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Katherine Berry
 
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2016-08-01 11:21:52
I spent my WJ years and a few years after fumbling & flailing about. Married & moved out West, first to San Diego and then to Colorado where I managed to return to college, enjoy and finish. I majored in art, making a living was never foremost in my mind! I worked in the Med Ed department of a big teaching hospital designing audio visual teaching programs, taking pictures for doctors, other duties as assigned. Eventually, I moved to Massachusetts to be near family. I met my husband in 1988, we have been enjoying a fairy tale romance ever since. We live in West Barnstable, on the Cape, where we spend our time working on our 1793 house, Eric golfs, I paint. I retired from Cape Cod Community College, where I worked as an Academic Advisor. Our grandkids live in Amherst, not too far away. It seems like life is absolutely wonderful right now!  Send Katherine a Message
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Linda Bethke (Paddison)
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2015-12-09 19:06:45
No, I don’t own the gift shops (Something Else!! Inc.) anymore. They pretty much died when the Challenger crashed. I then moved back to DC, then moved to Austin, TX for 10 years, then DC, then Asheville, NC, then back to Melbourne Beach 4 years ago. We will probably stay here another year or two until my daughter finishes some design classes here, then go to another state with more courses available. Actually the Blue Iris Inn is at 8804 Garfield Street in Bethesda. It is an old log cabin which was one of the first places in Bethesda. One of the presidents used to travel there to have clandestine meetings with his mistress. When I was in 6th grade my dad bought the two lots between the Inn and Greentree Road, which was still loaded with Blue Irises. He build our house at 8806 Garfield and another on the corner which was Dr. Nattel’s office (dentist) for many years and I think Mrs. Nattel still lives there. We sold our house after Mom died in 1996 and Dad in 2000. I was the oldest of 8, but my younger siblings all went to St. Jane’s and then some WJ and some Whitman. So, the long and short of it is BlueIrisInn means home to me. My sister, Laura, moved to CA for about a year around 1975 and I moved there in 1976-1977 but then back to DC. I am the only sibling who lives away from the area, so you may run into Bethke’s still. My brother Ronnie has a lawn maintenance business in the area. I did send an email to Karen Kreshover Davis this morning, who lives nearby, so we will see if we get together. I really hope to be able to make the reunion in May and hope you keep me updated.
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Barbara Beveridge (Connery)
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2016-02-19 17:04:15
From the 40th reunion:It has been such fun reading all the bios, and I've been amazed both at the number of people I remember, and the number that I don't! We are a pretty amazing group. I'm sorry that I won't be able to get back to Bethesda for the reunion, because a lot of familiar names will be there.
My life since high school has been fun, and while there's a lot less wow-factor than many others, it's been a good life, and it just keeps getting better. After graduation, I went to Hood College, then still a women's college, in Frederick, MD, secure in the knowledge that I would become a home ec teacher in short order. Then sophomore biochem appeared on the horizon, and I did a quick switch to English lit, my other love. After two years, though, I dropped out, rented a townhouse in SW DC with two other women, worked several jobs, and got married like many of us, for the first time, living first in Salisbury MD and then in Richmond VA. My son Marcus was born in 1972 and my marriage ended in 1974. Marcus and I moved back to Bethesda, where I got a job with the personnel department of Booz Allen Applied Research, a DOD contractor. Through a contact I made there, I got a job with an art restoration studio in NW DC, which opened to me the whole new world of fine art and fine art restoration. I was originally hired to manage their office, but also apprenticed as a restorer for a couple of years. One of the partners there was the wife of an art dealer who consulted with C.G. Sloan & Co, a regional fine arts auction house in DC. I knew that my strengths really were much more in the business sector than in the art sector, so I took an administrative position at Sloan's, where I met my second husband, John. After a couple of years, we both moved to Weschler's, another DC auction house and Sloan's primary competitor. John and I were married in 1982 and are still happily married. Working at an auction house was great fun and intellectually satisfying, because we sold everything, and there was always something new, and beautiful, coming through for the next sale, so there was always something new to learn about. I worked my way up to Assistant to the President, and as John was the office manager and responsible for the business end of the firm, together we pretty much ran the daily operations. I was at Weschler's for a total of 13 years (John for 25), and it was a great time. In 1983, in an effort to get one of my two (wonderful) new stepsons excited about college, I took a night course with him at the University of MD in College Park, and was immediately hooked (unfortunately, he wasn't). It took me several years at night, but I finally got my B.A., magna cum laude, in 1989 from UM. Ever since I was a little kid, my family had vacationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, of Wilbur and Orville Wright fame, and happily John was as entranced with the area as I had always been. We vacationed there and bought a lot in 1985, and our first home, a little rental cottage, in 1986. We had kidded each other about chucking it all in moving to the beach, and in 1990, when Marcus graduated from high school, that's exactly what we did. We still live in Kitty Hawk, and the Outer Banks is a wonderful place to live. In 1990, there weren't a lot of jobs here, though, and I decided to give real estate a try. Once again, I was pretty immediately hooked. I started with two small independent brokerages here, and in 2001 joined the local RE/MAX franchise. One of the joys of living in a smaller community is that you have