So sorry I won't be joining you all for this incredible milestone event.   I left St. Louis to attend the University of Colorado in Boulder and I'm still a Boulderite! The iconic Flatirons rock formations, gorgeous weather and a liberal community called me out here and I cherish these views every day.  They say "Boulder is 12 square miles surrounded by reality"   I met my husband Ed of 38 years in 1974.  He and about 15 friends moved to Colorado from the Detroit area to become rock and roll stars.  You can guess how that went!  I gained a now 49 year old stepson from Ed's first, way too young marriage.  I have known Shawn since he was 2.  Shawn and his family live in the Boulder area and I'm a Nana to a 15 year old girl and a 12 year old boy.   Ed and I love to travel, hike, bike, golf and of course love live music!   Jamaica and France are our favorite places so far.  We do enjoy road trips to our amazing national parks and big cities.  I am lucky to have loved my career and have now been retired for 4 years.   My graduate degrees from the U of Colorado include a MS in Healthcare Administration and an MBA. I retired from a not for profit Catholic health system as the Operations Director for Primary Care, Outpatient Rehabiliation and Occupational Medicine.  Health and Wellness have been my passion and it was a great ride. I wish you all a fabulous reunion and best wishes for health and good times! PJ   

Greetings.  How can it be that 51 years has passed?  I am sorry that I won't be able to attend the reunion.  I've been to St. Louis twice in the last few months and can't manage another trip now.   I live in Boston where I am still actively working though hoping to wind down.  I have reared a son and a daughter and made my career here.  I have been married to my second husband for almost 18 years now.  We have six grandchildren who take over our lives in various configurations in the summer. I am Chair of the Designators of a foundation that gives out money for physical and historical improvements in Boston; I manage a grant for programs at the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library; and I coordinate the Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston. I am also active in a couple of community-based organizations. I published stories and a few poems in my 20s and 30, a few essays in my 40s.  During the pandemic, I self-published a children's book, Stacey Became a Frog One Day.  I have since published Jump! Jump! Jump! Stacey (in 2021), and a 3rd book in the series is scheduled in November.   I certainly expected to have more published  by now - that I don't is because I didn't push through rejections and took too much time off thinking that I had more time.  I was young and then I got old.  I am still shopping manuscripts around.  Mostly, life has been good.  I am proud that I have contributed positively to the my little neck of the world and that I have great children and grandchildren. I hope to continue to be a positive and loving force in our terrific and fragile planet for the time I have left.  I hope your dreams and goals are coming true.  In loving community, Candelaria.

50 years in a paragraph!! I graduated from UMR, made laser mirrors in New Mexico before starting a year of travel to Mexico, Central America, France, Spain finally landing in Tangier, Morocco where I taught physics, chemistry and science at the American School there. Gisele, ecole maternelle teacher and school psychologist, and I traded vacations hiking in the Atlas Mountains, travleing to Greece, the Mediterranean countries, and Scotland. I earned a Licence in physics, almost a maitrise, from the University of Paris, Paris VI, before returning home to Albuquerque. A PhD in nuclear physics from U Wisconsin-Madison--Thomas and Juliette were born in Madison--Go Badgers!! After a post-doc I became an accelerator staff member at Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA. GE has been my professional home since '99 as an x-ray physicist/engineer in Milwaukee, WI and Niskayuna, NY at the R&D Center here. . . until Nov 1, 2020 when I retired. I continue to consult. Gisele taught English, French, and champtions literacy council activities. We've never been far from France, as half our children's extended family is there. We've hiked the Alps, Jura, and the Pyrenees and have watched a number of Tour de France stages in the Southwest. Skiing, hiking, cycling, travel have been ou pursuits over the years, although the March 2020 trip to ski there ended with COVID lock-down. Look for me on Strava!

