1960 Connie Haenny Baker
In Atlanta, Georgia since 1966; married 22 years, divorced, one daughter; taught elementary school 35 years. Retired in 2001. Volunteer for Good Mews Cat Rescue in Atlanta; read, garden, lunch with friends. Went to Italy in Feb and Aug to see my new grandson, daughter and son-in-law. Being a Nonna (Italian for grandma) is the greatest experience ever, even though my family ives so far away. oreocb@yahoo.com
1960 Tom Clark
Morningside class of 1954. University of MN degrees in 1964 and 1966. Army Reserve during Vietnam. Wife of 42 years is former Kathryn Linnell from West High School. 2 children, 3 grandchildren, that are unusually cute. Live in Baltimore, Maryland. Travel a lot. Still have family in Minneapolis so we’re there every six months. Not close to retirement. Own an architectural firm in Baltimore. I happen to look exactly the same as I did the day I graduated, even though I have noticed that our friends are starting to look older. Some of the Morningside 6th grade class gets together and sends around stories. Some are even true. I’ve been elected spokesman to write you a little about it. We tried to get on Oprah, but they turned us down, so the Edina newsletter looks like our best shot at fame at this point.
1960 Philip Mullen
My October 2005 exhibition at David Findlay Galleries in New York was a celebration of 30 years of association with the gallery. Paintings in the exhibit ranged from 8 x 15 feet to 9 x 12 inches.
1961 Sue (Laurel) Gehrz
I am in my 11th year as mayor of the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota and own a consulting business.
1961 Linda Masica
Last 6 years on Edina City Council, representing the city of Edina, a humbling privilege, and I am pleased and honored to continue in that capacity. Prior to public service I owned and operated a restaurant/pub business for 15 years. 3 adult children and five grandchildren; set of twin grandchildren expected this fall.
1962 Karen Bohnho
Still riding my horse, traveling a lot, doing some gardening and no housework. Continue to do freelance marketing for Target. My husband and I have lived in Santa Fe 15 years and plan to live to 100.
1962 John Howard Prin
As a professional therapist of people with addictions and emotional disorders, I just finished writing my second book about the harmful lives of destructive secrets that millions of people lead, Secret Keeping: Overcoming Hidden Habits and Addictions (New World Library, October 2006). My first book about secret lives, Stolen Hours (Syren, 2004), featured my own story and how I escaped from the same secret-keeping® trap that held me captive thirty years beginning in my teen years. Today my counseling services company, TrueYouRecovery.com, offers help, healing, and hope to people who want healthy minds and emotions untainted by shame, guilt, and remorse. My career as an addictions counselor and author began with my own recovery from chemical addictions in 1996.
1963 Dorothy Furber Byers
I have been head of the Engineering Library at the University of Cincinnati for 30 years. That followed getting a PhD in Information Studies at Syracuse University. Still bicycle (to work), play racquetball and the violin. My husband plays violin in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, one son plays cello in the Calder String Quartet, and the other just graduated as a singer-songwriter from Berklee College of Music in Boston and moved to NYC. In the community service arena, I serve this year as president of the local chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), an organization that provides support, education and advocacy. We offer college scholarships to gay students and straight allies, among other outreach activities. I associate with ‘62, my original class, before spending a year in Norway senior year
1963 Jane (Gowling) Cassady
I live in the spruce wood on McGoff Hill above the town of Lyndon (22 years)and work(15 years)at the Lyndon Town School(K-8)in the Northeast Kingdom of VT. I have three children: Jacqueline married with three children living in CT; Cynthia DVM just married with two step-sons in NV; and Michael who’ll be a senior at U AZ in Tucson this fall. I keep busy with tennis (USTA), volleyball, snowshoeing, kayaking, and hiking.
1963 Thomas P. Hustad
Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University: Graduate business education, product management; wrote notes for 3 CDs by jazz cornetist Ruby Braff and book on Braff’s career to be published by Inst. of Jazz Studies. Teachers Bechtle, Szendrey, Hartman, Belk, Halvorsen, Jepson left implicit obligation: after taking, give back.
