Ann Dailey Fait — Jean Dick Fox Dick Dunbar — J. Michael Fritzinger Rick Geiger — Pamela Kaufman Morris Johnson Regina Lane Seaman — Larry Reger Mary Ellen Roberts — Beverly Wise Burdette
Mary Ellen Roberts . . .
Living in Tucson, Arizona
Work for Southwest Gas (for over twenty-three years)
One son
Hobbies & Interests: collecting dolls, working with kids, 4-H Leader for twenty-three years
Shirley Rucker Klein . . .
Living in Provo, Utah
Married to Michael Klein — eight children and seven grandchildren
About my family: I married Val Ripley (THS 1963) in 1966. We had two children, then divorced in 1981. In 1986 I married Mike and his six children, and have been the “primary” mother to these children. The youngest just graduated from high school; Kandi, the seventh, will marry July 19th. The six older children are all married and all but one live in the Provo area for now. My oldest, Brent, earned a law degree from the U of A in Tucson. While in Tucson, his first child was born at Tucson Medical Center — where he was born! It’s been a great life so far!
About my work: My most important work has been in my home, but on the side I have become a member of the faculty at BYU. I started my teaching career at Canyon del Oro High just after graduating from the U of A in 1966. After two years there, I taught for a year at the Immaculate Heart Academy near CDO. I was one of the lay teachers that the nuns hired. It was an interesting and wonderful experience to work there. During that year I also taught the adult evening sewing classes at Amphi. I “retired” after three years of school teaching to have my family and did some fun sewing things during that time. In 1981, I moved to Provo and completed a master’s degree at BYU, then completed a Ph.D. at the University of Utah. I’m currently chair of the Family Life and Home Economics Education program in the School of Family Life at BYU.
My hobby is riding a bike with my husband.
Several professional organizations — including National Council on Family Relations, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Phi Kappa Phi. I’m still actively involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and do lots of volunteer work through that association.
I have attended one previous reunion — the 30th, and thought it was great fun to see so many classmates and catch up on the news.
Julie Sarhan Savage . . .
Living in Chandler, Arizona.
Graduated from the U of A in 1967, and married Russ Savage, (Amphi, 1963) that same year. We lived in Tucson until 1982, then moved to Mesa, Arizona. Russ and I have two children, Eric, 32 and Laura, 27. Eric has a masters degree and works for a research institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura, a 4th grade teacher, lives nearby in Chandler. After many years of marriage, Russ and I parted in 1991.
Interspersed with being a stay at home mom, I was a perennial student. I returned to the U of A and got my masters in counseling in 1974, worked for a few years as a counselor, and then got my Ph.D. in psychology from Arizona State University in 1986. I’m a licensed psychologist, and worked in community mental health for several years. In 1989 I got a wonderful job working at ASU in the student counseling center, and have been there ever since. I’m the Assistant Director and Training Director, in charge of the masters and doctoral level psychology training internships as well as being a staff psychologist. I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to many countries over the years. The highlight was a trip to Turkey in June 2002. I am half Turkish and lived there for several years as a child. I was able to take my children there last summer to meet relatives and to learn about their Turkish heritage.
I am now married to Mike, an aerospace engineer. Mike and I are volunteers with the Flying Samaritans, a group of pilots, dentists, doctors and other medical personnel who fly in private planes to Baja, Mexico to provide free medical and dental care to the local people. Mike is a private pilot, so our role is to fly some of the volunteers there in our small plane, then assist the dentists.
Janet Salzman Baron . . .
Living in Vashon, Washington
Elementary Teacher (hopes to retire soon)
Married to Kenneth
Hobbies & Interests: Sailing, gardening, travel, music, technology
Fred Schmalenberg . . .
Living in Troy, Ohio
After graduation, a month later I was in the Navy, I was trying to dodge the Army draft, (I did not want to be a ground pounder in Vietnam) even though a year later they send me the draft notice anyway. As it happened I had been in the Navy for a year so I disregarded it. While stationed at Mayport, Florida (on a real sea going ship) I met Darlene, she felt sorry for me and married me. After thirty-seven years we are still married, and have two daughters, Dana and Ginger. Dana is still single, and Ginger is married with two children, six and three.After the Navy, I worked for three months at B.F. Goodrich, I found out that was not the life for me. So, I took the Civil Service test for the Troy Police Department, starting as a Patrolman, and finishing as a Lieutenant after twenty-six years and retirement. While at the Police Department I also attended College, and graduated with an AA in Criminal Justice. At that time our County was coming out of the dark ages, and started a Centralized Communication Center E-911, believe it or not but before 1990 we did not have 911 in our County or Cities. As it happened after my retirement in 1993 from the Police Department, they needed someone to run the Communication Center, and they thought I could run it since I helped start it. Anyway, I am still here, but plan to retire soon, maybe by the time of the reunion.