So excited the 50th Reunion will take place this year and can't wait to see everyone! After high school, I attended Washington University for 2 years, but became disillusioned and did some overseas traveling. I wound up in then-Yugoslavia and had quite an adventure by not being able to leave because of the existing government bureaucracy. I got home eventually and decided to work instead of returning to school, and found a successful niche doing Marketing & PR for a couple of large companies. I met my husband, Mike, 2 weeks before he entered dental school and we've been married for 44 years. We have three sons - our eldest lives with his wife in Switzerland and they're expecting their first baby in a few weeks, our first grandchild! We're fortunate that our other two sons (the middle one is married) live in the St. Louis area. While raising our children, I, as an only child, was called upon to care for my parents, who were significantly older than many others. We had a multi-generational family for a number of years and I wouldn't have done it differently. I became very active in synagogue life (Shaare Zedek in U. City), serving as President and then went on to volunteer extensively for the international board of Conservative Judaism, working with youth and many synagogues all over the U.S., Canada & Israel. I managed my husband's dental practice from 2010-2020 and then, voilà, retirement. Probably one of my proudest accomplishments is that I've been a DJ for 32 years on public radio in St. Louis with "Folks of the World," a genre of music I fell in love with from folk dancing at the Heman Park Center on Saturday nights during high school. I can't reiterate enough how lucky we were to be at U. City at that time in history, with the wonderful teachers and classmates, all surrounded by the changes that were happening all around us!! 

I cannot believe it has been 51 years since we graduated high school. After graduation, I attended Webster College, where I received a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1975. In December, 1976, I married Rick Schwartz (U City 1969) and moved to Colonial Heights, Virginia, where Rick accepted a position teaching music at Virginia State University. I started my own Instrumental Music Program in the private and Catholic schools in Petersburg, VA, teaching Band to grades 4-12 for over 35 years. I was an adjunct professor at Richard Bland College, where I served as Conductor of a 35 member Wind Ensemble for 36 years. In 1994, I founded and remain Conductor of a 45 member concert band called the Richmond Symphonic Winds. I am also Founder and Conductor of the Tri-Cities Community Band and Musical Director of the Concert Ballet of Virginia Orchestra. Rick and I have performed together in the Richmond and Petersburg Symphony Orchestras, as well as performing on historical instruments throughout Central Virginia in a Renaissance Quartet, German Band and a Brass Band. Throughout my career, I taught private flute lessons and am a frequent judge at local music contests and festivals. I also served as Adjunct Professor of Flute at Virginia State University. In my retirement from teaching, I frequently play solo flute for various non-profit and charity events, such as art exhibit openings, historic house tours and holiday gatherings. I perform every Saturday for the local Farmers Market. Even though I have been away from St. Louis for almost 46 years, my interest in St. Louis history still flourishes. Rick and I wrote and published two books entitled Bands at the St. Louis World's Fair, acquired by librairies across the country, including the Smithsonian Institution. Our only child is a very special three-year-old tabby cat named Pookie lll.

50 years  - I still rccall when my parents were making arrangements to participate in their 50th high school reunion, still friends with many classmates! Happy to report that Karl and I celebrated 43 years of marriage after dating since the summer of our junior year (1970) at UCity. Karl attended LSU and KU earning an Architecture degree and was a registered architect specializing in schools and churches much of his career (18 years) and was then hired by Lindbergh School District where he was Executive Director of Planning until his retirement in late 2019. I received my Masters degree from KU and was Director of Audiology and Speech Pathology at St. Anthony's Medical Center  until we started our family (1981) and worked as a staff Speech Pathologist at St. Joseph Hospital until becoming Director of Rehabilitation at a DME. From there, became Executive Director of the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) until my retirement in early 2020 - just in time for Covid!  Our best achievement is celebrating our two daughters and their husbands and twin granddaughters (now 10) and a grandson (20 months) who live nearby in St. Louis. Karl has been biking with friends and raising funds for MS and helping both girls get their first houses ready for sale as they purchased new ones. I have enjoyed reading and special projects around the house, and reconnecting with friends from the past, as well as new friends from my tenure with APDA.  We both love being  available for our grandchildren and look forward to traveling. Congratulations to the Reunion Committee who have worked hard behind the scenes to find so many classmates and plan for a fun weekend in October.  Good to hear all about others and to recall such special times at UCity.  Best wishes to all - please stay in touch!

