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Jim Schlauch
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | semi-retired |
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Comment:
My "career path" jogged from forest products exporting to elementary school teaching. Now I'm tasting the fruit of discretionary time: lots of jazz piano, cycling, yoga, backpacking, gardening, cooking, and enjoying the company of family and friends. These reunions every five years continue to amaze me with everyone's vitality and unique life stories.
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Donald H Sefton
Then
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Principal |
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Comment:
I left Oregon after LOHS for four years at USC in Los Angeles. My degree was in Mathematics because USC didn't develop a Computer Science major until my Senior Year. But I took Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics courses that were the nexus of their nascent Computer Science Program along with stuff I had to take for my math degree like "Set Theoretic Topology" and "Ordinary Differential Equations" that I liked a whole lot less! I moved to the mid Wilshire District after graduation and after a couple of years and while working at the Santa Monica based think tank "RAND" in IT, I moved to Santa Monica. I met my wife Penny there (she was a fellow Randite). I moved on to UCB (United California Bank, now First Interstate Bank) for a year as a senior programmer before taking a job in Beverly Hills as a Project Manager and later Systems & Programming Manager at then American Medical International (now Tenet Health). I decided that work as an employee couldn't get any better than at AMI (they overpaid me and flew me around the world first class) but I hated the corporate politics (I still don't have a compromising bone in my entire body) and I didn''t care for the personnel issues with middle tier management that I was operating in, so I started my own business as a "lone ranger" type consultant. After a couple of years, I was vacationing regularly in Europe (I lost count at 36 trips there over the years from a first trip in 1972 to the most recent in 2019) and my clients insisted I provide coverage" for my absences. I reluctantly began hiring employees (that was one of two issues that had driven me away from AMI and on my own). I still have the same company (Systems Consultants) and have about 35 full time employees and another 100 part timers that equate to about another 30 full time equivalents. Fortunately, I have some great senior management here and it allows me to carve out and do the part of the work I love (the programming and system design) and avoid the part I don't like (personnel issues). I'm also the "Corporate Pilot". We have a twin engine cabin class plane that can take 8 folks to various clients. Neither my bladder nor my passengers' can match the legs that the fuel cells offer anymore; that is, about 1,000 miles or 4 hours), but fortunately, most of our trips are shorter than that and don't require multiple legs. In the course of working as a consultant at the then Naval Strike Warfare Center, I caught the aviation bug and have a commercial pilot's license and multi-engine and sea ratings. The corporate plane is kind of like driving an SUV ... you don't feel much like a pilot, and more a chauffeur, so I bought a Super Decathlon (rag and tube, two seat, single engine aerobatic airplane) and have been flying it aerobatically (for fun) for about 10 years now. (yup I can still pull 6 G's which is as much as my plane will safely withstand) I've been going through the IAC (International Aerobatic Club) levels and have completed the Primary, Sportsman and Intermediate levels. Alas, that's as far as I can go with the Decathlon ... I'd come out of the sky in an ugly spin attempting some of the maneuvers in the Advanced and Unlimited Catalogs. I'd need a airplane with more engine (I'd love an Extra 330 big engined, carbon fiber bodied plan that is capable of 10 Gs) to handle the full series of levels of the IAC, but at "our age" I think that is a bit imprudent so I'll spend the money more wisely than that. I also caught the bug for SCUBA Diving and have dived by Kauai and Maui, Lake Tahoe, Belize, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Next dive vacation is booked at a Sandals in St. Lucia next March. I have also collected various dive certifications (I was never a boy scout, so I must have missed merit badges) over the years and have both Rescue Diver and Master Diver (not Divemaster) on my certs. In the course of our travels, we've been to all seven continents, including even Antarctica in 2002. And in the quest to see Polar Bears we've also spent 10 days in Churchill Canada on the shores of Hudson Bay as well as a cruise around Svalbard (a Norwegian Archipelago about 650 miles from the North Pole, above 78 degrees of latitude in any event) in an ice cutter. I've hunted in Africa (2012) as well as had photo safari's there (2008, 2016). We still have the ranch in Fallon and the planes are hangared here at Fallon Municipal Airport. But we've had a connection to New Orleans since 2013. Our oldest daughter attended CSU as an undergrad and then went on to Veterinary School at CSU graduating in 2013. She interned in Metairie Louisiana and then bought into a practice there and made her domicile in Mandeville on the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain some 30 miles from New Orleans proper. We ended up buying a second home in the same community as our daughter and son-in-law (and now 3 grandchildren). It takes me 4 minutes (3 when I'm moving