Willard Abington (Marie)
STILLWATER, OK
Career: Retired from work since 2006. Mercury 25 years, Swans Rubber 15 years, National Guard 15 years.
Family: Wife Marie, married 68 years. Daughter-Michelle. Grandson-Michael

Janet Darlene Adams
VICI, OK
I was married to an OSU student and went to school in Stillwater for part of my senior year. I was able to return to my home town of Fargo, OK to graduate with my class that year. I have a son and two daughters.

Norman Adams (Jean)
BIG FORK, MT
Just a word to say that I am still alive, but I have been gone so long from the time you represent, that I can’t dredge up those memories of Stillwater. My time is made up of looking at my mountains and listening to audio books. My beloved Glacier National Park has been swamped by hordes of people who make it impossible to enjoy its natural beauty.

Gale Andrew (Barb)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Barb and I have four children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. David Wyatt and his wife Jeanine live in Cypress, TX and have one daughter, Hannah and one grandchild, Osker. Shelly Wyatt Shropshire and her husband, Mike live in Indianola, OK and have four children; Bailey, Lauren, Wyatt and Allison, and two grandchildren, Raylee and Samuel. Rob Andrew lives in Perkins and has three children; Angel, Jayden and Jackson. Brett Andrew and his wife Emily live in Tulsa and have one daughter, Jenna.
Career: I retired from the USDA’s Farmers Home Administration (now Farm Service Agency) in 1999 after 33 years of service. For the past 22 years, on a parttime basis, I have served as Vice President/Manager of the Oklahoma Rural Rehabilitation Corporation (ORRC) which is a small non-profit corporation that makes loans for farm real estate, provides scholarships for rural graduating high school seniors and conducts a small community development grant program in rural areas.
Volunteering: Member of the Stillwater Pioneer Athlete Memorial (S.P.A.M.) board of directors.
Activities For Fun: I still try to do a little deer and turkey hunting and continue to play (when not injured) “old man” softball.

Bill Arnold (Linda Weir SHS ‘63)
WICHITA, KS
Family: Bill and Linda (Weir) have been married 54 years. Daughter, Teri Meloy lives in Grand Island, FL. She works as a Social Security Supervisor. Son, Jon lives in Boulder, CO. He is in charge of Social Media for the University of Colorado.
Career: Bill taught, coached and was a school administrator in Moline, Garden City and Wichita, KS for 33 years.
Linda taught at Wichita Tech for 31 years. She also worked for HeartSpring (a school for children with disabilities) in the Human Resources department for 13 years.
Volunteering: Volunteer at church about 20 hours a month. Bill coaches a 16-year-old baseball team and they have gone to the state tournament three years in a row. He life guards for children’s swimming lessons at the YMCA.
Activities For Fun: We have seven gardens of vegetables and flowers. Fishing, hunting, hiking, and playing golf. We travel about two months out of the year. The virus restrictions and our age have slowed that down. We spend July and two weeks in August at a lake just 40 miles from our home. We come in every Monday and wash our clothes and check our e-mail. We will be in Colorado the last of September, and we will not be able to attend the reunion.

Carl Bastion (Joyce)
STILLWATER, OK

Karl Baumgartner (Carol)
RICHMOND, TX
Family: Healthy and in tact. My wife Carol and I have three children and five grandchildren (ages 12, 7, 5, 3 & 2), who all live within five miles of our home in Richmond, TX. My siblings are Ted, Bill and Barbara who live in Georgia, Oregon and Colorado respectively.
Career: I have been the owner of my own business since 1973. Now managed primarily by my son Michael.
Volunteering: Leader in outdoors nature organization “Texas Master Naturalist”. Boy Scout leader and campsite volunteer. Write oral histories.
Activities for fun: Two days a week I visit our family ranch property. I am the heavy equipment operator.

Marie BearryGeurian
STILLWATER, OK

Edd Bellatti (Melyn)
BARTLESVILLE, OK
Family: We have three children and five grandchildren.
Career: Owned Bellmar Color Press. Retired in 1996.
Activities For Fun: Played a lot of golf.