After dropping out of college,walking the Appalachian tail, I came to Israel as a Kibbutz volunteer in Jan. 1975, and decided to stay in Israel. After two months on the Kibbutz I started studying in the Diaspora Yeshiva on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem. I stayed there for many years, completed my Rabbinic ordination with the Israeli Rabbinate, married, had eight children, and after 18 years of marriage we divorced. Several years later I married my present wife Ellen, who also has eight children of her own.  I also went to Social Work school, got an MSW, and worked as a social worker, mainly with religious youth at risk.      Ellen and I presently live in Bat Ayin - Gush Etzion. We now have many grandchildren between the two of us. I teach Talmud and do private therapy. And now for the story you've waited 50 years to hear: the Senior Class Prank that went wrong. I don't remember which of you guys was my partner in crime, so please write to me if it was you. We found out that in a previous year the Seniors had created a mixture in Joe Hale's chemistry lab of Nitrogen tri-iodide. We were told that as long as it's wet it's stable, but when you put drops of it on the floor and they dry out it makes a small explosion like a cap gun. We secretly mixed up a bottle of it in the lab and I took it home to put into dropper bottles to give out to my co-consipirators to put drops on the floor before school starts so that the next day school would start with a bang.  As I'm pouring the mixture in the dropper bottles, some of it spilled. I wasn't worried because it was still wet... Well lo and behold it started popping off even when it was wet. When it started popping on my arm. At that point I saw that it was too dangerous to complete the prank, so I put all the bottles away, washed up the bathroom and washed the rest of the mixture down the drain, and went to bed. A few minutes later... BOOM!!! End of prank, end of bathroom sink. But not end of story. There was still some of the mixture in Joe Hale's chemistry lab. We had to tell him. He called Washington U. to find out how to defuse it. They told him to bubble chlorine gas into it, which he did and ... BOOM!! (It was under the protective hood so he wasn't hurt.)     

Hi '71s, After graduating from UCity I attended Central Missouri State.  I married Peggy Soucy (UCity '72) then started my career in the moving industry and have managed several different van lines over the years.  I transferred to Arizona in 1980 and Peggy and I have been "Raising Arizona". We have 9 children, all married, and have 13 amazing grandchildren, 7 girls/6 boys and 2 more on the way. a boy due in November and a boy or girl due in April! Peggy and I have played on sports teams over the years and have coached our kids teams a little and have traveled with them all over the country. We are a big athletic family and we enjoy going to our grandkids' games too! Presently I run  a moving company with one of my sons but manage to get away in our RV traveling all over the country visiting family and friends, and great state and national parks! I'm looking forward to full retirement and lots of travel!

T0 all: More and more I appreciate the education I received at U.City High. When I tell people we had classes in Russian, Hebrew,etc and had an Esperanto club, they can't believe it. We had a diversity of peoples and faiths and with a few exceptions tried to get along. I credit U.City with my life-long love of learning. More about that later. My family consists of my husband John and our two daughters. Daughter Lua owns Common Ground healthfood store in Bloomington, IL. Daughter Zhalih is married with two boys Cassius and Atticus and has her hands full being a school psychologist for Bloomington Schools.  I finally graduated from Illinois State University as a non-traditional student in 1997 with a degree in Mass Communications/Journalism but realized that my union custodial job had a better retirement plan than the local newspaper and retired from being a school custodian. However, I still am working on several books and hope to publish some when I grow up! Spiritually, I was blessed to know people of many different belief systems over the years. I have sampled many including Baptist Sunday School, Catholicism, Egyptian gods and goddesses, Wicca, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Baha'i, Native American Spirituality and Spiritualism. Primarily, I am interested in the healing practices of each faith. The past two years, I have been interested in Sound Healing  as an alternative healing modality. In November, I will travel to Egypt with a Sound Healer who will guide us to different temples and chant and play crystal healing bowls. So, on my birthday November 8th while you are awaiting the outcome of  the lastest election, I will be at the Temple of Horus and the healing Temple of Kom Ombo praying hard for the healing of America. All this will happen if I dodge the new Covid or any other bad germ that comes along. I have relatives who have it now and have had friends and relatives that died from it.So stay healthy. Mitakuye Oyasin (All My Relations) Shalom. Blessings

