1978
| 1978
Tom Earl ** tomearl2@comcast.net
Man, 26 years to cover in a few short
sentences. Well, just after graduation I went active duty in the US Navy
Nuclear Power Program. I stayed on active duty for 9.5 years and my
penultimate assignment was in Kingsville Texas where I met Penny. When I
asked her to go sky diving with me and she agreed having never been on a
plane, I knew she was the one. After having known each other only 6
months we got married. Leaving Texas I was transferred to the USS Nimitz in Bremerton Washington and six months later I got off active duty. I did a 3 year stint in a welding supply company but left for a job at The Boeing Company. Soon after starting there I went to school starting at a local Community College and ended at Seattle University with a BS in Civil Engineering. I even managed to graduate Magna Cum Laude (3.78) despite a comment our old Trig teacher once said to me (what was his name - he was the track coach also). Anyway, he once said to me, "You know Mr. Earl, you're not really very smart. You just hang around dumb people." Must have made quite an impression since I still remember it :-) I stayed working at Boeing till 2000 when I decided to become a stay at home Dad. Penny stayed home with our first son, Myles, but as a software program manager at Boeing she was making significantly more than this lowly engineer was so I stayed home to raise our second son, Zachary. Currently, I am enrolled at Pacific Lutheran University getting a Masters in Education to become (the irony is amazing) a High School Math Teacher (or physics). Spiritually, despite being raised a Christian, I was a wreck after 15 and I do mean a total wreck. As much of a Jesus freak as I was at 13 I was the exact opposite at 18. I pretty much stayed that way till about 27 which happened to coincide with my marriage to Penny. After that, it was a long slow climb to get myself out of the gutter and to a point where my faith is now stronger than it ever was. And yes Jon, I do recall the comment you made to me one day when I was wearing a pin to school that asked "What If Jesus Came Today". Don't worry. He won't take you to task for it :-) |
| 1978 Shelley Bell (Hartman) ** sspryte@embarqmail.com Associate of Arts Degree from Southwestern Michigan College , 1980. Attended Western Michigan University a year majoring in Industrial Education. Got married, had two kids, got divorced, went back to school. Second Associates Degree in Business Admin, 2003. Bachelor’s of Science in Business Admin: Human Resources in 2005. Changed jobs twice but am now at LeSEA Broadcasting in South Bend , in the Accounting Department. Still live with my “kids” in Koontz Lake , Indiana . Brienna in college, Tristan is starting high school. A lot of changes in past couple of years….my parents moved back to Niles from Georgia , as did my sister, Karen, and her family (they live in Mishawaka ). It’s nice to have more of our family nearby. Dad passed away in December of 2006…I miss him. |
| 1978 Minta Molica-Hayford ** ndgirl95@yahoo.com Living in the land of gators in wonderful Okeechobee with my husband John, and my beautiful son Nicholas. |
| 1978
Rex White ** insrex@verizon.net Ferris State University - graduated 1981 BS in
Management Rex White Insurance agency 1986-2008 Married to Ann for 24 years, two daughters 18 & 12. Live in Coppell, Texas. Texas resident for 27 years. Hobbies: weightlifting, powerlifting, tennis, softball, basketball. I still love to play sports. |
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