Julie Ellsworth (Dickensheets)

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school?
Lots of people. If I had to name one, I’d really like to know what Linda Kim is up to. Linda, are you out there?

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do?

Have not traveled in Europe, only a layover in Belgium on the way to Africa. It’s on the to-do list.

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do?
Happy I went to college and graduate school, met my husband Steve, have two great kids (Trevor is 11 and Audrey is 7), have a job I enjoy (Biology Professor at Truckee Meadows Community College), and live in a great place (Reno, NV).

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years?
East Africa and Costa Rica (trips before kids), and camping, skiing, biking, kayaking, and hanging out at Tahoe and Eagle Lake, CA (since kids).

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laugh
What’s the name of the game? Thumper!

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion?
Everyone. Especially basketball buddies, track buddies, calculus buddies, toga buddies, and drinking buddies…you know who you are.

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days?
I don’t think so, I think he knows it all…if there is anything you think I’m forgetting, please let me know.

Heather Gruenberg

1. I wish I had kept in touch with ... Jamie Packman '88, as well as a few others.

2. What do I wish I did after HS? College was a good choice, and I'm glad I went to Carleton (Northfield, Minnesota: the town where Jesse James and his gang made their last raid). What do I wish I did after college [graduated '92; took a year off from college and lived in Washington, D.C.]? Go to Europe. What did I do instead? Came home to work and save money to move back to D.C. after a year or so, but Mom died six months after I came home, so I ended up staying in suburban Detroit for nine more years; moved to Traverse City 1/01/02.

3. What am I happy to have done in the last twenty years? Lots of things. Went parasailing this week. It's my last year of classes getting a secondary level teaching certificate (Dana, where did you teach?), after which I have to student teach. Have travel(l)ed within the States some. No kids, thanks, though I've thoroughly enjoyed teaching them how to swim for the last nineteen years; that's how I got into the teaching certificate classes. Am planning on getting married. Learning to garden a bit, but perennials, cement gargoyles, and stainless steel gazing globes only. Got a kayak. Have two dogs and a cat, despite my allergists' [well-founded] concerns.

4. What is my favorite place I've been to in the last twenty years? There are a few, and the Franklin Cider Mill is one of them!!!!!!! I liked D.C., despite being terribly depressed while I was there, I like San Francisco, and Traverse City's quite nice, in its own way. There is a hill on Carleton's campus where I first saw the stars the way you can in the country or on the beach in Litchfield Beach, S.C.; there are probably more, stuck somewhere in my brain.

5. Whom do I look forward to seeing this weekend? Some of them will be there (people on this mailing list), some won't (George Hinkes, Heather Reed, others), and those with whom I shared a Catholic upbringing (you know who you are!).

6. Will George be surprised to know anything about me? Don't think so, but who knows.

Bob Brumm - Update!

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school?Just about everyone. Life turns us many different ways and we stray away from items that do mean a lot. Keeping in touch with those who helped form who we are does get pushed back. This blog is a good way to keep in touch with friends from high school.

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do?Travel abroad.

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do?Sky Diving and White Water rafting.

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years?Torch Lake , Michigan Spent many summers up there as a child and brings comforting memories.

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laughHaving fun with friends and seeing their smiling laughing faces. Parting with (or without) a TOGA.

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion?Not able to attend.

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days?Not really, but she may be surprised how outgoing I was.

Meredith Granader/Segal

Meredith & Rocky

Rocky
Nicole (Niki)


Jake

Niki 5, Rocky 3 & Jake 7

Scott & Meredith

Scott & Meredith

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school? I still keep in touch with most of my closest friends

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do? Traveled more. I traveled to Europe with Robin Bolton for 5 weeks but I wish I had seen many more places in my youth.

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do? I can't just think of one thing. I guess moving to Chicago would be at the top of my list. I met my husband here and we have a great life together with three wonderful, happy and healthy children. I feel very fortunate and not much could make me any happier than I am now. Maybe one more kid???

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years? Turkey. Istanbul in particular. It was really an amazing place. I went 9 years ago with my husband. It was full of culture and so beautiful. However, I would not recommend a turkish bath to anyone, unless you like to be tortured.

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laugh Can't think of just one. I know that is such a lame answer but it is true.

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion? Everyone!!!

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days? He knows everything.

Dean Hu

Wasn't sure if I'd get around to this, but better late then never....

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school?