I won't be making it to the reunion but still miss. U. City.  After high school my parents moved to Iowa City and I went off to CA to college.  I returned to St. Louis for med school and residency. My 1st job was in Philadelphia then I spent 4 yrs at the NIH in Washington DC.  I was recruited to Alabama, of all places, and have been here in Birmingham for 30 yrs.  Along the way I got married to Mary Ann of Florissant and had two sons.  One is a lawyer who doesn't practice law and one is an accountant here in Birmingham.   I still work as a pathologist at the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham. As for activities outside work, I seem to change interests every few years.  I sailed, played tennis, coached soccer, rode bikes and for awhile made jewelry.  Someday I might retire.  I'd love to hear from anyone who's interested in getting in touch.

It's great to read the entries of so many old friends from '71!  After graduation I went away for ten years of college, grad school and law school.  I met my wife, Maxine Lipeles, duirng our senior year in college, we started dating four years later during law school and married in 1980.  After living in Boston for two years, we moved to University City (up the block from where our classmates and my UCity tennis teammates Jimmy Cornbleet and Frank Richards used to live) so I could fulfill my dream of practicing law with my father.  Our two children were born and became the center of our universe.  We moved to Clayton in 1989 and they attended its schools.  In 1994, I left law practice to join the faculty of Saint Louis University law school where I taught primarily constitutional law courses and wrote about the American vice presidency and constitutional law topics.  Maxine founded the Interdisciplinary Environmental  Clinic at Washington University which provided pro bono legal representation in environmental cases.  We retired from our academic positions in 2019, and in 2020 moved to Wellfleet on Cape Cod where we'd been vacationing  since the 1990s.  The move puts us closer to our children, who live on the east coast, and our two granddaughters.   Maxine does some part-time public interest environmental law work and I write and lecture some but mostly we take long daily walks in the woods and on the beaches of the national seashore, play with our granddaughters  most weeks, and enjoy having visitors and seeing other friends.  I've been very fortunate, including growing up in U. City and attending its schools!  Have a great reunion; I'm sorry a family conflict keeps me from being with you. All the very best! 

Hello U.City 50th! 50 years in 50 seconds…. KSHE Radio…Indiana University…Leningrad University in Russia..NYC and Columbia University…back to Chicago…ABC Cable TV VP…Tribune Entertainment VP…produced “Capones’ Vaults”… married Beth…Joshua, Rachel and Daniel born in Chicago…back to NYC as CFO for Hallmark Entertainment…produced HBO special…son Ryan born in NY..President Archie Comics…President All Media for 26 years…raise money for venture companies…now registered investment banker … served 12 companies as board director…running for White Plains City Council… more info at www.allmediaventures.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/allangrafman/  See you at the 50th…it’s a big one!

I signed the guest book when it first came out as all the Reunion Committee were encouraged to do so. It is a bit outdated now.  I married in 1971 and attend a few universities before graduating from SIUE with a bs in early childhood and elementary ed. Worked on my MS in Special Ed early childhood Had my wonderful daughter Stacey then equally wonderful son Matt. Lived in Des Moines IA while married.  Went to Medical School at UOMHS as a single mom - kids were 3 and 6 when I started. Spent 5 yrs in residency ended as a Child Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist Love what I do! Still practice 1 day a week Lived back in Ucity a bit then Clayton Moved to San Diego CA Jan of 2000. Great move! Never regret my coming here. My kids are both sooo important to me Stacey my oldest is an atty in St Charles with her husband and my great dane grand pups (a couple of human step grands too) Matt did a stint in the marines and various cops shops around ST Lou My dil Toni rocks! My granddaughters Adyson and Alexandria keep me hopping - visiting them and having them out here. I married Patric 21 yrs ago - we met at Vic Tanny by the Clayton FB in the swimming pool I keep busy as the president of my local Osteopathic Medical Association VP of my Choir Bd member of my temple High Holiday choir member Torah chanter YK morning Bd member of my WRJ group - and a member of my local polymerclay guild I walk or swim daily Volunteer Usher at many theaters in San Diego Help out at my local library Ok enough I enjoy life! Singing, dancing being active with people I love as much as possible  Becky aka Becca aka Rebecca 

