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 New 2011 Bios N-Z, A-M

 Dwight Nance

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 Barbara Needham  

Married Name: Butcher     Spouse: Duane    Years Married: 48
Career: housewife

Tell us a little about you and your family: Duane and I retired to Grand Junction in 1992 with some short sojourns in the Washington, DC area and Avon, CO. We have enjoyed the benefits of living in sunny Colorado. We live in the third sunniest place in the US. We travel a lot for fun and for family.

Family: Our older boy, Duane, Jr. is in the Foreign Service following in his father’s footsteps. He has just completed an assignment in Tushkent, Uzbekistan and is currently Deputy Chief of Mission in Bucharest, Romania. He and his wife, Nazilia, have two boys, ages 10 and 7.

     Christopher, our younger son, and his wife Ali are owners of a computer business, Heuristic Solutions in Arlington, VA. They have two girls, 11 and 5, and a 7-year-old boy.

Visiting the families keeps us young.

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50th Reunion? There are a gang of six of us who meet every year, Diane Smith, Dana Cowan, Barbara Whatley, Kae Evans and Anne Swim.

A few places and/or events that you remember: I remember a trip the band took to Colorado. Long, late bus ride to and from a competition

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 Susan Newell

Married Name: Klos       Spouse: Kenneth           Years Married: 47
Career: Educator              Retired: 2010

Tell us a little about you and your family: After High School I attended my mother's alma mater for a year (Columbia College, Columbia, MO) and then came back to Stillwater and received my BS from OSU.  I met my husband during our sophomore year, we were engaged during our junior year and married during our senior year. 

     After graduation we spent two years with the Peace Corps teaching English and science in a small village in western Ethiopia. Upon our return to the US we spent 3 years in Rochester, NY and Ken decided to obtain his Masters in Environmental Science at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

     We spent 12 years in the Orlando area where I was blessed to be a stay-at-home mom until our three children were school age. I received my Masters in Education from Rollins College in Winter Park and ran a preschool for a few years.

     We moved to Tallahassee in 1983 and built our own house where we continue to live. I taught in the elementary schools for 9 years, taught adults how to use computers and various software for a private training firm for a couple of years and retired from the Florida Department of Education in September 2010.

     Our three children are grown, two are married and have blessed us with 5 grandchildren. We are fortunate to have our two girls (Kit and Lisa) still living in town.  Kit has three girls and our son Chuck who lives in South-East Florida has a boy and a girl. 
left family group-Kennedy-Amber, Kit, John, Heather, Autumn
Right family group-Klos-Keenan, LaMae, Karel, Josie
Middole from left to right-Lisa Klos, Ken Klos, Sue Klos

 

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  Wayne Otsuki

About me and my family: We’ve had some very nice changes since the last reunion. My son, Jonathon, met his wife, Sayoko Ishida, who lived in Japan, when she was on an 18-month work assignment with Nippon Express (where Jonathon still works). They were married in April 2010. They now live a short distance from us in Torrance. My mother moved to Southern California in 2008 and lives in an assisted living complex, also a short distane away in Torrance. We really enjoy having family so close to us. I am still employed by The Aeropace Corporation working on improving the ground infrastructure (new antennas and electronics) for the world wide tracking statioins that support primarily our military satellites.
      I still enjoy jogging, but nowadays, I’m just plodding along. But I make up for it by going short distances. Ive been playing more duplicate bridge with weekly games at the local clubs and attending tournaments a few times a year. I’m not involved with many other activities because its taking me longer to do the ones I’m doing.
     My wife, Katrine, is still actively involved with volunteer work (primarily church activities) and Flamenco dancing. She traveled to Spain last year for another Flamenco festival, this time in Jerez, where she attended worshops and performances and enjoyed the company of her friends who were there.
     We feel very blessed and we are looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.
Who I’d like to see at the reunion: Jim Gray, Charles Moore and everyone else who attends.

