Walter Johnson High School Class of 1966

Classmates

The most important part of this effort is to reconnect with friends in the great class of 1966. As Baby Boomers, think about what we’ve experienced, from learning cursive with cartridge pens to posting Instagram images with our smart phones; from learning about JFK’s assassination during the school day to watching the Twin Towers fall on 9/11; and for many of us, going from worrying about prom dates to welcoming grandchildren into our lives. It’s an amazing time to be living! Let’s celebrate and share.

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Please post your bio and comments. Confirm your name, add your memories, observations, and reflections. Upload a recent picture. With your permission, these will be included in the 50th reunion memory book. THINK BACK and share your thoughts about last 50 years: high school, friends, the '60s, family, growing up in Bethesda. Have fun with this! Also, take a look at the “High School Life” section. We’d love to use those in our class book as well. It’s easy to upload and caption them.

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Jeffrey Erickson

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Troy Erwin

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Comment: I graduated from a 5 year program at Brown University in 1971 and was commissioned an Ensign in the USN. Attended Submarine School in Groton, CT where I met my wife, Tina. She is also a Naval Officer. We were married in Oct 1973, lived in Naples, Italy 1976-79, moved to Charleston, SC where our children were born. Moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1985 where I was Commanding Officer of USS KITTIWAKE (ASR-13) and Tina was Deputy Chief of Staff for Commander, Submarine Force, US Atlantic Fleet. In 1988 we moved to San Diego, CA where I was Executive Officer of USS McKee (AS-41) and Tina was Executive Officer of Submarine Training Facility, San Diego. Tina retired from the Navy as a Commander in 1992 and has become a writer. Her website is www.tinaerwin.com. I retired as a Commander in 1995, got a USCG Master's License and was Captain of USNS SILAS BENT, USNS SUMNER and USNS PATHFINDER, all oceanographic survey ships owned by the Navy but operated by civilian contractor. I am fortunate to have operated all over the world. We adopted our third child, Andrew, in 2009. In 2010 I joined Transocean LTD, one of the largest offshore oil drilling companies in the world, as Captain of a dynamically positioned oil rig operating off the coast of Brazil. After 42 years of working at sea, and a recent total knee replacement, I will retire (again) in July 2015. Tina and I are approaching our 42nd anniversary and have 3 lovely granddaughters.

William Ett

Lenore Fallon

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Edward Farstad

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Sally Fasman (Metzger)

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Comment: From the 40th reunion:

My family moved to Maryland in 1963, just prior to tenth grade, so, like other late arrivals, most people probably don't' know who I was, but here is the brief version of what I've been doing for the past 40 years and who I am.

I went to the University of Michigan, graduating in 1970 with a B.A. in psychology. While there I met my husband, Zachary, who was in law school. We got married in 1971 and moved to Chicago, living first in Lincoln Park and then in Highland Park. I got a Master's in counseling at Loyola of Chicago and worked in an outpatient program for multipli-handicapped preschoolers at Children's Hospital. I loved living in Chicago - it is a great city on so many levels, with the exception of the winter weather (November - April!). Our first child, Jonathan, was born in 1975 in Chicago. He and his wife, Alissa, live in Brooklyn. Jon is a writer; his first novel, The Geographer's Library, was published in February, 2005. He does freelance writing and is working on his next book. We moved to Rockville in 1977, a few months before the birth of our second son, Benjamin. Benjamin currently lives in Chicago, where he DJ's and writes for a magazine called Stop Smiling. I try to and go back to Chicago as often as I can to visit Ben and the city. Our daughter, Rebecca, was born in 1980. She also lives in Brooklyn - she is getting her master's in museum work at NYU and has an internship this year at the Guggenheim. From 1975 - 1992 I was a stay-at-home mom, enjoying my children, getting involved in the PTA, and eventually going to graduate school. In 1992, after 4 ½ years of school, I got a master's degree from the U. of Maryland in early childhood special education. Since 1992 I have been a preschool special education teacher with MCPS; I now teach at Ashburton ES in Bethesda, which no doubt some of you attended. I love my job - it's like getting paid for being a mom, extremely rewarding, and I've had the privilege of working with some wonderful colleagues and families. Zach and I separated in 1996 after 25 years of marriage and divorced in 1997. Since then I've had a great time finding out who I am, setting my own schedule, working, doing some traveling, spending time with family and friends, dating, not dating, and just enjoying life! I moved into DC in 1998 and love living in the city (and not being dependent upon my car).

