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Biographies LongAaron Hunter Upon Graduation from HMHS, I attended Philadelphia Wireless Technical Institute. While a Senior in High School, I worked as a grease monkey at the Gibbsboro Super Jet gas station. After high school, while attending Phila. Wireless, I worked part time at Grants as a cashier at the tobacco stand. After graduating from the Institute, I thought I would take some time off. But my father convinced me to get another job and found one repairing electronic organs and stereo Hi Fi’s at Jacob Bros. Music Co. in Phila. By June of ’66, the draft had found me, so I joined the Navy to see the world. Luckily for me, I was attached to an air squadron, VAW/VAQ 33 based at Quonset Point, RI. repairing the electrical systems of AD1 Skyraiders. Most of the time found me on dry land but I did do a cruise to Vietnam on the CVS/A 11 Intrepid from June ’68 through Jan ’69. The carrier is now a museum in New York City. Promoted to AE2 while on the carrier. January 1970 found me back home and searching for a job again. Found one with Western Electric in Philadelphia installing telephone switching equipment in the various central telephone offices. A layoff 4 ½ years later found me job searching again, but this coincided with my working on the addition to a family summer house on the Rancocas Creek in Ewansville. By September of 1974, I got the heater installed and working and we moved into our new home. Oh, did I mention I got married? June of ’72 I took the plunge and married Janet Frankland from Runnemede, a graduate of Triton HS and Glassboro State Teacher’s College. Dec ’74 I found a job with Mettler Instrument Corp. in Hightstown, NJ. Repaired scales and various electronic laboratory instruments sold by the company, later becoming the supervisor in the department. In March of ’77, my first child, David was born. In May, my first and favorite car, a ’48 Dodge was heavily damaged in an accident. I keep thinking that someday I will restore this car and drive it again. January ’79 found my second child, Becky being born. |
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After 18 years with Mettler, the handwriting was on the wall since Mettler in Switzerland bought Toledo in Ohio and that would mean the eventual closing of the Hightstown office. I took the Golden Parachute and found a job at Sterling Winthrop in Collegeville, PA repairing and calibrating laboratory equipment. After 3 years, the drive became too much and I found a job outside Princeton, NJ at Liposome. But after 1 ½ years there doing the same kind of work, a wonder drug they were touting was found to be worthless and they laid-off ½ of their work force, including me. By now I’m 52 and between not wanting to start over again from the bottom and traveling a distance again, I took a job driving a school bus with Mt. Laurel BOE. So here I am, 10 years later, still driving that school bus, well,
not quite the same one and getting ready to attend a reunion. Still
married, still have what’s left of that ’48 Dodge plus a few
hobbies. I have a ’31 Ford Model A and ’65 Galaxie convertible
for parades and driving fun, a couple of farm stationary engines that
I display at the Burlington County Farm Fair and a collection of old
radios and windup phonographs. So between all the kids I drive around
and my hobbies, I keep pretty busy. Especially since my wife decided
she wants a powder room and closets built into the utility room. Rest
never comes to the weary. Return to top I loved my four years at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA and after graduation came back to North Jersey to teach High School Choral music. After 2 years of teaching at 2 different high schools, in 1969, I moved to Palo Alto, California and eventually to Long Beach to pursue a professional singing career. Looking back I wonder how I had the guts to pick up and move 3000 miles away from my family. A very supportive mother helps… I studied voice privately and made the rounds of auditions
and discovered it was just not my thing. So I started working on my
Masters degree at Cal State Long Beach and regret that after finishing
all the course work and writing 2/3 of my thesis… I never finished.
I was working for the post office delivering mail while going to school
and met my husband Keith, who finally asked me out after delivering
his mail for 9 months. We moved in together and started a business making
redwood coffee tables and clocks. So somehow my degree got ignored….
We married in July, 1974. Keith had a daughter, Buffy, who lived with
us from the time she was 4. Life was great…traveling up the coast
of California to pick out our wood slabs all along the coast…then
traveling around the country with art shows selling our finished products.
Hippies, probably… but nothing radical…. When I got pregnant with my first child in 1977, we settled in Houston, TX to go into business with Keith's sister. When that didn't work out…Keith, being the free spirit that he was… ended up working as a longshoreman at the Port of Houston, which he still does today - driving a truck. It provided him the ability to work when he wanted to and make a good living. I was lucky to be able to stay at home for 9 years and enjoy being a full time mother. I had two daughters Jennette and Emily - 4 ½ years apart. Both were born at home with midwives, breastfed until they decided to stop and slept with us in the family bed. I became a La Leche League leader which allowed me to work with other women while keeping my girls close and many of the friendships I made are still strong today. When I did return to the work force in 1987, I didn't want to teach as my commitment and energy was with my family. So I started working through temporary agencies and discovered computers. I took a one-semester computer course at a community college and loved it. I guess I was meant to be a teacher though… so within a year or two… I was teaching computer for a private company part-time which allowed me to be available for my girls and active as a volunteer at their schools while they were growing up. In 1989, I attended a Community Building Workshop in Knoxville, TN, based on the Scott Peck model from his book " A Different Drum". It changed my life. I formed an on-going community group with some of the La Leche League Moms I had worked with and we are still meeting monthly after 14 years. I was actively involved in the community building movement for about 4-5 years helping to run workshops in the Houston area. It helped me to grow as a person and confront many of my own demons and brought me to a place today of feeling very grounded. In 1998, I decided to take a full-time job as the Office Manager of Christ Church Cathedral, an Episcopal church in downtown Houston. With Jennette already in college and Emily 2 years away… I was ready for more of a commitment. I love my job - it feels like everything I experienced in my life has prepared me to be doing this job. I am in charge of 27 computers on a network, teaching the staff how to use them more efficiently, handling a staff of 6 people and incorporating all of the communication skills I have been learning through community building in a very real way. My first priority is still my family - Buffy is teaching high school English in Tampa, Florida, after attending college for over 12 years - she did it the hard way but she made it - graduated from the University of South Florida in 2001. Jennette also graduated in 2001 from West Texas A&M University with a major in Mass Communications. She has been working for Music World Entertainment here in Houston as the Fan Club Manager of Destiny's Child and media producer for their other groups as well. She toured Europe last summer for 7 weeks with DC. Emily is a sophomore at Texas Woman's University majoring in Music Therapy and very active in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She worked at their ranch last summer outside Colorado Springs and has been accepted into the San Antonio Urban Project for 6 weeks this summer working with an inner city church. We are all members at St. Paul's United Methodist church here in Houston. In June, 2001, Tropical Storm Allison came to Houston and hit our side of town pretty hard. After spending 5 ½ hours stranded on the freeway and being rescued by Keith in his truck, we woke up the next day to a foot of water in our house. It was a rough year and half of rebuilding while living on our back porch with Keith doing most of the work himself along with his cousin Craig who came and lived with us. But now we have a beautiful home, built for our empty nest, and we can look back and count our blessings as we had flood insurance and many wonderful friends who helped us through. Keith and I have been married for 29 years and with some rough spots ironed out, now we are growing mellow together… we enjoy music (Houston symphony season tickets as well as Moody Blues, Keb Mo and others) traveling, reading books out loud together and our wonderful water bed! I can't believe I can retire in less than 8 years - Keith will probably work forever at the docks… Life has been good to me. My mother died 4 years ago at 88. She came to Houston often and was a wonderful influence on my girls and active in my life always. My sister Diana is still married to Foster Ergood and they live in Cherry Hill and have 3 children all married with 7 grandchildren. We are very close and now the four of us enjoy vacations together - last May - Bermuda - this May- Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I am really excited about coming to the reunion and connecting with
