Paul Adison
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Occupation: | Architect |
| Comment: This is going to be fun. I am looking forward to catching up with everyone. | |
Bill Applegate
Now
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Occupation: | School Administrator |
| Comment: For so many years I tried so hard to get away from all of you sex-crazed, pot smoking hippies. Now, we're going to see what years of drugs and drinking has done to us... should be fun!!! | |
Jaynie Marie Aristeo
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Real Estate Broker |
| Comment: It is GREAT to see so many faces that I have not seen in years. I am looking forward to seeing them again this fall at the reunion. It is going to be alot of fun! | |
Julie Bell
| Marital status: | Single again |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Occupation: | nurse-midwife |
| Comment: Tech challenged so just assume we all haven't aged and be surprised. | |
Danette Biggs (Di Stefano)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
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Linda Birkenbach
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
Linda Birkenbach Howe (Linda Birkenbach)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Home Health |
John Blair
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired self-employed HVACR service mechanic |
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Comment:
What a long strange trip it's been. A year or so ago I was thinking about all the thoughtless, dumb things I've done in my life. Like dropping out of college after my sophomore year in order to get perspective cuz I wasn't doing well and it didn't bother me. So I decided to join the Marine Corps (thankfully the reserves, since my father threatened to disown me if I went in the regulars) in 1965 when all hell was breaking news in Vietnam. I realized that I must have a superpower - I was lucky. The Alternative School was clearly one of the luckiest, most foundational and best experiences of my life. Thanks to all of you. |
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John Blair
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Self-Employed HVACR Service Mechanic |
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Comment:
I should have done this months ago. Hello everyone! I want to thank you all for contributing to one of the most formative and important experiences of my life. You showed me what learning could be, should be, and didn't have to be - hence I left teaching. I learned to love learning; learning what I wanted to learn, and I found that that has no place in formal education/training - nor should it or can it. For years I couldn't think about what happened, I still haven't read Hinger's 30+yr old Requiem for a School. I still don't want to relive the anger - the essay's here, somewhere in my office. I still can't justify our closing but I think understand it now; Big Education is about daycare, training, careers and retirement. "Keep the doors open and the lid on." There is simply too much at stake to risk the uncertain outcomes of individual exploration in a democratic environment. "That's Fourth-of-July' talk." "And I should save it for the Fourth of July?" "That's right." (Part of a dialog from my one term stint on the local school board. I was not re-elected. I'm not a cheerleader.) I'm proud of everything we did, and every mistake we made. I've come to see that if you're not making mistakes you're not trying hard enough - or you're already dead. Life is not lost by dying, life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in a thousand small uncaring ways. S.V. Benet I've lived in latte-land, the land of the terminally polite, for over thirty years. I'm looking forward to at least a few days where discussion is a contact sport, ridicule-based humor is an art form and people can believe in something deeply enough to argue emotionally. I'm looking forward to seeing Kyra jump up crying, and shouting "Go on, go on! Ignore this, ignore this!" I definitely should have done this months ago. See you all in November. Still crazy after all these years. jb |
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David Bliss
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | architect |
| Comment: Fifty years of post high school living, husband for 45; never stopped caring for the earth (thank you JB!). | |