Robert Featherstone

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Occupation:	U.S. Department of State
Comment: At our 40^th reunion, people were amazed by how many of our classmates had retired. A decade later, people are amazed by how many are still working. On September 29, 2004, I retired from the State Department, where I had been a Foreign Service Officer. Four days later, I accepted an appointment to cover Foreign Service gaps. Since I retired, I have had two jobs. My day-job is to wake up. We can to this. My day-worker job is to show up somewhere. We can do this, too. After WJ, I attended Dickinson College. This was great preparation for retirement. In college, you wake up to do what you want and occasionally show up to do something else. In the 1969 draft lottery, I drew 245, so I recycled my Vietnam angst to other areas. Recycling is about putting something somewhere else, and everything has to be somewhere. What makes life stressful is not knowing what to do next. In 1970, I had no clue. For almost a year, I worked in various nonprofessional positions at Metromedia Television. However, the tinsel and glitter of show business was becoming shopworn. On New Year’s Day, 1971, I was working at WTTG-TV when a badly hung-over Maury Povich berated a vitamin expert on the air. Dr. Passwater ran out of the building and gave me the vitamins he had planned to give to Povich. I learned that taking vitamins does not work, and Povich learned that punishing people on television does work. In 1971 I resumed the career in public service that I had begun with a 1967 summer stint at Lord and Taylor. In 1967, a man got a second dessert for having the brass to lunch at Lord and Taylor’s Birdcage Restaurant. Today, who can believe this really happened? Did “real men” have really bad diets? In our time, we have faced change that has only increased in velocity. I don’t lament the passing of the second dessert because I did not need the first. I have learned to embrace change. We can do this, Anyway, in 1971 joined the federal government, where I served first with the Department of the Army, and then with the Department of Justice. In 1975, the suspense and intrigue of diplomatic life lured me into the Foreign Service. For nearly three decades, I served at six foreign posts and traveled widely when serving in Washington. I learned how to observe what was going on behind me while paying attention to what was happening ahead. I found it easy to recycle myself every couple of years, because everyone has to be somewhere. In 2008, I moved to New York City in search of bright lights, and I have found them. I love that there is so much to do, and I do as much as I can. I also value the friends I have made and the potential that lies ahead. I was married for 22 years and have been divorced for nearly that long. I have three adult children, and all of them are actually grownups. Young people are supposed to grow up and go away. People who are no longer young are supposed to embrace change and realize that it is young people who will keep the wheels from falling off of whatever might roll. None of my children will ever try to move “back home” with me, because it is impossible to park where I live on the Upper West Side. Meanwhile, I spend as much time as I can with my three children and six grandchildren. In retirement, my day-worker job has taken me to Foreign Service posts around the world. These assignments nourish my need to serve our great country. Now that I have become older than most living people, these assignments open another window to inform me of how young people think. I learn from young people and hope they learn something from me. When State Department colleagues pitched an assignment to Egypt, they said I should go to Cairo and see the pyramids. I did, and I did. I’ll always have pyramids.

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U.S. Department of State

Comment: At our 40^th reunion, people were amazed by how many of our classmates had retired. A decade later, people are amazed by how many are still working. On September 29, 2004, I retired from the State Department, where I had been a Foreign Service Officer. Four days later, I accepted an appointment to cover Foreign Service gaps. Since I retired, I have had two jobs. My day-job is to wake up. We can to this. My day-worker job is to show up somewhere. We can do this, too.

After WJ, I attended Dickinson College. This was great preparation for retirement. In college, you wake up to do what you want and occasionally show up to do something else. In the 1969 draft lottery, I drew 245, so I recycled my Vietnam angst to other areas. Recycling is about putting something somewhere else, and everything has to be somewhere.

What makes life stressful is not knowing what to do next. In 1970, I had no clue. For almost a year, I worked in various nonprofessional positions at Metromedia Television. However, the tinsel and glitter of show business was becoming shopworn. On New Year’s Day, 1971, I was working at WTTG-TV when a badly hung-over Maury Povich berated a vitamin expert on the air. Dr. Passwater ran out of the building and gave me the vitamins he had planned to give to Povich. I learned that taking vitamins does not work, and Povich learned that punishing people on television does work.