Hobbies and interests: Anything on wheels, VFW, American Legion, AMVETS, FOP
Jack Scholnick . . .
Living in southern Arizona
US Navy 1963 - 1967. I got married the first time in March 1969 to Linda Harriet Olshin. We had two boys, Bruce born in October 1970 and Jason born in January 1972. We divorced in 1974. I graduated from the U of A in May 1972. I became a Federal Police Officer in 1972 and remained there until 1978 when I became an officer for the AZ Drug Control (Narcotic Drug Force) until 1980. In 1980 I opened an antique store on Fourth Avenue in Tucson. I was President and Vice President of the Tucson Retail Merchants Association, and I was on the Board of Directors of the Fourth Avenue Merchant Association, where I helped set up and run the Fourth Avenue Street Fairs for many years. I got married to my present wife, Maria De Luz Rivera, in November 1992. We had a son Mickey born in November 1994. I retired in August 1996 from the antique business. My wife and I are currently expecting another child in November of this year.
John Scott . . .
After high school I found myself in the Navy Seabees, and in 1966 was sent to Danang, Vietnam, where I spent a lot of time in the jungle. After a tour of this little piece of heaven, I came back to the States. In 1973 I married a girl from Guthrie, Oklahoma, and we moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where my daughter was born in 1975. I worked in the welding supply and repair business there until 1978 when we moved to Lawton, Oklahoma, to get out of the heat and start my own business. In 1983 we decided to move our repair business to Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Our truck broke down three miles short and I've been in and around Roland, Oklahoma, ever since. We are still in the business of repairing welding equipment (covering about four hundred square miles), and have rental property in both states. I like to buy, sell and trade almost anything. I'm divorced now, but my daughter still works in my business with me — she is the shipping, receiving and office part, while I still do the work. This is forty years in a nutshell.
Roger H. Shelton . . .
Living in Tucson, Arizona
Two weeks after graduation I served the remaining four years in the United States Navy aboard USS Eldorado AGC-11. Upon return from active duty I went to work for Sears in downtown Tucson. We moved Sears from downtown to the Park Mall property. The next seven years I worked for Burr Brown Research Corp. In February of 1972 to February of 1999, I worked for US West Communications.
Married to Donna in 1966 (I discovered Donna at the first dance called the mixer in September 1962) — one childHobbies and interests: woodworking, shooting and reloading, radio control planes
Member of Tucson Radio Control Club, Pioneers, International Miniature Aircraft Association
John Siler . . .
Living in Payson, Arizona
Teacher in Theatre Arts & English — retire in May 2003 . . . if I surviveMarried to Kathy (Amphi 1979) — one child. The rest of my family are all deceased except one brother, Tom (Amphi 1964), who is a retired Lt. Colonel U.S. Army
Hobbies and interests: Travel (anywhere and everywhere), shooting, lay preacher, photography
NEA, AEA, PEA, assist in Retirement facilities, Time Out Shelters, and needy children's organizations (I am a sucker for big sad eyes and a long sad story.)
Erick Steffens . . .
After high school, I attended the University of Arizona while working full time at a number of jobs. One of my fraternity brother's father was the head of Radio/TV Bureau at the U of A. With a recommendation from him, I got a job at KOLD-TV as a night film editor. I worked at KOLD for about five years in Film, Production and News.
In the fall of 1969, I decided it was time to move to a bigger market and was hired as a News Photographer/Producer at the NBC station in Albany, NY. During the two years that I was there, my former News Director at KOLD called a couple of times to inquire about my returning to Tucson. His last call came in the middle of winter after I had just come off a mountain top, hiking five miles in a full scale blizzard to cover a plane crash. He uttered the magic words, "it's seventy-two degrees and bright sunshine." Needless to say, I was back at KOLD by the end of the month.
I soon realized hat the best way to make money in the TV business was in Sales. I joined the station that is now KMSB in Tucson, as a Sales Account Executive and spent ten years there in Local, Regional and National Sales. I also announced the color commentary for our broadcasts of the U of A basketball games that we carried on the station.
