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I discovered this web-site by accident. I graduated in 1973. Really enjoyed reading the guest book.

Dan

Gary-Thanks for keeping this up! I am still living on the south side. Our oldest son will be a senior this fall at the U. Our youngest will be a Freshman at Western. So we will be empty nesters! My husband still works for WSU and in private practice as a psychologist. I'm still working for West Valley Schools. After being heavily involved in the parent group at Ferris for seven years, I am looking for a new project!

My parents still live in the valley. My dad is 90 and going strong! My mom has good physical health but her mind is going. I saw Don Albright this last month at his fathers' memorial. Sorry I will miss this reunion as I will be in San Francisco. Hi to all. Becky Ruhl Severinghaus

Hi all,

Thank you Gary for setting up this web site. Here's what's going on in my life- I've been married to Wayne for 29 yrs. Our oldest daughter got married 3 yrs. ago & is living in Penn. Our youngest daughter is going to SCC & lives at home, she'll be 21 in Sept.

My mom passed away in '97, my dad is 90. We have lived in Otis Orchards since '80. Our two daughters graduated from EVHS & their dad got to give them their diplomas (he was on the school board at the time).

Interesting places that we have been to- Acapulco Mex., 2002 winter olympics in Salt Lake City, Israel, Makinac Island Mich., Bahamas, San Antonio & South Padre Island Tex. In 9 yrs. Wayne can retire.

Classmates that I have seen lately- Vicki Thomas, Jim Plumb, Alexis Daniels, Barb Pheiffer, Ann Michaels, Jean Vetter, Roy Seely, Glenna Bolich. We were at Wayne's 40 yr. U-Hi reunion & ran into Carla Marcus, Paula Marcus's sister (Paula was EV class of '71), & Mrs. Sandberg's son (she was the 8th gr. Home Ec. teacher at Trent). I've attended Otis Orchards Community Church since '89. I stay busy working at home & with my hobbies. Hope to see some of you at the 35 yr. reunion.

Hi everyone, I cannot believe it has been 35 years since we graduated. I have very fond memories of my High School days at East Valley. I have no regrets of those days even though I spent far more energy in hanging out and being goofy than I did trying to achieve academic excellence.

After East Valley I joined the Navy and got married and moved to Vallejo California. I remembering running into Roy Seely and Larry Hull one day at Kmart in Vallejo. Those East Valley people are every where. From Vallejo I moved to San Diego California where my first son Rob was born. While in San Diego I was fortunate enough to travel to Hong Kong, Hawaii, Korea, and Japan. After I separated from the Navy I moved to Maryland where my second son Tim was born. In Maryland I went to work for MCI and was later transferred to Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, I finally received my Bachelor Degree (Management Information Systems). It only took me 20 years after I graduated from High School to get my degree. Maybe I should have focused more on academic excellence while I was at East Valley. Then in 2001 the economy took a down turn and after a long period of being without work I found a job on Monster.com in Olympia Washington. I moved to Olympia in 2003 where I manage the Call Centers for Employment Security Department for Washington State.

My life has been filled with successes, challenges and failures. However, I am finally enjoying my life now. I married a wonderful woman who I respect and love very much. Those bumps in the road of life did teach me that my parents gave me more than a watch for my graduation. Along the way I discovered fears, poor coping skills, foibles, and all the other baggage we carry with us into the world. I discarded what I could and I learned to embrace what was left. After 35 years of encountering life’s ups and downs I have come to a point in my life where I try to trust God everyday and focus more of my energy towards just hanging out and being goofy.

Don

Hi everybody:

Well, since you last saw me, we have had another baby who is now almost seven years old. Her name is Laura. Remember Doris my wife, she was pregnant with Donnie when we saw you all in 1997. He's almost nine now!

We travelled out West in 2002 to do some business with a partner. Tucked the Tetons, Yellowstone, and Mt. Rushmore into that trip too. Mt. Rushmore sure has changed since I was there as a boy. Can't really get close anymore.

