Life Stories of Past 50 Years

Sorry I didn't make the 50th reunion but I will try and God -willing make the next one. So here's a little synopsis of my life since high school. I hated school and luckily was able to get through with good grades and little effort. Went to UNH because I had no idea what else to do. Carl Davis and I used to commute together often.

I graduated UNH in 1978, took a "summer job" at Pepsi Cola and married Mandy Stuart that fall. We had 2 children and spent 22 years together. My father died from a heart attack in 1980 at 50. A few years after that Mandy and I moved to the North River Lake house my parents owned, and built an in law apartment on the side for my mother. I spent the next 18 years as a route salesman, waterskiing, windsurfing, coaching youth basketball in…

It's quite amazing remembering the path you thought your life would take take as a teen, and then looking back 50 years later at its actual course.

After graduating SHS, I spent the next 4 years at Bowdoin College, graduating with a degree in English and visual arts, spending my first semester senior year studying at Wroxton College in the Cotswolds of England. Upon my return to Bowdoin, I fell in love for the first time - with a man. I'd known I was gay since early childhood, but never thought I'd meet anyone.

Three years later, the clandestine relationship a part of history, I moved to Denver to start a new life. Starting in 1984, I began my career in the computer industry, and in 1987 met my future husband, Jeff. Moving back to New England in 1989 we have now settled into our home on the ocean in…

After High School, I joined the United States Air Force in June of 74, retired January 1995. I drove truck for 15 years locally and then I worked out on Holloman Air Force Base, NM for 10 years at Base Service Center. I retired at 65 and am just enjoying retirement retirement and doing the retirement thing.

First, I’d like to thank John McKenna for passing along an invitation to attend the SHS 1974 50th class reunion.

While I did not graduate from Spaulding, I did attend Rochester schools for many years and know quite a few of members of the class. I also remember attending your graduation with old friend Kim Clark – who, like me, attended school with many of you for years but did not get to graduate from SHS.

I did graduate from STA in 1974.and UNH in 1978. My first job out of college was with a bank out of Conway, NH, doing commercial and personal loans.