First, how does a good southern girl end up in the middle of the desert for so long? Intel hired me just out of graduate school at LSU. I went to Intel in Phoenix to represent and eventually manage the College Relations program. The funniest thing happened at my interview. My future husband had to step in at the last minute for one of the interviewers. Don’t get me wrong, we didn’t start dating until several months later. Needless to say the interview AND the dating went very well.

My last day of work at Intel was the day our son Chris was born. Almost exactly two years later our daughter Lindsay came into the world. Randy and I decided it was important to us for one parent to stay home with the little ones, and that would be me. I have never regretted the decision to be a stay-at-home Mom. I think more kids would benefit from that special guidance that only a parent can give during those early years. My Mom-at-home years were spent doing those very important things---kissing boo boos, volunteering at school and church, cooking (I’ve become quite the chef), chauffeuring, cheerleading at the kids’ activities, and for a few years helping Randy with his consulting business. This summer Chris was at AZ State Univ., but arrived in Charlotte for a visit and decided to stay! Now he’s making arrangements to transfer to UNC. Lindsay stayed in Tucson at U of AZ in the College of Medicine.

Randy is from California but has adopted the South as his home. He not only fell in love with me, but the South as well. We had been trying to get back home for years, but the job situation kept us in Phoenix. After years of prayer about the job and moving, Bank of America offered Randy a great position in Charlotte! Finally! We’re so glad to be back in the South again. I love it here (everything’s so green!) and I’m closer to my family in New Orleans and Houston. Lannie and Dolf are nearby in NC so I’m hoping we can get together and catch up.

When’s the next reunion? I’m ready!

Favorite StM Memory: It has to be the whole "Barefoot in the Park" experience. The rehearsals, the work and parties with the castmates and backstage folks, and all under the direction of that wonderful man Asst. Headmaster John Cairns.

Ok a quick 30 year recap...I moved to Dallas in 1977 after finishing at Ole Miss and attended SMU grad school. In 1978, I met my husband, Doug, and I'm still here. We have been married for 23 years and have 2 children. Our daughter, Liza, will be a junior at Ole Miss and our son, Clark, will be a senior in high school. I am preparing for the empty nest!

Other than my family, the most significant aspect of my life began in 1989, when Doug and I founded a classical Christian school. It is now pre-school through 8th grade and has 450 students. It has been a labor of love. The motto of StM- faith, scholarship and service- had a great impact on me. My faith in Jesus Christ, my savior, is the most important aspect of my life and my faith guides my decisions. Therefore, in starting Providence Christian School of Texas, all aspects of faith, scholarship and service were the underlying reasons for such an endeavor...thanks to Mr. Van, the teachers and the founders for nurturing the seeds of faith.

My Dad retired 5 years ago and my parents moved to Jackson, Ms; so, I do not get back to NO anymore and that is weird! After all, New Orleans is home to me and now I have no home there. We all miss it.

Favorite StM Memory: My memories are happy and blurred...you would think after spending 13 years at StM my memories would be brilliant but they are more like a warm, comfortable place in time without too many specifics. I loved my time there and I am very grateful for the education and the friendships.

I am now taking oil painting and have had many fond thoughts of Mrs. Swan, Mrs. Boone, Mrs. Roniger and Mrs.Timmerick great teachers and much has come back to me after 30 years!

My thanks to Melissa, Linda, Carole, Kicker and the rest of The Willing for organizing such a great event...I only wish I could have been there.

I find myself in Washington DC. Actually, I looked very hard for the right place for greater career opportunities and better schools. I was in Denver when the telecom industry sank; since Denver is so dependent on that one industry it did not offer alot for a relative new-comer. And I love the water too much to stay inland!

I have a wonderful 14 year old daughter Hayes. I just put her on a plane 7/26/03 with her French friend for two weeks in France. We were lucky to have Claire with us for two weeks and explore DC, Annapolis, and more with her.

I had lived in France for several years and it still influences my life a great deal. Funny I say that after 20 years in Raleigh, NC where I had pretty steady work, I married, we built a house, and my daughter was born. I'm now on my own with Hayes, starting a new career now, and life in DC suits me well so far.

Favorite StM Memory: Wondering how everyone would be 30 years later!

Favorite StM Memory: Hard to say. Much is a blur. I remember snacks from the Little Store, Mrs. Swan's art classes, Chemistry 2 class with Roger Dannenberg, lunches with Kevin and Kathy, Mrs.Haight's carrot cake, and fond memories of Sandra, Champ, Marie, and Carole.

Reading everyone's dossiers was wonderful. I can't make it to the reunion, but I'll be meeting up with Joan beforehand with photos to bring with her. Miss those StM years.

After HS I received a BA in Fine Arts -- what else? I was an AVP Marketing, an art teacher in St. Louis Catholic schools, and a curator for a private collector. During those years, I was commissioned to do a mural at Children's Hospital & another at Audubon Zoo, wrote a book on Meissen porcelain, and compiled a book of art projects for JPRD.

On a more personal level.... In 1986 I married that gorgeous Ridgewood football player who went with me to our Junior/Senior Prom, John Muller IV. We had two wonderful boys, Ivan in 1989 and Rutger in 1992. I was widowed in January 1994 and have been raising my sons eversince.