Conn Berkenbile (Sharon Brandana ‘65)
BROKEN ARROW, OK
Family: I married Sharon Brandana (class
of 65) 53 years ago and we are still married. We have three kids, Jim will be 52 this December, Andrea is 47, and Matt is 43. They all live in the area. Andrea has two children, Dalton and Rachael. Dalton is in Bartlesville and has a new baby girl. Rachael lives in Catoosa and has two little boys. Matt lives in Tulsa and has two girls, ten and eight years old. Our three kids are still working on their first marriages.
Career: I went to the Air Force after the Cuban missile scare and served in Japan for two of the four years of my enlistment. I don’t know how I made it back into college, but I graduated from Pharmacy school at SWOSU in Weatherford. My first job was running a pharmacy in the Ideal Food Store in Elkhart, Kansas. We went to Enid for two years. I spent eight years in Miami, Oklahoma, then to Broken Arrow for 37 years and counting. I was a staff pharmacist at Saint Francis Hospital for 18 years and part time for seven years after that. I retired in 2009. Retirement is the best job I have ever had,
Volunteering: I haven’t volunteered for anything much. Sharon volunteers at church and takes care of charities.
Activities: In 1992, I joined the American Coaster Enthusiasts. Except for the last two years, I planned vacations around Roller Coaster Conventions. We’ve been from California to Florida and from San Antonio to Philadelphia for CoasterCons. I have ridden at least 255 different coasters, which is really a small number compared to many other members. Other than that, I try to keep up with the news and the nightly talk shows (Stephen and the Jimmys), take care of the lawn, share the household duties, and care for my sister Karen.

Tom Berry
STILLWATER, OK
Family: One remaining son, Shane R. Berry of Stillwater. Two grandchildren, Dax Berry and Zada Berry, both attending OSU. Career: Professional Auctioneer since 1970. Former Director in two energy companies. Former Director of a publicly traded financial institution. President of T.D. Berry Investment Co. Inc. Activities For Fun: I quit flying small planes in June 2011 and quit gardening in the summer of 2017. I try to exercise three to five days a week.

Nita Mae Bissell Gilliland (Richard)
REDMOND, WA
Family: We have five children, 3 boys and twin girls, 7 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.
Activities for Fun: I enjoy reading, sewing, playing cards and traveling.

Joe Bowles
ROCKY MOUNT, NC
Family: We have a daughter, a son and five grandchildren.
Career: I own and operate restaurants and a commercial warehousing business.

Jackie "Clarnel" Brady Akin
SEARCY, AR
Family: I married Joe F. Akin from the SHS class of 1959. Joe died in 2019 and I am still grieving. We lived most of our lives in the Oregon/Washington area. We have two children; Debbie who lives here in Searcy and Hank who lives in northern California. We moved to Arkansas several years ago to take care of our grandchildren. Our youngest grandson, Dylan Treadwell, just graduated from college.
Career: I worked for Columbia Sports Wear. I was in charge of shipping products to five states. I also got to figure out how to ship sportswear that Columbia donated for The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillihammer, Norway without paying taxes in the various countries along the trip. Joe was a Church of Christ preacher at many churches in the Portland area. We spent a year as missionaries in Czechoslovakia.
Activities just for fun: Learning about history, especially local history. I’ve just moved to a new and smaller home in Searcy.

Diane Burt LaFollette (J.W. LaFollette)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Married to my husband J.W. for 59 years. I moved to Perkins in the middle of my sophomore year and we started dating and got married in 1962. We have three sons, Steven (55), Michael (53), and Scott (48) and wife Trisha, grandchildren Autumn (20) a junior at OSU and Bryce (16) a junior at Union HS in Tulsa.
Career: 30 years as a secretary at OSU. 10 years in Home Economics (now Human Environmental Sciences). Three years in the President’s Office. 17 years working for the retired Presidents, Dr. Lawrence Boger and Dr. Robert Kamm and Vice. Pres. Dr. Jaime Boggs in addition to being secretary to the OSU Faculty Council. I have enjoyed being retired for the past 11 years.
Our Perkins High School Class Reunion and Alumni Banquet coincide with the one for the SHS Class of 1961. So I will not be able to attend. I have such wonderful, fond memories of my short time at SHS.

Judy Cacy Brightwell
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Lawton and I have been married for 58 years. We have one son, Jeff, and two grandchildren, Clint and Marisa. Jeff and his wife Eva live in Lake Charles, LA. He is Vice President of Energy Transfer Partners in charge of their Lake Charles liquid natural gas plant.
Career: I retired from the Tulsa City-County Library in 2005 after 40 years as Acquisitions Librarian. Lawton retired from the Tulsa Police Dept. as detective in 1987 before transferring to the Public Works Dept. He retired as Operations Manager in 2005.
Activities For Fun: After retirement, we moved back to Stillwater where we enjoy family, friends and traveling. We have traveled to all 50 states and numerous foreign countries.

Irma CaldwellBrown (Robert Brown)
KINGWOOD, TX
Family: I married Robert Brown in 1968. We have three children, Rob Brown who lives in Bozeman, Montana where he is a realtor. He has one child, Milo, who will be
a freshman in high school. Our other son Chris lives in Walker, Louisiana with his wife, Pat. He works for Dell Computers. Our daughter, Cathy, lives in Kingwood, Texas. Both Cathy and her husband are chemical engineers. They have three children. The oldest Ainsley will be attending Vanderbilt University this year. Avery will be a junior in high school and Andrew is in the 7th grade.
Career: My career as an elementary teacher has been scattered over many states as we moved for my husband’s career. I taught in Oklahoma, Utah, Colorado, Illinois and ended teaching the last twelve years in Stillwater at Richmond Elementary. I retired in 2010. After I retired we then moved to Texas to be closer to children and grandchildren.
Volunteering: I have volunteered some at the elementary school in Kingwood where my grandchildren attended. I also did volunteer work at our church.
Activities For Fun: Our activities have mainly centered around family. We enjoyed taking cruises to Alaska, the Caribbean, the Northeast and Canada.

