Occupation:  Supervisor, Aircraft 
Maintenance (retired)
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  1
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After working for Northwest Airlines for 33 years, I retired in Aug 2005.  Liz (Horton) & I relocated to Florida in 2003 (after 32 years in Atlanta) and settled in Indian Harbour Beach in 2005.  Liz & I will be celebrating 35 years of marriage on Sept 9th.  Liz is now working part time as a home health nurse...it gets her out and she has familiarized herself with the Melbourne area & met some very nice people..  Our son, Ben is a System Engineer with Varonis in Atlanta.  He remarried in July of this year and now Liz & I are step-grandparents of two beautiful girls, Ashley 7 and Kate 5.  With my free time and the great weather in Florida, I've taken up bicycling and I'm riding up to 200 miles a week.  Do I miss the airlines?...Yes, but not enough to go back to work.  It's nice not wearing a watch and not wondering if your next flight will make schedule.

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Occupation:  Photographer
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
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We have two boys/men. Chris 26 just graduated from Northeastern and Tyler just graduated from 2nd grade.
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Occupation:  Licensed Professional 
Counselor & Healing
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  3
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     Retired as an elementary school counselor, now doing a private practice in counseling & healing, specializing in energetic healing, trauma work, and body/mind psychotherapy. Active as a hospice volunteer, with Rotary International, satsang, and Buddhist Sangha. 
     My son Jonathan, who designs museum exhibits,and his wife Jessica, a social worker, and their 2 young grandsons live in Brooklyn, NY. My daughter Eliza, who is attending massage school, and son Heath, who rows crew for the U of Washington and is studying architecture, both live in Seattle.  I love living in Durango, CO with time in the mts, the desert, and on the river.  
     Did anyone else grow up in a Darien household where things were seldom as they appeared?
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Occupation:  Registered Nurse
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
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I am looking forward to our 40th Darien High School Reunion. I am happy to reacquaint with my classmates. I have been employed as an Ophthalmic Nurse for an Ophthalmologist and Surgeon at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston for the past 13 years. I still enjoy swimming for recreation and exercise at the Bentley College pool. My husband, Alex, is retired from the U.S. Government Small Business Administration as a Commercial Loan Officer and Acting Chief of the Portfolio Management Division. He now enjoys working for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in his retirement. During our 34 years of marriage, we have lived in Amherst, MA, Washington, D.C., Alexandria, VA, and presently Belmont, MA.
My son, Alex, a former college swimmer, studied at WPI and graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, class of 2005. He  is employed at Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgical Pathology Department utilizing his biomedical background. My daughter, Jenny, is married to Manuel Horrillo and working at the IESE Business School in Madrid, Spain (International Development Office) after graduating from Harvard College in 2003. 
We visit Spain, spend summer vacations on Cape Cod as well as Narragansett Bay, RI. I still return to visit my mother who resides in Noroton Bay.
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Occupation:  Supervisor, Plant 
Distribution & Operations
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  5
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Graduated from the USAF after 25 years. Thailand, Korea (3Xs), and the best for last Italy. Been in VA (Hampton Roads) since 1977. Young Cha "Clare" and I have been married 31 yrs, 4 children. Nick 3 (29), AF Academy/VA Tech. 10 yrs in Capt, out july 06 is an Arch in DC. Brian (28) ODU, AI 2Xs (3 level 1st X, 1 level 2nd X), Atlanta, decernment for seminary. Thomas (27) VA Tech, Atlanta Finance/Broker. Jennifer (27) Yes twins, VA Tech, PA Stu Grad Aug 07. Me USPS 12 yrs
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Occupation:  Teacher, Grade 4
Marital Status:  Committed Relationship
No. of Children:  2
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Where to start???

Having read through 10 pages of classmates' thoughts, was motivated to add my own...

A quick update: Was married 27 years, resulting in two beautiful daughters, and a divorce.  Getting back into the dating scene was surreal, but am now happily learning all I can about Christmas Trees...

Teaching 4th graders has kept me plenty busy since college, have loved it, but am looking forward to the next phase...Two years and counting...

Memories?
Baker-Burgess CSI classes ( Not the current crime scene type ) in the lecture hall...Am still exchanging Christmas cards via D.C. with Phil...
Jon Goodall's write-up triggered renewed fears of being chased to the beach by Dr. Bruno on Skip Day...

