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Marie Bolduan (Highby)
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2015-12-06 23:11:30
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Larry Boltz
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2015-12-06 22:45:46
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Michael Bonk
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2015-12-06 22:47:28
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Keith Bonn
 
2015-12-06 22:48:05
Judy and I definitely will be coming to the reunion May 14, 2016, hope everybody can make it. Wow, where do you start, 50 years to cover. Well the short story on my career was software engineering and telecommunication and retired a Division Manager and did another 8 years with the Villages Fire and Rescue,The Villages, Florida as their systems coordinator for all IT/Video requirements. Did the college thing over a number of years. Co-op'd with IBM when in college, it was a fun job. Worked for NSA (National Security Agency) 1968-1972. Was in the US Naval Reserve active duty Vietnam war, May 1969-Jan 1971 was in Pensacola, Florida then to Homestead, Florida. Not bad duty was it...got a great tan... After NSA was with Digital Equipment Corp for 15 years 1972-1988 and moved to Illinois still with Digital in 1981-1988 in Peoria, Illinois. Was with the Illinois Dept of Nuclear Safety 1988-2003 then moved to Florida when this agency was abolished by budget cuts. Worked another 8 years for Villages Fire & Rescue till October 2014 and now retired. Was remarried in 2000 and have 3 kids, 2 in Illinois and 1 in Florida. I enclosed a picture of myself. Wife Judy has her masters and is a retired school guidance counselor.
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Ellen Bortman (McMurdie)
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2016-02-19 17:06:58
From the 40th reunion:After high school I attended the University of Maryland where I majored in drama until my senior year. It then occurred to me that I hadn't found a husband and didn't have a way to support myself; so, I became certified as a Secondary English teacher. I graduated in 1971, the year when there were 200 teachers for every position. I got my first job in Baltimore City Public Schools. Realizing that I couldn't teach English if my students couldn't read, I went on to earn a Master's Degree as a Reading Specialist at Hopkins while I was teaching in Baltimore . I then switched to Prince Georges County Public Schools where I worked as a high school reading specialist. I currently work as a full-time professor at Montgomery College where I teach college reading skills to under-prepared students. I have spent a total of 26 years teaching under-served students and I have found it very challenging and worthwhile work. I am grateful for my own education at Walter Johnson, where most of us took our education for granted (at best). On the personal side, after a brief 2 year marriage in my 20's which ended in divorce, I married my current husband, Art, in 1984. We had two wonderful girls when I was 37 and 39. I was lucky to be able to stay home and raise them for 8 years. The youngest just left home to attend Drew University in New Jersey . The oldest is finishing her senior year at Kalamazoo College . I was dreading having an empty nest. I got depressed and lost weight. My husband didn't get it. Now that both girls are out of the house, life is wonderful. I don't know what I was worried about. If I leave something clean, it stays clean. If we want to go out to dinner at the last minute, we go out. Meanwhile, my husband is a little depressed. Like some others of you, I began riding horses again when I was 50. I leased and now own a horse at Rock Creek Park Horse Center where I blissfully ride the trails and watch the seasons change. I've learned a lot from my horse about how to improve my relationships at home and at work. In high school I was in a small, pre-hippy "beatnik" group. I felt very much out of the mainstream. It has been amazing to read about so many people who also felt that way. I look forward to meeting my high school classmates at the reunion. Send Ellen a Message
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2015-12-06 23:12:33
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Tamea Bottomley (Albright)
 
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2016-07-11 14:57:48
WOW! 50 years and I don’t feel much older than 30! Life has been good. I was married, had three children (2 boys and a girl in that order) , graduated college with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Moved to Texas and worked as an admin assistant for EDS (now HP) and worked my way to being a programmer. The move to Texas brought many changes. We arrived with the announcement that we were living in the Suicide Capital of the US, so I volunteered with the Crisis Center for about 4 years. Then my own crisis happened and I was divorced. In 2002 I remarried. I retired in 2004 from EDS/HP and then moved on to work with a feisty Irishman for 5 years fixing the old dial phones for the US Forest Service. That company lost their contract and closed the office in Dallas. Next I moved on to a start-up company called VCE working as a business analyst. This company competes with IBM and HP – and in less than 5 years sold over 2 Billion dollars of product. We are more successful than Amazon! I am still working and living here is “way too hot Texas” and would love to retire back east where the weather is cooler (but more humid). The reunion was awesome! Not enough time to visit with everyone I was hoping to see – but really enjoyed the time I spent talking to those whom I did see. If you did not come – you missed a great time. THANK YOU to the committee for putting together a great event! I wish you all a life of happiness, joy and peace. Send Tamea a Message
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Naomi Bowen
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2016-03-27 14:24:15
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Sylvia Bowering (Baird)
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2016-05-01 12:09:41
I haven’t managed to retire yet, so I regret that I won’t be able to attend. While I haven’t met with any of WJ alumni during the last 50 years, I think it would have been very interesting to be there – even
though most of the ones I spent time with are missing or didn’t update their profiles. We had in common those 3 years living in the centre of the action in a time that had so much happening. I’ve always appreciated those 3 years in high school and 4 additional summers working in DC in the 60’s. I just missed the Martin Luther King speech, but I was there at the capitol when JFK was brought to lay in state, and later at the Lincoln memorial when RFK was taken to Arlington cemetery. Also waded through the reflecting pool at an anti-poverty demonstration in 68. Great memories.
From the website profiles it seems that most people have moved all over the country. It seems that once again the population of the US is quite divided over values – would be interested to see if that wide diversity exists among the WJ alumni - we were from a fairly homogenous segment of the population at the time.
I now live in northern Canada in Yellowknife, the capital city of the Northwest Territories - latitude 62.5 – a city of 20,000 people in the vast wilderness – 1000 road miles or 1 ½ hour flight from the nearest large city. We quite love it, but it is a very different environment. We’re physically far removed from the main decision making areas, but still affected by the results from all over the world. Diamond sales slump in China and mine development slows. Chaos in other places results in refugees coming even to this cold part of the world where our population is becoming more diverse. Not mention oil prices and pipelines and challenges there.
I have really enjoyed reading the profiles on the website – a couple were quite funny (my favorite was the fellow who got mixed up with his more “successful” brother) and others thought provoking. Thanks for all your work putting this together. The ball game sounds like a great idea – used to love going to the Senator games – especially when some of the more well known Yankee players were there.
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2015-12-06 22:50:32
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