Absolutely; I wouldn't miss this for the world!

other My father was in the Air Force for 20 years. I attended elementary and middle schools in Kansas, Wisconsin, England, France, and California before coming to Whitefish Bay.

10th - sophomore year
11th - junior year
12th - senior year

Library Club
Home Ec. Club
Pep Club

I attended college in Home Economics Education. I became first a high school home economics teacher. Then I went to graduate school and co-founded/directed an after school child care for 8 years. For the last 10 years of my teaching career, I taught vocational food service to men in a minimum security prison. I was single for several years. Married. Divorced. When I was in my 40's, I adopted a 7-yr-old boy as a single parent. Following retirement from teaching, I became a certified dog and cat groomer. I have been grooming dogs and cats, part-time, in my home shop for 15 years.

Graduated from UW-Madison in Home Economics Education 1973.
UW-Madison Masters Degree in Continuing and Adult Education 1993.
Wisconsin School for Professional Pet Grooming. Inc. 1998.
Wisconsin Master Naturalist Course 2017.

I taught 2 years at Delavan-Darien High School and 5 years at Westmont High School near Chicago.
I directed After School Clubs, Inc. in Oregon, Wisconsin for 8 years.
I taught Vocational Food Service at Oakhill Correctional Institution, Oregon, Wisconsin, a minimum security prison for men, for 10 years.
I have been a Certified Pet Groomer part-time for 15 years.

Skiing the Rocky Mountains. Traveling through Europe, Israel, China, Alaska. Canoeing the Boundary Waters. Kayaking and hiking Isle Royale. Traveling cross-country by Amtrak. Driving down Route 66. I raised a fine son through the Boy Scout ranks of Bobcat, Cub Scout, and Boy Scouts to Eagle Scout Rank. I cared full-time for my parents during their final four years into their 90's. I have planted and burned my own prairie. I have cohabited with a beloved succession of dogs and many adorable cats. A recent hobby is quilting. For more than 25 years I have helped to prepare Wednesday Night Community
Suppers at People's United Methodist Church in Oregon, Wisconsin. I am a Certified Master Naturalist and enjoy native gardening.

Dress codes dictated that girls' skirts were to be below the knee. Girls wore either nylon stockings or knee-high socks held up with rubber bands. Sleeveless or bare-midriff blouses were not allowed. Girls ironed their hair to make it straight. Boys wore belts in their pants. Shorts or jeans were not allowed. Beatles hair-styles became popular for boys. Penny loafers were popular. Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, and the Beatles were popular. In Pep Club we did a homecoming dance routine to Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass. My friends and I practiced transcendental meditation on the front lawn of the high school, and we tried to read each others' minds. I did not hang out with anyone who used alcohol or drugs, but there were students who did use alcohol and drugs. I remember the Vietnam War appeared on our tv sets daily. I remember the Beatles gave a concert in Milwaukee as part of their first American tour. I remember the NASA Gemini flights in space. I remember Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were killed during our senior year.

I am disturbed by climate-change deniers, mindless pollution, non-recyclable garbage, widespread use of plastics, herbicides on lawns, and the wide inequities in our country and around the world.

I came to WFB as a sophomore, having spent my life as a U.S. Air Force dependent, living in many parts of the world, interfacing with many types of people. Coming to Whitefish Bay was a difficult transition for many reasons. I felt very different from the students around me. I would tell my sophomore, junior, and senior self to disregard what I perceived as clicky-ness of students around me. I would advise myself to join as many extra-curricular activities as possible and get to know as many classmates as possible. I would say the same thing to my 18 year old self as I entered college. Be magnanimous. Be brave. Be awesome.

I have maintained long-term friendships with a few friends who do not want to come to the reunion because they do not have fond memories of WFB High School.

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