Occupation: Retired

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Fifty years in a nutshell:

After graduation, I spent a year at Augsburg College and a couple of quarters at the U. I was sort of floundering, having no idea what I wanted to do, so I dropped out of school, went to work and then got married. Bad idea. After ten years and two kids (a daughter and a son) we divorced.

In 1983, I remarried. My husband is an architect (now retired), former Navy officer (EOD diver), artist, sailor, skilled handyman, smart, funny and a real character. He also came with two delightful daughters.

The four kids are all married and we have nine grands, aged 6 to 19. The oldest is now a college sophomore in Florida but the others all live nearby and we go to their games, swim meets, piano recitals and all the other stuff that grandparents do. It's fun - they're great kids.

As for work - I've been a payroll clerk at Northwest Airlines, a secretary to the President of the U of M, a TV and print model, a prop and location finder for a local film company, an office manager for an architectural and construction management firm, a sales rep in the restaurant division of a liquor and wine distributor and, for the last 23 years of my working life, the administrator for a law firm. I never did figure out what I really wanted to be, but I sure learned a lot over the course of forty-eight years. I retired in July of 2010 and, at the time, it felt like jumping off a cliff - but it's been good.

I've always had a garden (my sisters and I had our own little garden plots from the time we were in grade school, except for a few teen-aged years when it didn't seem cool) and I still do. I do some photography, like to cook (had to stop experimenting with dessert recipes when I noticed that my stomach was beginning to hang over the top of my jeans.) I read a lot and we travel when we can. We spend a fair amount of time working on our old house and even older cabin. Sometimes I like all the projects and sometimes I'd like to sell both places and go park by the ocean in one of those little Airstream trailers  .......  but my tribe is here in Minnesota and I still like to ice skate.

Occupation: residential design

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  My life is really good... Ive been both lucky and blessed.  Currently I'm self employed doing residential architectural design.  My wife also works in the same field.
  We love to travel together...mostly in North America  and Europe. We just drive around looking at all the cool old cities and buildings. 
  I'm looking forward to the reunion.  It should be a great time!

Occupation: Retired

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Active on reunion commitee, Scottish American Military Society, Banjo Boys jazz band, Minnesota Territorial Pioneers, Fur-trade rendezvous, four model building clubs. Vietnam vet, US Navy, married 41 years to Gretchen, two daughters and a son. Assist wife facilitating unemployed network group at St. Richard's Church and School  in Richfield.                                   

Occupation: retired teacher, shop owner

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Anybody else from the class of '62 win a belly dancing contest in Istanbul?  Life has been interesting!

Occupation: Retired

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Navy Vietnam San Diego  state Holliday company owned 2 companies still working part time live to work 

Occupation: Community Banker

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 Graduated 1966, St. Olaf College, Married Gail Lageson, 1966, Retired Major USMC, 1968 RVN. 3 children, 6 grandchildren.

Occupation: retired homemaker

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 I married Douglas Barton (RHS '60) in 1964, and we will celebrate our 48th anniversary on September 5. After brief stays in Washington DC and New York city, Doug and I returned to the Twin Cities in 1968 and have lived here ever since. We raised three Sons and have two Granddaughters ages 4 and  7 months. Doug retired in 2004, and we enjoy our Timberwolves season tickets and the live music scene - Doug returned to his sax in 2005 and plays locally in many bands and music jams. I attend quite a few of his gigs and thoroughly enjoy the atmosphere. I am looking forward to seeing you all again after all these years.

Occupation: Retired from Dept. of Defense

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I was drafted after college graduation and spent nearly two years in West Germany, so I got to see lots of Europe.  After working for F&M Savings Bank in Minneapolis for five years I spent the rest of my working career as a logistician for the US Army Tank-Automotive Command in Detroit.  We moved to Reno when I retired and on to Oregon when my wife's health deteriorated.  I love living in the West and have friends in Nevada and Arizona. As well, my daughter and her husband live in LA. 
So now I reside on a small lake with a cat (we had four at one time), am about 40 minutes from the coast and have easy travel to Portland and Reno.  Though I'll probably be in Park Rapids for a couple weeks this summer, I won't make the reunion but have lots of good memories of ALL my school years in Richfield, elementary through graduation... of fellow students and really good teachers.   

Occupation: Retired

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Following high school, I attended the U of M, graduating with a BS and majoring in Foods and Nuitrition. Following my career path as a nuitritionist with Swedish Hospital, I was a stay at home mom for 3 kids for several years, then working part time for Jerry's Foods, retiring last year. Darrell and I have been married going on 44 years, enjoy spending time with family, time together and travel.

Occupation: Retired

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Worked for Univac (Sperry, Unisys) for 32 yrs. and then worked and  retired from HEI (as a buyer of electronics) in 2008.

Karen and I have been married for 43 yrs. We have one son, Dave, and we spend  lots of time with our 2 grandchildren - Olivia-10 and Ella-8. Dave remarried last summer and now we have 2 new step-grandchildren -Matt 13 and Megan 10. 

We enjoy, friends, golf, fishing and going to a warm climate for a few weeks in the winter. This year we will say hi to Elvis on our way to Florida.