1963 James W. Morford
I have been divorced for nine years now, save for two with Yana Alexandranova Miranova, a Russian beauty -an expensive sidebar in my life. I remain living in Phoenix with “Maui,” my 11-year-old Blue and Gold McCaw, with whom I have been entrapped since he was a wee one in Hawaii in 1995. I continue to develop health care projects both in the United States and abroad (women’s hospitals/imaging centers/surgery centers/clinical laboratories.) One of my recent companies, Aurora Predictive Medicine, is hanging on tenuously (see www.auroramedicine.com ). It has saved lives and could save countless more if I could develop the correct marketing strategy. The “about us” section is really all about me, if you were interested in knowing more about what I have done with my life. My son, Jim Jr. is a pilot in the Air Force (he learned to fly with me in our Twin Cessna when he was 14) and my daughter Melissa just earned her MBA at St. Thomas, is happily married and working for Carlson Companies. I know not what I will do in my next chapter of life, but I think it will probably involve two of my passions -flying and photography. I am considering spending four months in Argentina this coming winter 2006 -2007 (their summer) flying low and slow taking thousands of photographs from the air from the Andes to the Atlantic, perhaps for a coffee table book. For samples of my photography go to: www.onemodelplace. com and enter “member number” 93986. Anyone up for a trip down south?
1963 Marcia Mae Peterson Olson
In 2001 I quit my job and traveled with my husband internationally. He quit his high-stress job in 2003; we sold our house in Minnetonka and now live in a lovely little house on 160 acres in the big pine woods of north-central MN. Jim collects tractors and plays with them, he “builds things” and goes to coffee six mornings a week in our tiny town of 65 people. I’m a rep. for international exchange students, ring English handbells in two churches in different towns, sing in a community choir and belong to a variety of clubs and organizations plus tend my flower and veggie gardens, the dogs, “designer/decor” chickens and three horses. I can always “just say no” and sleep in if I choose to do that. I’m also reading my way through the piles of novels that have been waiting for me for so many years. I’ve considered substitute teaching in some of the small towns around us, but so far I’ve managed to sacrifice that opportunity.
1963 Michael Scott
Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles; teach intellectual property and technology law courses. I have three children, Michael, Cindal and Derek, and am a published author.
1964 Gail Hughes, Ph.D.
Dr. Hughes has an eclectic, interdisciplinary background. She served as a high school English/Speech teacher in Portland, Oregon, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho (where she taught secondary school English)and an Independent Volunteer in Botswana(where she taught Development Studies). She has also been a Program Evaluator with the Minnesota Community College System, where she conducted holistic rating assessments and constructed the Critical Thinking Interview, an adaptive interview to assess students’ critical thinking skills. Dr. Hughes presently teaches courses in Interdisciplinary Social Science, Sociology, and Global Education at St. Cloud State University. She also teaches graduate level courses in critical thinking, program evaluation, and adult education in the School of Education at Capella University. Dr. Hughes received her Bachelors Degree in English/ Speech Education from the University of Minnesota. After her stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer, she returned to the U of MN for a Masters and Ph.D. in Curriculum Systems, an interdisciplinary educational program planning area. Upon graduation, she spent a year at the East-West Center in Hawaii on a Post-Doctoral Research Internship. She went to Cuba in May on a Global Exchange program for professional educators.
1965 Robert Balch
Resident of Tybee Island, Georgia, since 1997
1965 Betty (Howe, Larson) Beddows
My husband, Carl and I recently moved from Ocala, Fl to Inman, SC. We are enjoying our new home with views of the Blue Ridge Mts.
1965 Cheryl Gelbmann
Graduated Gustavus ‘69 with BA in Nursing, Public Health nurse/ educator, moved to Brainerd with husband, Jim, Family Practice Doctor in ‘75 to start Brainerd Medical center. Started own company in ‘82, Impart, a resource for meetings and events. Elected Crow Wing County Commissioner ‘91-’94. Two kids Jane and Dan grown and doing well. Now thinking of slowing down with more fishing from our home on the Mississippi and travel.