old friends. I will read all the bios that are posted and look forward
to sharing life experiences with as many as possible. Please email me
at moodyjudy@houston.rr.com. (moody is for my passion for the Moody
Blues… not a moody personality). See you in November! Return
to top A brief history since high school: Dropped out of college 1963-1967 (Temple University) Best regards At age 21, three days after graduation from college, I flew off to a tiny Micronesian island in the Western Pacific for Peace Corps training. Ended up in Saipan in the Marianas, and taught English as a second language in the local high school until it and everything else were blown into the ocean by a demon typhoon. After that we taught in tents. I became fluent in Chamorro, a language of dubious value anywhere else on the planet, not least because the most common "word" for yes was to lift and lower the eyebrows quickly. At the end of two years, I took my leave, but spent months getting home, stopping in a dozen countries. A portent of things to come. Once back in New Jersey, I was warmly welcomed, but eternally cold. I thought grad school at UCLA sounded good, and so took my still-thin tropical blood to Los Angeles. Notable early job: middle-of-the-night wire copy reader on a heavy metal rock radio station where my hippie news director ordered me to "lead with the Rolling Stones concert schedule, no matter what else is happening in the world." Like the Vietnam War and Watergate. Fortunately, television beckoned and I was eventually hired as a reporter for KNBC-TV and later NBC Network News. I spent the next ten years on the road, working out of bureaus in Burbank, Houston, New York and London. While abroad, I covered many sad stories in Northern Ireland and spent months in Egypt on Sadat's peace initiatives - until his assassination. Most memorable assignment: the 2am arrival on a tarmac in Algiers of the American hostages held for 444 days in Iran - and sprung just after Reagan was sworn in as president. Second most memorable: Prince Charles and Lady Diana's star-crossed if ill-fated union. Eric Burns, a Today Show correspondent in NY, also covered the wedding. Two years later, we witnessed another - our own. That was in 1983. By '84 we had Tobias Wildman Burns, now a sophomore at Harvard. And in '89, we adopted from Korea one Cailin Seon Jeong Burns, a soon-to-be 9th grader with a magazine-cover face. In 1993 we all moved to Washington because I was invited to work as a press secretary for the Office of the US Trade Representative, part of the Executive Office of the President. Fabulous opportunity organizing press conferences in the Clinton White House, but best of all was that we had returned to Connecticut before the Monica scandal broke. 20 years of marriage and eight moves in five states later, we have ended up in one of America's best small towns, Westport, CT. Home to Paul Newman and Martha Stewart and 25,000 other opinionated people, not all of them indicted. Eric and I are still in TV news. He as the host of "News Watch," a media criticism panel show on the Fox News Channel (6:30pm EST, Saturdays.) And I as a writer and presenter of on-air editorials for News 12 Connecticut, owned by Cablevision (www.cablevision.com/editorials) "Local as local news gets" is the slogan, which means the most exotic locale I cover is Bridgeport, but the tradeoff has enabled me to stay away from airplanes and close to PTA meetings. Despite a very lucky career, launched just as women were being encouraged to invade television news, it's the kids that have stopped me cold. I married late and had them late, and am now wildly envious of anyone my age with grandchildren. But never mind, at least we had children. They changed me instantly and forever into a hopeless, hovering, heart-of-mush soccer mom from which they will eventually recover only through extensive therapy. My memories of high school remain bright. On the first day of 9th grade, I spotted Lanny Rossell's gorgeous eyes while Mr. Smith droned on about combustion engines. By the time we put together our last issue of four years' worth of Haddon Highers, Kenny Artis had made me laugh 1,336 times. Equaling the number of band practices I endured, though on those special marches down Kings Highway and through town, worth every hour of work. And good pals Miriam Hewes, Betsey Evans, Gwen Duffy, Nancy Fisher, Julie Fox, as well as Tom Hughes, John Gaines, Bob Booth, Pete Denton, Eddie Seeger, Skip Davidson, Sam Paules, Bill Budd, Erwin Esch and on and on, still spring to life in my mind and ensure smiles. I don't know about anyone else, but 40 years later I still feel 18.
They say that's because the fundamentals stay the same. I guess that's
true because I still hate my hair. Nonetheless, I plan to wear it to
the reunion, which I am so looking forward to that I wish it were tomorrow.
Return to top Here is my life journey in a nutshell: After graduating from Russell Sage College in 1967 with a BSN, I have had several careers. In nursing I worked as a public health nurse and a pediatric nurse practitioner (I was considered one of the pioneers because it was such a new concept). During this time I met the man of my life, Jon Saphier, who was teaching
in Southwest Harbor, ME when I was living and working in Boston. After
a whirlwind long-distance romance of 10 months ,we married and have
remained happily married for the last 32 years. Early in our marriage
Jon received his doctorate in We have four children: Genevieve, 30, who married Brian Belfer last year. She is a nurse practitioner in women's health. She and her husband live in Northboro, MA. For the last 18 months Graeme, 26, lived and worked in Santiago, Chile. He is presently attending the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT working toward a masters of arts in teaching ESL and Spanish. Gregory, also 26 (yes, they are twins), lives in Arlington, VA and works on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide for Representative Nick Rahall of W VA (Democrat) learning much about government and himself. Twenty-one years ago when we moved to Carlisle, MA, we had our youngest child, Andrew. After one year of college, Andrew is taking a sabbatical and pursuing his interests in music (as a drummer). When we moved to Carlisle we joined the First Religious Society. It
was my first encounter with Unitarian Universalism, and I knew I had
found my spiritual home. Ten years later I returned to school to explore
my call to ministry. I attended Andover Newton Theological School graduating
in May 2000. I was ordained on For the past three years I have pieced together a tri-fold ministry.
I serve as affiliate minister at historic United
First Parish Church, Quincy, MA (where John Adams and John Quincy
Adams and their respective wives are buried). I am the chaplain for
Emerson Hospital Hospice, and I am co-chair of the Board of Directors
of Partakers, Inc.,
a non-profit interfaith organization that works towards restorative
justice in our prisons. In this work I visit prisoners teaching an emotional/spiritual
awareness course. I also recruit congregations Life is full, rich, and meaningful. I love ministry, I love learning,
I love being with people of all walks of life. See you in November!
My husband, Stewart Jones, and I live in the small town (pop. 1054) of Joseph, Oregon, an arts community surrounded by ranches in the extreme northeastern corner of the state. The town occupies the southern end of the Wallowa Valley, and nestles at the foot of Chief Joseph Mountain on the northern edge of the 361,446 square acre Eagle Cap Wilderness. It sits at 4150 feet above sea level; the mountains rise to nearly 10,000 feet. It is a magical place of alpine lakes, rivers, bald eagles, bears, and cougar. Hell's Canyon, the deepest gorge in the world at 7000 feet, is just a short drive east. If you go to www.indigogalleryart.com, you'll know what we do professionally. But here are a few personal notes: Stewart and I married in 1987, blending our two families from previous
marriages (just one each, thank you). The photo of our family on the
Reunion Web Site photo page was taken at that time. Louisa, Stewart's
older daughter, was 11 years old. She is now a very buff professional
firefighter in Portland, Oregon. Then she was a Scottish Highland dancer
and a bagpiper. Hillary, Stewart's younger daughter was eight, and enthusiastic
about life. She is now a teacher of English and Spanish, but has started
graduate school. Dustan is my stepson from my first marriage, but we
officially adopted him just after this photo was taken. He is an engineer
and a former During the 1980's, I had six books published by Children's Press, four fiction and two non-fiction. They are used mostly in reading programs for 1st through 3rd level. Maybe your grandchildren have read them: "Two Many Balloons", "Over-Under", "Out the Door", and "I Love Cats" are the fiction titles. After many years hiatus building our art gallery business, I'm back to writing again, and meeting regularly with a local writers group. Boy, does it feel good! The years after high school were a wild ride, best left unexpressed
in this bio, but eventually I found my life's mate, a rewarding career,
a special place to lay down roots, and the utter joy of grandparenting.