In 1980 a group from the Tucson station merged with a group from Albuquerque and obtained a license to start a new TV station in New Mexico. I moved to Albuquerque in Sept., 1980, to get the station started, and I have been here ever since. In May of 1981, we signed on KGSW-TV Channel 14 in Albuquerque, and then in 1993, we bought the assets of a station in Santa Fe, and became KASA FOX2, the FOX affiliate for New Mexico.
I met my wife, the former Robin Marshall, at the station in Tucson. Robin attended CDO (but I don't hold that against her), and we have been together for twenty-nine years, married for twenty-three. We have two girls, Ashley twelve and Autumn nine. Even though they are not there chronologically, they seem to have become teenagers behaviorally. My hair is getting grayer by the day. As you can see, we waited until later in life to have children. It was my biological life that was running out.
I have a wonderful family. We spend our little free time, raising and showing Bichon Frises and Portuguese Water Dogs in between running to all the activities the kids are involved in.
Gordon (Gordy) Thomas . . .Living in Las Vegas, Nevada
Marty Thomas . . .
Living in Tucson, Arizona
President of Title Security Agency of Arizona
1968 - 1972 U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot1970 - 1971 Capt. Vietnam
Married to Pat — three children and one grandchild
Hobbies and interests: flying
Nancy Thompson Post . . .
Living in Oro Valley, Arizona
Teacher's Aide and Behavior Intervention Monitor for twenty-nine years at Donaldson ElementaryMarried to Merl (Cedar) — two sons, Jim (thirty-seven) and Dan (thirty-five)
Work for CemRock Landscapes Naturalistic EnvironmentsHobbies and interests: travel, camping, hiking gardening, sewing, crafts
MADD, Cancer Society
Madonna Thurston Toia . . .
I lived my first six years in the small town of Lynn, Indiana. First and second grade were in the same room. In November of first grade we moved to Tucson and I was enrolled at L. M. Prince. As a kid I always thought I’d move back to Indiana. I loved spending time at my aunt’s farm picking fresh fruit and veggies and being outside with the animals. What kid didn’t love playing in the snow? Now I would tell you how much I’d miss the view of the Catalinas and the beautiful sunsets and clear blue sky.
I married my high school sweetheart Don Toia in the summer of 1962. (Amphi Graduate of 1960). We have two children, our daughter graduated from Amphi in 1980 and our son in 1982. We have three grandsons and two granddaughters. I was a Homemaker until 1971, when our son started kindergarten, then I became a Cosmetologist. I also worked part time at Leo’s Auto Supply as a Cashier and Bookkeeper.
In 1973 Don and I opened our own business, Don’s Hot Rod Shop. We sell high performance automotive parts, and we sometimes have three generations working here. We enjoy an occasional visit with old classmates and teachers who drop in for car parts or just to say hi or talk about how the drag races went. We have been members of the Tucson Street Rod Association for over thirty years. We own two street rods (Pre-1948) a Willys (see picture) and we still have our first car, a red 1940 Ford, that Don drove to high school. We’ve gotten to see a lot of the country by attending Rod-Runs and participating in drag races. It’s a family event at the races, Don and our son race a dragster and our two youngest grandsons, 10 & 13 race Jr. dragsters.
I enjoy time with our grandchildren and attending their sports events. I’ve been in the same bowling league for over thirty years. I like snow skiing, arts & crafts, and live theatre. For quiet time we get away in Lakeside/Pinetop, Arizona.
Susan Wallace Barrett . . .
Living in Mesa, Arizona
Retired from over thirty years of public school teaching and administration
Currently self-employed consultant providing consultation and training services to churches, agencies and organizations
Married to Bob with a combined family of ten adult children, twenty-three grandchildren, and one great grandchild
Hobbies and Interests: reading, travel and family birthdays
Richard (Rick) Williams . . .
I retired the end of 2000 from the Salt River Project as a construction project manager at the Coronado Generation Station near St. Johns, Arizona.
Married for thirty-three years to Loree Hutchings Williams. We have two living children, Heather and Michael. Heather has a daughter, Sage, six years old.
Loree retired last year as the high school counselor for the local school.
We live in the Little Colorado River Valley on fifty acres, six miles south of St. Johns. We have a big garden and raise chili to sell commercially.
We enjoy our rural, laid back lifestyle. We value the quiet and solitude we have on our property. We live within and hour's drive of the White Mountains. Our nearest neighbor is over one-quarter mile away from our home.
I particularly enjoy the fact that I do not have to attend any meetings in my chili patch!
John T. Wilson . . .
