Where has the time gone? I don't know and who really does. The important thing is that we are still here and loving life to some extent. This page is YOUR page to tell everyone anything you want. Your likes or dislikes, accomplishment or failures, family and friends, habits or hobbies, or that you are alive and still kicking. Feel free to go to the contact page and send us some info about you, your family, friends or whatever including pictures!!!!!
Just to kick start this I will go first, but remember that this is your page to share only what you want to share.
Currently living in Smyrna GA and working for Level 3 Communications.
I got married on August 8, 1980 to a wonderful woman name Bev. She has done a great job keeping me going and giving me some super kids. We have had some hard times and some great times and overall I'm damn lucky to have her as my wife. She put up with me doing 20 years in the Navy and I could not have gotten where I am today with out her. It seems like just yesterday when I would walk into the living room and she would be in the big chair with one of my baby girls snuggled up for that midnight feeding. The milk would be drooling out of my daughter's mouth and saliva would be drooling out of Bev's mouth as they both snored away. Life just does not get more genuine or precious than that!
My first child is Rikki. Like any child she pushes every limit she can to be the biggest source of pain and pride that any parent could have. There were many days that I did not think she was going to live. Either her tom-boy ways were going to get her into a situation of no return or I was going to kill her from sheer frustration. It was really close on a many occasions.
My second daughter is Randi. She was born on my birthday and still is the greatest present I ever got. Randi is totally opposite of here sister. She is shy and very reserved in her actions. And yes, she has pushed the limits of our patients and tolerance on many occasions. We when get together at the reunion remind me to tell you of her alien abduction.
Last, but not least is "The-Man-Child." His real name is Derek and is Rikki's son and the best grandson in the world!! I'm not going to bore you with endless accolades on just how great he is, but he is extremely smart and good looking and has some great parents. I steal him away from his parents every opportunity I can so I can spend lots of time with him playing or taking him places like museum or anywhere he wants to go.
I am a hairdresser in Carytown, have been at the same salon for 18 years. I have also worked for the Richmond Braves for 14 years, fun job and I am an avid baseball fan...I have a tattoo to prove it!
A year ago, I started teaching Japanese Hair Straightening for a company called Bioionic. I am part of the National Education team for Bioionic. I teach and certify hairdressers in MD, NC, VA in the art of JHS so they can perform this service in their salons.
The beautiful girl on this page is my pride and THE BEST thing I have ever done...Carrie Lee.
She is 20 and about to make me a grandmother. She lives in Va. Beach with her navy fiancé, Thornton. To see his picture simply click on his picture to the right. I am excited about the arrival of my 1st grandson, Gabriel James Thornton.
I am also getting married in August....I have met a very sweet, smart and cute man. We are best friends and love to be together, whether it is cooking, going to the movies, working at the Diamond or just hanging out, we always have a great time.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone in October...it really looks like it is going to be a fun weekend!If you need Java to see the pictures to the right you can install it here.
Lets see......Beau Mahanes class of 1979 Attended Lock Haven State College 1979 BA major Played 1 year on Football Team. Joined the US Navy as a Hospital Corpsman 1981-1985 Attended Piedmont Comm. College Graduated 1991 as a Registered Nurse. Married in 1995 to a spoiled American brat, divorced brat in 1999. Currently have lived in The beautiful Town of Charleston SC. since 1993. Commissioned as a 2nd LT. in the US Airforce as a Flight Nurse. Gualified on C141 and C17 airframes. Currently with the Air National Guard in Jacksonville Fla. as a Captain in charge of the Fitness Program. At present Ive found love again to a great Girl who is not American, but a beautiful smart Thailand woman who works as a Pharmacist. Will marry sometime in 2005. No kids, Vasectomy in Oct.2004. I still work out 3-4 times a week as a amateur Bodybuilder with a body like a 23 year old. I also play Competitive Tennis rated as a 4.5 player. Long term plans retire at 53, travel and Love my new wife and our Cats. I also enjoy riding my Jey Ski here in the summer, going to the beach and refusing to grow up!
