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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Your contact information will be hidden, and secure. This website is maintained by our committee, not an outside commercial outfit. It will only be used with your permission for the 50th Reunion Book we will put together for attendees of the 50th Reunion.Those who are unable to attend the Reunion in the spring of 2016 will be able to order the Reunion Book.

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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Anthony Arnold

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Comment: Worked at Smithsonian in musical instrument restoration, then as a Naval officer, then PhD at Harvard (under S.J. Gould) and 29 years as a paleontology professor at Florida State U. I've played flamenco guitar since age 10 and am now looking for fellow flamencos to put together a cuadro in Tallahassee. I also teach flamenco guitar. Best contacted at arnold@gly.fsu.edu (Updated 10/15/2010) . from Anthony J. Arnold, Walter Johnson class of 66 After graduating from Walter Johnson (66) I went to Univ. of Maryland (BS, '70), then 3 years as a naval officer attached to NATO in Italy, after which I bummed around Spain, studying flamenco guitar. Then I decided to be more responsible and went to U. of Georgia, and Harvard Univ for MS, MA and PhD in geology (specialty in paleontology). I am presently a professor at Florida State University (Tallahassee) on the verge of retirement. My wife Jill and I own an oriental rug store as a sideline. No children. 3 dachshunds. I still play classical and flamenco guitar (have since age 10). Anthony Arnold class of 66 (Tony) 28852 Blue Star Memorial Hwy Havana FL 32333 anthonyarnold5170@att.net 850-539-8893

Gene Arnold

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Richard Aronson

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Star Athena (Callas)

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Caroline Avery (Baron)

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Eileen Ayre

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Janet Bailey

Sylvia Baird (Bowering)

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Occupation:	Top of the World Travel
Comment: 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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Top of the World Travel

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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.

Elizabeth Baldwin

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