Pat Casey (Robi)
EDMOND, OK
Family: Wife Robi; two daughters Kim (PA) and Julia (KS); five grandchildren, three grandsons in college (FL, PA, NY), two youngest--grandson and granddaughter HS seniors. Our baby Sasha (a bichon) is 12.
Career: Attorney and Counsellor for 45 years with the same law firm. Enjoyed the clients, staff, work, and at first the business travel. The travel part became less than fun (snowed in closed airports Chicago, Cleveland, Kiev and delayed and cancelled flights), but left interesting memories, from horrific to hilarious. Several clients and friends stated I could not retire, because I would be bored to death--wrong. I recommend retirement in spite of the fact that I retired December 31, 2019 (the day China announced its COVID) and COVID was announced in the US on January 20, 2020. Looking back, I should have retired ten or more years earlier.
Activities: Traveling/Missed Vacations.., My longest trip since COVID has been to a doctor in NW OKC, with other less than remarkable shorter trips to our favorite dine in, Sam’s & Costco. It’s possible that in September my longest trip may be to Stillwater (53 miles). We are looking forward to the date we can start flying/traveling again to see kids, grandkids, brothers, nieces, nephews and friends, and vacation to safe new foreign destinations.
Other Activities for Fun: Spending time with Robi. Being in lock-down with Robi is like Brer Rabbit being tossed in the brier patch. Reading, and more reading. Updating the house. OU football, OU women’s gymnastics, OU women’s softball, the Thunder, hopefully maybe the Olympics. Non fun...Filing, shredding and decluttering (OK its easier said than done) and reading the obituaries (come on, at our age we all do it). To sum up my life in one word - blessed.

Ann Caskey Eakin (Ben Eakin)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: We have one daughter, LeAnne, and one son, Brian. LeAnne and her husband are the parents of our grandson, Tripp. Tripp will be 3 years old in October, 2021. What a joy he has brought into our lives! They live in Edmond, Oklahoma, so we are able to see them often. LeAnne has a master’s degree in Accounting from OSU and her CPA license. She plans to continue an accounting career when Tripp is in school.
Our son, Brian, has his master’s degree from OSU in Economics and lives in Austin, Texas, where he works as the Principal Data Scientist for Zilliant. Brian is our world traveler as he has traveled to several countries for work as well as leisure time. In 2017 he climbed Mt. Kilamajaro and enjoyed the awesome view at daybreak from the peak.
Career: I was a registered pediatric dietitian for over 10 years in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. During this time, I met my husband, Ben, on a Caribbean Cruise and we found we lived only 10 miles from each other in Houston. Two and a half years after we married, we moved to my childhood home in Stillwater. It has been our home for over 38 years and we have undertaken several major renovation projects.
Volunteering: We serve with Mobile Meals and enjoy delivering a hot meal and meeting many new people.
Activities For Fun: I love to enjoy a challenging game of chess on the computer (about every day) and spend some time reading. The springs and summers find us enjoying the bounty from our garden. And spending as much time as possible with our grandson!

Bob Clark (Barbara Bremer)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Brother-Kenny, deceased. Sister-Lynn Dee, deceased.
Career: Retired for the last 15 years.
Work History: US Army-stationed in France. Texas Instruments-machined parts inspector.
Core Driller-Baltimore, MD worked on Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and DC Subway System.
Security Guard-Cushing Prison for the last 10 years before retiring.
Volunteering: No, have too much yard work and gardening to do!
Activities For Fun: Go to music festivals, travel, some fishing at Boomer Lake just two blocks from my house, camping with friends at McMurtrey Lake, relaxing, enjoying the golden years.

Bill Cleverdon
FRANCITAS, TX
Family: Two brothers: one in Midland, TX and one in Vinore, TN.
Career: I’ve been retired for 10+ years after 40 years in the oil field.
Activities for Fun: Running the farm.

Pat Cooley McCroskey (John McCroskey SHS‘61)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Son, Mark and Katrina McCroskey, Grands- Hunter - Katie - Mattie. Son, Mike and Cindy McCroskey, Grand- Micha.
Career: Dr. David Heller Dentist. Receptionist-office manager. Frontier Engineering. Retired as Administrative Assistant to the President of Frontier Engineering Incorporated.
We retired and moved to Lake Fort Gibson. We had 10 years of fun times with grandkids and their friends and lake life.
Volunteering: I was President of the Oklahoma Associated Milk Producers Associations Ladies Auxiliary group. I was Sunday school teacher and helped as needed in the churches we belonged to. We helped support the Pioneers Booster Club and served as President one of those years.
Activities: Boating at Lake Carl Blackwell was always a fun time with friends and family. I thank the Lord daily for the Christian values and the opportunity for our family to live on a dairy farm. I am a city girl, transplanted to the dairy farm life. Never a dull moment.

