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| Sara Cameron Pumilia |
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Waukesha, WI has been my home since 1973. After graduating with a degree
in special education from UW-Madison, I married Nick and moved here to
teach. After 10 years of full-time teaching and the birth of our two
daughters, I began working part time. I am still at it as an educational
diagnostician specializing in students with suspected learning disabilities.
After teaching high school and serving as director of a multimedia lab at
Marquette University, Nick is currently working to expand his own multimedia
business.
We have two beautiful daughters, Marisa and Alanna, both married and
established in their careers. Marisa lives nearby in Wauwatosa while Alanna
lives in the Twin Cities
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We love to travel - favorite spots being Ireland, Italy and the beautiful
USA. Hiking and cross-country skiing are tops on our list. Current travel is
focused on Italy, having made several trips since 2003 (with trips to
Ireland, Hawaii, Vancouver, Virginia, Arizona, Colorado,Florida, Jamaica and
Texas in between). Nick is fluent in Italian (a distinct advantage) and we
love the scenery, culture and food!
I am looking forward to catching up with 'old' friends through this website,
so send in those bios.... (Thanks, Rick and Bill!)
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| Kristin Clausen |
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Need a recent photo here! :>
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| I live in Crestwood on Madison's west side with
my husband Barry Delin. I got a Botany degree at UW-Madison and worked in
plant research at the UW and Harvard University between 1975 until the late
80's. After my marriage (at the age of 42!) my husband and I lived in
Chicago for 5 years where I became a travel agent.
Back in Madison since 1998, I now write fiction in the morning and in the
afternoon I have my own business working with the elderly in their homes so
they can continue living independently. This has been a nice mellow mix for
me. I'm still an active musician, enjoy botanizing and bird watching, travel
in Europe and north America, walking, biking, and cross-country skiing. I've
lived in Seattle, Boston and Chicago, but always come back to
Madison...despite its astronomical growth, still a great place to live.
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| Mary Clark |
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| As I think back over the 38 years since our high
school graduation, I find that , (with a distressing lack of originality!)
the elements that have brought most meaning and joy to my life have been my
marriage, my children, my friends, my profession, and travel. I attended
and graduated from Vassar College, but my junior year I spent in Greece on a
junior year abroad program. That year proved to have a critical influence on
my life, since it featured the beginning of a life-long passion for the the
delights of foreign travel and also for the man who was later to become my
husband.
After graduation, we lived in Cambridge, MA; Edmonton, Alberta; Athens,
Greece, and eventually landed in Columbus, OH where we still live. After
marrying in 1975, we picked up assorted graduate degrees, and I became a
teacher while my husband became a professor of linguistics--and an avid
Buckeye fan--at the Ohio State University.. I have continued
teaching--mostly reading and English as a second language, with a smattering
of composition tossed in--ever since. I recently chose to reduce my teaching
to half-time, so I consider myself semi-retired, and at this rate, I hope to
keep teaching for quite a while.
We have two sons. The elder has finished his second year of law school at
Florida State, and the younger just graduated from Yale; he’ll be a Gates
scholar at Cambridge University in England next year. Although there have
been, of course, the inevitable bumps in the road, we could not be more
pleased with the sons we’ve been "dealt"; parenthood has been an incredible
privilege and adventure. (No apologies for the high-achieving children,
incidentally--their accomplishments are their own, and we just look on with
awed delight. The more important fact that they are kind, happy, and
well-adjusted human beings is MUCH harder to document).
As for leisure pursuits, I love to cook, to read, to walk and ride my
bike, to knit, to keep in touch with far-flung friends, and to TRAVEL. My
family and I have traveled and continue to travel extensively. The last
couple of years have taken us to Equador, Jamaica, Australia, Thailand,
Belize, Guatemala, Belgium, Cyprus, and India--and we have no plans to slow
down! (The photo comes from our most recent trip--to South India--during
monsoon season!)