Hey,that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Life is good. See you in
November. Return to top I graduated from Lafayette College in 1967 with a BA in Economics and from University of Pennsylvania with an MBA in 1969. After working in Philadelphia for a year, I decided to try my hand at teaching. I began at Gloucester County College in Deptford NJ in September 1970 and have been there ever since. Although I was initially hired to teach management courses, since 1974 I have been teaching mostly Principles of Economics. In 1972 the Director of Counseling put a note in my mailbox with a phone number and the name "Judy Bott" on it with the message, "Call her". I did, and Judy and I were married in 1974. We bought our first - and only- house in Pitman, primarily because we couldn't - and still can't - afford a house in Haddonfield. Judy received both her BSN (1975) and MSN (1995) from Penn. She is a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in wound care. We have 3 children: Carrie, Lafayette '00, currently working toward her masters in Geology at UC- Santa Cruz; Steve, Lafayette '01 who earned his masters in Mechanical Engineering from UC- Berkeley in 2003 and is employed by Raytheon in El Segundo CA; and Suzi, Lafayette '05 who is majoring in English and is studying this semester at St. Andrews University in Scotland. I've done the usual - soccer coach, Little League coach, band parents-
that's all behind me. I've been a member of the Pitman Planning Board
for 23 years (chair for 18) and enjoy parading around the Delaware Valley
as a member of the Original Hobo Band. I also play in Tom Patton's Haddonfield
Community Philharmonic and Marching Band Society. Many of you will remember
Tom as our band director in the 3rd floor band room of the old Brown
Building when we were in junior high. We have a summer home in Laporte
(Sullivan County) PA and try to spend as much time there as we can.
I spend a lot of time taking care of my rather extensive vegetable garden
and making about 15 gallons of wine a year. Return
to top Born in Quincy, Massachusetts Paul resided on both the East and West coasts while attending school. After graduating from Haddonfield Memorial High School, Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1963, Paul spent a tour in Vietnam while serving four years in the military. After being discharged from the service he attended the University of Massachusetts, where he refined his design skills. In the Mid 70's working under the studio name of Beihler/Friend Studio Paul was creating not only commissioned architectural stained glass installations but one of a kind sculptural glass as well. In 1976 he began working under the studio name of Paul Friend Architectural Glass and Design. His studio to date is responsible for well over 2,000 stained glass installations and works commissioned for prestigious clients worldwide. Some noted stained glass installations include "The Source," M'kor Shalom Synagogue, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This installation includes over 22 windows in the main sanctuary. St. David the King Church in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, "Through the Light", a 17 by 10' foot commission, "Christ is Risen, Create Us Anew" a 17' by 10' foot commission and "With His Words" a 200sq ft. skylight. Temple Emmanuel, Cherry Hill, New Jersey a 7' high stained glass and metal sculpture commemorating its fiftieth anniversary. The studio is also responsible for creating the first new stained glass lancet windows in over three decades in the Grace Church, Haddonfield, New Jersey. "A Woman's Worth", a memorial at the Jewish Geriatric Center in Cherry Hill and "Tribute to a Butterfly" the first outdoor sculpture at the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. In 1999 Paul was awarded a national commission from the New Mexico Council on the Arts to create two installations in public buildings at the New Mexico Military Institute. Paul was chosen for his ability to transform open areas into spaces of immense artistic impact. Most recently Paul has completed the stained glass township
logo for Mt. Laurel, New Jersey that was installed in the new Mt. Laurel
Community Center. Return to top Susan Shockley Sharp
s.sharp1@comcast.net After spending 4 years to get my degree from Trenton State I went on to teach for a total of 5 years. Not a great return on investment. But like most of life experiences the true benefits can't be gleaned from casual observation. Two of those years I taught in Germany where I met my first husband who was in the Army and getting ready to ship to Vietnam. Timing could have been better. After Vietnam we were very happy to live in Hopkinton, MA for 7 years. I loved the history of the area and if allowed would have spent every last cent on antiques. It was there that we decided to adopt our first son Ryan (He was born in Colombia.) and within a year gave birth to our second son Stephen. Ryan is now married and has two boys. Stephen just started his second year of medical school. Our move to Colorado came when Stephen was two weeks old (that timing issue again). When the boys were still pretty small we moved to Burke, VA and then on to Texas - home to me since 1982. When I realized that I have lived longer in Plano, TX than I did in Haddonfield, I gave in and started saying things like ya'll and fix'in to. Life's difficult times have shaped and refined me. Losing my brother when he was 18 - the death of my dad when Stephen was 4 months old - and my mother's passing in 1990. I was stunned and shaken to the core to face divorce when I was 45. I mention these times because I am grateful to God that he used them to grow me in wisdom and strength. My husband Abe and I were married in Dec. 1990. Yes,
I do believe in second chances and new beginnings! Between us we have
4 children and 4 grandchildren. Abe built a sailboat (took a very
long time) and named her after my mother, Betty Mae. Believe me when
I say I am a very fortunate woman. Karen Schroeder Slimm karen.e.slimm@lmco.com After high school, I graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia with a B.F.A degree. New York City was the home base for Textile Designers
and that being my major, is where I became employed. Sadly, the marriage did not last, but the wisdom from such did. Being now a single mom, one learns priorites. I settled for a stable job with benefits to raise my son, Dennis Bergeron. I am now a computer aided designer for Lockheed Martin
and my son having received a full Scholarship from Dartmouth and graduating
with an engineering degree, has decided to be a math/science He is blissfully happy and married to his childhood sweetheart. I have discovered faith in God thru my many incredible
situations, and how He always is there. My son, has learned the same.
So even though, my life did not turn out in a glamourous fashion,
I am at Some day, when I retire to my beloved Maine, I hope to create nature's beauty on a full time basis. If that is God's plan in my life. Return
to top Lynne (Weaver) Hammette Since graduating from the University of Maryland in 1967, I have lived in the Washington, DC area, now residing in University Park, Maryland with my husband John. I have been an interior designer at the Library of Congress for thirty years, and currently supervise a design staff of 10. I've had the opportunity to work on the renovation of the original library building, which was built in 1897. It was one of the sights we visited on our senior class trip. My happiest achievements at the Library are having one of the restored spaces I worked on appear in Architectural Digest, and restoring the Poet Laureate's Office, where I enjoyed meeting the most recent Poet Laureate, Billy Collins. My husband is a real estate agent, and we have a 24
year old daughter, Laurie, a recent graduate of the University of
Tennessee. She is currently attending graduate school at Towson University
for a masters of arts in teaching. As an undergraduate French major,
Laurie spent her last semester in Angers, France, and John and I took
the opportunity to visit her and travel some throughout the country.
A few years earlier we went to England, where we stayed with my "pen
pal" , who I have been corresponding with since I was 11. All
three of us have a love of travel, and I am looking forward to retiring
before too much longer, and having plenty of time to plan more trips.
My family still lives in Haddonfield, so we visit several times throughout
the year, and still spend a week in Ocean City, NJ each summer. Return
to top Peggy Friel Chilton bchilton@nc.rr.com After graduation from HMHS, I attended Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer, NC and graduated in 1967 with a BS degree in Elementary Education. I did post graduate work at UNC Greensboro and received Gifted Education certification. Later I completed certification for mentoring. Most of my teaching experience has been in the area of elementary gifted education. I have taught in Winston-Salem, NC , Brewton, AL and Raleigh, NC. I retired in 2000 after teaching for thirty years. I still do substituting and have gained even more admiration for teachers who are being held accountable for their students' academic growth. Teaching continues to be more demanding. I married Ben Chilton in 1966. He has taught school, worked in the paper industry, and is presently Executive Director of the NC Paper and Forestry Foundations at NC State University in Raleigh, NC. Even though he graduated from UNC at Chapel Hill, we both enjoy sporting and art events at NC State. Our daughter, Jennifer, lives in Alabama. She and her husband, Greg, have two boys ages five and two. I love being Grandma. For over twenty years I have belonged to a philanthropic sorority, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, that supports St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN. My local chapter with only eight members raised over $20,000 last year by sponsoring a Math-A-Thon at two elementary schools. I still love to sew. It is something I have enjoyed
doing since joining the 4-H Club when I was eight years old. Gone
are the days of endless hand sewing. That has been taken over by computerized
machines that can even do embroidery. My husband and I like to travel.