I'm a graduate of Roanoke College, BA in Theatre Arts...The Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Master of Divinity...I've been an ordained clergyman for 17 years...I've been married to the same incredible wife for 21 years...I have a terrific 12 year old son...I have a great job as the Chaplain/Director of Pastoral Care at Retreat Hospital, Richomond...I live in a nice quiet neighborhood in Mechanicsville...LIFE IS VERY GOOD!
I understand that you are collecting brief biographical sketches on everyone. Here is a super brief one for me:
1983 William & Mary B.S. with High Honors in Biology
1989 Cornell University Ph.D. Biochemistry
1989 married Gregory Ferguson, Henrico Class of '78
1989-1990 Harvard Medical School post-doctoral fellow
1990-2000 Aventis Pasteur Depts. of Research and Project Leadership
1994, 1997, 2000 Birth of children, two girls and a boy
2000-present Aventis Pasteur Dept. of Business Intelligence
We live quietly in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Greg teaches Chemistry at Lehigh University and I lead the medical intelligence effort in the U.S. for the global vaccine manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur. We visit our families in Richmond as often as we can.
I moved to the Atlanta suburbs immediately after graduation and have been here ever since. I graduated from Mid-America Nazarene University outside of Kansas City, KS with degrees in both accounting and computer science in 1984. Since then I have worked in the accounting field, mostly as Chief Financial Officer for several companies. Three years ago I went to work for The Damascus Group as CFO. This is an Atlanta area homebuilder that specializes in starter homes. We have grown from 50 homes a year when I started, to planning on 225 sales for this year. Recently I made a big move in the company and left the CFO position to take the Operations Director position. This will hopefully allow me to be a more active part of the actual construction process, as well as moving to the VP of Construction in the next year or so.
I was married to Vickie in 1985 and we have two wonderful girls – Jessica 17 – Senior, and Jackie 15 – Sophomore. Both girls are planning on attending Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville on graduation. Vickie has been a stay-at-home mom for both of our girls, but has recently begun her own “home party” business with a newly launched company called the Big Yellow Box. It is backed by both Crayola and Hallmark selling craft kits featuring Crayola products in their home parties. We are excited about the possibilities of her being in on the ground floor of a brand new company. We have attended (and are very active in) Gracepointe Nazarene Church since moving to Atlanta.
What I've done the past 25 years! I joined the Army in Jan.1980 and spent 9 years in. Got to travel a little bit and was blessed with meeting my lovely wife Evelyn while I was stationed In Philippines. We have been married for 18 years in december. We have 4 cats and 1 dog and live in Richmond. We never were blessed with children but have the next best thing, between the two of us we have 33 nieces and nephews so have plenty of children and we can send them back to their parents when we get tired of them!!! Got out of Army in 1989 and bounced around from job to job until 1991 when I formed St. Wine Industries Inc. of which I'am the President and CEO. We have done several different lines of business the last 13 years and for the past 3 years its been a Vending company called REDS vending in which my brother Robert and his wife Dawn and my wife Evelyn work in, so its a family affair. We do onsite soda and snack machines for businesses in area, we also sell new and used equipment and service anything we sell. While the title sounds great it, I still am hands on in every part of the business and as any fellow classmates who own their own business know, its alot of long hours and sometimes 7days a week, but well worth it. Sorry for being long winded but my business is my life.
Hi everyone just wanted to drop a couple of lines as to how life has been for me. After leaving h.s. I got an job as a driver for an wholesale florist supply company after that it was just one job after another (makes you want to appreciate school uh!) not knowing what I wanted to do in life. My last stop was to go to Piedmont Comm. College and receive an certification in Human Services. I now work for Henrico Mental Health & Substance Abuse Center as an Mental Health Counselor. Life's had it's ups and downs with me but finally I've devoted my life to Christ where I attend a great church that I'm very active in. Currently I'm in two differently ministries transportation and I operate the soundboard for our "Praise Team". I've never been married nor had any kids but let's keep "Hope Alive". Looking forward to seeing everyone in Oct. be blessed and I'll see you then.