Dear High School Classmates,  Wow! Love reading your biographies..... once upon a time! I graduated  from The Jewish Hospital School of Nursing (1976?)I moved to the wonderful PNW and lived with my brother Mark, sister in law Heidi and Molly my niece (A"h). I found work, and an apt. in Seattle and got my BSN at Seattle  University.  I live a very PNW life having met my husband at a Starbucks where he was working  ( yes at Starbucks) in 1982. We married in '83.I have 2 amazing boys ( plug for their band Beverly Crusher check them out on you tube) Max is married to Talya and they spawned my favorite person on the planet, Lev! Sam is my other son still single. I am newly retired and still doing volunteer post op nursing care worldwide with OperationSmile since 1994. I visit STL to see my Mom, Betty Rae a few times a year, she is amazing! I am very excited to reunite with you this fall. 

Looking forward to the reunion!  Retired 4 years ago from Mercy  as a NICU RN. Wonderful career working with an amazing team for 38 years.  Married for 43 years to Bud.  Three sons, heped with most parent activities, scouts, sports, room parents etc. Aaron works for Rawlins Sports, David an RN at BJC, and Tommy a music teacher. We are currently blessed with 5 grandchildren under 5. Worth retiring for. Fortunatley they all live close by. During covid we did a lot of babysitting!  In 1980 we bought a fixer upper in Webster Groves where now we are currently the seniors on the block. Enjoy gardening, participated in three garden tours. Traveling as much as possible.  During the 2017 flood in southern MO our river home was flooded. With Buds carpentery skills the home was rebuilt. We continue to enjoy extended weekends on the river with family and friends.  Last year I joined a bowling team with retired nursing friends. Its all about the fun right.  But I did participate in an after school bowling group at the Arcade bowling alley on Olive. Take Care, Mary

It was such a pleasure reading all these messages!  I moved to Parkway after 8th grade, but find I know more old friends here, so I will try to be at the reunion.  I attended Washington University along with Jeff (though not as long) and graduated in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.  I 'played' with computers for the past 50 years, first as a hobby then professionally.  I have been married to Ellen for 46 years and we have a great daughter who is a structural engineer.  I still have family in St Louis as well as strong ties to WashU so we get back fairly regularly.  Our first meal is always Imo's pizza and we also visit old favorites like Llewelyn's and anyplace on the Hill.  We are both retired and enjoying the heat of Houston, TX but not the politics. I especially look forward to seeing my old friends from University Forest!  Please send me an email if you wish to catch up even more. Howard

Looking forward to seeing you in person next year  This should be a great time to get together with our friends and their families  Becca

Hi Everyone! What can I say. Fifty years is a long time. Time goes by so quickly. Ok, so I will try to sum it all up.   I’ve been married to my wonderful husband, Benjy, for nearly 48 years. We have one son, BJ, who lives in LA and works in the entertainment industry.  BJhas produced several award-winning programs. I’m not a bragging type of mom, but I’m very proud to share he has won two Emmy’s! He is happily married to an amazing woman and we’ve been blessed with a beautiful little granddaughter.  One more is on the way this January!  We are very excited to say the least!    I received a Bachelor and Masters degree in Education and am a Licensed Professional Counselor. After teaching special education, I pursued a career as a school  counselor, retiring after 31 years in 2009.   While officially retired, I continue to stay active in my field part-time at MICDS, assisting with lower-school admissions as an evaluator.  I also work as a Clinical Supervisor, assisting student teachers for WGU.    Benjy and I love traveling. We’ve had a lot of wonderful adventures! When the pandemic hit we bought a RV and joined the RV community.  While we have been traveling the country, our journeys tend to focus our time in LA and visits with our granddaughter, “BAER“.  We have two standard poodles who are always happy to go with us, a major RV plus!   I am truly thankful for all the good things that have happened in my life and for all the amazing friends I’ve made along the way!    Happy 50th Reunion to you all! Wishing you good health and days filled with happiness!