We particularly enjoy our nation's National Parks even though we have
been to Europe several times. We have an extensive collection of Blue
and White salt glazed pottery and love to visit antique shops wherever
we travel. Return to top Trisha Gates Winder After graduating from U of Delaware with a nursing degree, I lived and worked in Philadelphia. In 1970 I left the East Coast and headed to San Francisco where I have lived ever since. I was married when I moved west, and my daughter, Jerre, was eighteen months old. I came to California during the Flower Child era and lived the hippie life for a little while. Jerre’s dad and I went our separate ways when she was two and I settled down to raise her and to develop a career in nursing. Most of my work over the years was in public health, where we struggled with the onset of the AIDS epidemic and learned how to create programs on very small budgets. It was both interesting and challenging. I wrote and had published several articles about those experiences. During that time I also got my master’s degree from San Francisco State. Most recently, I have been working on a cardiac research project at UC San Francisco. My daughter (now almost 34) is a high school science and math teacher in California --- not married yet, but is in a serious relationship. She remains, to my delight, an organic vegetarian, someone who loves to hug trees and a wonderful friend. Over the years, I also did some singing and had the opportunity to work with Carlos Santana, Linda Ronstadt and MC Hammer(!). It was back up (very far back) singing. I belonged to a gospel choir that had a lot of professional connections. Performers would ask our director to send over some of the singers to help them out on recordings and performances. It was really great fun-- my fifteen seconds of fame. My Mom died in 1999, but my Dad is in great health and still lives
on Woodland Avenue in Haddonfield. He is going to be 89 soon. He still
plays nine holes of golf once a week and is a regular at Tavistock.
He’s a computer enthusiast who writes a scholarly newsletter every
quarter as well as a weekly Most exciting of all……. almost four years ago, after not seeing each other for more than thirty-six years, John Clevenger and I had dinner together one night. We had such a good time we have been together ever since. I look forward to seeing all of you in November. Return
to top Kathy Welsh Baxter For those of you who did not attend our last Reunion in 2008 and got caught up with me there, a great deal has happened since I submitted a biography for our 40th. In January 2007, my mother passed away after living with my husband and me for over 30 years. In April of the same year I lost the love of my life, my husband Steve. We had been together since 1962. He soldiered through 18 month of cancer treatments with a magnificent attitude and continued to run five companies until just a couple of weeks before he died. I miss him every day and his passing has made me realize how blessed I was to have him in my life for over 45 years. I am semi-retired, not through choice, but due to the fact my company services the housing industry which hopefully will pick up in 2010. Meanwhile, I am keeping busy with volunteer work, visiting my nieces in GA and cousin in CA and friends who live in other states. I am looking forward to more trips to Italy and France; hopefully in the next year or so. Hope to see many classmates at the 50th, wherever it
may be. Return to top Judy Wills Herr jbdherr@earthlink.net After graduating from HMHS I attended Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, PA. I graduated with a BA in Elementary Education. I graduated in 1967 and was married that same August to Ken Herr. I taught 1st grade in a very small school in Washington County, PA for 1 1/2 years. During the Viet Nam era Ken was in the Navy for four and a half years. During that time we were stationed in Illinois, Virginia, and Keflavik, Iceland. I taught school in all three places. After the military Ken and I moved to Columbus, Ohio where he worked for Owens-Illinois. It was there my first son, Brian, was born in 1974. I quit teaching to raise my children. We moved to Sylvania, Ohio, to be near the headquarters of Owens-Illinois. My second son, David, was born in Sylvania in 1978. In 1986 I was divorced and began the second stage of my teaching career. I returned to the University of Toledo where I earned my Master's Degree in the teaching of reading. I had no desire to be an administrator and still have no desire for that job as I truly enjoy my work in the classroom. I have now taught second grade for 17 years at an elementary school in Sylvania. I earned 30 hours above my Masters in the teaching of science so I could work my way across the horizontal portion of the salary scale. I raised my sons in Sylvania and they graduated in 92 and 96. Brian went to college and medical school and is now a third year resident in the field of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at Loyola Hospital in Chicago. He is now 29 and is married to Lindsay. David went to college and graduated with a degree in Electronic Media. He is not married but lives with his girlfriend in Los Angeles where he works for a television show called Like Family, which is on the WB channel. Right now he is a production assistant aspiring to move up into post-production doing editing. I also have one sort of adopted son named Kevin. He is not officially adopted but he is one of my sons. He is a lawyer and is married to Sarah. They live near me in Sylvania. I still have a number of years to teach before I can
retire since I started over when I was 42. Fortunately I love my job
and all my second graders bring joy every day. I travel in the summer
and try to visit the boys whenever we can get together. I look forward
to some grandkids in the future! Return to
top Fran Liberi Frank.Liberi@cigna.com After HMHS I attended Muhlenberg College where I graduated with a B.A. degree in Psychology. The best thing about college is that is where I met my wife, Susan Cartwright, and we have been happily married for 35 years. Upon graduating from college, I joined the army, and like so many others in our class, spent a one-year tour in Vietnam. Following Vietnam, however, I was lucky enough to be assigned a tour in Hawaii where my daughter Jennifer was born. Oddly enough, it was also a great place to be a car nut! Susan and I returned to this area after the service, and I started working for Temple University in Human Resources and also started my Masters program which I completed at Rowan with an M.A. in Counseling. I eventually joined INA, which later merged with Connecticut General to become CIGNA, and have been here for 29 years, currently as Director of Human Resources, responsible for Career Counseling and Development. It is great having the opportunity to work in a field I really enjoy. Saving the best for last, Susan and I have two great
children, a wonderful son-in-law and 2 very special grandsons. Jennifer
graduated from Villanova, joined Tastykake and married her high school
boyfriend, John Cipolla. John graduated from Drexel and is a chemist
by profession, but a musician, composer, I am looking forward to enjoying more time with my family,
especially my two grandsons, Mikey (2) and Joey (6 months), and completing
the rebuild project on my 1932 Ford roadster. Return
to top Tim Glenn t.k.glenn@att.net Upon graduation from Waynesburg College in 1967 [BS Bus. Admin], I took off on a great [?] adventure. Courtesy of Uncle Sam & the USAF I participated in an all-expense paid tour of some of the world's garden spots. Included were San Antonio & Wichita Falls, Tx., Mt. Home, Idaho and beautiful NKP, Thailand. Following completion of my SEA tour, as an Aerial Port Det. Commander, I bade farewell to the USAF in 1971 with the rank of Capt. My wife Sandy, [Collingswood HS [65], son Greg, who joined us in Idaho and I elected to return to the flatlands of South Jersey despite all the worldly wonders we had seen in our travels. I elected to utilize my skills [?] learned in the USAF, and for a period of time was manager of customer service for Air Express at Phila. Intl. Airport. When paychecks started bouncing I determined it might be a good time to change career fields. For the past 29 years I have been employed by the Swagelok Companies in the fluid control industry. [Interesting, but not exciting!] We have lived in Delran, NJ for the past 26 years. I continue the ongoing, but losing, battle of the bulge by participating in masters swimming. Sandy and I, when not enjoying the company of our grandson
Michael, spend a lot of time at our condo in Ocean City, Md. We are
open to suggestions as to where to spend our 35th anniversary next
year. Darryl Robbins drobbins@insight.rr.com Muddled my way through high school with no specific
life goals or direction and certainly no interest in going into medicine
(did not take calculus or physics in high school). My parents expected
me to do B average Muddled my way through Dickinson College. Sometime during
my sophomore year in college I got the idea that medicine would be
both fascinating and challenging, and as I really enjoyed working
with children, I got some direction. Began to wake up during med school
at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Have subsequently practiced pediatrics in a group of
seven pediatricians in Columbus, Ohio, for the past 28 years as well
as performing many clinical, teaching, organizational, and leadership
roles at a second My second (not secondary) great passion is my family.
Married to Harriette Eisenberg for the past 32 years. She does software
development and took a retirement package in 2001 from one of everybody's
favorite We have three wonderful daughters. The oldest is Jennie
who is presently a pediatric resident at Children's Memorial Hospital
in Chicago (after having graduated from Washington University [St.