After graduating form Henrico, I attended Washington and Lee University where I played one year of Division III football and graduated with a B.S. in Anthropology. With no idea what to do next, I enrolled in the Anthropology Department grad program at Arizona State University, where I spent 10 glorious years in the desert and met my wife (Jane Peterson of Falls Church, VA) of 15 years. While enrolled at ASU, I earned an M.A. (1989), and eventually a Ph.D. (2002). We left Tempe in late 1992, moving back to Virginia and living in a cabin (Jane called it a shack) in the mountains just outside of Lexington, Virginia while I collected my dissertation data. From there, we moved to Williamsburg in 1995, and then in 1996 drove to Milwaukee where Jane had a one year appointment at Marquette University teaching archaeology; she too is an archaeologist but her interests are in the Middle East. Eventually she was offered a full time position, we bought a house (1997), had our first son Malcolm (1998), had a second son Jackson (2002), bought our first mini van (Aug. 2004), and along the way have been trying to remember what it was like to be hip with time, money, and energy.
That's my past twenty-five years in a paragraph.
Glad I finally found the web site, it was well worth the effort, and I have and will continue to enjoy its pages.
I have been married for almost 18 years to my beautiful wife Lissette in which we have a 14 year old son whom I am very proud. I have traveled quite a bit over the past 12+ years where I have commuted between Europe/DC for the past three years.
After graduation, I entered the Air Force and was stationed at the Air Force Academy in Colorado for four years. I then moved back to Richmond and met Lissette at VCU and after graduation joined EDS where I completed their Systems Engineering Development Program where I was employed for over 5 years. We then moved to northern VA for a year and then back to Richmond where we have resided in Chesterfield for the past 8 years.
I am currently on the exective team of a software company with offices in Bournemouth, England and Northern VA which carries its perks and burdens.
Our family has been active within the foster care program in Chesterfield County where we have hosted a number of kids over the past years. We currently have a Mexican exchange student living with us for the next nine months.
I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion. I still can not believe it has been 25 years.
Over the past 15 years since I last saw you, I have been in private practice as a dermatologist in St. Louis, Missouri. I started taking piano lessons again in 1999. I earned a MBA in Health Services Management from Washington University in St. Louis in 2001. My husband (Calvin) and I stay busy raising our 18 year old daughter who is involved in Pom Poms, our 16 year old son who swims and plays lacrosse, and our 10 year old son who loves football and basketball. My hobbies are still centered around homemaking...sewing and cooking.
After high school I took many roads. The "not so fun" ones were planned ironically, and the unplanned ones turned out to be my best journeys. Being a control freak, I obviously tried climbing many mountains my way, doing several things the hardest way possible. But, the experiences paid off just the same, and after more education for several different pursuits (along with a few different career paths) I was able to find out what really sets me on fire. Presently, I am married to a terrific guy who happens to be of Hispanic decent just like me (In case you don't remember, my mother was from Cuba.), which really made him hard to resist when I met him, given I am pretty sentimental about my heritage! I have a 12 1/2 year old AMAZING son, who's IQ is frighteningly high (Not necessarily bragging here, TRUST ME, it really CAN be frightening at times!), and is heavily into politics, creative writing (writes dialogues like a mad man... think Dave Barry crossed with George Lucas), art and cartooning (mostly political of course), piano, theater, and the list goes on. Let's just say he has a WIDE variety of interests, thus, keeps me exhausted to keep up with. (This, given I must be involved in EVERY aspect, since yes, I am a bit of a micromanager I'm afraid!) Besides wife and mother, I am also an Independent Contractor as a Marketing Coordinator for a CPA Review Firm, as well as a Supreme Court certified Mediator. My upcoming plans are to go into private practice as a General (small business disputes) and Juvenile and Domestic (family law) mediator sometime in the year 2005, thus, leaving my marketing days behind for a while. I am also a CASA (Court Appointed Advocate for Children of Abuse and Neglect), as well as a Sunday school teacher at St. Mary's Catholic Church. To round it all out, I am a fitness and health fanatic, thus, I enforce daily weight lifting and cardio workouts for the entire family in our home gym (My son says I resemble many dictators he has studied...Yikes!), and guzzle gallons of water, as well as green tea. In a nutshell, it's exhausting being me, and though I wish I didn't always feel like there's something more that I could be doing, I also have a great appreciation for the experiences that I've had so far! Currently, my husband son and I live in a home in the Wyndham area of Richmond's West End, with our black cat "Boomer."