Mary Kay Cooper Warren
PAWHUSKA, OK
Family: Married in 1962. Widowed in 2003. Daughter Kathy, grandson William AF, son Wade, granddaughter Allison.
Career: After the kids were in school I worked at a bank for 11 years. I owned my own business twice. I was office manager for the fifth largest construction company. I am retired, but still working two days a week managing a local store. I love greeting the hundreds of visitors we have daily They are not only coming to Pawhuska to see the “Pioneer Woman”, but also hoping to see movie stars who are here filming “Grayhorse”.
Volunteering: I volunteered for two years photographing and identifying the many artifacts they have at a local museum. I am treasurer for the Merchants Assn. I’m a greeter for visitors at our historical theater and am learning to run the projector. I run a taxi service for several senior citizens.
Activities For Fun: I have a craft booth at a local store. I still take care of my yard and garden. I visit my gypsy daughter, wherever her fifth wheel is parked. I almost made it to all 50 states plus Iceland and Canada.

Ronda Cooper
MORRISON, OK
I returned to Oklahoma in 2013 and now enjoy living north of Stillwater on a small acreage.
Family? Single Working? Retired microbiologist. For Fun? Fiber arts, writing, travel

Sharen Cottongim Prevatte
LUMBERTON, NC

Dana Cowan Naas (George Naas)
LAKEWOOD, CO
Family: Married George Naas – 52 years. Daughter–Rachel Robson (age 47) married (no children) Dean of Saba University School of Medicine located on island of Saba, Dutch Caribbean (south of St. Maartin). She and her husband have been professors at this medical university for the last 7 years and absolutely love this very tiny, remote island community. NO Covid cases on the island at all throughout the entire pandemic. Son–Alan Naas (age 40) District Manager for New Mexico and southern half of Colorado for Safeco Insurance. He and his wife live in Castle Rock, CO so close enough that we see our ONLY granddaughter, Alexa Lee, age 4.5 who’s starting kindergarten this fall. We waited a LONG time for this one and only grandchild!
Career: Moved to Lakewood, CO in 1965 to teach school for Jefferson County Schools (business subjects at high school level). Taught for about 20 years and also was a District Manager for World Book encyclopedia for 12 years (sold books!!). Our OWN company, Golden Printing Company was established by my father-in-law in 1959 and taken over by George and me in 1968. We are still running a very active company—George handles the printing and I do the promotional products. I am VERY active in three Chambers of Commerce and other networking groups. I am very distinctive as the “little old lady with white hair”! See our PERSONAL website: GoldenPrinting.com
Activities for fun: Walking, yoga and especially square dancing. I met George at a square dance many years ago, we danced with our daughter and her friends when she was junior high age, and have been dancing ever since. We generally dance at least twice a week. We also like traveling, especially cruises!

Jeanie Crane Reed
JAY, OK
Family: My daughter Robin and husband, Don Kier, live in Cassville, Missouri. Robin retired from being the first admission counselor for Crowder College. They have a farm and spend as much time as possible with their grandson, Radley. My grandson, Reed Crane Spencer and wife Jade graduated from OSU in 2020. Jade teaches in Glenpool and Reed is with Cherokee Nation. My son, Travis and wife Dana live in Temple, Texas. Travis flies for Southwest Airlines. Dana works in H.R. for Belton School District. Grandson Trevor has a degree from Texas A&M and works as a Vet Tech. Grandson, Brendie attends Lake Belton High School (10th grade) and is a tennis playing guru! He went to regionals as a freshman!
Career: After receiving a B.S. in 1965 and an M.S. in 1967 from OSU, I taught for four years. In between working Native American programs for H.E.W. and Cherokee Nation, I put in two years as H.R. person for Shangri-La Resort on Grand Lake! I ended up working almost 29 years for Delaware County Dept. of Human Services. I always worked family support and retired as Family Support Supervisor.
Volunteering: I have done eligibility for the Grove Christian Free Clinic, since it started in 2002. This clinic has been a real blessing to this area and continues to operate with great volunteers! Since June 2006, I have been on the Board of Directors for Northeast Oklahoma Community Action covering five Oklahoma counties.
Up until the last two years, I have baked up to 12 pans of brownies for Judy German and Diamond Valley (east of Stillwater on Hwy 51) for their “Chicken & Noodles” Fund Raiser!
Activities for fun: A good friend (DHS retiree) and I have made a point every 4-6 weeks to going to Northwest Arkansas just to get out of Delaware county. (It’s 12 miles from here to Missouri state line.) Of course, this also involves eating while we’re there. We’ve slowed down since Covid, of course. I get flown to Texas at least twice a year on Southwest Airlines!!! What a great time!