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 Bob Oursler

  Spouse: Mary Beth                Married: 44 years
  Career:  US Army 37 Yrs Retired, 

                 ILS Manager Martin Marietta 10 Yrs Retired,

                 Training Coord Rocky Flats 10 Yrs Retired, 

                 Enrolled Agent H&R Block 19 Yrs

Tell us a little about you and your family: Mary Beth and I have been married 44 yrs in June 2010.  Our daughter Jennifer is married, teaches high school math in Southern Calif, and has a daughter. Our son Tom is married, lives in Aurora CO, and works in the cable communications industry. Since I retired in 2002 from Rocky Flats, I have been continuing my work for H&R Block as an Enrolled Agent, teaching tax classes, doing audit support, and managing a tax office that prepares about 2000 individual tax returns a year. 

      When I am not working taxes, I enjoy my volunteer work with the Boy Scouts, singing in the church choir, model railroading, photography, reading, hiking, swimming, and travel. I served on the staff of the 2010 100^th Anniversary Boy Scout National Jamboree. I have been a registered volunteer with the BSA since 1961, so this will be my 50^th anniversary as a Scouter.

      In 2007, Mary Beth and I completed our quest of visiting each of the 50 States and their capitols by finally seeing Delaware. Since we both started in Oklahoma, it only took us 64 years. Mary Beth is a retired school teacher and investment account specialist. She enjoys sewing, quilting, reading, photography, and travel. We are finding out the truth to the notion that when you “retire”, you seem to have even less time on your hands.   

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  Linda Parcher Clemons     

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Carolyn Pennington Romer

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 Billie Lois Robbins Baker

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 Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring

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Roberta Saint

Spouse: Dave Pennington           Married Name: Pennington

Career: Teacher            

     Dave and I have a blended family of five children, spouses and 10 grandchildren. Our grandchildren range in ages from 10 to 27J  Georganna and Jennifer live here in the KC area, and Scott is in Lake Park, FL. Steve is in Wichita, and Nancy lives in Macon, GA.

     I retired in 2002 after 36 years in the classroom. Dave retired in 2002 and was ready for me to join him. I was ready too. We sold the big house in 2004, bidding goodbye to the huge gardens and the pool, and went to a maintenance provided community. That led to our next big change in lifestyle. We are on our 3^rd travel trailer and spend the winter in the Southeast with shorter trips through the year to wherever we wish to go. We really enjoy traveling that way.

     Dave goes “to work” at golf courses on a regular basis.  I love to cook, entertain myself attending various exercise classes at the nearby community center, and consider my “job” to be creating beauty outside in the ever “under change and construction” Roberta gardens. Dave is president of our community homes association, and I am his private secretary. He needs one! I enjoy the freedom that not having a set schedule brings in being available to spend time with my girls.

     We are still concentrating on growing older, but not up, are members of a local dance club, best friends, and laugh out loud a great deal. All in all, my life seems to be about maintaining an attitude of gratitude, being ever on the lookout for a new adventure, spending lots of time outside, and enjoying my family and many friends. 

       I hope that we have a fabulous turnout for our 50^th reunion. Certainly looking forward to seeing those who attend regularly, and those who have not been there for many years. Let’s all seize this opportunity to spend some time together.

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Helen Schatz

 Married Name: Cole               Career: Realtor        Retired: No

About me and my family: As many of you know, I married Tim Cole and was married for 50 years. From our marriage, we had three children and six grandchildren. I have had a daycare center in my home, opened Fort Knowledge Discovery Center (Daycare) with my mother, worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and then became a Realtor. I am with Fisher Provence, Realtors and enjoy it very much. When I'm not busy, I like to get together with my friends.

