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Occupation:  retired
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  2
Number of Grandchildren:  3
Contact Status:  Registered (10/1/08)
Family Information (Great-Grandchildren, Nieces, Nephews, Pets, Etc.):
I love having time with my grandchildren. While at home, two cats and a collie-sheltie mix keep me busy.
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My business keeps me volunteering several hours a week. I'm also involved in our newly formed neighborhood watch. Although I've seen much of the US, and a little of South America, I experienced my travel dreams in 2007 when on a cultural tour of Butan, Nepal, and Tibet.
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Turns out that a girl who grew up living in two houses on the same street has loved living in many places as an adult. I graduated from Albion and married a naval officer. While he was at sea, I taught 5th grade in Norfolk. By 1967, we were in Washington, DC and our first son was born. In 1970, our second son was born on Okinawa. I eventually returned to teaching as a substitute at our neighborhood northwest Chicago-suburb elementary school. For the number of days I worked, I could have been hired to work full-time. I declined. By early 1979, we were divorced, the schools were closed due to massive snow accumulation, and I needed a non-teaching job. During my work-life, there have been two focuses. The education piece prepared me to be a trainer for a steel service center and to teach/direct a total of three massage therapy school programs. They were located in Greensboro, Santa Fe, and Tampa. I came full circle and returned to teaching 5th grade, ending my work life satisfied and exhausted. The business piece prepared me to create and direct a non-profit in 2007. My retirement involves the daily activities of maintaining a small house where out-of-town families can stay while a critically ill family member is hospitalized at one of four local hospitals. I'm keeping it simple and am responsible for everything - cleaning to fund raising. While my life was evolving, I've remained a proud mom. Our first son has his PhD and is teaching at a central Florida university while maintaining an addiction therapy and family counseling practice. He and his wife have a daughter and son. Our second son works as a graphic artist in Chicago and is a jazz trombonist playing with Cheer Accident for fun. He and his wife have a one-year old son. I make it a point to see both families 4 or 5 times a year. I fly a lot! I have finally settled in one place and am very satisfied and complete. Life is great.
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Contact Status:  Registered (10/4/06)
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Contact Status:  Contact Information Verified (3/17/07)