1965 Greg Immel
I reside outside of Dallas and work for Hanson Pipe & Precast in their Financial Department as the Corporate Credit Manager. I finally received an Economics Degree from the University of Texas at Dallas after attending St. Johns in Collegeville Minnesota for two years. I had a serious hunting injury that forced me out of school and delayed my life quite a few years. I recovered and I have been married for 36 years to a Cloquet, Minnesota girl named Sue Lumppio. We have two kids: Erin who is 26 and has her masters in business and accounting from Texas A&M and Stephen who is 20 and attending Colorado School of Mines, taking mechanical engineering courses and playing football on a scholarship. He has grown to 6’6” and 340 pounds. Sure wish he would have had a chance to play for Edina. As a transfer student I found Edina and in particular the school the best part of my early life in the 60’s. Great education, sports and friends. Never will forget.
1965 Sandra Berlin Johnson
Ten years now working for Insight, sberlin@insight.com. Bruce Berlin, a 1965 graduate of Edina also, and I were married 25 years and have 4 sons...4 grandsons and recently the first granddaughter. All our sons graduated from ASU and live here. I have been living in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona since 1969.
1965 Kim Toepel Medin
I have retired, as has my husband, but I feel almost busier than when I was working. I volunteer at least four days a week doing a variety of things. I work with young girls at the YWCA trying to interest them in math and science and show them that those subjects can be fun. We make bubble gum and lip gloss. I volunteer at a place that helps rehab mammals, song birds, and waterfowl, and at a homeless shelter for kids and their parent/s. When summer rolls around, my husband and I start camping, mostly in the Black Hills and the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, and at some of the State Parks in Minnesota.. We also do a little sailing on Lake of the Woods.
1965 Joan McCord Mills
Recently received my doctorate in education from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and am currently working as the principal of Powers Ferry Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia.
1965 William Zollars
Currently Chairman, President and CEO of YRC Worldwide a $10 billion Fortune 500 company located in Kansas City-reside in Leawood Kansas with my wife Beth and son Austin.
1966 John Bergquist
Current Executive Vice President/ General Manager of the Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association, responsible for Sales and Marketing for the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Convention Center. Retired from the position of Director of Operations for the City of Minneapolis, after 31 years. Married to Elaine Bergquist, no children, and currently sharing time between homes in Northern Minnesota, Arizona and Minneapolis.
1966 Scott Drum
I currently work as a venture capital manager, Acorn Ventures, and live in Seattle and Tucson.
1966 Julie Febres
I retired from teaching foreign languages and English 5 years ago. I lived in Houston, TX, for six years with my children, but I currently work for the Teacher Federal Credit Union of Minnesota. I have three grown children and three grandchildren, but by October I expect to have five grandkids! My children’s work takes them abroad from time to time and a few months ago not one of them was in the U.S. We all like to travel when we can, to Europe and South America.
1966 Edward Griffith
I am a Quality Systems Consultant in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
1966 John “Scoop” Hobbs
Lives in Tulare, California, south central San Joaquin Valley,45 miles south of Fresno and about the same distance west of the entrance to Sequoia National Park) with his wife of twenty years, Lucretia, and fifteen year-old son, Max. Lucretia is an elementary school teacher and Max is a football and baseball jock, in his freshman year at Tulare Western High School. Has spent the better part of his work-a-day life/ professional career in nonprofit organization management, including chambers of commerce, trade associations and economic development agencies in California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Florida and back to California. He is currently employed as the Director of Major Fund Development for the Boys & Girls Club of Exeter, California. Has maintained close contact with classmates Dick Weigel and Jack Stewart and hopes to renew old friendships at his class’s 40th reunion.....IF there is one.