Soon, it will ( almost ) be like we never left...
Looking forward to more  "jogged memories"...
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Occupation:  Dentist
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  5
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I have been a Dentist for 23 years here in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Went back to Dental school after 6 years with the Maine Forest Service as a Forest Ranger. Life has been very good to me. Like Connecticut in the 60's. I have a sailboat and get on the water every weekend. Looking forward to taking it to the Carribean in a few years. I have carried many of you in my heart, wondering what has happened to you folks in the years. I hope life has been as gentle and wonderful for you as it has been for me. Nice Family, good kids.
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Occupation:  Real Estate Sales
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  3
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Moved to California in 1967 and went to UC Santa Cruz where I met my husband. I taught elementary school for 5 years and put my husband through law school. We moved to San Diego in 1976 and had three children, Allison, Melissa, and Andrew. Moved to Rancho Santa Fe just north of San Diego in 1991 and began selling real estate in this area. I have really enjoyed getting in touch with good friends from Darien that I lost track of over the years. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.
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Marital Status:  Widowed
No. of Children:  2
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Living in Columbia, SC for the past l0 years.  Children, aged 20 and 22.  Before Columbia, lived in Wilton, CT for 7 years and before that St. Louis area for 9, all corporate moves with my late husband's job.  Looking forward to September 15....
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Occupation:  Technical Communications 
Consultant
Marital Status:  Married
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Hi all - I'm not going to be able to make the big reunion. I've enjoyed everybody's stories though. Here's mine:

DHS to Boston University. Started in engineering but panicked when I just couldn't do math anymore. Xferred into Political Science. Did my best to end that damn war while learning just enough to get my degree. I wasn't a slacker; I just wasn't that interested. Graduated on time but forgot to take the Career 101 class.

BA in hand I split for the coast. The woman I was living with got into UC Berkeley so I tagged along. With no inner voice to guide my job search, I took a job in a warehouse in Oakland, CA, soon running the shipping department. Ever work with junkies - don't you love their mood swings.

Left that with an ulcer as the parting gift, dithered around at some other dead ends, until I got my big break: I was hired in '76 to write technical manuals for IMSAI, a microcomputer manufacturer. (Google it or read "Fire in the Valley.") A career in high tech is born. 

Sidebar: You gotta laugh. Some people work hard and long to prepare for their life's endeavor. Mine came because I'd taken touch typing in junior high summer school, had done some programming, and had a cute ass (the department was run by two women). I'm curious: How many of you planned what you wanted to do? Who else had they're career find them?

Desktop computers were just starting up then. Wild times, fast times, high times (I never had a problem with that, although I have jokingly referred to the late 70s/early 80s as the lost decade.) No Apple or IBM yet but enough business, buzz, and bravado to sustain us through 12 hour days and 6 day weeks. Also, I got the education, training, and credentials I never got at college.
 
IMSAI crashed. I worked a couple of years in SF for another startup computer company, and then went to work for Digital Research (again, google it). This required a move to Pacific Grove, CA where I still live. It's ironic - I always preferred living in the city but PG's profile is much like Darien's - go figure.

Along the way I migrated into product marketing management. I've managed microcomputers, operating systems (that's my baby running in the cash registers at Safeway and Costco), security software (here, I worked with the former Deputy Director of the NSA - a big time spook; these people are very different from you and me), and some other things only a technoid would recognize. (Another go figure: poli sci to high tech - ain't America great.) The last big company I worked for was Novell (it put the fun in dysfunctional). Since then, it was back to the small company/startup route.

I never hit the stock option jackpot but am living comfortably and got tons of other perqs: traveled throughout the US and to Europe and Asia (be sure to go to the street markets in Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei - major sensory overload); hobnobbed with lots of brilliant, creative, and bizarre people; and loaded up on scars and memories to sustain me through the continuing-care retirement community years.

Demographics: Married since '83, after living together for 8 years (who's afraid of commitment?). No kids (hey, we love kids, especially when their parents take 'em home).

Long, strange trip indeed. Hey, if you visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium or play the links at Pebble Beach, let's have a cuppa joe. I'm in the book.

Re the pictures: These are my CA driver license pics since '71. They're kind of a hoot and tell a story by themselves. Since the last one (lower right) I'm a lot grayer, the hair's a lot thinner, and I'm 20% broader.


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