The only guy I've kept in contact with regularly since high school is Keith Brookenthal. Also, I recently found that Dave Dikeman, "blogspot guru," lives only about 3 miles from me in Honolulu. So besides those two, I'm looking forward to finding out what everyone else in our class has been up to since high school.

2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do?

Can't say that there has been any real regrets to this point, but if I had to come up with something....How about, qualifying for the Boston Marathon? That would have been cool, but for now, with a one year old at home, I lack both time and motivation. Maybe I'll give it a shot when I hit my midlife crisis ;-)

3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do?

Three things: Finding a career/calling that allows me to help people on a day to day basis. Finding and marrying my soulmate and best friend. Assisting in the delivery of our baby boy last year.

4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years?

Driving around the south island of New Zealand for our honeymoon. Very beautiful land and peaceful surroundings.

5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laugh

Hands down, the last day of school, senior year. Keith Brookenthal gets chased out of the school by one of the assistant principals because he showed up in his homemade tee shirt printed with "F--- You! I'm graduating." And yes, it was spelled out in full.

Honorable mention: No doors on the stalls in the boys' bathrooms. I think someone ran for student council one year under the slogan, "A Door for every Stall." I wonder if guys get any privacy these days.

6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion?

To name just a few - Howdy, Karl, Lal, and my track and cross country teammates.
Sorry if I forgot anyone.

7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days?

Doubt there are any real surprises except that my locker used to perfectly, meticulously organized. Since then, for some reason, my desk and office space have become near-disaster zones.

Cristina Booker

1.) Who do you wish you kept in touch with from high school?
I was lousy about staying in touch with everybody when I moved away from MI. Fortunately, Saliha, Ann, Neil, Mazzoli, Stephanie, Denyse & Jennifer tolerate my flakiness. I would love to know what's up with: Lisa Piccard, MaryKay, Sandy K, Bernice, Amanda, Heather, Fred, Greg Panek, Kris Penner, Stephanie Martin, Tony P. and Matt H. and all kids from Walnut Lake...
2.) What is something you wish you did after high school or college that you never had the chance to do?
Similar to others' lament, I also wish I had lived in another country while young and flexible. I had no idea as a student how short 3 weeks of vacation would feel once the rat race began!
3.) What is something you're happy you had the chance to do?
I've lived in some great places in the US-- San Francisco & now Boston. For work, I've been able to work hard for public health and social causes that mean a lot to me. Seeing Bill Gates & Bill Clinton and activists from across the globe at the last Int'l AIDS conference was a definite highlight. Shameless plug: one of my favorite vounteer activities is being a Community Partner for www.BeadForLife.org -- a group that sells fair trade recycled paper jewelry from Uganda.
4.) Where is your favorite place you've been to in the last 20 years?
Tough to pick one place -nothing like scuba diving in Grand Cayman and eating/drinking like the gods in Tuscany with friends (Saliha among them).
5.) Name a high school memory that still makes you smile/laugh
So many come to mind... Miss Slaughter's many life lessons ("Do you really think you're gonna change when you turn 18 and become an adult? Most of you will pretty much stay the same - just wait and see."), art department trip to NYC, getting busted by Gerardo shortly after graduation when several of us almost put the school up for sale (you young offenders know who you are), skipping class for the first MLK march, the daily rides to/from school with friends... And I need to correct an important detail in Stephanie's story -- Ronna and Ann were there, too, and it was vodka (not rum).
6.) Who are you looking forward to seeing at the reunion?
Everybody.
7.) Is there anything your spouse/significant other would be surprised to know about you from your high school days?
There's little he doesn't know. The fact that I was a class officer and involved with Safe Rides is a little puzzling to most people, though.

M. K. - click on the text to zoom in and read.

The Photos:
I've attached a bunch of photos from New Zealand. In one, my husband and I are each about to jump off of a platform, only to free fall for about 200 feet- you can probably see that we're over a pretty large canyon. A few of the others are from hiking, etc., from various spots. I've also attached two pics of the 6th grade graduation from Meadow Lake with Gary and Dennis Portney, Debbie Nadelberg, Michael Bloom and Tammy Coe. The two totally 70’s guys are my dad and Tammy’s dad (note my dad's HUGE glasses and Mr. Coe's Ricardo Montalban suit). There's one pic of me and some friends at a college friend's wedding, and a pic from my own wedding (just a few years ago) with a friend from college.