Occupation:  retired teacher
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
Spouse Name (GPHS Class):  Tim
Number of Grandchildren:  3
Contact Status:  Registered (3/26/07)
Family Information (Great-Grandchildren, Nieces, Nephews, Pets, Etc.):
Tim and I retired, after 30 yrs. teaching, to our farm in Northern Michigan. We have owned the 145 acre farm for 38 yrs. and have always enjoyed coming here for the summers. We are delighted to not have to make the trip down I75 anymore. Our sons, both married to lovely women, are in New York City and in Raleigh, NC. Pete, in NYC has his own photo touch up business for fashion photography. (hannert.com) . Geoff has his own business in NC making wedding invitations and doing graphic art free lance work. (http://www.renaissancewritings.com ) Both do very well and are happy with their work and families. Geoff has 2 children and Peter has 1. We have a very relaxed dog named Molly, a Golden Retriever. (aren't they all that way?)
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I am busy doing lots of things: Drive the Meals on Wheels truck one morning per week, tutor a high school girl, president of Bellaire Lionesses for the coming year, garden club president last year, on the Kearney Township planning commission, help at the blood drives, work the track meets at the high school, past president of the Bellaire Literary Club, started a Antrim County Democratic Women's group, and bowl in the Senior Bowling league (in second place right now). We love to travel, mostly to kids and grandkids, but have been to Italy and Ireland lately. Hobbies are; knitting, gardening, and piano. I work out 3 days a week at the cardiac rehab gym as I had a double by-pass in September of '05. Doing fine now, never felt better!! Tim is just as busy: making Maple syrup right now, just retired from the director of Three Lakes Association (water quality non-profit), building a wooden single shell rowing boat, has a pool league at our house for the winter months, and will be raising sheep this summer.
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I'm delighted to see this happen for our class. Thanks to those responsible. I'd love to hear from any of you. I often wonder what some of you are doing now and where you are.
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Occupation:  Librarian
Website:  lindahall.org
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  3
Number of Grandchildren:  1
Contact Status:  Registered (4/13/07)
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I have a daughter, 34 and twin sons who are 31. Luckily for me they all live in the Kansas City area. I share my home with 2 dogs, a White Shepherd and a Shepherd mix.
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I volunteer to babysit my 16-month-old grandson all the time. I have traveled with my family to Alaska, Europe and Scandinavia. My library has sent me to more exotic locations such as Istanbul and the Crimea to meet with our exchange partners.
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I received my MS degree in library science from UM in 1966. Since then, I have worked at several public libraries, the Univ. of Notre Dame and have been at the  Linda Hall Library since 1983 - must be time to retire soon. I work with our international exchange partners - especially those in the former Soviet Union. Recently, I started working with our electronic resources (databases, e-books and electronic serials).
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Occupation:  Environmental Engineering 
Consultant
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  3
Spouse Name (GPHS Class):  Connie
Number of Grandchildren:  8
Contact Status:  Contact Information Verified (3/12/07)
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Am still very active in the environmental engineering consulting arena with no plans to retire for a variety of reasons. So far, so good from health and general welfare standpoints. We are very blessed in our family for which we give thanks daily.
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I haven't had much time to spend on this website until now.  I'm amazed at how complete and well-done it is.  Karen Allport and any others who have contributed to it are to be highly complimented.
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Occupation:  Artist Representative
Website:  hedgereps.com
Marital Status:  Single
Contact Status:  Registered (10/7/06)
Family Information (Great-Grandchildren, Nieces, Nephews, Pets, Etc.):
8 rescued cats of varying ages, mostly "seniors", plus a 9th I feed at the nearby Disney Imagineering "campus". Equestrian neighborhood zoned for horses, but the only horse that's occupied my property is the big warmblood belonging to a girlfriend, who boarded here 4 years. He was my "bud", as was her Portugese Water Dog. Lots 'o possums, raccoons, skunks, and gophers at night, and a team of red squirrels I feed every day out back. My brother Mike ('64, now runs Hedge & Co. marketing and PR on the west side) has two grown daughters of whom I am proud, one in D. C. working for a nonprofit peaceful-solutions teaching thinktank, and the other a Melbourne (Australia) photo grad assisting a top Chicago photographer.
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For nine of the 10 years owning a home in Glendale, which sits right next door to Los Angeles and Burbank in the shadow of the Verdugo Mountains and near the Los Angeles River, I've been president of the local homeowners association I helped form. Our equestrian part of town seemed underserved, and impacted by commercial interests, mainly the movie studios. I volunteered for several city council campaigns, served on resident liaison committees, scrutinized EIRs, helped save our hillsides from overdevelopment, and helped promote a "smart" redevelopment project for our downtown. The local rag prints my letters, and I've grown accustomed to working with city staff to get things done. It's compounded due to living right on the border between L. A. and Glendale, so I'm often dealing with both cities. Hiking the region's many trails, membership in the Sierra Club, TreePeople, Defenders of Wildlife, and various humane groups, rounds things out.
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It's been a loooong road, and I oughta write a book: ("...well, I was in my mid-20s in the mid-'60s in the Nation's capitol...so you know what THAT means..." is how I usually begin).

After getting the journalism degree at Wayne State I fled Detroit for Washington D.C. A radio station job barely fulfilled career intentions, so I quit and waited tables in a Georgetown college beer joint, and danced with the live bands (fully-clothed, very "interpretive dance" a la Audrey Hepburn). One night a cute customer guy asked me, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" When he learned I was an out-of-work budding newspaper writer, he promised to go back to The Evening Star newspaper, where he was a city news reporter, and inquire! He was at the club covering a band because his side job for the Star was that of pop music columnist! Shortly, I was working on the "Women's Page" of the Pulitzer-winning hot paper whose only competition was the Washington Post, and dating Ronnie to boot! We were buds with Carl Bernstein (Woodward and Bernstein). Dating the future record-company exec meant lots of nights backstage (James Brown), in dressing rooms and motels (The Yardbirds and Frank Zappa), and at concert venues (Stevie Wonder) where he interviewed the top rock acts, including his fave, Motown and R&B giants. I even helped interview the Beatles when they played the stadium--what a night! (In those days, recall, they had "Women's Pages" or "society" sections. In D.C. that was punched up a notch to include embassy news, Capitol Hill wives, and the East Wing of The White House!)

Two years later on a slow day, I asked our East Wing beat reporter what it "took" to get a job in the White House. Two weeks later, armed with FBI clearance, I interviewed for a spot on Lady Bird Johnson's press staff headed by Liz Carpenter, a tough Texan who's run Carpenter News Service with her husband, covering Lyndon's career for years back there. In fact, I was the only non-Texan on the staff, and the work was hard and long, including tending to Lynda's correspondence, helping prep the First Lady's many media-accompanied trips to promote her issues (Head Start, historic preservation, and early environmental protections such as the effort to save national seashores with Interior Secretary Stuart Udall.)