Mary Ann Dryden Wannamaker
RALEIGH, NC
I so enjoyed being there for the 55th reunion and so grateful for being included even though my family moved away and I did not graduate. I spend half of each year in Lawton, Michigan (in the country on a small inland lake surrounded by grape vineyards) and half of the year in Raleigh NC. My children and grands are scattered around the country from Idaho to Florida.

Ginger Durham Lynd
JOPLIN, MO
Family: I stayed pretty close to my mother, Bobbie Durham, helping her keep her rent houses clean, repaired, and painted. We played a lot of Scrabble and swam in her pool after she retired from Social Work in Illinois. She took me to Portugal and the Canary Islands in 1973. Married Joel Q. Lynd in 1967. Divorced in 1971. No children.
Career: Entered Phillips University with Voice Scholarship in 1961-62. Finished my B.M.E. at OSU in 1966 with a major in Vocal Music Education. Taught Elementary Vocal Music in Kansas City, KS 1966-73. Earned 19 hours of undergrad Religion at Kansas U. in Lawrence, KS, 1974. Professional Soloist with Kansas City, Kansas First United Presbyterian Church, 1966-70. Managed the Dairy Queen in Stillwater, OK while studying Greek with Backroom Chapel Ministers. 1975-76. Entered Phillips Univ. Graduate Seminary, 1976-80, graduating with Master of Divinity. During that time, pastored four churches. Chaplain at Southern Height HUD Apartments in Stillwater, OK. Choir director, Woodward United Presbyterian Church. Elementary Music Teacher in Woodward, OK, Coldwater, KS, and Hays, KS. During the final 10 years of my teaching career, I went to Texas, for much better pay, and retirement benefits. I taught English as a Second Language, self-contained sixth grade, Elementary and Middle School Vocal Music. Choir Director, Unity of the Valley. Soloist Valley Symphony chorale. After Texas and teaching I returned to Stillwater and worked as a counselor for the Salvation Army.
Volunteering: Counselor, Woodward Domestic Crisis Shelter, Contact Teleministries Suicide Prevention, Counselor Middle Earth Drug Intervention, Metropolitan Inter-Church Flood Disaster Relief, Alpha Ministries, Friends of the Community Center Foundation Charter treasurer/corresponding secretary. Member and soloist in numerous Church Choirs.
Activities For Fun: Chorus member OSU production “My Fair Lady”, OSU Chamber Singers, Soloist Vivaldi’s “Gloria”, Schubert’s “Mass in G”, Handel’s “Messiah”. Member Town and Gown Productions of “Of Thee I Sing”, “Brigadoon”, “Majority of One”, and “The Foreigner”. Pre-Covid, I enjoyed gym and swimming activities.

Jack Durham
BOISE, ID
Jack spent youthful summers helping on his grandparents’ wheat farm in western Oklahoma. He graduated with a BS from Oklahoma State University then obtained a MS from New Mexico State University. He began his career with the Bureau of Land Management in Socorro, New Mexico as a Wildlife Biologist. His duty stations also included Arizona, Alaska, and Idaho. He got to see most of Alaska, including two trips down the Aleutian Islands.
Jack raised two boys as a single parent in Shoshone, Idaho, then finished his career in Boise. While in Shoshone, Jack’s free time was often spent flying cowboys to Rodeos.
While in Boise, Jack’s “los tres amigos” group took many a trip “Down Mexico Way.” His “Boise Book Club” group meets for drinks and suggests what book they might read and they’ve managed outings to Australia, China, Mexico, Kentucky Derby, Seattle Mariners, Washington D. C.
Jack particularly revels in memories of a trip down the Baja with his son, Scott, and another to Singapore, while Scott worked and Jack played. Scott also graduated from Oklahoma State, then spent 30 years at Micron Technology in Boise. All the while the priority was helping Scott and Sonia raise three grandchildren, Jackson, Taylor, and Sidney.

Jerry Edmonds (Doris)
SPRING, TX
Family: Married to Doris (OSU 1966) for 55 years. Two sons and their families, including four grandkids (ages 10-14) live nearby.
Career: Earned BS & MS Accounting degrees from OSU in 1966-67, moved to Houston and worked for Big 8 CPA firm for five years. Then, worked in internal auditing positions for major Houston energy company until retirement in 2001.
Volunteering: Various volunteer ministries at church.
Activities for fun: 1970s-80s: Many family travels in our RVs. 1990s-2000s: US & Europe travels and Caribbean cruises.
2010s-now: Keeping up with grandkids’ activities!

