Although I probably won't attend our reunion, I want to say hello to my fellow former classmates. My life started out so blessed growing up in Beloit and attending BMHS and has remained so. After graduating from Beloit College in 1966 Sharon and I married  and are still together. After teaching school a couple years I went to graduate school at UCLA and settled into a 35 year career with State Farm Insurance Companies, earning a CPCU and CLU designation along the way. We have 3 handsome and successful sons - an accountant, an engineer and a physician - and 3 beautiful  grandchildren. Sharon and I have lived an adylic life on the bayou here in Louisiana for 33 years. Living in the south fits our lifestyle of outdoor living - wilderness camping, canoeing, backpacking and scrambling up and down small mountains. Now both retired, we do volunteerr work at our church and in the community and I am trying to reinvent myself as a novelist. Peace!

After  becoming an RN I worked at Elgin  State Hospital for 2 years. Married in 1967, moved to IN, and spent 7 years as scrub nurse for a neurosurgeon. In 1971 my son was born and I was a stay at home for 5 years. Jeff has  a MA in fine arts and lives in New York. In 1987 I divorced Charlie Beebe. I worked in various  areas in nursing before working at Aetna. In 1986 I began working for Aetna (health insurance) and spent my last 15 years there in utilization and quality management  before retiring.

I married Matt in 1995. He was a dentist. We spent our winters in FL until Matt died in 2004 of lung cancer. Diagnosed in Sept. at stage 4 and died in 6 months 

I'm now spending time volunteering.  I am tutoring first graders as a part of the OASIS organization, deliver Meals On Wheels, and church activities. I  was fortunate to go on a mission to Costa Rica. I thought I'd seen deplorable living conditions  when I was a visiting nurse in Indianapolis, but they were nothing compared to the conditions of  the community we support in CR.

I attend Y classes four times a week hoping that it will keep my body functioning.

I'm looking forward to seeing former classmates.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, my husband and I were transferred twenty-three times around the country.  We lived in eight different states and enjoyed each move -- our favorites being Minneapolis and Foster City, CA.  The moves were always company related.

We have two daughters who are married and also four grandchildren.  We have traveled to many countries in the world -- China, Russia, British Isles, all the countries in Europe, North Africa, and to all fifty states in the US. 

My husband is retired, and I teach English as a Second Language to adults part time at Rock Valley College in Rockford, and find it to be very rewarding.

We plan on traveling more in the future, and celebrate our fiftieth anniversary next year in some place exotic.