My thoughts of being the next millionaire are now past. Yeah, I'm dealing with it! So now I'm back at General Electric, at least for now.

We are all healthy out here in Wisconsin. I got my first colonoscopy this year. Two polyps, no cancer, so good to go for another 10 they say.

My Mom and step-Dad still live in the Valley. My siblings reside from CA to PA, so we all have places to lay our heads while travelling.

Glad to be alive and know Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Hope you are all doing well too.

Steve VT

Thanks to Gary for keeping this site updated and going.

Currently I am trying to get into Real Estate with little luck. I have had my license and been with Windermere Real Estate for the last year and three months. So far, I have made $270.00 and spent nearly $20,000.

Since my tech job was sent overseas the first of 2002, life has not been good to me. Hopefully things will change in the near future.

Hi Gary,

I actually check out this web site quite frequently. Now that this guest book is here I will make a point of checking it out even more often.
I retired from the U.S. Army after 25 years of service and am currently working at two full time jobs here in Georgia as a Medical Technologist. My family is still in Spokane and would like for me to move back there but I am quite content doing what I do down here and it pays fairly well.

I do miss many of my classmates though. Don Roberts and Tom Lookabill mainly as all three of us played varsity baseball from our sophmore years on. I do get home once in awhile and will be there sometime in October this year and hope to re-acquaint myself with others from our class. Anyway, I just wanted to sign the guest book because I think it is great and you are to be applauded for doing such a fine job with this site.

Bob

Hi, Gary;

Heck yeah, I check in once in a while! We’re all really fortunate you put this site together (I love the Nat Park one, too). Although if you’d come up to me that day thirty-four years ago when we were writing our last wills and told me that in the future (Internet? Google?) I’d have to explain to my eighteen year old daughter who the Doc was and why was I saying those nasty things about him, I would have thought you were crazy. The guestbook is a great idea…maybe more people will chime in. I’m too cheap to buy access to Classmates.com.

I’m still in the Seattle area, still working in biotech. Three teenage girls in the house, a thrill a minute. I don’t have any family in the Valley any more; my mom and sister are in California. We bought a ski shack in Wardner near Silver Mountain about ten years ago, though, so we still get back regularly.

All the best to the rest of the EV alums out there.

-Gary

-oh, and just to show you can find just about anything on the Internet, there’s a copy of the 1948 Otis Orchards High School annual at www.thirdstbooks.com/otishs48index.html, in case you’re interested.

Hi Gary,

Yes, I do check in on the site periodically. Thanks for maintaining it. I am currently the Chief Operations Officer/Chief Financial Officer of a local manufacturing and distribution firm. I am still married to Nancy, who is as beautiful as ever (she is 50!). The kids are now teenagers, not yet old enough to drive. Our oldest has been plotting on how she is going to get to drive my Jeep Wrangler to school every day since she was 12. Kyle is busy being a boy. He spent the first day out of school at his Grandpa's (Dave Michael EV class of '70) He got to shoot a shotgun and has been on cloud 9 ever since.

I am still having fun with music as an acoustic blues musician, Slim Chance (aka Chance Tupper), and in the Samba/West African drum group Prima Noche. Prima Noche just played at Art Fest. My roll is the best in the band. I get to play an assortment of hand drums, guitar, quica and didgeridu. Some say the crowd was awe-struck by my didgeridu at Art Fest. I really eat that stuff up.

To those that always ask how my Dad is doing, both Dad and Mom are doing great.

Best regards to everyone,
Tom Tupper

Welcome to the EV '72 guestbook!

Here's your chance to leave a note for the rest of us to read. Let us know where you are, what you've been up to and anything else that you think might be interesting.

I've been stuck in Spokane all these years, still have two kids at home, and have been writing software for the last 20 years.

Somewhere along the line I ended up doing a website for Spokane's carrousel http://spokanecarrousel.org and then another for Nat Park http://natpark.org.

Hope to hear from some of you,
Gary