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Tom Schlehuber

 Spouse: Glena,                               Years Married: 31
Career: Priest, Teacher, CPA         Retired: No
About me and my family: I left Stillwater after my freshman year at OSU and went into seminary in St. Louis, joining the Jesuit order. I stayed in the order for 7 years and exited in 1969. I was briefly back in Stillwater from 1970-72 in a Masters degree program at OSU in Math / Stat, which I never finished. I left to move to Houston in the spring of 1972 to join a lay religious community there. I stayed in this community for almost 4 years, and then went out on my own. I taught H.S. math for a while, then went back to school and got a Masters in Accounting and became a CPA. I have been working as an Accountant / Financial Manager in various businesses for 30 years and am planning on working a few  more before hanging it up.
      I married the love of my life, Glena, in my mid-thirties and we have enjoyed 31 years together and hope for many more. We have two lovely and wonderful daughters and now a son-in-law and beautiful granddaughter. Between visiting our daughters who both live in Dallas, I try to support my wife in her work as an artist.
       My favorite pastime is reading. I belong to a men’s study group that myself and a dear friend started about six years ago. The group has grown a bit over the years and we try to get together once a week, drink coffee, and chew on some inspiring thoughts. I also am leading a class at my church on Sunday mornings entitled “The Search for God in the Postmodern World”. The discussions are usually quite lively and I love the group of people who attend.
        Looking forward to seeing and visiting with old friends at our class reunion.

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Janelle Schroeder

Married Name: Arthur          Husband: Jim Arthur          Years Married: 47               

Career: Wife, Mother, Grandmother        Retired: Never!!

I have three daughters and nine grandchildren.

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Sallie Sheehan Taylor

  Sallie with her brothers, Sam and Pat Sheehan.

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 John Shideler

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 Marsha Short Deckker

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Bill Shull

 Spouse:    Chris                    Years Married: 8
 Career:    Computer Dude
  Retired?  Almost

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Donna Sloan Saulters

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 Bill Smith

Career: Master Glassblower, University of North Texas, Research Glass Shop        Spouse: Judy
The glass shop at University of North Texas can build and repair all Pyrex and Quartz apparatus needed for research campus wide. We are well equipped and have 40 years experience building quartz and pyrex for the chemical and electronic fields.

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 Mary Kathryn Smith Nahl

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 Diane Smith
Married Name: Preston

My husband, Bill, and I have been married 50  years August 15, 2011. We retired in 2004 and moved to Flower Mound, Texas, to be near our daughter, Amy, and her family, Mark, Piper and Preston. Our son, Curtis, and his family Michaele, Tucker, Chase and Bailey moved here in 2008. Our oldest son Mitchell and his family, Lori, Jordan, Tara, Zach and Jaxson, live in Sapulpa, Oklahoma now.
     Bill restores classic cars and we spend our time doing activities related to the old cars. I enjoy doing things with the five youngest grandchildren, who live here in Flower Mound. 

Back Row: Amy Watkins, Michaele,

Bailey, Diane & Lori Preston

Middle: Mark Watkins, Curtis, Bill

& Mitch Preston

Front: Preston Watkins, Chase & Tucker Preston,

& Piper Watkins

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50^th Reunion? 

CaMary Berry, Ronda Cooper, Judy Cacy

What are some of the events and/or events you remember?

Cruising thru the Top Hat Drive In, Trips to football games in Cushing and Guthrie, Proms at the OSU Student Union, OSU Homecoming Parades

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 Sharon Stevens Wright

 Spouse:    Gary Wright       Years Married:   46 (ye gods! can’t believe it)
 Career:    University Transfer Dean, Tulsa Community College,
  Retired?  Yes

     We have two grown sons, David and Blake, and two beautiful granddaughters, Ashley and Katelynn. Gary has cut back to working three days a week, while I retired in January 2011. I love having no meetings, no deadlines, and no 1⅟₂ hour, one-way commute! One of our two grown sons lives in Missouri, the other lives in Oklahoma. We are so glad they are both close enough to see them regularly! Our only child left at home is Buddy, our Boxer rescue dog, who is three years old. My latest adventure included dislocating my shoulder on a trip through the Canadian Rockies last summer. (I tell everyone I did it snowboarding). Even so, the trip was great--gorgeous scenery and good companions on the tour. 

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50^th Reunion?  Everyone--Please come!