Louis] and Ohio State Clearly, my third (and certainly tertiary) great passion
is paying tuitions! Return to top Roland Holloway canuknj@snip.net Those who remember me know that I was not much for studying or worried about getting a good education. School was a punishment for me and I thought partying was the way to get by. Three days after graduating I was in Coast Guard boot camp. I served my four years on three different ships from Charleston, S.C., New Orleans, LA and finally in Cape May, NJ. The military was probably the best thing that happened to me. I grew up very quickly and learned more that I ever had in school. During my last year in Cape May I met my wife, a French Canadian from Montreal who was on vacation in Wildwood. We were married in 1968 and recently celebrated our 35th anniversary. We bought a house in Haddon Heights in 1969 where we still live. We raised three boys and managed to send all three to college. Marc, 33 is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, Dan, 30 graduated from West Virginia and Gary, 28 graduated from the University of Delaware. Marc has been married 7 years and we are expecting our first grandchild this October. I have operated my own commercial laundry repair business since 1975. I am now trying to scale back and hope to retire at age 62. I have been a volunteer fireman in Haddon Heights for 30 years and this has been a large part of my life. My wife Claire and I travel a lot and enjoy spending time with our family. Jeanne Baggs soul121@hotmail.com Some of you have no doubt visited my hometown - the enchanting red rock country of Sedona, AZ. My husband, Bob Backman, and I had vacationed here since the late '80s, and moved here permanently upon retirement in 1999. We love the four season climate and very casual outdoor lifestyle (mostly tennis for him and day hikes for me), being surrounded by many wonderful artists and their work, going to bed each night to the howls of coyotes and engulfed by more stars than we ever knew existed, and awakening each morning to awesome vistas and clean air. In addition to my daily hikes, I enjoy high desert gardening (being especially proud of my "good-as-Jersey " tomatoes), traveling with friends, and volunteer literacy work. We also enjoy our guests, ranging from ages 2-82, and from Japan and Ireland as well as from all over the USA so far this year. Bob and I so love the small town aspect of our life that we left West Sedona (too much traffic LOL!) for the more laidback lifestyle in the Village of Oak Creek section. There might be drawbacks to life here for some of you: the nearest Home Depot and Barnes&Noble are in Flagstaff about fifty miles away, and the closest real malls are in PHX area over one hundred miles away, but that is of no import to us. Well, we did miss having Home Depot close by while building one home and renovating another, but the trip to Flagstaff up the interstate is a fast and easy one. Inveterate introvert that I am, I thrive on my alone time on the trails; however, I do love people one on one, so that's how I'm envisioning this huge reunion bash. Was there life prior to Sedona? Difficult to recall, but - of course! I enjoyed a long and satisfying career in education, first briefly as a Spanish teacher, and then as a Reading Specialist. Although most of my years as a Reading Specialist were spent on the secondary level teaching SAT prep, ESL and Basic Skills, my final eight years on the elementary level doing one on one early literacy intervention as well as teacher and parent training were the most rewarding. In fact, if I were starting all over again, I'd elect to spend my entire career as a first grade classroom teacher. I'm eager to see all of you and hear more of your life
experiences and the wisdom you have gained from them - and then I'll
be thrilled beyond words to round that curve, see those red rocks,
and be at home once again 'til the next adventure. Return
to top Julie Fox Eastwick ceast@alumni.princeton.edu I am so looking forward to our reunion, but I know I will never get a bio to you in time ( I really don't like doing them. so I have procrastinated all this time.) Maybe you could just post this article from last week's Baltimore Sun with the following:
That's really all the important stuff anyway, but the article is what I have been doing for the last 28 years. Third-graders at Bryn Mawr don't just learn French. Les petites filles sit quietly in their homeroom at the Bryn Mawr School, listening to the schedule of departing flights broadcast en francais. There is an afternoon flight to London, a flight to Rome, and someone paging a man separated from his party. Not until the girls hear the words "Air France" and the numerals "2003" do they rise from their desks and line up at the door with passports and tickets - and a few carry-ons made of cardboard and paper - in hand. Les filles, in pale green jumpers and white shirts, ponytails and sneakers,will depart momentarily for Paris. They will cross not the library of their school but a carpeted concourse in an airport. They will enter not their French classroom on the other side but a plane that zooms over the Atlantic faster than any Concorde ever dared. They are third-graders: Old enough to know better, yet young enough to pretend you can be in Europe in half an hour. "Bonjour, les mesdemoiselles!" Outside the classroom, their French teachers, Mesdames Julie Eastwick and Betsy Tomlinson, are waiting. They've dressed this day as flight attendants.. They wear navy pant suits, white blouses, and scarves of red-white-and-blue silk. On their lapels they have pinned pilot wings, the kind airplanes once dispensed to children. It is a small detail, but just one of many that make the flight experience authentique. The young travelers are directed, en francais, to their
seats in one of four rows of desks facing the blackboard and arranged
as they are in an airplane, on opposite sides of a center aisle. In
front of them, in the cockpit, sit two pilotes, in dark-colored suits
and striped ties. Dr. Don Brotman, a dentist who volunteered last
year and had so much fun he has come back, will turn in a few minutes
and answer their questions. At the moment, his back is to them and
he is busily fidgeting with knobs on a control panel attached to le The girls have been preparing for this day for weeks. They have designed their boarding passes and colored them with crayons; they have filled in their passports with French words describing the couleur of their hair and eyes; they have cut from magazines photographs of clothes and toiletries, then glued them to the homemade suitcases now "stowed" on the wall behind them. Many have awaited this autumn ritual even longer, having heard their mothers talk of virtual trips to Paris in years past. Madame Tomlinson has flown her entire three decades of teaching French at Bryn Mawr, and Madame Eastwick has joined her as a colleague in the classroom - and on the flight crew - for 28 of those 30 years. They know the madame who taught before them also flew, although the trips were not as elaborate a production as they are now. Over the years, they've added so many realistic touches
- a genuine life vest, a seat belt and buckle, an air mask, a script
for the pilots - they have drawn the attention of other teachers.
Eastwick and Tomlinson have given presentations about their flight
to educators across the nation. Twice, they They did not always serve piroulines alongside apple juice for the in-flight snack (sometimes it was graham crackers, sometimes chocolate chip cookies), and they did not always show the weather forecast on the television in the corner. Like the miniature Eiffel Tower hidden outside the window now - once a poster, later cardboard, now a 4-feet-tall replica discovered in the garden department of Target - some things have changed over time. One thing that has not changed is the purpose behind
the trip. Although the girls will disembark soon, they will stay in
Paris for several weeks and build their vocabularies. One day in class
they will pretend to go through passport control and have their passports
stamped. Another day they will order breakfast and drink chocolat
chaud and eat croissants with jam and beurre. They will visit a market;
go touring and see the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Elysees, the Louvre;
go to a restaurant and order escargots and foie gras; go shopping
and pretend to spend the Euros their parents have sent to school.
They will return to Baltimore around the holidays with plenty of time
to rest before the next term, when they begin reading and writing At the moment, they must hurry and finish the in-flight snack because the pilots have spotted Ireland out the window - and because it won't be long before the "pick-up" line of waiting parents begins to form outside l'ecole. By now, les filles have heard the pilots talking to
the control tower; they have listened to Madame Tomlinson read the
instructions while Madame Eastwick demonstrated the safety features;
they have seen their flight And, along the way, something magical has happened. A few of the girls leaned back in their seats as the tape recorder played the sound of a plane taking off. A few waved goodbye with their teachers. A few even bump in their seats as if they're encountering air pockets while the airplane begins its descent. The girls do not notice Madame Eastwick slip across
the room, sit on the window seat, and pick up the wand that will open
the blinds. The girls are listening to a recording of the ground tower
at Charles De Gaulle International Airport. They taxi down the runway
as the voice on the recorder says, "Bienvenue Another thing that has not changed in 30 years is what happens when the plane lands, when the girls imagine, if for only a moment, they are somewhere else. It is a moment that still delights their teachers. Madame Eastwick opens the blinds. Any other day, the girls would look out the window and see only trees and grass and falling leaves. "La tour d'Eiffel!" Madame Eastwick exclaims. The reaction on the girls' faces is universal. Some clap. Some squeal. They all smile. "C'est magnifique!" Copyright (c) 2003, The Baltimore Sun Return
to top Paul Finkbiner PFINKBINER@aol.com At the end of high school I willed my snowball business to my sister Jeanette, who sold snowballs the next two years, and I headed off to join Muhlenberg's freshman class. I graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1967 with a B.S. degree in physics. After a summer of work at Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, I joined the Navy. I served on the USS Northhampton (CC1), the national command ship where the President would go in case of national emergency. In mid-1969, I transferred to the USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) , an amphibian command ship which moved Marines from Vietnam to Okanawa. We enjoyed liberty ports such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok and several ports in Japan. Upon completion of my three years four months of active duty, I joined the US Naval Reserves. I retired from the Naval Reserves as a Commander in 1987. During 1971 to 1972, I worked at Paul Revere Life Insurance Company as an actuarial trainee. In 1973, after deciding to become a science teacher, I took the required courses for teaching at Glassboro College (now Rowan University). I enjoyed teaching chemistry, physics, physical science, and earth science at Cherry Hill High School East. I retired in June of 2000 after 27 years in the classroom. I meet my wife Patricia in 1973 while taking a teacher
training course in Project Physics. We were married on June 21, 1975.
