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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Robert "Pat" Morris

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William Morris III

Ben Olive "Bennie" Morrison (Pohlman)

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Occupation:	Retired enjoying grandchildren, photography, tennis decorating our new place,new friends and lots more.

Josephine Moser (Bechtold)

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After graduation from WJ, I attended Montgomery College and got a job at the local telephone company. The Chesapeake & Potomac of Maryland was part of the original AT&T/Bell System. My first job was as a long distance operator -- the Big O, on a rotary dial black telephone. Do you remember? I continued to work for the local phone factory (33 years); Bell System, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon. I was married for 20 years and had 2 children, a son and daughter. I was also blessed with 3 beautiful and healthy granddaughters. I have lived in Maryland my entire life. No big travels! I joke that I haven't been outside the Beltway. I'm enjoying retirement, family, and especially my granddaughters. Right here in the State of Maryland.

Margaret Moss

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Eric Muth

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Occupation:	Retired from Wyeth (Pfizer)
Comment: After graduation, I went off to Cornell where I was accepted in the Engineering school (either their mistake or a minor miracle, given how lazy a student I was all through WJ). I liked engineering but decided I'd rather do biology, so switched to Arts & Sciences as a sophomore. Unfortunately my scholastic discipline was unimproved post-WJ, for which Cornell had little patience, and I ended up on a one-year leave of absence. This quickly extended into a 3-year tour of duty in the Army, in which I enlisted in the hope of avoiding an assignment in the infantry as a draftee. This I did, selecting training in avionics, but they forgot to tell me that the only aviation electronics the Army owned at the time was in helicopters in Vietnam. So off I went, but I was very fortunate to end up in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). So, unlike so many others at that time, I was never in combat & never had to shoot at anybody. I came back to duty at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, GA, from where I wrangled a temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon working for something called the Industry Advisory Committee on Defense Contract Financing, which amounted to a crash course in how what we used to call the military-industrial-complex worked at the time. In 1971 I returned to Cornell, graduated in '73 with a BA in biology, and managed to find a job at the NIH doing neurobiological research. I worked there for 7 years, during which time I got married and got a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from GWU. In 1981 went to work for Wyeth as a neurochemist in CNS (i.e. brain) drug discovery, where I stayed for 14 years, working on antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and antipsychotics. I was one of few pharmaceutical scientists lucky enough to have participated in the invention of a compound (venlafaxine) which actually one day became a product (Effexor XR, an antidepressant), after about a decade of hard work by several hundred very dedicated Wyeth employees. In 1999 I switched to licensing and business development (still with Wyeth), and in 2004 I elected early retirement from Wyeth to pursue consulting, volunteer work, and my love of choral music, which began when I stumbled ineptly into my church choir at age 43. While all that was going on I raised two daughters with my wife of 32 years from whom, sadly, I was divorced in 2006. Daughter Elizabeth (M.D. Baylor College of Medicine), is a hospitalist at Christiana Medical Center in Wilmington in medicine and pediatrics, and mother of my two grandsons; daughter Marianne (B.S. University of Vermont) manages a ski/bike shop in Stowe, VT. I now sing in in a small a cappella men's choir, and in two choral groups with my wife Mary, who teaches AP Chemistry at our local high school. I'm also a volunteer instructor at the Delaware Valley University Center for Learning in Retirement, where I teach courses in human biology and pharmacology. Retirement is great!

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Retired from Wyeth (Pfizer)