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 Jim Stone

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Beverly Sumpter Milton

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Anne Swim McGuire

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Russell Thurman

Spouse: Debbie        Years Married: 31

Career: B & C Office Supply-

Retired for 5 years, but went back to work Nov. 2010

I am married to the love of my life, Debbie. We have four daughters and eight grandchildren. We live on a 10 acre farm with dogs, cats, and chickens. After being retired for five years, I went back to work Nov. 1, 2010 for B & C Office Products. I have 44 years in office equipment.

Classmates I'd like to see again at the 50th Reunion: Don Teter

Places/events I remember: Our 10th Reunion on Airport Rd.

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Rhonda Jean Tucker

 

Married Name: Britton Spouse: Jimmy Britton

Years Married: 50 years! Sept. 22nd

Career: Domestic Engineer!!! Retired? Not until I die.

 

Tell us a little about you and your family:

     Jimmy and I met in April of ’61, married in Sept. ’61. We have 4 children and 11 grandchildren, ages 3-18. What fun we have with all our bunch! They are scattered from Ketchikan, AK, Kaysville, UT, Elbert, CO to Tom Bean, TX. I took Jacob, our eldest grandson to Hawaii in March for his graduation—the highlight of that trip was hiking the Napali Cliffs on Kauai, and spending some quality time with him.

When Jimmy retired from Delta Airlines in 1995 we sold our ranch in Texas, bought part of his parents’ home place and built a home there in Howe, OK (southeastern Oklahoma near Poteau). In the meantime, we’d built a cabin 12 miles north of Pagosa Springs, CO and had to "winter" there while waiting to build in Oklahoma the next spring. Long story short, we love snowmobiling (our only way in during the winter months), and snow shoeing; so Colorado is now our primary address and we are here most of the year and in Oklahoma during late spring and late fall. We know we won’t always be fit enough to handle all the snow shoveling, digging out, etc., required for living in the high country, thus Oklahoma will always be "home" for us.

     My main hobby is sewing and quilting, but Jimmy & I enjoy traveling, camping and hiking and I usually go along on most of his hunting outings, especially when our kids and grandkids come along too. Jimmy got me hooked on the family deer hunts 50 years ago when our only "honeymoon" was spent in a little tent (donated by his brother) and furnished with a bale of hay and a double sleeping bag. Jimmy’s Mom and Dad had it all set up nice and cozy for us when we arrived in camp and it became known as "the honeymoon suite". We backpacked for many years in the Colorado high country and we both miss that, but the ole’ knees just ain’t what they used to be and a soft mattress is sure better than the ground!

I’m looking forward to seeing my classmates! Thank you to the reunion committee and all the hard work you do so the rest of us can enjoy it.

 

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50th Reunion?:

Besides all of ya’ll who have been pretty regularly attending these reunions, I would really like to see "Corky" Jane Corcoran, Judy Newman, Lana Grooms, Bill Cleverdon, "Moose" Johnson, Eddy Bellatti, Russell Thurman, Anne Swim, Betty Wilson. Verdalee Allen, Gale Andrew, Diane Burt, Judy Cacy, Charlotte Casey, John & Sherri Chapman, Jill Clark, Sharon Cottongim, Linda Crittenden, Tommy Doyle, Jackie Durham, Sharon Gooch, Mickey Graham, Donna Norton, Wayne Otsuki, Helen Schatz, ---I could go on and on—Basically every member in our Class of ’61!

A few places and/or events that you remember: Not one thing in particular, but like to look back on all the fun dances we had! I do remember a few of the guys calling me Rhonda Red & making me blush! I do remember Sharon Stevens’ parents taking a group of us girls down to Waxahatchie, Texas for a fun weekend with Sharon’s relatives!

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 Dewell Turner

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 Margaret Walker

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  Bill Walton

 Spouse:  Carol Burton (SHS '62)     Years Married: 46

 Career:  U.S,Navy 1965-1986

                Continental Insurance Company Senior Project Manager

                      (Data Processing) 1986-1994 

                Dealer in used and rare books since then.

 Retired? I still work in the book world about 30 hours most weeks. 
 Tell us a little about you and your family:

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 Kay Ward

Married Name: Roudybush 

Spouse: Daryl             Years Married: Almost 2!
Career: New wife, Grandmother     Retired: Yes!

