexico while we were down south and were reminded how much we like it down there, so we've arranged to spend the winter in Mazatlan this year.

See you soon.

UPDATE: We lived in Mazatlan, Mexico during the winter of 08-09, spending a couple of weeks with our brothers in Phoenix on the way down. Driving down was enjoyable. We found that we didn't really need a car, so we will take the bus down this year.

We met some really nice people while we were in Mazatlan. We are excited about seeing them again soon.

Sid Farcy visited us last winter and we are pleased to know he will be our neighbor for a while this coming winter. We're hoping more of our classmates can drop in this winter. I think our next reunion should be a mid-winter one in Mazatlan.

We've been back in Shelton since mid-May. The weather has been pretty good, so it's not too bad being here. We'll head south right after OysterFest. I hope we see you down there this winter.

See you soon.

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