After graduation in 1961, I attended the University of Minnesota until 1963.  My major accomplishment was meeting Norma Bodick. In 1963 I was drafted into the US Army and spent 18 months in Germany.  Norma moved to Germany and became a governess for an Air Force Captain's family.  We were engaged in Germany and married a year after I got out of the service.  In 1967 I returned to school at Mankato State and graduated in 1969.  The job market was poor in 69, so I started a graduate program with an emphasis on urban education.  In March of 1971, I started teaching American History for the St. Paul Public School at Mechanic Arts High School.  Norma, Mickey, Nate, Anne and I purchased a home in North Minneapolis and we have resided there ever since.

In 1977 I started taking classes towards a Special Education license.  From 1977 through 2004, I was a Junior High special education teacher @ Monroe Community School.  I was also their athletic director, basketball coach and a Lead Teacher for St. Paul School's city wide special education summer school program.  Since retiring from the St. Paul Public Schools, I've completed seven years of  volunteering in the Minneapolis School System at Nellie Stone Johnson Public School on 26th and Bryant Avenue North. 

Presently, Norma and I spend summers in the city, swimming @ the YMCA  and enjoying our cabin on Leech Lake.  We also travel in the fall and winter months. I've completed the Camino de Santiago twice [http://www.americanpilgrims.com/camino/history.html].  The first Camino was my wakeup call.  500 miles wasn't just a Peter, Paul and Mary song.  There were days when I question my decision making skills. I made it, but needed a little time to recover.  Six months later I took out an old Rocky movie and played the song, "Eye of the Tiger".  I started swimming a mile a day and hiking around the city lakes.  I teamed up with an experienced hiker and two years later I started my second Camino de Santiago.  This time in better shape for the 6 week pilgrimage.  Hiking from St Jean, France south to Pamplona, Spain and then heading west across northern Spain to Finisterre on the west coast of Spain was an enlightening experience.  I highly recommend it if you're a little nuts and like to meet people from all over the world.  Finally, Norma and I make two or three visits per year to visit our daughter's family in Washington D.C. 

We thank God for our health and remain active both socially and politically on the North Side.  Looking forward to visiting with old friends at the 50th Reunion.       

How wonderful it was to be young and in high school. 

We had the opportunity to experience  insecurities, activities, great friendships and a time that opened our eyes to so many opportunities to come.



A lot has happened to each of us since then. For me, receiving my Bachelor of Science Degree in Language Arts Education from the University of Minnesota, where along the way, I was homecoming queen, pom pom girl and cheerleader was important.



Ken and I were married in 1965 and moved to Arizona and Indiana where I taught High School and airmen remedial reading during Viet Nam's service time. While Ken was at graduate school in Boston following his service committment, I served as editor of USM Today magazine, then we were off to New York, the Phillipines(where I went to graduate school at the University of the Phillipines)and Indonesia, where I had a joint venture finishing school with my friend Martha Tilaar and taught in the Malaysian language.



After nine years away, we moved back to Minnesota and I taught in a Post Secondary school, modeled and had a weekly fashion column for Skyway Newspaper, interviewing the likes of Liz Claiborne, Scavulo, Carol Channing, Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneauv, and wrote a textbook on personal development, which lasted two publishings.



In addition to working full time in my own business since 1981, to supply models for the likes of Target, General Mills, 3M etc and actors for films like Mighty Ducks, Dick Tracy, Fargo, Grumpy Old Men,etc.and the latest, the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man",I have had the priviledge of serving on a number of Boards.



Big Brothers, WAMSO, Calhoun Beach Club, U of M Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory board, Northwestern University in Evanston, as Parent's Council President, Exofficio on the U of M Foundation Board and U of M Medical Foundation Board, the Eastcliff Board(U president's residence),All University Honors Committee, founding member of the Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle in the College of Education and Human Development and lastly, as National President of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's 60,000 members.



As a Team Leader for the U of M's TCF Stadium, I was responsible for raising funds for its completion and Saving Gopher Sports fundraising when gymnastics and golf were facing elemination.



I currently serve Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary and work on their major fundraising projects.



I am thankful for the opportunities that life has provided to me and the experiences that have enriched my time since high school, as well as my family.