Comment: After graduation, I went off to Cornell where I was accepted in the Engineering school (either their mistake or a minor miracle, given how lazy a student I was all through WJ). I liked engineering but decided I'd rather do biology, so switched to Arts & Sciences as a sophomore. Unfortunately my scholastic discipline was unimproved post-WJ, for which Cornell had little patience, and I ended up on a one-year leave of absence. This quickly extended into a 3-year tour of duty in the Army, in which I enlisted in the hope of avoiding an assignment in the infantry as a draftee. This I did, selecting training in avionics, but they forgot to tell me that the only aviation electronics the Army owned at the time was in helicopters in Vietnam. So off I went, but I was very fortunate to end up in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). So, unlike so many others at that time, I was never in combat & never had to shoot at anybody. I came back to duty at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, GA, from where I wrangled a temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon working for something called the Industry Advisory Committee on Defense Contract Financing, which amounted to a crash course in how what we used to call the military-industrial-complex worked at the time. In 1971 I returned to Cornell, graduated in '73 with a BA in biology, and managed to find a job at the NIH doing neurobiological research. I worked there for 7 years, during which time I got married and got a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from GWU. In 1981 went to work for Wyeth as a neurochemist in CNS (i.e. brain) drug discovery, where I stayed for 14 years, working on antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and antipsychotics. I was one of few pharmaceutical scientists lucky enough to have participated in the invention of a compound (venlafaxine) which actually one day became a product (Effexor XR, an antidepressant), after about a decade of hard work by several hundred very dedicated Wyeth employees. In 1999 I switched to licensing and business development (still with Wyeth), and in 2004 I elected early retirement from Wyeth to pursue consulting, volunteer work, and my love of choral music, which began when I stumbled ineptly into my church choir at age 43. While all that was going on I raised two daughters with my wife of 32 years from whom, sadly, I was divorced in 2006. Daughter Elizabeth (M.D. Baylor College of Medicine), is a hospitalist at Christiana Medical Center in Wilmington in medicine and pediatrics, and mother of my two grandsons; daughter Marianne (B.S. University of Vermont) manages a ski/bike shop in Stowe, VT. I now sing in in a small a cappella men's choir, and in two choral groups with my wife Mary, who teaches AP Chemistry at our local high school. I'm also a volunteer instructor at the Delaware Valley University Center for Learning in Retirement, where I teach courses in human biology and pharmacology. Retirement is great!

John Muth

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Jessica Myers

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Sara Myers (Lukens)

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Marital status:	Married
Children:	6
Occupation:	Retired
Comment: I'm pretty certain we didn't realize that we were such a privileged group of kids, attending one of the best schools in the country, growing up in the Washington DC area during the 60's. The different paths we took, the trials and errors, the successes I read about in the bios confirms the fact that we had an amazing platform from which to launch our lives. At the 50th I saw so many faces I remembered (alas the names often failed me) and I realized that I really only played my way through high school. School was never very important to me but I was compelled to study enough not to embarrass myself between my 2 genious brothers. I realized college wasn't making me happy so I went off to fly the skies of United Airlines for a couple of years. Then marriage to Ray Stangleland took me to Cleveland. While Ray was at Case Western Reserve Med School, I began a career in retail where I was a buyer in Designer Sportwear and loved travel to markets in Europe. After our divorce, I moved downtown to begin an exciting single life of travel. 3 days after moving into my new aprtment, I met my next door neighbor and a year later we were married! So much for making my own plans, when God had something else in mind for me. Our daughter Regan was born 2 years later and we moved to Denver. While Charlie ably supported us as VP Trust Officer in Banking, I moved through several jobs from Designer Clothing Buyer to Personnel Management in the Oil and Gas industry, to Administrative Manager of a small manufacturing company, to Exectuive Assistant to the President of Einstine's Bagles, and then following my boss to assist in developing a new company taking the lead in the Cosmocuitcal industry to, at long last, early retirement in 1999 when we moved to Henderson, NV. However, retirement only lasted long enough for a 3 week trip to Europe. I joined the staff of a new church plant. This is the job I loved the most of all the ones I've had and was blessed to stay for the next 10 years! A quick explanation about the "6" cihildren: Charlie brought 5 from a previous marriage. After his divorce, their mother married and took the kids with her to Australia. One by one, they returned and have sought him out to reconnect and we are overjoyed to include them and our precious grandchildren in our blended family. Now we live in Gilbert, AZ (near Phoenix) and are true desert rats; loving the daily sunshine. We hike, golf, swim, enjoy a wonderful group of friends, most of all we love to travel. On our own, we've driven throughout Europe, Spain, and Ireland. We've enoyed several scuba dive trips to the Caymans. Through some amazing tours, we've stood on the Great Wall in China, sailed the Danube, spent a week at a cooking school in Abruzzo, Italy, attended a general assembly of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square, and safaried in the Serengeti! We have a trip to the Holy Lands on the calendar for this coming November. One of my favorite quotes is from Patrick Dennis in "Auntie Mame": "Life is a banquet but most poor bastards are starving to death!" Well, it's safe to say, "Life with Charlie keeps me well fed!"

Sigrid Nadeau

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Occupation:	Retired ESOL teacher

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