A year later, agonizingly, I quit. Partly to get a job with more writing, but truly because the Vietnam war was looming large. When the work day would end, I'd return to a cute garden apartment near Dupont Circle to chat with a group, mostly University of Maryland grads, writers, and so on, who intensely debated issue and the antiwar movement. The White House work became difficult to reconcile, especially in light of the TV war coverage, body counts, secret bombings, etcetera. In the mix were the "race riots", one of which started in Detroit as a trip home was winding down, and another experienced back in the Nation's capitol. That, and the fact that White House jobs mean no sleep, and I was exhausted.

I graciously moved on to the "antipoverty program," taking a public affairs spot at the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) headed by Sargent Shriver (yes, Maria's dad). I had a black boss who was a writer and grew up with John Coltrane, and a closet full of Nikons and was told to learn to shoot. That led to community action program site assignments (rural North Carolina, Harlem ghettos, and a self-help commune in Silver City NV), plus I set up the most comprehensive social-issues stock photo file at that time in the country, containing incredible coverage by top photojournalists. And helped write OEO reports for Congress.

A couple of years later, with a public television stint squeezed in, my "mad" Yugoslav artist husband with whom I'd eloped, and I, packed it all in, sick of Washington and the war protests that had grown ugly and the advent of Nixon, like so many others, and headed west "with flowers in our hair". Having been to Woodstock, we looked forward to camping across the country, even staying a few days in a New Mexico commune where we lost our cat but not our beloved Samoyed, and three months later drove wearily into San Francisco. Dear D.C. friends from a wealthy arts-patron family in Marin County loaned us Eden-like quarters in the wine country for a bit, then housed us again in the large Sausalito home of their grandmother, also wealthy and brilliant. The deal was free rent in return for Yuri's being caretaker and me being her cook! Loved it. But the mad artist was restive, angry, and wanted his East Coast artist life back. Was it my sitting on Jim Morrison's lap among fans during his gig break, or the backstage visit with Van Morrison? Ahhh, the Morrisons in my life.

Zip, I was alone, got a divorce solo, and in one week, left marriage behind, found a home for the dog, left Sausalito for the City by the Bay, got a car, got a job, and moved into a Victorian flat with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and a Look Magazine gal editorial aide. Look cornered me for a photo in a story on young folk who leave small towns (?) for big cities, and why. San Fran employment was spotty, and played oddly against a background that included Pacific Heights scions, North Beach poets, cablecars, fog, and all that beauty at one's fingertips. I even commuted to Sunnyvale to help tech-write defense industry proposals (me, the mercenary), and later to Palo Alto as the photo editor for the A-V unit of a textbook division of Chicago's Field Enterprises. There, I hired and collaborated with top talent for award-winning high school filmstrip kits. There were stretches of unemployment, but in those hippie days, that wasn't too frowned upon, and events in Golden Gate Park and the Fillmore.

Finally, after learning the ropes in the office of a successful corporate and travel photog where I ran his stock photo library, I left to open my own agency, and eventually took on pro fashion and food photogs to represent. In 1976, a coterie of shooters, models, stylists, and reps all moved to Los Angeles to boost the action, and as challenging as that was, it was a wise move. Twenty years in a pink stucco '40s Hollywood courtyard apartment full of writers, actors, and musicians, as its manager, while aggressively landing ad campaigns, record covers, movie posters, and packaging work for photographers, then illustrators, flew by. It was party-hearty, typical late '70s-all '80s-early '90s hilarity, a couple of BMWs, travel, gallery openings, parties in the hills, famous names, and so on. Aerobics, disco, and all the rest.

By '96, with several years of horseback riding under my saddle, it was time to get into home ownership during the very-down market then. I closed escrow on Halloween on a charming old ranch house with matching stables and detached garage, hardwood floors and plantation shutters, central air, working fireplace, beautiful trees, 3 BD/2BA "B&B", very Will Rogers ambience, and perfect for all my Navajo rugs, cowboy crafts, and other native/Third World stuff. Small, but embraced by a white picket fence and in view of Griffith Park's mountain, oaks, and sycamores. I took up gardening like a madwoman, survived an industry-wide five-year slump, let the riding slide and horse ownership with it, lost both parents, and a decade later, I have a lush, cozy, inviting back patio "room", a giant bird of paradise, Meyer lemon and pepper trees, and birds and bees galore!

Thirty-one years in biz, enhanced by ads in graphic directories and by our web site, hedgereps.com, business is brighter. It helps to be on Social Security for what it's worth. Music and art continue to interest, but the great outdoors beckons to southern California's many hiking trails, historic Hispanic and native sites, and national forests.
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