Fifty 0ne years since graduation. How time flies.  I've had a blessed life for the most part. I've been married 46 years and had 2 children. I have one grand daughter and another grand child due in Dec. I did exactly what I wanted to do ever since I had Coach Kovar for Math class. I taught math for 46 years and coached wrestling, baseball and football at Normandy and Desmet Jesuit High Schools. I also taught at St Louis University for 3 semesters. I stopped when covid  hit.  The only big bump in the road was losing my son at 33 years old in 2020.  I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. God Bless Paul

Hello U City fellow 'high schoolers'. Yeah 50 years zipped by and we are all wiser now. Ok maybe just older. Can't wait to come back to Missouri for the reunion. My life since HS has been blessed. I went to SIU Carbondale and managed to aquire a BS in Zoology as this was the early 70s, need i say more?   I moved to Chicago and worked and then went back to school for yet another BS in Medical Technology from Chicago Medical School.  Janice Derfeld (of blessed memory) lived with me in Chicago for two years and we remained friends until her early death.  A friend in Chicago talked me in to flipping a coin to  figure out a move to New Orleans or San Francisco and SF, City by the Bay, won and I moved here (SF) in 1979 where i remain. Not a bad town. Bought a house in the city and can talk real estate and bore you to tears but that is 'normal' for us San Franciscans who bought 'afordable' property!    I traveled for a year in Europe and North Africa/ Middle East in 1983 and also lived in Guatemala in 1986.  Gracias a Mr. Bilgare at UCity for my rudimentary Spanish as it was a good foundation.  Y gracias a Ms. Harris for helping me learn to have a love of literature.  I wish the two of them could come to the reunion..... Married and have two adult children, daughter Alicia, public defender in AZ, and son David, safety manager in NJ. No grandchildren yet so I will look at all your photos and kvell with you.      I went back to school at UC Berkeley for a MPH in Biomedical Sciences and my career was as an International Technical Product Manager. Very fortunate to land a position to travel to many countries.  Still a Californian at heart.  Left Missouri when I was 18 and since i have no family there, i did not return except on a rare occasion.  See you all in October, masks and all. No darn virus is gonna stop a 50th HS reunion.  We are in our late 60s now so what the heck? That being said, hope ya all have good antibody titers and wear masks!     Metta and Mazel,   Jane

After high school, I attended UMSL and received a BA in psychology and then an MSW from SLU.  I worked for almost 36 years for St. Louis County Justice  Services.  Since then I have been working as a PRN counselor at the Edgewood Intensive Outpatient program through Mercy Hospital.  I have been married to Karen for 41 years.  She  has a PhD and CPA. She has been a college professor for over 25 years in accounting and is a forensic economist.  We have a daughter who has a PhD and is an associate research professor and son-in-law who is an MD  in the field of oncology. .They have adorable 4 year old twin daughters.    My son and daughter-in-law also have PhD's and live in Canada with their two adorable children ages 5 and 1.  He is a data analyst and she is an assistant professor at a university up there.  I don't think I will be able to attend the reunion due to a family scheduling conflict that weekend, but I wish you all well and would love to hear from you and even meet up with those of you who are still in St. Louis

