Our Classmates

Any chance you've changed since our senior year?
Any chance you've changed since our senior year?
 

 WELCOME BEHS Classmates of 1961 


This page is for your bio.  Please sign in and leave a bio about your life since graduation.  We know there's  been a lot of grains of sand pass through the ole hourglass since then, but we'd all like to know a bit about you and your family.  Who knows it might just break the ice for conversation at our upcoming reunion. Also leave a picture or two if you like, that in itself, if not for any other reason, could be cause for recognition at the reunion...

Ann Inman (Stoker)

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired/Education
Comment:  Lots of time since 1961! I am married to Chuck, a retired MS/HS football coach and math teacher.  I have 2 children; Marty (single) - a high school/community college math instructor in Beaverton, OR; and Laurie (maried with 5 children) in Beaverton, OR.  I have 2 step-children; Micque (single w/1 child) a project manager with Douglas County in Roseburg, OR; and Mitch (single) with his own custom furniture making business in Oklahoma City, OK.   I am retired from education, having worked 25 years in a county school district providing student services, teacher inservice/training, test scoring site, etc.  We have several small school districts served in this area by this district.  I have lived in Utah, Georgia, and Oregon.  We are now in North Bend, Oregon which is located on the southern Oregon Coast about 100 miles north of California.  It is WONDERFUL!  We live on 6 forested acres.  We enjoy fishing, traveling, camping, being with family and friends.  I am part owner of a jewelry business and am active in Church, currently as a Nursery Leader!!!  I'm about to attend girls' camp.  Gotta stay with those young ones to feel young! Life is good for us; but as with all of us this age, there are some minor health issues that help us to remember how old we really are.  I still feel 16 inside until I pass a mirror and the truth is known.  Aw, well.  I hope at least some of you remember me.  I was not in the year book (got to BEHS too late!), but was active in a lot of activities.  We are hoping to come to this 50th reunion, but are not sure what we will be doing that time of the year.  Live is an adventure for us daily!

Alan and Moana Jensen (Berchtold)

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 6
Occupation: Trucking/Domestic Goddess
Comment: Hi Classmates!  Alan and I are looking forward to seeing all of you at our 50th (50th!!) class reunion.  We are still living in Brigham City and think it is the best place in the world.  Alan is still driving truck, hoping to cut back soon and enjoy some retirement.  He is still in great shape and hikes up to flat bottom when he has a morning off.  We are both enjoying being grandparents to 20 and gr-grandparents to 3 1/2.  Unbelievable, huh?  More unbelievable is realizing that our boys are grandpas!  Our children all live close and we surely enjoy the time spent with them.  Two of our boys are in the trucking business and the other one works at the WalMart Dist. Center.  Our only daughter is enjoying staying home for a change after working at hospitals for 20 years.  Our 2 oldest boys have passed away and we miss them every day, but love having their children close.  We still have a son and grandson living with us, and we enjoy them.  We don't know the meaning of "empty nesters".
I am fighting cancer, have been for 2 years, but right now I am feeling well and enjoying the time before I start chemo again.  I am back to singing in 2 groups and serving on the board of our local community theatre.   Things have definitely slowed down for us, no more skiing, running or mt. climbing, but we keep busy and life is good.   

Jill Jeppson (Roundy)

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 7
Occupation: retired academic advisor
Comment: Hi everyone! After graduation I attended USU and graduated with a BS in Elementary Education. I taught third grade in Sandy, Utah for 4 years. Between my 2nd and 3rd year of teaching I spent the summer in Hawaii, then came back to teach another year in Sandy and planned to then live and teach in Hawaii. However, I met someone who changed my mind, so I stayed for a 4th year teaching in Sandy and was married that year. After I had children I didn't teach anymore. I moved to Idaho while my husband spent a year in Vietnam with the army after he graduated from BYU. Since he returned we have lived in Utah, Kansas (Topeka), Missouri (near Liberty), and Idaho. After my youngest of 7 children (4 boys, 3 girls) was old enough to go to school I worked part time at Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho) as an academic advisor until May 2006 when I retired. My husband worked in the Savings and Loan industry until he became the Cashiers Office supervisor at Ricks/BYU-Idaho. He retired in November that same year and then we served as missionaries in the Germany Munich/Austria Mission (we actually were in Innsbruck for almost 2 zears) until Nov., 2008. After that we spent some time at home and then we served another mission. This time we were called to the same mission, though the name of the mission has been changed to the Alpine German-speaking Mission and now includes part of Switzerland.  We have been serving in Graz, Austria this time since Sept. 2010, and will return home in March 2012.  We now have 28 grandchildren with 1 more expected in 2012. Our children live in many states (Idaho, Utah, Oklahoma, So. Dakota, California, Colorado). We were sorry to both miss our 50th class reunions this year. We hope that you all had a great time together.

