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I have been very happily married for over 28 years to my best friend in the world, Sandy whom I met at UW Madison. She is a graduate of the UW & I attended, and had a lot of fun! Maybe too much fun. We have our home in Belleville Wisconsin which is on the Sugar River / Lake Bellevue. The birds and wildlife and just the sounds of nature are some real pluses living here. We enjoy biking, canoeing, traveling and Life.

I work in sales / marketing for a grocery wholesale company in Madison and Sandy & I also have two websites where we market products and services for over 600 companies.

I really appreciate Bill and Rick and all of their efforts to put this Web Site together and keep this class informed. I also encourage all of my classmates of 1969 to just respond. It's really neat to hear / see / read about the accomplishments, successes or just where you are are. We all have some interesting stories and I personally would like to hear or read them. This is what makes life such a great journey.

I'm looking forward to reading more bio's and just hearing from all my friends.  

My wife Mary and I have been married for 22 years and we have 3 children, Rita 33, Sara 30 and Brian 28, all from previous marriages. We also have two grand children, James 9 and Kayla 3.

I graduated from the UW-Madison in 1973 with a business degree. Since then, I have had a variety of jobs, including a short stint in the air force, nine years with United Bank of Westgate as a loan officer, 7 years with Verex a now defunct mortgage insurance company and 15 years with E.Z. Gregory, a small family owned wholesale distribution company which was sold 5 years ago. I sort of backed into retirement without realizing it when my employment contract expired in 2005 and I no longer had a job.

Since then Mary & I have spent some time traveling, we backpacked for 8 weeks in Europe and have spent the last 2 winters in Florida. We finally decided to move here because we grew tired of Wisconsin winters and so that we could be closer to my Mom. We still love Wisconsin and plan to spend a lot of time there during the summer. We feel very fortunate.

Thanks to Bill & Rick for their efforts in keeping the class in touch, it is really fun to find out what everyone has been up to since moving on from West High.
 

Here's my story: Unrealistic goals punctuated by small practicalities have been my life's driving force. To ascertain the nature of the subtle body and its development, to aspire in evolution, and help others along the way when the subtle and physical are in disharmony, have kept my life in motion. After graduating from college in Fort Collins Colorado with a degree in social work, I pursued the yogic dream living in a quarter sized 1953 International Harvester school bus. In high mountains I learned edible plants and herbs by book and by taste. Only once did I mistake hemlock for wild carrot giving me a crash course in the breadth of the mortality-immortality continuum. I gratefully returned to the living.

I began my second career in 1986 finishing as a doctor of Chinese medicine (Licensed Acupuncture Herbalist) from a Bay Area school. My teachers had been directors of Chinese hospitals and herbal department heads, dating back to the 1930's and '40's. They felt privledged leaving the hardships that China was facing in the 1980's to teach here. After three years of private clinical practice and public service as the AIDS epidemic rattled the terrain like the Loma Prieta of '89; I returned to our so loved Madison, free of crack wars and where the cost of a dwelling is less than a Hong Kong skyscraper.

Currently I have a clinical practice in Middleton and work for Group Health Cooperative's Complementary Medicine Department where I treat and sometimes succeed in resolving complex and difficult medical conditions without the myriad side effects of prescription medications. I recall kindness of many teachers.

I think about those who have gone away. Single, I fully intend to get married if either I become old enough or wise enough.