It's hard to believe it's been 51 years! Received my undergrad and grad degrees in Music Therapy and Music Ed. at the University of Kansas. Lived in Napa, CA; Salem, Oregon; back to St. Louis; met my husband Bryan (a Normandy '72 grad and Music Therapist) and married in 1978; moved to Rochester, NY where we both accepted jobs at Nazareth College.  While he continued to teach there, I built a music therapy practice in BOCES, the NY equivalent of the Special School District in STL. I retired 5 years ago after 33 years at the same facility and Bryan retired 2 years ago after 38 years of teaching and leading the Creative Arts Graduate Program. Staying at one job is a real rarity in this day and age!  Raised 3 kids (2 girls and a boy), bought a travel trailer and made those kids suffer through two 6 week vacations out west to see the National Parks! Bought a boat, then bought a second boat as we are surrounded by fabulous water - Lake Ontario, the Finger Lakes, the Adirondacks, and the Erie Canal which is just 5 minutes from our home. We have both been active in our faith communities leading music - traditional, contemporary, orchestral. I have led women's Bible studies, helped on missions trips to Honduras and Bolivia, and am now heading up the Children's Ministries at my church. Once a teacher, always a teacher! I have composed and recorded 2 CDs of original music (shout-out to Roger Warner for being a great Band Director). What a blessed life and what an honor to say I'm a U. City graduate! Looking forward to seeing everyone in October.

It all started in my freshman year following friends, come on Ron join us on the swim team. After the 3rd lap ready to get out of the pool, Coach leaned over and said "YOU CAN DO THIS" and thats all it took! 4 years back to back seasons of Swim team and Waterpolo At my senior year coach calls me into his office and gave me an award "ALL AMERICAN IN WATERPOLO" in the united states. WOW! So here it goes! 1971-84 Army Reserves - Radio Repaire Hellicoptors 1974-78 Bible College, BA in Biblical Lit.    1990-92 BA in Recreation Management 1977 married to Cindy - Rosie 77 Kurt 80 Ronda 82 1978-90 12 years Pastor 1981 Referee and umpire 40 years  Basketball-softball-volleyball Sign co. 10 years---Custodian 11 years Still busy at retirement, working on book-What are referees and umpires really thinking or not! How to become one and their stories, working with Referee Magazine Best seller! There has been alot of Pain and joy. God has alwasy been there for me! Glory To His name---May God Bless you richly! See ya in October  Ron Presently in Spokane Washinton   Paradice!  Go Gonzaga, Still #1  basketball

I appreciate our U.City education more and more- we were so fortunate.  The last 51 years in brief... After graduating with my Bachelors (Indiana University) and Masters (University of Kansas), I worked in higher education Human Resources for over 40 years and was involved and on the board of my professional association.  In 2018, I retired as Vice President of Human Resources and Payroll at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. I married Harlan Harber (Parkway Central 1969) in June, 1974 and we have two sons (Adam and Josh), two lovely daughters-in-law, and four super-fun grandchildren (ages 8, 5, 4, and 1).  We are so grateful that they all live nearby. after retirement, I became involved with music again.  In 2019, I sang at Carnegie Hall with the Mason University Chorale and I am President of Friends of Music at Mason- which helps provide scholarships to Mason music students. We love to attend concerts and theater and travel.  I am looking forward to seeing lots of old friends at the reunion.

Hi, all. I was only at U City for sophomore and junior years. I heard from someone (who? who remembers this stuff?) that the year I was supposed to be a senior the PA System kept making announcements asking me to come to the office. I had gone on to Meremac Junior College because, well, high school. I had a wild young adulthood. Oy. I spent it in San Francisco and New York. Then I ran a video production company for ten years. For the last three of those we made documentaries for broadcast. Then I DROPPED EVERYTHING (what? I thought I'd live forever?) and moved to rural Vermont for 28 eyars and raised a familly. Now that I have two adult children I'm back in New York City. I'm a writer (a novel, a book of humor, and a whole lot of science journalism). Most lately I have a regular gig writing for Forbes.com. My Forbes stuff is at RebeccaCoffeyOnForbes.com/science. Other stuff is at RebeccaCoffey.com. I hope to make it to the reunion. But, you know, high school. And life!