the opportunity to participate on a lot of levels and get to know so many people in the community. I have been very active in the local Realtor community, and served as our local Association president in 1999, as well as on committees at the state association. In 1999 I was asked by the National Association of Realtors to represent North Carolina at U.S. House Banking subcommittee hearings on coastal insurance issues. Even for a DC native like myself, that was quite an honor. I currently am the Vice Chair of the Outer Banks Tourism Bureau Board of Directors and a member of the Kitty Hawk Board of Adjustment, as well as a Director of the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, a post I've held for 11 of the past 14 years. Marcus has not married, but is living happily in Seattle, way too far from his Mom, in my opinion, but he loves it there and it's a great place to visit. Tom and John, John's sons from his first marriage, both live in MD, so it's easier to see them and their families. About three years ago I became active in a professional coaching program that has helped John and me focus on a lot of business and non-business goals that we hadn't really thought enough about before. It's exciting to still be learning and growing, and neither of us sees retirement any time soon. We're having too much fun, and now that financial pressures are less, we're able to travel and enjoy each other and friends. One of the nicest parts of being self-employed is that I award myself days off whenever I feel the need. It's a good life here on the Outer Banks. I'd love to hear from anyone who vacations here - I know if you live in the DC area, there's a good chance you've been here in August! I'm attaching a picture taken earlier this year. . . I've lost the cat's eye glasses! Send Barbara a Message
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Roger Bieri
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2015-12-06 22:43:26
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Cleveland Bigelow
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2016-03-19 09:54:20
Harvard College 1966-1970. Honors graduate in Psychology. Harvard Divinity School 1970-1973. Daughter Elspeth born 1972. Musician, teacher, statistician/programmer, OEM account executive, product marketing manager, and after my third near death experience shamanic energy healer! Adult baseball, old man hockey, snow boarding, surfing (east coast championship finals twice), and standup paddle boarding are some recreational sports that I still pursue. My daughter got married in my yard and hanging out in Philly with my grandson is wonderful. My spiritual practice which I have been following since 1974 is the only thing that really matters! Zen Pure Flatwater Paddling Meditation! Tom asked.....Hey Cleve why have you not used that three yrs of Divinity Schooling at Harvard? His reply "Theology and comparative mysticism not so much. Pastoral counseling as taught by Carl Rogers of client centered counseling invaluable in my alternative healing and counseling practice for twenty years."
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Valerie Blane
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2016-03-27 14:45:18
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Alan Blankenheimer
 
2016-07-06 18:37:04
I've really enjoyed reading some of the other profiles and getting back in touch with a number of you. We really did have some amazing people in our class. It's been great fun catching up.I'm currently a patent trial lawyer with Covington & Burling in San Diego and LA. For most of my career, I've litigated on behalf of high technology companies, typically semiconductor companies. The challenge, and therefore the fascination, is always learning the technology well enough to explain it in simple terms to a judge and jury, and to cut through the technical aspects of a case to the drama underneath. I've also taught patent, copyright and trade secret law in various law schools. In the future I plan to do more teaching. Next year I'll be teaching law school courses in patent litigation and information privacy law. I'm married to Valerie, and we have 3 boys. Send Alan a Message
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Linda Bloom (Hurst)
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Suzanne Bogart (Richman)
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2015-12-06 23:10:46
From 2006: I attended Radford College and University of South Florida. I pledged Kappa Delta at USF when most of the students were attending sit-ins (although I admit I attended a couple myself). I came back home after graduating, where I have been ever since. My last full time job was working as a paralegal at Baker and Hostetler in Washington. We have lived in our bungalow in Brookdale, a section of Bethesda, for 23 years. This is a neighborhood west of Friendship Heights (you may remember this area as Wisconsin Circle where the Chevy Chase Woodies was located) and bordering the District line. My husband, Jerry, is an attorney with Skadden, Arps and a longtime marathoner. I went from being a rabid feminist (as newly-weds one night when my husband was commuting home he called to ask me if I would turn on the oven for him, I retorted that we weren't going to have that type of marriage) to a housewife and soccer mom. During the last two decades, I've raised my two boys (Nick, senior, Tulane, Civil Engineering, and Thomas, freshman, Washington University in St. Louis, Business), overseen several major remodeling projects, volunteered in innumerable school/community functions, held part-time jobs in editing and environmental areas and attended classes. I have of late enjoyed gardening and have become a "Weed Warrior" with Montgomery County, so I'm spending a lot of time trying to improve parks.. We have enjoyed wonderful vacations to HW, Canada, Costa Rica, England, western and southern US. I'm nearing completion of my certificate in Natural History Field Studies from the USDA Graduate Studies. Originating during those languid summers in 1950/60s Bethany Beach, DE, and continuing when tubing down clear spring-fed rivers in 1960s Florida, I have come to enjoy all aspects of the outdoors including here in the Washington area. WJ still maintains the same fine reputation that it had when we were students as does our rival in those days, B-CC, my kids' alma mater.
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