1966 Rosalind Wahlroos Hoglund
I’ve been wondering about our 40th class reunion. I’m presently residing in South Australia with a gentleman I met (gasp) on the internet and we’ve been a couple for about eight years. It’s an interesting story. Ten years ago, I was an agent for the Minnesota Dept. of Corrections. Since then, I earned an M.A. in Counseling and Psychological Services and am licensed as a psychologist in Minnesota. Unfortunately, my credentials are not fully recognized here and I’m exploring the underside of Australian alternative mental health care and enjoying snow-free winters.
1967 Bob Downs
I continue to teach and coach girls basketball at Chaska and with my wife have served as emergency foster home in Carver County to over 300 teenagers.
1967 Stephen E. Henderson
Retired in 2005 after 30+ years with 3M Company. I now live in the mountains of Breckenridge, Colorado.
1967 William (Bill) Dale Hunt
Live in New Brighton, married for 36 years with 2 grown sons, one getting married this July. Career in commercial lighting business since ‘70, currently CEO of Great Lakes Electric, an electrical wholesale company -we have done jobs from IDS Tower in Mpls to all 43 Rainforest Cafes, along with new T-Rex theme parks going up in Kansas City and Disney.
1967 Craig Nienaber
After working as Buzzette sports editor his senior year(1966-67), Craig Nienaber is still in journalism working as the government editor at The Kansas City Star. He also recently authored the book, “Flower Gardening in Kansas City.”
1967 Scott Simpson
My wife Yin, and I,just finished being mentored for two years by Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author, and Robert Allen, Nothing Down -real estate investment trainer. They brought in all the top trainers they have worked with over the years to teach us how to build successful businesses and services with passion. They also taught us the importance of gifting back to the community through our favorite charities and non-profits. I’m using all I have learned to help people make a successful transition to retirement, legacy planning, and to take the worry out of creating income for life. We are excited to apply what we have learned and do all we can to make a difference for others. I am very grateful for all of my teachers, mentors, and friends at Edina. Edina gave me a great foundation to launch from. Thanks for keeping the Spirit Alive! Life is Good and Getting Better.
1967 Mike Sullivan
I am employed by Clear Channel Radio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. After over 25 years as a Morning Show D-J and journalist, I got into sales and management, but I still also manage to follow my first love, doing play-by-play. Some of the first games I did were recorded into an old reel-to-reel machine at Braemar Arena. Since then, I have done over 2800 games, mostly involving local high school and college teams. I have also done some free-lancing for Michigan State and Wisconsin and even got to do a Minnesota State High School Hockey Tournament game between Edina and Hastings several years ago. My wife, Kris, and I have been married for 29 years. Our daughter, Katie, is a UW-Eau Claire graduate who hopes to author a million-selling novel someday. I was glad to see that two of my favorite teachers were inducted into the Edina Alumni Hall of Fame. Richard Scanlan and Everett Anderson made an impact on virtually every student they contacted. And, yes, I can still recite the Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Olde English and the opening lines of the Aeneid. I would be glad to reconnect with other late ‘60’s alums. And please visit my website which is a history of high school hockey in Eau Claire .... www.sullivanet.com/echockey
1968 Art Erdall
Married(Janet), with 3 kids-all Edina Graduates-Jeff(99), Brad(00), Katie(03). Jeff is soon to be a Father which will make me a grandfather -WOW! I am a Manufacturers Representative, and also an Assistant Varsity Girls Lacrosse Coach at Edina High School. I reside in Edina.
1968 Val Frank
I am living back here in Minneapolis after living in Santa Fe, NM for several years. After graduating from the Mpls. College of Art and Design I became a professional artist, finally doing my graduate work at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. Besides being a painter, I teach art at the University of Minnesota, The College of Visual Arts, and the College of Saint Catherine. The only person I keep in touch with from my high school days is Guy Drake (1969) and his wife Nan, who have become dear friends. The next exhibition my work will open at the College of Visual Arts Gallery in St. Paul on Aug 31st.