I hope more of us will write up these brief biographies. While it’s not
easy deciding what to put in and what to omit when you’re writing your own,
it’s undeniably wonderful to find out how the lives of others we knew in
high school have turned out. My grateful thanks go to Bill Schultz and Rick
Gullick for the pleasure their hard work is bringing us all.
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| Alan Cameron |
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Hi,
Still about the same age as everyone, and living in Eugene, Oregon, a town
similar to Madison. So not much has changed.
We moved here 18 years ago, my wife Kim and I, at least in part because it
was so much like Madison. A good place to grow up, a good place to raise
kids. A university town in a beautiful setting. Well, no lakes. But rivers,
forests, mountains close by, ocean not far in one direction and high desert
not much farther in the other.
We had a two-year-old daughter then. She’s a junior in college now, and our
son a junior in high school. It’s been wonderful watching them grow, growing
with them. It’s gone too fast, though.
I think of Madison often. Barely been back since the day after our
graduation, and not at all since July 1971. I sure would like to see the
lagoon west of the duckpond, and the big oaks and maples sloping down from
old Nakoma School to the creek. And ride a bike through the stone gates of
the Arboretum on Seminole Highway, all along that winding road among the
prairies and woods behind Lake Wingra, to the Lost City, and back through
Vilas Park Zoo.
A group of us walked with hundreds or maybe thousands of others west, east,
sideways, around Madison and back to the Capitol Square on one long and
sometimes rainy day in fall of senior year, in the Sole Power walkathon that
Linda Rideout and David Epstein helped organize, or at least I heard their
voices on the radio. I’d do that again, fundraising or no.
I edit an industry tech magazine now, as good a trade as any I’ve found.
Taught and lived with autists, wrote/edited arts and music copy for a weekly
paper, a long stint in adventure and wildlife tours (where Kim and I met),
environmental fundraising, some less happy years in marketing and PR, before
landing here. The Eugene office closed a few years ago but I kept the job by
taking it home. I report each morning to a cold basement with a partial view
of the back yard and sky. There’s a bit of travel.
You know what I’d really like to do? Teach high school. History by
preference, but almost anything. Casting back, junior year American history
class, I sat between Kathy Troia, who I just learned via clues scattered
through this website worked in the Nixon White House and the Reagan cabinet,
and Debbie Sweet, who thrilled me to the core when her picture appeared on
the front page of the New York Times in the early 70s, startling Richard
Nixon as she told him she couldn’t understand how he could give her an award
for public service in Milwaukee’s inner city while simultaneously driving
the war in Viet Nam. I walked around for days telling people, “I knew her. I
went to school with her.”
A few years ago Kim gave me They Marched Into Sunlight, a book about the Dow
recruiting riots on UW campus in fall ’67, our junior year, and a battle in
Viet Nam on that same day. Heartbreaking book, stirred up a lot. Two cousins
of mine were drafted and went over, one unknowingly in ’65 and one very
unwillingly in ’71. I wonder if anyone from our class went. I hope they came
back.
Whenever I tell people I grew up in Madison, they say “oh yeah, Mad-town.
Great place.” While agreeing with them, I can’t say that I ever heard it
called by that name in all the years I lived there. Guess there have been
some changes. A few years ago, for my sister’s birthday I went casting about
for some relics to put together a little scrapbook for her. Found an online
brochure about the Nakoma Historic Neighborhood — historic now, no less —
and just checked, yep, it’s still there. It’s nice to be part of history.
Feel those roots still holding, anchored down deep.
This has been more an elegy on Madison than a bio. Don’t know if I’ll ever
make it back, much as I want to. If I should, chances are about 1 in 1,500
that it will coincide with a class reunion.
Thanks so much to Bill Schultz and Rick Gullick for putting this site
together, it may be as close as I’ll get to home. I sure would like to see
more folks’ pictures and read your stories. Heck, if I can do it, you can.
Walk in the light.
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