After High School, I received a B.S. in business from the U of A in 1969 and entered the MBA program. I also met my first Life Mate, Lois Bleicher. Lois was a graduate student from California. We were married six months after meeting (even though I proposed the first night). Lois helped me rekindle my interest in science and in 1974, Lois and I both received PhD.'s. Her PhD was in Molecular Biology and mine was in Genetics.
From Arizona, it was to Yale University Medical School for four years as Postdoctoral Fellows, then to Augusta, Georgia as Assistant Professors at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG).
While on faculty at MCG, Lois entered Medical School and received her MD degree in 1985. I was forced to carry on the age old tradition of "thy wife shall NOT have more Doctorate degrees than thy" and received my second Doctorate in Dentistry in 1987. In 1989 Lois died as a result of a routine surgery at MCG.
Because of Lois' death, I resigned my faculty position at MCG and returned to Yale as an Associate Research Professor. After three years of trying to do medical research and raise two small children, I decided it was best to go into private practice.
In 1992 we moved back to Georgia where I opened a Dental Practice in Brunswick, Georgia. Immediately, as God would have it, I met my second Life Mate, Paige. Paige and I are now going on eleven years. We live on St. Simons Is. and have five children, ages nine through twenty-three. We both work hard in the Practice. My oldest daughter will graduate from Dental School in nine months. Maybe then I can retire. My retirement has already been defined as cutting down from working five days a week to three.
Albert Wingate . . .
Living in California
I moved to Tucson in 1957. Can you say Sputnik? I thought you could. Attended L&M Prince School. Graduated to Amphi in 1959 where I became one of the "Lost Boys." I was very busy working at a grocery store and ran a small lawn mowing business with an employee work force of one. I didn't have much time for socializing or participation in extra-curricular activities, Therefore "Entered 1." I came to Azusa College in 1963 on a "chance" meeting with friends, Harry Lawrence and Ralph from my church. They drove by my house during a weekend and asked me if I wanted to attend Azusa College with them. They were leaving in a week. I said, "Okay." That was the beginning of the adventure. I spent five years working a AC, now APC's, food service department. Two years in the service left me craving to return home after a tour of duty in Vietnam. I taught thirty years in a variety of assignments in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. The district is located in southern California. I retired in the year 2000. I am now part owner of a very low profit Antique Store in San Jose, CA. My best to all my friends and acquaintances over the years. I wish you well.
Cliff Winn . . .
Living in Scottsdale, Arizona
Thirty-two years Real Estate: Agent, Broker, Owner, Management
Army Reserves 1967 - 1973Married to Arlinda — two children and two grandchildren
Hobbies and interests: outdoors, archery, fishing, woodworking
Beverly Wise Burdette . . .
I currently live in Knoxville, TN., near the beautiful Smokey Mountains, with my second husband, Rob, and our sixteen year old daughter, Audria. I have five grown children from my first marriage. My son Jay and daughter Cristina live with their families in Atlanta, GA., my daughter Lisa lives with her family in Brighton, England, and my twin daughters, Sandra and Sofia, live with their families here in Knoxville, TN. We have thirteen grandchildren. It's been such a blessing to have the kids close (here and Atlanta), so we spend a lot of time with them and all the grandkids. Lisa is farther away, but it gives us a good excuse to travel to England every now and then. So, can't complain.
After high school I went to the U of A and met my first husband at summer school in Guadalajara, Mexico. We married and had five children. I lived in Guadalajara, raising the kids and helping with his business until 1975, when we divorced, and I brought the kids back to the states. I went back to school, got my BA in Missouri, my MA at Louisiana State U, and my Ph.D. at UNC, Chapel Hill, while raising the five children. What a feat!! We had good times and bad times and a lot of hard times, but survived it all and the kids all turned out fantastic, for which I'm very thankful.
I'm currently Head of Liberal Arts and Professor of Spanish at Pellissippi State Community College here in Knoxville. My husband and very best friend Rob, is a surveyor.
We love to hike around in the mountains, camp out, travel, and mostly putter around on our two acre property: Rob mowing and gardening; I building a fish pond, crocheting, playing the guitar, etc. We raised pygmy goats for several years, and now have three old ones that are living their lives out in the pasture.
We are excited about coming back to Tucson. Rob was at Davis Monthan for a while when he was in the Air Force. I can't wait to see all my old high school friends. Hasta la vista!
| Ann Dailey Fait | — | Jean Dick Fox |
| Dick Dunbar | — | J. Michael Fritzinger |
| Rick Geiger | — | Pamela Kaufman Morris Johnson |
| Regina Lane Seaman | — | Larry Reger |
| Mary Ellen Roberts | — | Beverly Wise Burdette |