1968 Al (Tim) Halseth
The past three years I’ve guided fisherman on the White River and North Fork River for German Brown Trout, Cutthroat Trout and Rainbow Trout. Spring Turkey season just ended. I brought six hunters out, and they harvested 11 turkeys. Last fall, I brought hunters out, that harvested 15 bucks, 28 does, more than 20 Big Gobblers, 3035 jakes and we shot quit a few Bobwhite Quail. I’m still in the Ozark Mountain, in the town of Mountain Home, Arkansas. Semper Fidelas.
1968 Penny Eaton Hammond
I am the Associate Director of Admissions at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault. This is combining my insurance sales background and human resources degree.
1968 Robert Scott Pollock
I have been with my firm, The Vogelin Company since 1973. I still enjoy big parties, sailing (ocean and lake) and travel. Life is good!
1968 Hayes Roth
Have been living & working (Chief Marketing Officer, Landor Associates) in Manhattan since 1982; have a great wife, 3 kids, a dog, cat & 2 parakeets and consider myself extremely fortunate in every way. Go Hornets!
1968 Stephen (Steve) Silha
Greetings, Hornet alums. I’m amazed at how many folks I meet who have connections with Edina. Recently, I facilitated a think tank on the future of journalism, and a guy from Grand Rapids, Minnesota’s community radio station, KAXE, reminded me about Willard Ikola and the amazing hockey legacy of Edina. I’m president of the Washington News Council (one of two in the country, including Minnesota), and facilitate workshops on journalism and media that matters. All the best, Good News/Good Deeds: Citizen Effectiveness in the Age of Electronic Democracy
1968 Sharon Braxton Harrington
Although I live in Minnetonka with my husband, Pat Ridgely, I stay tied to my Edina roots by singing with and serving on the board of the Edina Chorale and Chamber Chorale and by enjoying summer quality time with my mother, who spends summers in an Edina condo. The Edina Chorale performed a beautiful Mozart concert with the Edina High School Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra this spring. I have worked in the facilities organization at Medtronic for 18 years, currently as process and quality manager. My present responsibilities include leading Lean Sigma efforts, ensuring Sarbanes Oxley compliance, managing client satisfaction, and generally directing process improvement efforts in the facilities department. Outside of work, I enjoy singing, gardening, golf, bridge, book club, genealogy, travel, outdoor activities in general, and any time with family and friends.
1968 Skip Thomas
1974 Univ. of Minnesota Grad and M man in hockey at the U. Still live in Edina with my wife of 24 years, Debbie. Have 3 boys: John 2002 Edina will graduate from Univ. of Wisconsin, Stout in 2007. Michael 2005 Edina and a freshman at Normandale College. Stephen 2006 Edina and going to the Univ. of Kansas. I am selling real estate for ReMax Results and am a Platinum producer--top 1/2 of 1% top producers in the US and was just put into the ReMax Hall of Fame. My wife works with me as well as substitute teaches at Edina. I coached Edina park board football, soccer, hockey, basketball & baseball teams for 18 years, I am on the Board of Directors for the Edina Chamber of Commerce, have 12 years perfect attendance for the Edina Noon Rotary Club, member of Christ Presbyterian Church, have been delivering Meals on Wheels to Edina residents for the last 10 years and am on the Edina Housing Committee.
1968 Robert (Bob) D. Thomson
I’ve been working for 3M for the last 34 years and am an Area Sales Manager for the Automotive Aftermarket located in Denver.