Our son, Mark is 26 years old. He is a 1995 HMHS graduate and is now
a new car salesman for Holman Ford of Turnersville, NJ. Mark and his
fiance, Nicole, are engaged to be married in Our daughter, Anne is 25 years old and is a 1996 graduate of HMHS. She was graduated from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, in 2000. She completed her Masters of Science degree at Drexel University last spring. She is now in her first year at Wake Forest University Medical School, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pat finally retired, in 2002, after 31 years of teaching chemistry and physical science, 28 of them at HMHS. Pat and I are enjoying traveling throughout the US and
Canada. We took a cruise to Alaska's inside passage in September 2002.
We lucked out, the weather was sunny in every port; even those that
get over 200 days of rain a year. We anticipate a trip to Hawaii in
May of 2004, a wedding in July of 2004, and then on to travel Europe
in 2005. Return to top Carol Duus Breitinger 3498 Charlemont Road Big Island, VA 24526 434-299-5166 Breitinger@aol.com For 40 years I've been working in the field of communications.
31 years were at the South Jersey Courier-Post newspaper, on the business
side. The first ten of those years were in Classified advertising
and the remainder were spent in Marketing and Promotion. The last
14 years I was Promotion/Market Research Four years after graduation from HMHS I was married and four years later I was divorced. Enough said. Carl Breitinger (Delaware Township H. S. - now Cherry Hill West - class of 1961) and I were married in 1974. We bought our first house, in Merchantville, two days after we got married; built a vacation home in the Poconos; and in 1994 sold both, quit our demanding newspaper careers (Carl was a photojournalist with, successfully, the Courier-Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Philadelphia Inquirer) and we moved to Virginia. We now live in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Central Virginia, about halfway between Roanoke and Lynchburg. The move was one we had planned for many years and were able to accomplish, thinking we would live a somewhat more leisurely lifestyle. Ha! We haven't slowed down one whit. Carl's cousin and his wife moved to Virginia with us
and between us we have 133 acres of rolling hills, woods, pastures
and streams, two houses, a barn and a pond. A local guy runs about
30 head of cattle on our land and we own six cows. Each year we raise
3-6 hogs, which end up in the freezer as pork chops and Our home is surrounded 360 degrees by mountains. Even the locals say it's about the most beautiful spot you could hope to find. We have truly been blessed. We came here without any job prospects or preconceived notions - except to slow down. The first few months we waited impatiently for our homes, which were being custom built, to be finished. Meanwhile, Carl went to work for J. Crew, a clothing retail and catalog company, at their national warehouse located in Lynchburg. I stumbled (or was I dropped?) upon the Society of St. Andrew, a national, Christian, nonprofit hunger relief organization headquartered just over the hill and around the bend from us. I had always said I would never want to work in the nonprofit field. So much for what I thought! I've been with the Society of St. Andrew ever since, as their Communications Director. The Society of St. Andrew has 34 offices in 16 states
where we salvage fresh, edible produce gleaned by volunteers from
farm fields after the harvest, and in bulk loads donated by commercial
growers, packing houses, etc. This is food that would otherwise go
to waste, be plowed under or end up in landfills Carl and I feel as if the Lord just picked us up and dropped us down in this spot. Otherwise I never would have come across the Society of St. Andrew. And Carl and I would never be thoroughly enjoying the blessings of living in such an incredibly beautiful part of the country. We're still working about as hard as ever - it takes a lot of time and effort to keep up 133 acres as Carl does - but it's worth it! And just like the rest of you old folks, we're looking forward to retirement - we hope in the not too distant future. See you at our 40-year reunion. Return
to top Gwen Duffy Art Gwen_Art@hmco.com Reading about all of you has made me quit procrastinating and send in a bit about my life since '63. After HMHS and Wellesley College, I went to Wesleyan in Connecticut for an MAT and began teaching (what else?) high school English. I was married soon after that, and we lived in Palo Alto, California, while my husband finished law school and I continued teaching. After that, we lived in New York City for three years, and I'm so glad to have done that, or else I would still be wanting to. I taught for a while longer and then went into educational publishing as an editor, still teaching but in a different way. The bi-coastal thing continued when we moved to LA (not my favorite place). Along came two wonderful children - Amanda and Will - but then along came divorce. In 1981 the kids and I moved to the Boston area, and I've been here ever since, working all this time as an editor at Houghton Mifflin, where I now direct the editorial development of reading and language arts programs. Your kids may have used books that I edited, and I sincerely hope they passed their courses! For years as the kids were growing up, we lived in Wellesley, a Boston suburb very much like Haddonfield. Lovely town (maybe a bit too lovely), excellent schools, great neighbors - all very fine, but not the place for me once the kids had grown up and flown from the nest. So three years ago, I sold the house and moved to a condo in the city. I love the combination of my city life with concerts, plays, museums, a bustling pace, and a minimal commute, but I also love escaping- with friends or the kids or just a good book - to my little cottage by a New Hampshire lake. My kids are now young adults, of course. Amanda, 27, lives in LA (she chose that coast) and works in broadcasting, and Will, 24, lives here in Boston, working for the moment in publishing while he alternately grieves for the Red Sox and cheers for the Pats. My family is gone from Haddonfield now. My father died in 1979, my sister Judy (class of '60) died way too young in 1983, and my mother died just this past June. I'm so thankful for my wonderful brother Brian (class of '69) and his terrific family, who live in Salem County, NJ. There have been a few other bumps in the road along the way, including my bout with breast cancer nearly ten years ago, which gave me a new, less driven, more appreciative outlook on life. But back to the fun parts. At times over the years, when the kids were off visiting their dad in LA, my mother and I would take great trips together, and I'll miss traveling with her. But I'm blessed with wonderful friends, and of course they MUST love to travel, too. We've rented villas in Tuscany, in Provence, and on a Greek Island. Next May we're off to Barcelona and the Costa Brava, but not before my trip to the Amazon and Machu Picchu in April. I figure I should go while the going's good, as they say. I don't want to be in my rocking chair wishing I had! But my next trip is to Haddonfield, to see all of you.
Hats off to the superb Reunion Committee for putting this weekend
together for us! I'm really looking forward to seeing you all soon!