 

Tell us a little about you and your family:

     Life is very different than I thought it would be on our 50th reunion. Daryl and I will be married two years next October and life is good. We now have four daughters and ten grandchildren, and one great grandson, 3 months old! Who knew re-marriage could be so good!

     We knew each other from church, and we even knew each other’s mates. We enjoy many of the same activities and are avid outdoor enthusiasts. Last year we traveled several thousand miles over several months and have begun spending winter months in Florida.

     We expect to spend August in Colorado. Daryl hates the hot weather and would rather be where it’s cooler. I agree. We have a 33’ Fifth Wheel trailer that we really enjoy traveling with. It sure makes things so much easier when you take your bed and food with you.

     We hope to go to Brazil in November for two months. Daryl’s sister is a missionary and just celebrated 50 years there. It will be a first trip for both of us and we really are looking forward to this adventure.

Kids and grandkids sure make up a lot of our life and we love it. Also, church and its many activities including choir, which takes a good deal of our time too. We live on Table Rock Lake and the last month has been filled with lots of water sports and activities. The grandkids sure love it!

God is good and He certainly has blessed us tremendously. Look forward to seeing you all and having you meet my new partner!

 

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50th Reunion? Irma Caldwell, Barbara Houston, Karen Hornbuckle

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Gary Westmoreland & Janice Kroutil

Years Married: 8 years

     We are enjoying doing what we want to and going on trips,

 if we like. Gary has trouble with retirement. He needs to be buying

 and selling, so has a golf cart business. We also tend to be 

involved with real estate from time to time. Health is good so far,

so all is well.

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Barbara Whatley

 Married Name: Friels     Spouse: David

David and I have been married since college. Between our son and daughter, we have been blessed with five grandchildren (2 boys and 3 girls).  David is a civil engineer and works for Shaw Environmental, but is in the process of retiring. Karen teaches in Arlington and they live in Mansfield.  We pick her 3 children up after school and keep the two youngest until she gets home. James is a civil engineer with TxDOT in Fort Worth, and they live in Burleson. My hobbies are grandchildren, watching OSU and the Rangers on TV, reading, and crafts (in that order). After David retires, we hope travel and volunteer more often at our Church. I would love to here from my old classmates and friends.

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  Betty Wilson Duckwall

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  Sue Ellen Wilson

Career: IT HelpDesk Coordinator, Cameron University            Retired? YES! 

     Well, I’m a single gal, but do have siblings with children and grandchildren I 

enjoy. I also spend a lot of time enjoying being retired. My Mother’s health 

has deteriorated and she also lives here in Lawton, so I do spend a lot of time 

with her. Sometimes, that’s fine and sometime its not. 

    My best friend also retired and then moved to Kansas to be with her girls and 

their children. I really miss her; although myself and our mutual friends have 

dinner once a month which is fun. We call it the POETS club (nothing to do with 

poetry). We started doing this while we were all working at Cameron. Three 

taught at CU, but have since retired. The rest of us worked at CU also. POETS 

stands for Put Off Everything, Tomorrow is Saturday. However, you can substitute 

other words.

      I do hope to make it to the 50th reunion.

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Carol Witt

Married Name: Gifford       
 Spouse: Deceased         Years Married: 25
Career: Program Analyst-FAA        Retired: Yes-May 2011

 

Tell us a little about you and your family:

I was married to Bill Gifford, September 11, 1981. He passed away on July 21, 2006. I have two children from a previous marriage to Leon Flesner; Cindy Halbert and Leslie Flesner. I have four grandsons and one great-grandson (6 mos.)

     I had various jobs throughout my life, but the majority of my working career was with the FAA for 22 years. I retired May 31, 2011. I sing in my church choir and the Oklahoma City Community Choir.

Who are some of the classmates you would like to see again at the 50th Reunion? Beverly Sumpter Milton

A few places and/or events that you remember: I just remember what wonderful times I had growing up with most of my classmates.