1969 Rob Britton
Managing Director, Brand Development and Advertising, responsible for brand stewardship, worldwide media advertising, direct marketing, promotion, and customer research. He has spent thirty-seven years in and near the travel and tourism industry, in a variety of roles. Rob earned a Ph.D. in economic geography from the University of Minnesota, and completed his postdoctoral work at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He held staff and field positions with Republic Airlines and Northwest Airlines. Rob joined American in 1987, and has held positions inmarketing,international affairs,corporate communications, and operations. He has published over 60 articles in major newspapers and magazines, in travel-trade publications, and in academic journals. At American, he has written extensively, especially 1993-1996, when he was Director-International Affairs, and 1996-98, when he led the Corporate Communications team. Originally a geography professor, he returns to academia frequently, as a lecturer at business schools on five continents, including Kellogg, UT-Austin, USC Marshall, Rotman (Toronto), Judge Business School at Cambridge University, INSEAD,
U. Católica (Santiago, Chile), Shanghai Jiaotong, and the Australian Graduate School of Management; he serves on advisory boards of Cornell University Hotel School; Marketing at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin;and the Business School at Umeå University, Sweden. Rob is a team leader of the Dallas Ramp Project (the group builds wheelchair ramps for people who cannot afford them), and a board member of the American Airlines Federal Credit Union.
1969 Christopher Johnson
Classical Guitarist...teaches and tours for SD Arts Council...Formerly Assistant Prof. of music at the Univ. of South Dakota for 12 years. Commercial Pilot....Corporate customers/aircraft..Was with NWAL ‘89-’92. Glass Artist....Fused and leaded glass. Works displayed and sold in numerous galleries and commercial and residential installations throughout the US.
1969 Greg Scherer
I moved to the Olympic Peninsula in 1990 from Seattle Washington where I finished up college at the University of Washington in 1972 . I relocated to this incredible area of mountains and water to open my own retail business: Pacific Rim Hobby. I’m celebrating 16 years of self employment, thoroughly enjoying my waterfront business location and working my home-acre in Sequim Washington, complete with greenhouse, fruit trees and vegetable garden.
1969 Carol Spongberg
I am currently a kindergarten teacher in Marysville, Washington. I teach with another Edina grad, Barb Tucker (Hale) from the class of 68. I live in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. I am married to David Carroll and we have two sons, Andrew, 20, and Ben 17.
1969 Laurel Partridge-Andersen
My husband & I moved from Lake Minnetonka 1-1/2 years ago to Ko’Olina, Oahu Hawaii. I am managing the Picture Framing Distribution Division for Martin & MacArthur here in Honolulu. The job of manufacturing Koa mouldings and distributing framing supplies to Hawaii, the mainland, Guam & Kwajelin is very interesting and enables me to travel to the other islands and the mainland often. We love the ocean, the people and the relaxed lifestyle....but the educational system is lacking so I am glad we do not have any grandchildren requiring schooling here. Our five children are scattered all over the US (none landed in Edina!) Oh, & one more thing: I’m running in my first marathon -Grandma’s, in Duluth this June
1969 Deborah Williams
I am currently a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser on the Island of Maui (Hawaii). My parents, grandmother and brother moved to Maui in 1985 after my father retired. I joined the family a little later. I began my career as an interior designer, graduating from the University of Minnesota in design, and working in the business for about 20 years. I have been working as an appraiser for about 13 years, so I think I am just about ready to retire now.
1969 Deb (Debbie Crask) Riekman
I am presently still in solo chiropractic practice, 26 years, and my daughter and her husband will be joining me in September. I have three grandsons that crack me up often. I am in Colorado Springs and both my sisters and parents live nearby and are all well. I am still single, widowed in ‘98, and enjoy a great deal of skiing, still dancing and traveling. I want to say hi to all my classmates. Hard to believe you all got so old. All the best.
1969 William Thompson
After graduating from St. Olaf College in 1973, I worked as a professional musician before taking advantage of my psychology major. I spent about 10 years teaching special education in Minneapolis Public Schools before entering the real estate profession. I’m into my 18th year as a Realtor and am currently a partner and former managing partner with the Edina office of Counselor Realty. I am married to Gael McConneloug of Edina, and we have a son, 19, who just started his sophomore year at (you guessed it) St. Olaf, where he is on the Dean’s list. I still play with blues and R&B groups around the area for fun,and enjoy sports and visiting old Edina people.