I went straight into Wash U. from U. City and graduated with a Physics degree in 1975.  I went on to Carnegie-Mellon U. where I earned an MS in Electrical Engineering.  I also pursued a Ph. D in EE at Virginia Tech and got as far as completing my qualifying exams before changing my mind.  While at Wash U., I developed an interest in fiber optic networking technology and luckily got to work at companies that specialized in it.  I’ve worked at a variety of tech companies big and small over the last 45 years, even helping to start a few (see https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevestorozum/) while pursuing hobbies (playing guitar in a band, designing lighting for community theatres, and developing standards for networking technologies).  Amy and I met during my time working in Connecticut; we got married in 1987 and still are happily so!  We have one son who graduated from college this spring, so he’s just getting going on his adventure.  Coincidentally, I retired this spring after 20 years at my last company and am hoping to write not just a new chapter in retirement, but a whole new book!

Hello UCity classmates.  Hard to believe... Fifty-one years from our high school graduation, a pretty amazing accomplishment in itself and I still feel so grateful to have grown up in such a special place like UCity. After High School I attended Mizzou for two years where I met my future husband Mark Kram (Ladue '69). Mark and I got married after my sophomore year and then we moved to Jerusalem. I studied at Hebrew University on the Junior Year Abroad program, while Mark began his first year of graduate school to become a Reform rabbi at Hebrew Union College. It was an amazing life-changing and growing up year for us, especially living there during the Yom Kippur war. After that year, we returned to Cincinnati, OH, completing a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the U of Cincinnati. My first real job upon graduation was the special projects coordinator for the Director of Emergency Medicine at the UC Medical School. While working there full-time I took advantage of the opportunity to study and complete the paramedic training program through my department. Upon Mark's graduation from the five-year rabbinical school program, we moved to Tampa and then to Miami, FL, where we lived for over 40 years before retiring to Cary, NC, to live closer to our children/grandchildren and farther away from Hurricanes!!!  (Not UM Hurricanes!) Our house was severely damaged by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Fortunately, we were able to rebuild. We raised three wonderful children in Miami, FL: two sons and a daughter - all married now. And we continue to count our blessings with the addition of four precious, healthy grandchildren. I loved the many and varied careers I have had; teaching first aid at community college; working as Director of Jewish college student programs for the statewide Florida Hillel Council where among my job highlights, I coordinated and lead one of the inaugural Israel Birthright trips, taking over 400 Florida college students to Israel  to learn about their heritage. I also helped to launch the first U.S. College March of the Living program - a Holocaust education program - traveling to Poland and Israel. My last job brought me back to healthcare, where I supervised the Behavioral and Collaborative Medicine Program at a large hospital network, focusing on stress management programs for patients, staff, and community. Mark and I have had a great run, married for almost 50 years and continue to love sharing our time together, being with our family, and participating in many outdoor activities especially  biking, kayaking, hiking and pickleball! I am looking forward to seeing as many of you at our 51st reunion. 

I was pretty shy in high school, but made my way in an untraditional path to adulthood, parenting, and now retirement. University High School offered a top flight  public school education in the day. I am grateful for the edge it gave me as I floundered in those sensitive years after high school and made life altering decisions. I am very grateful for being in the right place at a challenging time.   

University City holds wonderful memories for me.  What a wonderful community and School system .  The lifelong friends I have made are precious and priceless.  After leaving  Columbia  Missouri  , Gary and I were off to New York for  4 wonderful years.. Gary worked in a Veterinary  practice and I completed my Graduate work  and worked for IAHD  as their Family Counselor.  University City was  always with me ... I continue to work full time as a private practitioner in my therapy practice.   Gary also is still practicing  in his clinic, Spoede Animal Hospital. We returned home and began our family . Benjamin is 39  is the Founder of Principal Education  & Design Consultant.  Chicago Daniel is 34  , Musician in St Louis,  among his other talents ! We have two furry companions that keep us very busy  and enjoy long walks and hiking is Maui.   This year of course we stayed home ... So looking forward to reconnecting with friends .......