Can't wait to see everyone in a few weeks, and thanks so very much to those dedicated to pulling this 25 year reunion together!
Well here it is...my alumni story...after graduation I headed back West...California beaches and family were calling! I recieved my AA degree from Orange Coast Community College and while there met my first husband,a musician and dental technician. We married in 1983. Shortly after marrying we moved to Lake Havasu City, Az located on the colorado river. Yes..it's that spring break hangout..but that blonde you saw on the sandbar was NOT ME! I attempted being a 'housewife' but quickly became bored..he worked very long hours, I didn't know anyone, and had no kids to occupy my time.I soon realized I needed to complete my education goals. I began commuting to California to return to college and was soon accepted to the USC Physician Assistant Program. In 1988 I graduated from the program and recieved my Bachelors Degree in Health Science. Upon returning to Lake Havasu I began work with a solo orthopedic practice which I continued for 13 years. In 1994 I had my first child Haley and also became a widow. I was fortunate to have the wonderful support of many friends and family over the next couple years to get me through the rough times that followed. In December 1996 I met Terry McGuire..a local veterinarian, who came from an Irish Catholic-Norman Rockwell-Nebraskan family......what's that spell?....S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y!
What luck...he showed up in the office with a sore thumb! I liked the odds ( he was cute too!) and we married in October of 1998. In January of 2000 I had another daughter...Megan Rose. In April of 2001 I left Orthopedics to take a job with the local VA clinic. It was a HUGE change for me, but I love it! I was always interested in Internal medicine in school but that opportunity wasn't available here in a town of 25,000 thirteen years ago.The VA clinic satisfies that interest. I continued to work FT until about October 2002 at which time I went to intermittent status. My mother who moved from VA to Lake Havasu in 1990 was quite ill and family life was WAY TO HECTIC. I was able to work out a position where I fill in for the providers when they are on vacation or are ill. I feel blessed as it allows my to keep my foot in the door of my profession and fulfill the needs of my family. The girls keep me quite busy. Haley is 10 now and enjoys Pop Warner Cheerleading, gymnastics, softball, piano and guitar. Megan is 4 and enjoys gymnastics, soccer, Daisy's, and LOVES SWIMMING....look for her in the 2016 or 2020 OLYMPICS! I am so proud of my girls....that's part of my job of course...but they really are wonderful, beautiful children :) Besides the family I spend my time volunteering at the school and church .
We recently have set out to build a new home....that should take up any spare moment I may even dream about!
In my spare time....haha...I enjoy cooking 'gourmet' meals (my family thinks there gourmet..that's all that counts), exercising, scrapbooking and reading a good book. Lake Havasu is now about 50,000 people and still growing...could stop anytime and would be fine with me.... it has truly become my home after 20 years. We have the most BEAUTIFUL SUNSETS! I do miss the GREEN in VA....but not the humidity. You may have heard...in Az...it's a DRY heat!