Return to top Miriam Hewes Slejko Dear Haddonfield Friends, You know you are not far from my mind on any given day since I have our high school senior class picture hanging over my desk! I see your faces and often think of you wondering where you are now and what you have been doing. Thank you to our super Reunion Committee for arranging so much time for us to get reacquainted! To bring you up to date with my activities I have to tell you that all my past years, 17 as a psychologist and director of Sunny Day School, now Durand Academy, for autistic and severely disturbed children, and, more recently, 17 years working with my husband, Frank, publishing a trade journal in ultrapure water and holding conferences here in the U.S. as well as Asia and Europe, have been eclipsed by my current preparation for ministry. This new pursuit came as a surprise to me in many ways but has proven to be completely fulfilling. Last May I entered Iliff School of Theology and will complete my final class in the spring of 04. The ministry candidacy process in the United Methodist Church is five years and I hope to be ordained in 2008. As I move through this training I am working at Trinity U.M.C. in downtown Denver part-time while I take classes and continue to work with Frank in our publishing company. Here in Denver we have such a great need for help with many segments of our population. We have a very large immigrant population as well as homeless working poor. Last spring I worked in 2 small urban churches in transitional neighborhoods last year doing English As A Second Language. This year our downtown church has begun feeding the homeless hot lunches at a rate of over 200 per day. I am working with a class of 30 something couples who are preparing to become mentoring teams for the working poor families who need support as they are moved into permanent housing for the first time. Many come from living in their cars. I believe that the solid educational experiences and community warmth we shared in our early years has a lot to do with my current interests. It all made a great impression on me and continues to influence my life. Our daughters, Julia and Gina, live in nearby Longmont and we see them all the time. The mountains are good for the body as well as the soul and we spend a lot of time hiking, biking, skiing and snowshoeing. I can't wait to see your faces again and have a chance to catch up. With Anticipation, Miriam Return to top Roberta Claire Henisee Hobson Hobson1jb@aol.com After HMHS I went to the University of Delaware and
majored in Home Economics -Textiles and Clothing. During my 4 years
of college I married Jim Meacham and we had a daughter, Liane while
still in school. I actually finished my degree requirements at the
Univ. of Maryland in College Park when Jim went to work at We lived in Laurel, MD for 9 years and also had a son,
David. Then our love of sailing took us to Arnold, MD in 1976 where
we built a house in a new community. It was a fabulous place to live
and raise a family and during this time I worked part-time. I taught
Adult Ed classes in foods/cooking, was a Welcome Wagon I went to work at a sail brokerage firm in Annapolis
in 1978 and loved the business and fun of sailboats. I left in 1983
to work at a small yacht design firm that had just relocated from
New Zealand. I still work for Farr Yacht Design. Ltd. (www.farrdesign.com)
and Bruce Farr and Russell Bowler. I count them as two of my best
friends. I was the first American employee in a company of 5 employees
and we now number 16. I am Secretary/Treasurer of the Corporation
and it continues to be great fun. At Farr Yacht Design I have met When my daughter went off to college, Jim Meacham decided
to leave as well and so I started a new phase of my life. A few years
later I married Jim Hobson whom I had met in my sailing life. We have
been married for 17 years and live in Annapolis near the water, of
course. I learned all about sailing from Jim and for many years we
raced our Cal 25 together and then Jim gave it to me to skipper, which
I did for a few years. We have also sailed on Farr 33's in the Annapolis
area, took the Hobson family Concordia yawl up the coast to Maine
one Five years ago we took a completely different tack and
opened an antique shop in downtown Annapolis. We specialize in 17th
and 18th century period furniture and accessories, particularly Chinese
Export porcelain, Oriental rugs and brass items. We also do antique
shows on weekends in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, My children are both far away - David currently lives in Seattle, WA, but always wants to know what is over the next hill. Liane and her Navy commander husband, Darren, are currently in Hawaii for 2 years. They have lived in the best places - courtesy of the Navy - and we have visited all of them. Also in Hawaii are our granddaughters, Bethany (9) and Olivia (6). We already have a tripped planned for January to see the islands, but mostly to see the girls. I really have no plans to retire as I love working at Farr Yacht Design. After 20+ years it continues to be exciting and a challenge. Besides, we are designing for the next Volvo Round the World Race (2005) and the next America's Cup (2007). I pass through Haddonfield occasionally when we are
antiquing but it will be great to be there with so many old friends
as well. I am really looking forward to the HMHS 63 Reunion! Return
to top Paula Woods pwoods@salud.unm.edu Shortly before my planned departure for Penn State, I had an impulsive change of heart, and headed instead for the University of New Mexico. Many years later, when I first heard the Dixie Chicks singing - she needed wide open spaces, room to make the big mistakes - I thought they were singing my story. I loved New Mexico from the start; it was an easy place for me to be - no one cared what I was doing or what I was wearing. Relaxed, tolerant, lots of high desert sunshine, and the pace was slow in 1963. In 1966 I married a native New Mexican, who couldn't wait to leave. We did leave in 1967, then lived in Texas, California, Illinois (daughter Stephanie born 1971), North Carolina (son Michael born 1973). I woke up one morning in 1975 in a house in the suburbs wondering what to wear to the corporate party, and again feeling the need for wide open spaces. He kept the house, I kept the kids - and headed right back to New Mexico. After a few years, I married an old friend from college.
After a few more, we divorced and became old friends again. I concentrated
on parenting and keeping the bills paid. My daughter provided me with
a new perspective on rebellious teenage daughters, and my mother laughed.
We all got through it. My kids are my joy. Stephanie emerged from the rebellious
years as a beautiful young woman with great heart and spirit and still
lives on Hilton Head Island. Michael is a professional triathlete,
now training in Boulder, Colorado. He recently finished 9th at the
World Championship Ironman in Hawaii, the second American to cross
the finish line. Another joy is Bob, who came into my life a few years
ago. At last, a man who responds to my impulsive suggestions with
"when would you like to do that?" It sounds so much better
than "are you Lorraine (Cookie) Barbell Pinsky cookie729@yahoo.com Compared to many of the bios I have read, my life has been rather unexciting. Following our high school graduation, I attended Albright College for one year and then transferred to the Univ of PA. I graduated with a bachelors in Psychology which prepared me for very little. I became the Social Editor of the Burlington County Herald, a weekly paper, for six months before joining the cadre of federal civil servants. I worked for three years for the Army Corps of Engineers in Phila in Personnel Mgt. During that time I met my husband, Howard, who was an engineer at GE. Following his layoff, along with 2000 other engineers, he located a position with Martin Marietta in Orlando, FL. We married and moved here 32 years ago; actually three weeks before Mickey Mouse officially opened his doors to everyone. My husband and I have two children, Marc age 27 and Karen age 22. Marc is a Course Director at Full Sail, a multi-media tech school. He is our creative one. Karen is currently working on her doctor of audiology at the Univ of FL. I worked for the Naval Training Center and Naval Trg Device Center here in Orlando for over 10 years. After finding the old facility was the cause of severe health problems, I finally left govt service. I was a full time volunteer for several organizations for seven years. Then I decided it was time to be paid again. I took an H&R Block tax course in 1990 and became hooked on that work. I am now an Enrolled Agent, teach tax classes as well as do tax work. Looking forward to seeing everyone shortly.
Return to top Craig & Betsy Barbor Barry rcbwmbg@aol.com I have so enjoyed reading the biographies and seeing the pictures. The web site is great. I really wish Craig and I were going to make it back for the reunion and could see everyone in person. Have a wonderful time. An email from Gwen Duffy Art shamed me into writing a little of our life history. Here goes: After high school, I went one semester to Albright College and then transferred down to West Virginia Wesleyan. Craig and I both graduated from there in 1967 and were married that August. We moved back to NJ and both started teaching. I taught for 3 1/2 years before our son, Andrew, was born in 1971. Craig by then had his MA and was teaching in the elementary education department at Glassboro State College, now Rowan University. He then became a principal of an elementary school in Voorhees, NJ, while continuing to go to school. I was lucky to be a stay-at-home mom. Our daughter, Robin, was born in 1974. Craig by now was working as Curriculum Coordinator for Woodbury, NJ school district. After receiving his doctorate from Nova University, he became Woodbury's Superintendent. I went back to teaching in 1986 at Haddonfield Friends School. It is a wonderful school and I loved teaching there. (I even had Dave Kellom's son as one of my students.) I taught 5th grade until 1995. Craig had now been working 29 years in some form of education for the state of NJ and had seen many changes, some not so good. It was time to follow our dreams and leave Haddonfield (I had lived there 50 years). We are now living in Williamsburg, VA - one of our favorite places. We first came here together on our senior trip! We built our Williamsburg cape on College Creek and enjoy kayaking and riding our bikes into the restored area. I have started a new career as a Children's Librarian at the Williamsburg Regional Library. Kids and books, what could be better! Craig is very involved with his cabinet making and enjoying his freedom to play golf whenever he wants. Life is good! Our two children continue to be the joy of our lives. Andrew, now 32, graduated from Dickinson College and then met his wife, Laura, while both were working on their MA at William & Mary. They now both work for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and live right on Duke of Gloucester. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born this July and Gram and Papa are thrilled to have her right here to spoil. Robin, now 29, graduated from Muhlenberg College and then PA College Of Optometry. She moved to Springfield, Illinois to join a practice. She and Sean were married in July. 2002. Sean is a chiropractor and the father of a 4 1/2 year old, Dominic. Craig and I have become frequent fliers to Illinois. Have a wonderful time at the reunion. Please give us a call if you are ever in Williamsburg. Betsy Barry Jerry MacBride jerrymacbride@ultra-pak.net 310 Union Street Newtown, Pa 18940 After graduating from Temple I took a job through the