John Esparza (Tammy)
STILLWATER, OK

Kae Evans Fisher (Larry Fisher)
CROSS ROADS, TX
I came to Stillwater as a 9th grader from Okmulgee and left after the 11th grade for OSU. Our Mr. Coltharp’s love of math and people inspired me. I graduated from OSU in Math in 1962 and became a statistician at UT Medical.
I married Larry Fisher in November 1963. He worked for IBM and we became part of the “I’ve Been Moved” company. After we moved back to Texas, I taught Math at Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas. Six moves, three sons and four grandsons later we find ourselves retired in Cross Roads, Texas, just east of Denton.
Our oldest son, Scott, is an architect in New England who designed and built our Prairie-style home that we have lived in for the last 23 years beside Lake Lewisville. Our son Mike lives in Atlanta, Georgia, has two sons and is a Bio-Medical Engineer. Youngest son, Robert and wife Leah are educators, live close by in Highland Village, Texas and have twin sons.
I’m not officially an SHS alum, since I didn’t graduate... I just went on to OSU, but my dearest high school girlfriends keep me connected and enjoying the class reunions and fondly remembering the three years I spent there.

Davis Fisher (Julia)
EL DORADO HILLS, CA
Family: Married to Julia Long for 44 years.
Career: Marine Insurance Underwriter and Employee Benefits Risk Agent for Mitsubishi Electric America.
Volunteering: SCORE (Senior Corps of Retired Executives)
Activities For Fun: Travel

Judy Flood Hill
TULSA, OK
Family: My husband, Marshall, died of brain cancer 3 1/2 years ago. I have a daughter, Holly Rackers, a son, Marshall (Marty) Jr. and five grandchildren.
Career: Retired licensed banker with Chase Bank.
Volunteering: I teach Bible studies at Zion Community Church or in my home.
Activities for fun: Read Western Romances, walk & doing things with the grandchildren.

Mary Lou Foltz Cagle (Greg Cagle)
CHARLOTTE, NC
There is no way anyone can remember me, but what I remember about all of you is your kindness to a young married teenager! Thank you.
Family: I have 4 children, 8 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. (Just writing that makes me tired! They are great!)
Career: Retired. Spent 23 years at what became Bank of America. I worked on every merger from 1979-2002. As if that wasn’t enough. I went to work for Accenture and did a big outsourcing for a Canadian firm. After commuting to Montreal for two years I retired again. Enough!
Volunteering: I helped start a micro-lending program in Haiti. Then we used a 501c3 to establish a mission partnership in Cup Haitian. Now I consult with our partners to help them start their own micro-lending programs. Haitian women are great at business and are so glad to have access to some capital.
Activities For Fun: Travel: U.S., Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Europe, China, Haiti. Waiting to book something for 2021 or 2022.

Pat Foster
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Jan, my wife of 51 years passed away in January 2014. Her ovarian cancer returned with a vengeance. After living in Korea, England, Indonesia, Yemen, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, India, a short stint in Equatorial Guinea and Tulsa, I returned to Stillwater in November 2019. Traveling was my intent, but Covid put an end to that. My kids are in France, Montana and Stillwater.
Grandkids: two in England (Med school and Law school), one in Pittsburgh, MS, one in San Mateo (baseball), one at Stillwater Junior High, One in Dallas (working), two in Kalispell, MT in Junior High and grade school.
Career: Worked for Atlantic Richfield 25 years, than began consulting in Project Management and major contracting, all energy related. Finally retired in 2015.
Volunteering: Volunteered with my wife for a number of years for Meals on Wheels.
Activities For Fun: Travel, fishing, gardening. Have a large backyard that borders on open pasture. I watch deer, cattle, hummingbirds, rabbits, and the occasional crappy armadillo. Enjoy Karl Baumgartner on his frequent trips to Stillwater, along with David Franklin and all the guys who show up at Bad Brads; Berry, Kinnick, Andrew, Westmoreland, Cole, Jim Gray, Gary Franklin, McWherter and I’m sure I missed someone... Alzheimer’s.

David Franklin
LAS VEGAS, NV
Life becomes a little simpler each year but still is good, primarily because my three children and three grandchildren are doing well. The major change in recent years is that my father passed away last year, after being granted more than the average time to enjoy life here. Still have the challenge that occurs often with this mobile society; all three children live far away (Seattle, Chicago, and Dublin), so don’t get to see them as much as desired, but that disadvantage is partially offset by having enjoyable places to visit.
One reflection associated with our Stillwater class is how much I have enjoyed periodic lunches with several classmates on visits to Stillwater. It is quite remarkable that a dozen or so classmates come to lunch and are all enjoyable and good persons. Quite remarkable indeed.