In 1971 I resumed the career in public service that I had begun with a 1967 summer stint at Lord and Taylor. In 1967, a man got a second dessert for having the brass to lunch at Lord and Taylor’s Birdcage Restaurant. Today, who can believe this really happened? Did “real men” have really bad diets? In our time, we have faced change that has only increased in velocity. I don’t lament the passing of the second dessert because I did not need the first. I have learned to embrace change. We can do this,

Anyway, in 1971 joined the federal government, where I served first with the Department of the Army, and then with the Department of Justice. In 1975, the suspense and intrigue of diplomatic life lured me into the Foreign Service. For nearly three decades, I served at six foreign posts and traveled widely when serving in Washington. I learned how to observe what was going on behind me while paying attention to what was happening ahead. I found it easy to recycle myself every couple of years, because everyone has to be somewhere.

In 2008, I moved to New York City in search of bright lights, and I have found them. I love that there is so much to do, and I do as much as I can. I also value the friends I have made and the potential that lies ahead.

I was married for 22 years and have been divorced for nearly that long. I have three adult children, and all of them are actually grownups. Young people are supposed to grow up and go away. People who are no longer young are supposed to embrace change and realize that it is young people who will keep the wheels from falling off of whatever might roll. None of my children will ever try to move “back home” with me, because it is impossible to park where I live on the Upper West Side. Meanwhile, I spend as much time as I can with my three children and six grandchildren.

In retirement, my day-worker job has taken me to Foreign Service posts around the world. These assignments nourish my need to serve our great country. Now that I have become older than most living people, these assignments open another window to inform me of how young people think. I learn from young people and hope they learn something from me. When State Department colleagues pitched an assignment to Egypt, they said I should go to Cairo and see the pyramids. I did, and I did. I’ll always have pyramids.

Gail Feeney (Kiesel)

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Now

Occupation:	Julia B Fee Sothebys International Realty
Comment: I've been in Rye, NY since 1971. I sold the family home in Kensington in 2006 so haven't been back too much since then. I am a Real Estate Broker with Sotheby's International in Rye and that keeps me quite busy. I have one Grandchild, Virginia, 2 1/2 . Life is so much fun with her. I am lucky enough to have 3 of my 4 children in NY and the 4th one is in Boston which is an easy trip. As my husband and I are both still working I don't know anything about retirement and probably never will. I look forward to seeing everyone in 2016!

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Julia B Fee Sothebys International Realty

Comment: I've been in Rye, NY since 1971. I sold the family home in Kensington in 2006 so haven't been back too much since then. I am a Real Estate Broker with Sotheby's International in Rye and that keeps me quite busy. I have one Grandchild, Virginia, 2 1/2 . Life is so much fun with her. I am lucky enough to have 3 of my 4 children in NY and the 4th one is in Boston which is an easy trip. As my husband and I are both still working I don't know anything about retirement and probably never will. I look forward to seeing everyone in 2016!

Stephen Feinberg

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Comment:

After WJ, I attended Shimer College and then the U of MD, where I received a degree in anthropology and where I met my wife, Wendy Garson. We went to Philadelphia, where I received a doctorate in optometry and completed a fellowship at Pennsylvania College of Optometry. My specialty training included care of the partially sighted and treatment of problems of binocular vision. Wendy received a doctorate in optometry two years after me. I have had a varied career including both group practice and solo practice, academic positions at Johns Hopkins and Howard Universities, and as Low Vision Consultant for Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind. I have been in solo private practice in Washington, D.C. since 1997. For several years I have been a clinical consultant for a rigid contact lens laboratory, designing and fitting lenses for patients with corneal deformities, and I consult internationally, primarily in Chinese clinics for children and adolescents. Wendy has practiced in McLean,Virginia since 1991, specializing in children's vision problems.

Although Wendy and I got married in 1971, our children came to us quite a bit later: Evelyn in 1988 and Daniel in 1991, through adoption from Korea. They have been a major joy in our lives. Music has always been important to both of us and for the past 15 years we have sung together in a choir, Wendy as an alto and me as a bass. Back in my youth, I played acoustic blues guitar, and got to spend time and play with a few old-time blues men. Nerve damage in my right hand has limited my playing these past few years. Wendy and I continue to enjoy travel but still enjoy our work and have no retirement plans yet. We live in Greenbelt, MD.

Elizabeth (Beth) Feingold

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