Well, that's it for now. I am really looking forward to the BIG EVENT...25 YRS...I really don't feel that old...unless I've been sitting on the floor for more than 5 minutes and try to get up..then I feel 100 years old! LOL! See ya'll soon! Looking forward to soaking up some GREEN.
Julie
Life is strange, isn't it? The first forty years or so are spent loading emotional baggage for the trip through life. Before you know it, the bags are splitting at the seams and it's time to unload. Problem is, you're not sure what's there any more.
After high school, I made a series of unfortunate and life changing mistakes. Not really surprising since I began that trend well before graduation. I left VCU after a couple of years and married my first red-neck - see, I can even do two stupid things at one time. He confirmed what I had always thought about myself, and systematically stripped everything from me. After eight years, I had no pride, self-respect, or friends. I finally left him after a particularly nasty turn of events.
I finished my business degree, went through photography courses and free-lanced for a time. I love photography and just the feel of a camera in my hands can bring a smile. However, I don't care for weddings, the photographer's bread and butter. All that love and whimsy were just too much to bear. Feeling much too productive and positive, I married red-neck II. He was a bitter, hateful, shallow-spirited little man. Naturally, I had to have him. We wanted to start a family (OK, I wanted to start a family), but by that time, I was a bit long in the tooth to conceive the four babies I had dreamed of. I did, however, have one baby. A beautiful, green-eyed, blond baby boy! My husband became unbearable after Sam was born. He pretty much treated us as if we didn't exist. I developed migraines, hives and shingles. I started to write stories at night after the insomnia made a home among my other ailments. At three, my son began having nightmares and was afraid to be away from me.
After I promised my doctor I would not mix it with my migraine medications, he eventually gave me Ambien for insomnia. I awoke in the middle of the first night I took one to yelling. I ran upstairs to find my husband screaming at my three year old for throwing up on himself. And I finally got it. It was like being struck with a cattle prod. Sam was the love I needed. I was capable of love and someone really needed me. If such an incredible creature such as Sam loved me, I must be deserving on some level and my love for him was greater than my self-doubt. I had to do what Sam needed me to do. We moved out the next day. I had no money, no job. I had Sam under one arm and my dog under the other and I have never looked back. I got a job working for a Congressman and started selling my stories.
After I had time to forgive myself for what can only be considered horrendous errors of judgment, and began to like myself just a little, my health improved. Sam opened my soul to give and forgive and my mind to endless possibilities. Once I decided I truly was deserving of love, I started to date one of my oldest friends, Vincent Smith (Hermitage, class of '79). We have been married five and a half years. He is a lovely, gentle man. I now work in lender insurance services and we live a peaceful, full life in Hanover.
Sam is now eleven. He is a gifted student, plays violin, does volunteer work, and never, ever has nightmares.
I graduated from Bluefield College in 1981 with an A.S. Degree in Business Admin. Then graduated from Old Dominion University in 1983 with a B.S. Degree in Business Mgmt. After graduation, I moved back to Richmond since I was broke and did not find any of the job offers appealing since they required extensive travel throughout the country and in some cases throughout the world. I was not up for that kind of life style in my early-twenties or any other age for that matter. After knocking around with a plethora of dead-end jobs and false career promises, I began to get serious about my future and my long term goals. I decided to workout, save as much as possible and target the best opportunities in Richmond and other markets for my career options. Eventually, my opportunity came and I landed a position with Overnite Transportation Company based here in Richmond, VA. I soon met a beautiful young artist from Syracuse, NY. Her named is Barbara and she is the love of my life. We would eventually marry and the product of that marriage is the other love of my life, my son, W. Trent. He is now nine years of age and an outstanding scholar's list student at Pearson's Corner Elementary school. We are very active with the Atlee Little League. Barbara has held positions with the VCU Art School, The Governor's School, Hanover County schools,and Free Lance Graphic Design. I now work as a Benefits Administrator (401k,Retirement) in the Human Resources Department at Overnite. I am very blessed in my life and I treasure every second of it.
