University High School Class of 1980 Reunion
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This forum is open to any and all. Leave messages, notes, thoughts for the next reunion, quotes, wishes or whatever else that you'd like to share with UHS Class of 1980. Post a note to a long lost friend who might visit this page someday. If you want to place a message on this web page, click here. or send me a post card at my home address. Funny that so many of us should end up in the Boulder, CO area. I moved here with my husband, Michael and our little boy Wills. We live about 15 minutes north of Boulder in Lyons, Colorado. Laura (Merwin) Priess,
sorta class of '84  My name is Melinda Leonard
and I came across this website of your graduating class of 1980
and to my surprise found myself reading up on some old familiar
faces. I attended Metcalf from third to sixth grade and in reading
about these former classmates of long ago, it awakened some nice
memories of growing up as a kid in Illinois and attending Metcalf.
I recall belonging to the Class B section, remembering each grade
was separated into A and B. Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Allen were
two teachers I remember well. Bessy
Proctor, Amy Parmantie and
Buffy Allen were familiar names as were Delesa Suggs, Octavia Allen, Randy
Asper, Marc Liberta, David Watson, Annie Berlo, Mark Drew and Laura
Merwin. I mention the above names hoping to stir your memory
as I do not assume that you will remember me but hope
it conjures up some history and updates that you would be willing
to share with me. Jackson Harding, AFS Australian exchange student
during 1978-79, writes: I'm an anaesthesiologist in a major university teaching hospital in Adelaide. I'm heavily involved in pre-hospital trauma care and the retrieval of critically ill patients from remote areas. This means I spend a lot of time in helicopters and small aircraft. I also get to take sick tourists home from Australia and bring sick Aussies back home. In fact next month I'm taking a 2 year old kiddie for a specialised transplant in Omaha. 5 day jaunt there and back with one night in LA and one in Omaha, no time for sightseeing and only one day to recover from the jet lag when I get home. Also joined the Australian Army and they have allowed me to participate in their extensive travel plan, where you go to exotic locations, meet the local inhabitants and then take pot shots at them on 5 occasions. I've been to Rwanda, Papua New Guinea (twice), Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and East Timor. Married, divorced, married
again. 2 stepsons, large dog (four legged kind, not the wife).
House out in the bush with a family of koalas that pay occasional
visits to the back yard. Hello there Class of '80 folks! This is Julia Boaz Chase, UHS Class of '81. You will not believe this, but I now have an office right next door to your amazing Class of '80 web master right in here in beautiful Boulder, Colorado! (I can hear Dave Sutherland through the wall when he starts to get out of control with those nature walk rehearsals and, you know, he REALLY gets into character when he talks about animal bones, etc!) I support the City of Boulder Open Space & Mountain Parks as a legal assistant, working primarily on real estate deals. I really enjoy my work, but need to make more time to go on Dave's nature walks because that is what living here is all about! My husband, John, and I do love to hike and mountain bike. This summer, we are planning to move to the mountains outside of Boulder and our dream is to build an energy efficient solar home up there. I moved out to Colorado after my 10-year U-High reunion which was great because I got re-acquainted with Jim Brown and John White both of whom lived out here at the time. Before that, I lived in Dallas where I worked as a social worker and went to paralegal school. I went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where I majored in Sociology. Special "hellos" to Janet (Heidloff) Profilet and Karen Rude (How are my former tennis buddies doing? I still play, but would like to play more often. How about you?) Hi there, Deli Suggs (I remember the fun times playing b-ball and hope you are doing well.) Hello to Steve Cushman (Dave remembers when I accompanied the youth group at the Unitarian Church. I need to apologize that I didn't practice more for that one! Happy to hear you are doing so well.) Hello Todd Vohland. (Glad to hear you enjoy your work as a teacher. How is Mike doing? My brother, Andrew and his wife, Jenn, are expecting twins any day now! They are living in Chicago area and my folks live downtown now.) To everyone: With your web master/guru's help, I may try to help the Class of '81 put a website together too! So, keep an eye out for it later this year (I think the Class of '81 reunion may be happening around Homecoming weekend.) Take care. I can be reached at chasej@ci.boulder.co.us Desperately seeking
Jeff Grant and Sue Weldon Grant.
What ever became of you? How about Brad Hauskins,
or Joe Hoane? Please drop me a line from this
web page. Hi Dave, just wanted to thank you for the great website you put up for UHS. I just found it the other day and enjoyed reading about so many old friends. Even though I didn't graduate with you guys, I feel more a part of your class than the Florida class I graduated with after only 1 1/2 years down there. I live in Flagstaff,
AZ, and never want to leave here. Still get back to BN to visit
once in a while, but like we say, it's a good place to be from.
I work for Speedo, mostly managing our Triathlon business. Anyway,
take care. I look forward to seeing reunion pics on the site
someday. For Amy P
and Delesa S: I had a great time at our reunion and it was wonderful to see everyone else again! I find myself thinking about that weekend a lot and hope some of us will stay in contact in the future. Take care! Love, Reflections on our 20th: Many of us now have spouses and kids, which resulted in much common ground. People whom I could barely approach in high school laughed and swapped stories about their children. The fact that we all found so much enjoyment in our classmates' families speaks well of us all, I think: we are in touch with each other in the present, not stuck in dusty memories of the past. Snapshots: Shannon Bunke's husband Earl joining me for tequila shots and
speaking Spanish (he reminded me of many great friends in Latin
America); Sue Nygaard looking tall and svelte and beautiful
and getting lots of attention from the guys; Jeff Niepagen
up and dancing with the "BBB" girls, er, I mean women;
the hug from Lynn that brought tears to my eyes;
Todd McElroy's lovely twins, and Scuitto's teenagers pasting me with water balloons at the
picnic; meeting Scuitto's wife, whom I knew in kindergarten,
and sharing mutual memories from that long-vanished time; cooking
Chinese for Buffy and her sisters and all their kids;
Joel's wonderful wife Kim,
who fit right into the class (she did us all proud as an "honorary
Class of '80" member). There were lots of other wonderful
memories: too many to list here. I think a 25th in somewhere
other than Normal would be very cool. Especially, for spouses.
I know my husband would go crazy to go to Phoenix and play golf.
Who all lives there? I think having a 25th
reunion in Phoenix is a great idea. Although I'm about 2 hours
from there (Flagstaff) I would be glad to help with finding a
site and other local legwork. I'm usually back and forth to the
airport a couple times a month for work, and we spend time down
there for football and baseball games. When the time comes, please
let me know what I can do to help. I'd also be glad to serve
as tour guide for northern AZ. The Grand Canyon is about 70 miles
from Flagstaff where I live, and Sedona is 1/2 hour drive. There's
also lots of great hiking/biking/camping/skiing (if the timing
is right) opportunities around here. I have copies of all of the Clarionette school newspapers from 1980; I did not locate them in time for the reunion. I have been practicing scanning some of them with mixed results. I don't know if you would be interested in putting any of those on the website. --Mark Mittelstaedt What do our readers say to that? --Dave Sutherland While going through
an old box of papers, I found that little piece that Lynn Jesse wrote at the last big party at Clay Hankin's and Jeff Grant's apartment at the end of the summer in 1980, before
we all went our separate ways to our next great adventures. It
was taped to Clay and Jeff's refrigerator. For the record here
it is as an 18-year old Lynn saw it: "Good Times" What am I doing? Where
am I going? I'll remember. . . . I (like REO) know it
hurts to say good-bye. love to all -- XXOO |
E-mail comments / suggestions / updates to Dave Sutherland at sutherlandD@ci.boulder.co.us