Gary Franklin (Nancy)
STILLWATER, OK
Family: Daughter Lisa R. Franklin lives in a Chicago suburb with my granddaughter, Joy Morgan (now 16 years old). Lisa is a speech pathologist with a local middle school and works in hospitals during summers and weekends.
Daughter Lori D. Franklin is a Clinical Associate Professor at OU-Tulsa and is Program Director for the Masters In Social Work program. She has two sons, Neal (18 years old) and Reece (15 years old) and lives in Tulsa.
Career: I sold my CPA Practice and retired at the end of 2004. On March 17, 2020 we moved to Legacy Village of Stillwater and live in the Independent Living Section. This project is new to Stillwater and is immediately north of Lakeside Golf Course. Nancy and I love being here as we have many friends here and lots of fun activities. We are loving retirement life and can highly recommend it.
Volunteering: We are still members of First Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, but are not as active as we once were. There is something about arthritis and back troubles that slow you down.
Activities For Fun: We take part in all of the activities here at our retirement facility (day trips to various locations, movies every night, pool, shuffleboard, Bingo, card games,
watching all OSU sports and much more).

Dale Going(Myla)
BETHANY, OK
Family: My wife Myla and I have been married 56 years and have two children, Brent and Stacia. Myla worked at Deaconess Hospital in OKC for 42 years before retiring in 2010. Stacia has three children: Sydney, Carson, and Colby. All three graduated from Stillwater High School. Sydney played softball and Colby played on the golf team. Sydney is pursuing a career in Nursing. Stacia’s twin boys are now at OSU one studying Finance and the other Fashion Design. Our son, Brent, is materials manager for Integris Hospital and Stacia who previously taught in Stillwater at Will Rogers Elementary is now an assistant principal in Okla. City.
Career: My career was spent working for Aero Commander/Rockwell International/Gulfstream Aerospace for 37 years. My first years were in the interior shop installing interiors in Commanders. Then I moved into Industrial Design where we designed interiors and interior installations for Commanders and Rockwell Saberliners. Later I went into the Technical Publications department where I did technical illustrations for Commanders. When we became Gulfstream, I was reassigned as a Graphics and Communications Specialist and retired when the Bethany plant closed in 2002.
Activities for fun: Since retiring I have enjoyed playing golf and league bowling where I’ve had two 300 games. I’m still looking for that hole-in-one on the golf course (probably not happening).

Sharon Gooch Combs
TULSA, OK

Mickey Graham (Michelle Patterson)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Family: My older daughter, Deirdre, husband Carl, and grandson, Sammie, live about 45 min. away in Half Moon Bay, CA. Leslie, my younger daughter, and two granddaughters, Payton and McKenzie and their husbands, live in the Denver area. Payton has my only great-grandson, Raleigh who is 4. I also have two step-daughters; Sarah Malkin and her husband, Ben, live in Los Angeles, and Julia Malkin in New York City. Although we are scattered, Michelle and I stay in touch and visit them often.
Career: After 32 years on the faculty at San Francisco State Univ., I am now retired.
Activities for fun: Michelle and I love to travel but, of course, we haven’t been able to do that during the Covid shut down. We were in Wuhan, China just a month before the Covid hit the news. I came home sick, but it wasn’t Covid.

Bill Gray
STILLWATER, OK

Jim Gray (Bibi)
STILLWATER, OK

Lana Grooms Chadwick (Lynn Chadwick)
FORT WORTH, TX
Family: I left my singing career to raise three amazing children! We have two sons who own their own successful businesses; Chris - Vanguard/Premier Pathways, Austin - Vype Magazine and Printing Company. Our daughter is a successful career woman in medical sales. Chris lives in Dallas and has two of our grandchildren, Ava and Grayson. Austin lives in Tulsa with two of our grandchildren Lincoln and Scarlett. Amanda is still planning on having a family.
Career: Went to Dallas after obtaining Bachelor of Music Education degree from OSU. Launched singing career; sang and played piano in hotels and clubs and recorded ad jingles and station IDs for recording studios. Left for New York to pursue singing-modeling career; did print ads with ad companies (was in major magazines), sang in clubs and was scheduled to do Off-Broadway production of By Jupiter, before leaving to get married (had met owner of Jets football through Joe Namath who introduced me to Richard Rodgers). Taught music in Lexington, Kentucky while Lynn was in dental school. Went to Nashville, when Lynn left for Viet Nam to fly helicopters. Recorded for producer Owen Bradley, Decca/MCA Records and performed in shows throughout US with Buddy Lee Attractions. Worked on and off with Lynn in our business in Tulsa, Ranger American of Oklahoma. Graduated from Rhema Bible College in 2003.
Volunteering: Lots! Put together packages in Branson, for Amanda’s committee, to auction at St. Jude Gala on Dallas Cowboy field. Enjoyed school volunteering; homeroom, and school board.
Activities just for fun: As, I’m sure with all my classmates, whatever my kids and ‘grands’ are doing is all the fun I can fit in! I’ve always studied nutrition and enjoy reading self-helps and motivational publications. Planning to release a scripture/confession book, through Austin’s publishing company, Trinity Media Group, and market container with same content.