My boys... Ivan is 14 & will be a freshman at Rummel this fall. He's an honor student. (Thank God!) He'll be wrestling for Rummel this year. Last year he was undefeated locally and took the SE Regionals a month ago. He's up in Fargo, ND now doing exhibition matches for the National Championships. My youngest, Rutger, is 11. He has an auditory processing disorder, but maintains honor roll status. He's very tenacious! Though he also wrestles, right now he prefers chess. Of course, Ivan prefers girls...

Art meets Technology... My fiancee, Bennie Felix, and I are in the process of building. We should be in our new home by the middle of next year. What a long drawn out process this is! We have tentative plans to get married this December.

I hope to see y'all at the next reunion.

Favorite StM Memory: The printable ones, remember I have children at home... smoking in the girl's bathroom, "11th hour Hesni", getting caught smoking by the principal behind the building, stuffing a lizard down the back of a certain person's gym suit, raiding (?) the boys sleeping quarters on retreat, Roundsavall's parties, asking a teacher who gained a little weight when her baby was due(Tell your children NEVER to do that),celebrating someone's birthday with a liquid lunch before returning to school (without realizing the ultimate conclusion of that adventure), snowball fights, powder-puff football, actually making a basket through the hoop, Valencias, and the dances.

After STM, I attended and graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, SC. I started my Army career in May of 1977 and just retired on 30 June 2003 after 26 years. Many stateside and overseas assignments made the years blow by. Tours in Bavaria and in Hawaii were great. Deployments to Saudia Arabia and Iraq during DESERT SHIELD and STORM (1990-91) and to Haiti during UPHOLD DEMOCRACY (1995) were all business.

I married Sandi Palmer of Melbourne, FL in 1983. We have two children: Lauren, 18, graduated from high school this summer and will be attending Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond this fall; Garrett, 15, is a rising high school sophomore. We live in Lake Ridge, VA, located about 28 miles south of Washington, DC.

Unfortunately, Sandi and I will not be able to join you at the reunion. We hope you have a great time remembering some of the best of times!

Favorite StM Memory:
I imagine the football games, post-game parties, and our nice summers at Camp Hardtner stick in my mind. I've always favorably looked back on ICEBREAKERS, Sub-Debs, the formals and proms, and how we grew through them! Graduation was key -- that we'd reached a major milestone.

We have three children. Henry, Jr.(27) our oldest is a crane operator for Diamond Drilling, is married to a lovely young lady and has a precious 2 year old son. They live in Covington. Amy,(26) our second child and only daughter lives in Metairie, is married and teaches World History and World Geography at Mount Carmel Academy. She was a Theta at LSU. Our youngest, Roger(20) is in Culinary Arts at Delgado Community College.

Henry works for Sysco Foodservice (for 21 years) as a chemical/nonfood specialist. My sister and I have a hair salon on West Metairie Ave. (for 20 years) and I regularly see Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Bankston(she was Mrs. Lee) and Mr. Van Horn. So we stay up on everything. I am also a tax preparer formerly with Block, but now on my own.

Alas, I won't be able to join you for this weekend, I was babysitting, but my mom had surgery, so I will be hospital sitting. We live close to StM off Clearview near Crown Buick. If your in the neighborhood, look us up. We have been here for 28 years and don't plan to go anywhere soon.

Favorite StM Memory: All memories of StM are favorites!!!

After STM, it was on to the decade plan @ LSU, UNO back to LSU and 2 degrees of Biology and Petroleum Engineering (to be an ecologically sensitive destroyer of the environment).

Louise and I have been married 9 years (my 1st unless you count when Brian White wed Cory and I in the 3rd grade (“Cori” post 6th grade I believe, about the time I metamorphosed from Richy to Richie)). Louise is also my best friend and soul-mate, and I am grateful to have met her. I had previously subscribed to the notion that it is better to burn out than rust away.

I know I probably have comma splices galore (Mr. Edmondson: “- 25 pts”) so I’m already running a low C on this paper before you consider content.

Where was I? We live in Mandeville with Louise’s 19 year old son, and I work in Metairie in oil & gas exploration.

I hope to see everyone this weekend and will attempt to attend all four events.

Favorite StM Memory: Favorite STM moments: Not favorite just memorable:

• Doing the “hokey pokey” at Ray’s Rollerama
• Spin-the-bottle in Lake Vista
• Tubing at Steve Davis’ camp on the Whiskey (sic) Chitto River. Frosty got bumped off the back of the pick-up (OW) by a tree, and I got hooked in the big toe by a trot line.
• Going to post grad party at Chip’s Poplarville lake house; Bill, Chris, Rick and I nearly flip in Bill’s VW. Mr. Graf was right behind us and came to the rescue.

Our oldest daughter is going to be a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. Our second daughter is going to be a junior in high school and our son is going to be a freshman in high school.

We have been living in Baton Rouge where we run a remodeling contracting business. And, Bobby has a home improvement radio show every Saturday.

Special thanks to Melissa, Carole, Linda, Kicker and everyone else on the committee for setting this event up. It is going to be great!

Favorite StM Memory: Most of my STM memories are a blur, but I do remember the Florida trip that Carole T. mentioned!