placement bureau at the University and ended up in sales. The position
took me to Atlanta to set up a southern division covering thirteen
states. From there it was to New York and some national travelling
and then California and the west including Alaska and Hawaii. My next
employment was in the buying department of Lord and Taylor in New
York, followed by a short stint at Vanity Fair before taking a job
with Gillette. My first territory was eastern New York and Vermont
and eventually Philadelphia , South Jersey and Delaware and back home. Kathleen Nyman Hernandez kcnhernandez@earthlink.net When I signed up for my first classes at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in August, 1963, I made a very disheartening discovery. The home economics courses I hoped to minor in were offered at Michigan State. Oh, well. I enjoyed my years there anyway, joined the Sigma Kappa Sorority, and proudly graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in Nursing. During my junior year I signed on with the U.S. Navy to help pay for school. I spent the month of June in Newport, Rhode Island, at Officers Training School. Luckily our group all got their first choices and I ended up in San Francisco, actually, at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, California, for three years. While I was there I met Alfred J.Hernandez, Jr., M.D., who had come there from Houston, Texas, to do his rotating internship. He spent the next year in Da Nang, Viet Nam, and when he called me via short wave radio to ask me to marry him, I accepted - over. We were married on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay in July, 1970, and spent the next two years on a honeymoon in Naples, Italy, courtesy of the U.S. Navy. We traveled around Europe in our VW Bug whenever his weekends off permitted. Our daughter, Katelena , was born in May, 1971. Kati was just walking when we came back to the states for Al to start his residency in Internal Medicine in Galveston, Texas, at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He also did his first year of Gastroenterology there; as soon as he got an endoscope in his hands he knew what specialty he was meant to practice. Our son, Marc, was born there in 1973. In 1975 we moved to Houston and Al spent a year at M.D. Anderson Hospital in a Fellowship in Gastroenterology. I started working in a local hospital recovery room until we opened his office near the Medical Center. I have been the office manager ever since. I started out traveling with him as his endoscopy nurse, but rarely do that now since the hospitals all have their own units. Our daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1979. I took her to the office for the first two years until she began un-filing charts. All of our children attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts here in Houston: Kati in art, Marc in vocal, and Elizabeth in theater. Kati graduated with an Art degree from Yale and now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jay Cowles from Spokane, Washington,. They met at Yale, were married here in Houston in 1995, but stayed on in Austin after Jay completed his Business/Law degrees at the University of Texas, and Kati worked as the Director of Education for the Austin Museum of Art. They have two children, Celia, age 23 months, and our newest grandchild, Gabriel, 2 months old. Marc graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with degrees in Communications and Japanese. He also stayed in Austin to work at a software computer company he started with while still in school. He made several trips to Japan on his own after spending time there on a school sponsored trip. He continues to try to make his parents computer literate. Elizabeth is working with us in the office while she attends college working towards a degree in elementary education. Her daughter, Emily, who is four years old, also works at our office when she is not at her school. She is our C.E.O. (Chief Entertainment Officer). The patients, mailman, sales reps etc. all seem to enjoy having a little one around to brighten the day. We don't get much time off since Al has also gotten into Palliative Medicine. He is a Medical Director for VistaCare Hospice in the Houston area. My parents retired and moved to Lady Lake, Florida, just north of Orlando in 1993. Most of our trips have been to Florida to visit them. My mother died in 1999, but my father is still enjoying the amazing retirement community they moved into. My sister lives in Allendale, New Jersey, and I am planning on visiting her and her family this weekend too. I have to admit between work and my grandchildren, I
am busier and happier than ever. I had such a great time at the last
reunion, I am looking forward eagerly to this one. Return
to top Phyllis Eggleston catcreek@localnet.com I was planning on telling my life story in person, but
I will not be able to attend our reunion. So here goes-----! I married
Arthur (Cap) Hyde shortly after graduation. I joined him in Forest
Grove, Oregon where he was attending Pacific University in January
1964. Our son Arthur Eggleston (Kip) Hyde was born in April. After
Caps graduation we moved back to Jersey and he worked for his father
at A.L. Hyde Co. in Grenlock. The marriage broke up in 1969. I worked
as a clerk typist for Merchants Mutual Insurance Company and as a
girl Friday at Fahnestock and Company in Philadelphia. During this
time I met Bill Stolarski and we were married in 1970. His career
with the F.B.I. took us to Savannah, Ga.- Waycross, Ga.-Carbondale,
Il.-Old Bridge, N.J.-Lumberton, N.J. and finally Pitman, N.J.. We
went our separate ways in 1980 and I moved back to Lumberton. During
this time I worked as a bank teller at South Jersey Savings and Loan.
It was very hard to live on a tellers salary so I tried being a waitress,
and finally ended up tending bar in the pine barrens. Now that was
a learning experience! I met my present husband Joe in 1982. We spent
3 years traveling the East coast while he worked for a construction
crew, building and replacing cooling towers. We finally rented a house
in Beaver Township, Pa., that enabled Joe to see his daughter when
we were not on the road. This ended up being the best move of my life!
I loved the mountains, the slower life style, the wildlife, and wearing
jeans and t-shirts! There was not even a mall within 15 miles when
we moved here, and I did not miss one! I ended up staying home to
take care of his daughter when her mother was working. We were married
in 1985. Joe started driving truck soon after we were married. In
1992 I started going with Joe in the truck. We spent two years trucking
around the USA! In 1993 we got our first horse, which started the
search for a house and acreage. We bought a house and 8 acres in the
boondocks(near Sullivan County) ,and proceeded to fill the acres with
two more horses, a goat, ducks, chickens(for meat and eggs),dogs,
cats, peacocks, and a French goose named Tululah! Joe kept driving
truck and I stayed home growing vegetables and tending critters. Unfortunately
my health started to fail. I found out I was allergic to horses and
hay! Our house was surrounded by hay fields! Finally in 2002 we bit
the bullet and gave up our farm. A 100 year old house came up for
sale down the road from Kip and his wife Dana so we bought it. We
packed up Tululah, the ducks and the chickens, and moved into our
little house on half an acre. We are back in Beaver Township and fall
asleep every night to the sounds of Catawissa Creek. My son Kip and
his wife fell in love with the mountains too, and have been up here
for 10 years. They have a carpet and blind cleaning business. My step-daughter
Lori and her son Coti, live in Bloomsburg, about 10 miles away. The
only family I have living in Haddonfield is my Aunt Lorraine. My Dad
passed away 7 years ago. My Mother lives in Virginia Beach near my
brother Scott. My sister Gale lives in Jacksonville, Florida. I will
miss seeing everyone at the reunion--but I will not miss the traffic!!!
Return to top Susan Lee Hare larry.hare2@comcast.net In September of '63 I went off to Millersville State College (now University) outside of Lancaster, PA and graduated in 1967 with a B. S. in Elementary Ed. I went on to get my M. ED. from Temple within the first couple of years after that. I got a job in Plymouth Meeting, PA in the Colonial School District and continued to teach various grades (2nd, 3rd, and 4th) there until my early retirement after 30 years in 1999. I enjoyed the single life until 1979 when I married my husband, Larry, who is from Kansas, but ended up in the east with the pharmaceutical industry. We bought a home in Collegeville, PA where we have lived for 24 years. Our son, Kevin, was born in 1987, and our daughter, Janet, in 1988. Larry has a 31- year-old daughter, Jamie, who lives nearby in Pottstown, PA. Yes, you read that right, we have two teenagers (16 &15) and yes, you know that I became a first time mom at, um, a later age than most. For me it was right because I had a lot of independence to get out of my system! Being a parent has changed my perspective in every way I can think of. The idea of seeing all of you has a special value for me since I have two in the current high school scene. My brother still lives in Haddonfield and my niece is a junior at HMHS. I enjoy volunteering at both school and church, and am taking both aerobic and yoga classes. Since our kids are still at home I don't feel very "retired". Small world, but we also have a cottage in Laporte, Sullivan County, PA , so Denny and I have probably crossed paths without knowing it! It will be wonderful to experience going back where
we all started - and from where we took such different paths. My parents
are still in South Jersey, as are my two sisters and brother, so I'll
be staying with family. Looking forward to this well-planned occasion!
Thanks again to our hard-working committee! |