Linda Gudgel Imle
COCHITI LAKE, NM
Born in Great Falls, MT, moved to Wiesbaden, Ger. in ‘45 or ‘46, then Arlington, VA in ‘50, to Lake Charles, LA, then Tokyo, Japan in ‘54, to Hawaii in ‘56. Finally moved to Stillwater in’59 and spent 2 years in High School, graduating in 1961.
Education: OSU BS 1965, U of Arkansas, BSN 1979, U of Alaska 1963 BA Criminal Justice
Family: Married Robert Imle (USAF retired) on 9/4/1964 and divorced in 1981. Our children are Kay, Shannon and Matthew. My domestic partner, Angie, and I have been together since 1991--30 years and counting. I moved to Alaska in 1987 and retired in 2013. We left Alaska in 2014, now live in Cochiti Lake, NM
Hobbies: Hiking, long distance cycling, wood carving, my dogs, gardening camping, point to point hiking/camping,
Traveling: China (twice), Japan, Peru, Equator, Holland (twice on biking trips), Machu Pichu, Amazon River, Galapagos Islands, British Columbia, Prudhoe Bay, AK, Northwest Territories, Tukteuckt, NWT, Tanzania and the Serengeti, Italy, St Lawrence Island, AK. We are now travelling through the desert southwest and planning an extended trip through Australia after the pandemic.
Special events, after having three children, divorce, moving to Alaska and traveling around the world: 1. Hiking the Great Wall for 7 hours the first time, 2 hours the 2nd time. 2. Seeing the Terra-cotta Warriors in China. 3. Standing at the gate in Kashgar, China, the beginning (or end) of the Silk Road. 4. Touring the Forbidden City and the Empress’ Summer Palace, in Beijing, China. 5. Floating down the Sacred Li River in Southern, China on a bamboo raft. 6. Riding a camel on the Teclamacan Desert to hear the Singing Sands and see the Half-Moon oasis. 7. Holding a BABY PANDA at a Panda Research Facility, in China, after participating in an International Internship Program at the facility and touring behind the public area feeding the pandas that were being housed there. 8. Swimming in the Arctic Ocean in Tukteuckt, NWT and Prudhoe Bay, AK. 9. Riding my bike on a solo trip across the Netherlands. 10. Sharing a 10-day Bike N’ Barge trip with Angie, my partner, and a friend in the Netherlands. 11. Hiking the historic Chilkoot Historic Trail 5 times. 12. Biking the Historic Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, CA with three companions in 21 days. 13. Spending 2 weeks in Tanzania, 7 days on safari in the Serengeti Desert during the peak of the Great Migration. 14. We adopted an orphanage in the village of Geita, Tanzania, an unincorporated village with almost 20,000 inhabitants. We carried/dragged 3 large rolling duffle-like bags of medical supplies, books, shoes, toys, soccer balls, an air pump and puncture repair kits, crayons, plain white paper, other educational items. We also took 5 laptop computers, one for the Nun who was the director and 4 for student use. 15. Angie, my partner and I returned to Geita a year later with medical supplies for the Village medical clinic. I spent time with the doctor and his students. I was teaching them how to draw blood/start IV’s, do basic physicals, basic first aid skills, use of stethoscopes, record keeping, etc., I was able to assist because I am a Nurse Practitioner (now retired) and able to assist. This was the most difficult, but fulfilling 3 weeks I have ever had. We still support the orphanage when we can, and stay in touch with the doctor and Nun and send supplies when we can afford it. 16. I have run 5 marathons and about 2 dozen half marathons, along with numerous 10K’s to help raise money for different medical causes. 17. I have also participated in numerous 5, 10, 25K bicycle rides to help raise money for different causes. 18. One very memorable trip was to the Galapagos Islands, this was part of the South American trip to Ecuador and Peru; getting to see Lonesome George, the world’s oldest giant tortoise just months prior to his death; to walk with other giant tortoises; to swim with Galapagos penguins; to see the Blue Footed Boobies and the sea iguana.
It has been a busy life but fulfilling. There is still a lot left to do and see. I am back in school, again, taking a class in advanced wood carving. I do lots of other wood working projects, furniture making and other do-it-yourself projects.
During this pandemic I organized a group of neighbors in our little village to make masks for our townspeople, the native pueblos that are nearby, and other groups around the state. Our little 5 person group made over 7000 masks that have been dispensed all over New Mexico. We are preparing to start sewing again because of the rapid spread of the Delta+ variant that is causing more mask mandates.
I won’t be coming to the reunion, it is much safer to stay home. Angie has had to battle breast cancer and is in remission. Better to be safe than sorry.

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