Marilyn Johnson (Call)

Occupation: RETIRED!!
Comment: As of last August, I am again a Utahn, after 40 years mostly in California (Sacramento, San Jose, Monterey County), and in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Like Norman, I have had several lives, the first of which was my homemaker-and-mother-of-nine-children period (seven girls and two boys). When the youngest was five, their dad and I divorced, and I embarked on my 4-year career as a party girl, hitting the circuit of LDS singles parties, dances, and conferences in Northern California. (Singlehood is a whole lot more fun at 40 than at 19!) Married my sweet Brent 18 years ago, and we're still going strong. During the single years I of course had to seek gainful employment to support my kids, so I began my 20 year career as legal secretary, office manager, etc. at companies like Control Data, Sony, and McGraw-Hill. I love being retired, love being a very involved Gramma to our 24 grandchildren, and am looking forward with just a bit of anxiety to having my 90-year-old dad and 86-year-old mom move into our newly finished basement apartment in a week or so.

I also finally got up the internal viscera 3 years ago to join a church I really love and am very involved with - the UU Church. (Yeah, me and Rocky Anderson!)

Mary Kinney (Jones)

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: Hello from the Garden State! Beautiful New Jersey has been my home for the past 36 years, so I guess I'm a Jersey girl. I live in northwestern NJ which is filled with woods and wild life. The past few years have brought a newcomer into our neighborhood, the balck bear. It can be a little unnerving to find one in your driveway or taking a stroll across your yard. My husband, John and I have been married for 43 years and he is still the love of my life. Our two children, son and daughter, live nearby and we see them and our three grandchildren often, which is a great blessing to us. I worked as a teacher for many years and then as a customer support representative for the past 22 years. I retired the end of 2005. My husband and I are very involved in the LDS church here and it keeps us busy.   Along with our callings in our ward, we are ordinance workers at the Manhattan, NY temple.   I love living in the Northeast.  It is a woodlands where I live and only 50 miles away is NYC.  We visit the city weekly.  The Jersey Shore is a two hour drive and we "go down the shore" every summer.  However, I do miss the beloved mountains of Utah. 

Judy Larkin

Now Now
Marital status: Divorced
Children: 4
Occupation: retired
Comment: I retired 3 years ago from ups. Im divorced, and have been single for about 20 years, I have4 children, and 13 grandchildren. I spend my time golfing, working in the yard,snowmobilling, traveling,and whatever I want to do. Id love to attend the renunion, but I will be out of town at that time.

Leslie Lerner (Rhein)

Children: 1
Occupation: Project Manager
Comment: Still working and loving it. I have worked for Travelers Insurance Company for 22 years in Hartford, CT. I am a project manager in the Voice Engineering Department and the Claim Department is my primary customer. I have lived in Connecticut since 1964. In 1991, my only child Michael died unexpectedly. He was the love of my life. The child of my heart. Since then I became very involved in an organization call The Compassionate Firends which helped my to travel through my grief and now has given me the ability to counsel grieving parents. It has filled that space in my life that would have been devoted to my son. I have been married to the most wonderful man, Stanley, for almost sixteen years and feel very fortunate that we found each other. Live goes by too fast and we should enjoy as much as we can because we don't know tomorrow can bring.

Lynette Maddocks (Maddocks)

Now Now
Marital status: Single again
Children: 3
Occupation: Retiired Accountant
Comment: I need to update my information. A lot has changed since I last visited this site. I am divorced again. Third time WASN’T the charm. But, I’m very happy with my life. I still live in San Antonio in a cute little house in an old neighborhood. There is plenty to keep me busy, including four great grandchildren, three of whom live here in the San Antonio area. Between them and my beautiful granddaughters, and of course my children, I have a fulll life. I am planning on being at our 60th reunion. Like most people, I find it hard to believe it’s been 60 years. 

Marsha Noorlander (Forsgren)

Children: 4
Occupation: licensed massage therapist
Comment: As I reflect on the past 45 years, I am amazed at all that has transpired. After high school, I worked at First Security Bank in Brigham and South Ogden. Then off to L.A. working in reservations at Continental Airlines. I met and married Blaine 40 years ago.Thirty of those years we lived in Huntsville, raising 4 very special daughters. They picked awesome husbands and have given us 20 grandchildren. (If I had known how much fun grandchildren were, I would have had them first!). With the girls grown and moved away the farm was too much for us and we chose to sell our place and move to Ogden. I not only left 'the Valley', but a 13 year career with Weber School District as a secretary. At age 52, I went back to school (BIG challenge) and became a licensed massage therapist.

I truly enjoy the therapeutic work I do. I also am a hospice volunteer. It is a two edged sword: very rewarding and very heart breaking. Last reunion time my plans to attend were suddenly rearranged. I hope to see many of you this time.

Grover Palmer

Then Then
Now Now
Children: 3
Occupation: retired-working
Comment: I, like many others, have fond memories of our high school years.
After graduation, I attended 1 year at Utah State and then decided that i was 'smart enough" so I quit and joined the work force. i worked construction for 22years, quit that and bought my own truck and spent the rest of my life trucking, hauling livestock. I retired from trucking in May of 2008 and then proceeded to start working again. i am working at Beaver Mountain Ski Resort which is about one of the most enjoyable jobs that I have ever done.
Now to my personal life. I got married in1963 to my bride of 45 years, Jean Wyatt. We have 3 children,18 grandchildren and 9 great granchildren. We have lived in Cache Valley all of our married lives.
  We are looking forward to the reunion which brings many pleasant surprizes.  See You then
 The first picture is of me holding our first child; Christie.