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. 

 

Please complete your profile here. 

 

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. 

 

Use the "send a message" feature to contact friends, and your email will appear for them to respond. HAVE FUN RECONNECTING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

Please note: the reunion committee reserves the option to edit or revise entries for spelling, grammar, and length. 

Marilyn Radbill (Miller)

Then Then
Now Now

Michael Rae

Then Then

Ilene Raker (Hurwitz)

Then Then

Mirjan Rakusia

Then Then

Merril Lee Rasmussen (Larson)

Then Then

Art Rawson

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Comment: After WJ, I went to what was then Wheeling College and is now Wheeling Jesuit University. I started out in accounting and never chnged. I glad I did not since I went on to make it my profession. After graduation I was facing the draft whith visions of being a tunel rat. This led me to "voluntee" for extra year for a Army MOS of computer operator. As luck would have it, I spent my entire Army service right here in the Washington Avre at various Army post.


Upon leaving the Army, I spent the next 23 years with United Broadcasting Company which among other media properties owned WINX. While at UBC, I completed an MBA at American University using my GI benefits. Shortly there after, I married my wife Arlene. With the consolidation of the broadcasting industry, I was invited by a friend to join the banking industry. Talk about consolidation in an industry, don't burn you bridges in banking because you will need your friends to find you next job. I worked for 5 banks during the next 15 year of my career. After which I retired for the first time. It was short lived. When Christmas came, my wife asked me to give her a Christmas presant and go back to work. I worked for the next 5 years with an insurance agency.


Now retired for a second time, we are expecting two grand children later this year. Naturally, we are filled with great expectations.





  

Marjorie Ray (Belt)

Then Then

John Records

Then Then
Occupation: TRA, Inc.
Comment: From the 40th reunion:


After WJ, I went to University of Maryland for a couple of years, dropped out for awhile then was quickly drafted into the Army.   Was stationed in Germany for two years and after I returned, finished at Maryland in 1972.   Since then, for the past thirty six years, I have been in the field of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  I worked in the non-profit world for the first 18 years, then started my own company in 1990.   I have since done work in more than 20 states working most in large class-action cases against states on behalf of people living in state institutions.   I am now considered a national expert in the field and get call quite often to consult with states.  I have ten employees and don’t plan on retiring until around 2013.


 I have stayed living in Montgomery County the whole time although I travel extensively.  My office and home are now in Bethesda and we have a second home in Ojai , California where we go during the cold months.  I have been married for the past 21 years to Robin Gerber, who is an author and I have a son who now goes to American University .   I also have a step-daughter who in grown and living in Los Angeles.  I am an avid tennis player and die-hard Redskin fan. 

Tad Reed

Then Then
Occupation: Retired machinist from Dynalectric

Thomas Reed

Then Then
Now Now
Comment: From the 40th reunion:

 




After WJ, I went on to the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1970.  I messed around with some temporary jobs for a couple of months after that, waiting to go into the Army (I was in ROTC in college).  Because by then the Viet Nam war was winding down, I only had to serve on active duty for a few months and then went into the reserves for 7 years.


 


Fairly quickly after the army, I settled into my career at NIH.  After starting my career, I married (Barbara), was involved founding a community theater group (Rockville Musical Theatre), and had a couple of kids (Stephanie, John).  All these endeavors turned out pretty successfully...I'm still married to Barbara, RMT still continues producing musicals in Rockville, and my kids are also now both graduates of Notre Dame (one magna, one summa).


 


Barbara had a mid-career change in her 30s, went back to school to become a nurse and worked as a Labor and Delivery nurse at Shady Grove Hospital and, for a few years, at the Maternity Center in Bethesda (right behind WJ!)


 


My main hobby over the years has been theater where I mostly worked doing lighting design.  Well, that plus going to piano recitals and competitions with my daughter (she was quite good) and watching my son play baseball (eventually on the Magruder HS team).


 


Somewhere along the way, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and that has slowed me down somewhat, although I am not yet wheelchair-bound as many with the disease are, so that's good.


 


I just retired from NIH, having spent my last 25 years or so as the Human Resources director at the Clinical Center there.  My wife always wanted to live by the beach so we bought a place near Rehoboth Beach , DE and moved here last April.