briskly and without grandkids) to walk from our house to theirs. We also have a pied-a-terre in the French Quarter within rock throwing distance of Lafitte's Bar on Bourbon Street. Not that I'd ever throw rocks at the good patron's of Lafitte's ... more likely to send an empty Abita "Purple Haze" beer bottle their way from the balcony. I managed to meet up with our classmate Jim Smith down there the year before COVID. We reconnected after more than 25 years and I found out that he'd been attending the Jazz Festival there for more than 30 years, so we made that an occasion for us to reconnect in person (we've both lost a lot of hair!). I also saw Pete Yoakum on multiple occasions when he was living on Bainbridge Island in the Seattle area. I would fly up from Fallon to the Tacoma Airport and stay at his house and we'd go see our alma mater's (USC vs. UW) play football by Lake Union. Now Pete is in Kansas and I'm threatening to fly through there when I make one of my trips to New Orleans hauling furniture or other awkward items from the ranch in Fallon to the home in Mandeville. I guess at some point I'll retire, but I'm not sure what I'd do and I have plenty to do now both here in Fallon and down in the New Orleans area. Looking forward to seeing folks again at this reunion. Jim Smith has even threatened to attend. I don't think he's been to one since the 10 Year at the Quay on the Columbia River! |
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Tom Sigler
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: Anne and I are blessed beyond belief, currently building a new home in Sisters, Oregon. Enjoying the great activities in this area and starting over as grandparents. My son and his wife have small children here in the area, and our other grandkids are all now driving and do not think we are as cool as we were when they were younger. Looking forward to another reunion with my "OLD" high school friends. | |
Kim Stoutt (Babb)
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Sue Strickland (Alf)
Then
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
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Comment:
July 2021 Greetings class of 1970! I hope this finds you all in good health. My family is all doing well, in spite of the pandemic. I have been retired for 7 years now. We were planning on doing much more than we actually have done due to some major health issues. So we've been content with fishing, deer hunting, crabbing, and I've also been canning and making driftwood collages. (I included a picture of a couple of collages)Of course we have our own garden which takes up my time as well. Basically we've stuck around home. Covid restrictions did play into that, of course. Now that restrictions are lifted, we are planning on a road trip to see family in Oklahoma. Time flies by so quickly. Where on earth did 51 years go? Take care of yourselves, my friends and hopefully we will all be around for our 60th reunion. |
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Betty Taylor (Pajunen)
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Retired Financial Analyst |
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Comment:
Hello Classmates- I can't believe it has been 50+ years since graduating from LOHS. Many of us have known each other since kindergarten. WOW! I have been blessed with a wonderful family. My husband and I live in LO in my childhood home on Glen Eagles Rd. We have a son and two daughters. We have two beautiful granddaughters who keep us laughing and loving them to pieces. My mom is 101 and lives close by at the Springs. After I graduated from Oregon State, I had a long career as a financial analyst. I retired from IBM in 2018. I love retirement life. We are busy all the time with family, friends, travel and lots of gardening. Sending you best wishes for much happiness and good health. Cheers to all! A special thank you to the reunion committee for trying so hard to get us all together during these crazy times. |
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Rick Teeter
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Occupation: | Retired ( IBM ) |
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Comment:
'71-'76. US Navy. Aviation Electronic Technician Repaired airborne radar jamming equipment. Made several cruises on aircraft carriers. Saw the world. Hint: it's mostly water. '76-'77. Oregon State Universary Electrical Engineering. Discovered that being a 25 yo freshman wasn't much fun. Met my future wife, Nancy, a graduating senior and we got married Sept. '77. '77-'78 Walnut Creek, Ca. Worked at Siemens Medical Laboratory building x-ray machines while Nancy attended a Dietetic internship at UC Berkley. '78-'83 Portland. Worked for IBM fixing computer equipment. '83-2007 San Jose, Ca Software Engineer with IBM. 2007 to present. Tucson, Az. Retired, traveling, playing golf...Living the dream! Looking forward to seeing everyone for the 50th! |
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Claudian Tessandori (Smith)
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Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
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Kim Thompson (Hyde)
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Now
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired fundraiser |
| Comment: Our 50th Reunion will be a wonderful time for us to reconnect with our remarkable classmates. I look forward to seeing everyone there. | |
Chris Urling
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Now
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | retired |
| Comment: Sorry I missed the reuion. Looked like a good one! | |