After graduation I tried college, but in 1968 I joined the Navy.


After graduation as a hospital corpsman in the Navy in Nov. 68 I married Sally Harp on 11/3/0/68. 1968-70 i spent my time working as a hospital corpsman at little creek amphibious base, Norfolk, Va. In September 1970 my first child, tim, was born and just 2 months later we were on the move. In Nov. 1970 I transferred to the naval hospital at oakland california for training and then I was stationed in Yokohama, Japan for 3 years where my second child, Kate, was born. We really enjoyed our time in Japan and it helped us develop a good family bond.


On my return to the states in 1973 I was stationed in San Diego, Ca. At the Naval hospital and the Naval training center, where I received my associates degree from San Diego Mesa College. In 1976 I was selected for the Navy's physician's assistant program and attended through the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1978 after completing my internship at the Naval hospital Portsmouth, Va.


My first duties as a P.A. were at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, NJ (where the Hindenburg crashed). In in 1981 I transferred to Marine Corps training center, Quantico, Va. (where I had the pleasure of taking care of ROTC college students during their summer training). In 1984 I transferred to the Naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. (finally got back home) and I retired from the Navy on July 1st, 1988 after 20 years of service to my country.


I immediately went to work for Baltimore Gas and Electric Company in their occupational medicine department, where i am today and hope to retire with 20 years service there on 6/1/2008. During my employment at BGE I have earned my masters degree in business.


Sally and I have been happily married for 38 years this November. Tim is married and lives with his wife and child in New Milford, Ct. (second child on the way).  Kate lives in Olathe, Ks. with her husband and child.


Sally and I enjoy being active in our church and various activities both at home and in the community. Sally just retired 6/30/06 from her position as an office manager for a plastic surgeon.


 

 

After graduation I attended the University of Maryland for one year and realized that college wasn't for me - I wasn't sure where I wanted to go or what I wanted to do so why waste my parent's money!!


 


I jumped into the employment world and finally ended up with a small business forms/printing company in 1972.  I have been with them for 35 years and in July a large national company bought us out.  They offered me a Senior Account Executive position and I am enjoying the challenge of learning all the new technology they have to offer my clients.


 


Also in 1972 I married Ralph Wilton (WJ class of '64) and we are still happily married.  Ralph is in sales for a local commercial awning company and has been in this field for years.  In 1978 our daughter Kelly was born and is still the delight of our lives.  She works for the Montgomery County government as the Director of the Emory Grove Family Resource Center .  We were happy to welcome Brian Keegan to our family in


June '05 when he and Kelly married.  Hopefully grandchildren won't be too far down the road!


 


Ralph and I are at the stage of our lives where we love to travel - so many places to see, so little time.  He will go anywhere I want as long as there is a golf course!! 

 

My last memory of high school was spending the spring of my senior year in bed with mono feeling sorry for myself, missing the senior prom and the last summer fling at OC.


It was only uphill from there.


 


I thrived in college, graduating from Syracuse University and receiving a Master's Degree from New York University in Educational Psychology. For several years after graduate school, I lived in SOHO before it became urban chic and was still urban homesteading.  After four years of Big Apple living, I yearned for a greener lifestyle and moved to Woodstock New York in 1978. (Yes this is the Woodstock of concert name, but not of concert fame as the actual event was an hour south west.) I still live in the Mid-Hudson Valley in Shokan New York . Our Catskill Mountain community is a wonderful blend of rural beauty and urban culture, an Arts Colony two hours north of Manhattan . My home of the last 34 years is a renovated farmhouse moved up from the site of the Ashokan Reservoir beam by beam in a horse drawn wagon in the early 1900's.


 


Forty years ago, I started a school for children with special needs with another woman.  We began with two students in the prerequisite rented church room. I returned to college to complete a post graduate certification program in school administration. Today, Center for Spectrum Services has grown into a large not-for -profit agency serving over 275 individuals with an Autism Spectrum Disorder annually. My full time staff number over 150.   We have two not-for-profit day schools in Kingston and Ellenville New York . Contracting with over 50 public schools annually, we specialize in providing educational and clinical services to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). When I started Center for Spectrum Services, the incidence of autism was reported to be 3 in 5,000.  Now the conservative estimate is 1 in 68. To meet this alarmingly growing need, we are now in the midst of a capital campaign to build an Endowment to guarantee the fiscal security of m program into the future without me. Yes,  I do plan to retire to very part time in a year.


 


Along the way, I have been appointed to several New York State task forces developing policies and guidelines for best practices educating students with autism. Most recently, I sit on The Commisssioner of Education's Task Force for Special Education. I have directed a short film called The Asperger's Difference for and about young adults with high functioning autism. The purpose of this film is to build self understanding, self esteem and self awareness. I am also featured in a video on YouTube called Chimes for Tyler.


 


One house, one job and one husband... I have been married for 34 years to Tim Kapeluck a talented multi-instrumentalist and singer. He performs mostly bluegrass and Celtic music and when he has some of his more exciting gigs (i.e. playing at The Four Freedoms Award honoring Bill Clinton) I tag along to carry instruments. My stepdaughter, Juniper, is an early childhood educator with three great kids who call me "Steppie".  They live in our community and keep us young at heart. Our daughter, Shaina, is completing her Master's Degree in ESL,  lives in Philadelphia and is a ballad singer like her dad. 


 


For fun, we hike the beautiful Catskill and Adirondack Mountains and kayak the Hudson River , surrounding streams, and lakes. This photo is from our most recent snow birding adventures in the Southwest, a favorite destination.


 


What an interesting exercise to summarize one's life in a few short paragraphs deciding what to share and how to say it.  I've enjoyed this glimpse into the lives of WJ classmates and am feeling increasingly sorry that I can't make the reunion.  I wish you all happy trails.

 

Went off to the University of Maryland in fall of '66 not knowing what I wanted to do but everyone else was going.  I had a lot of fun but did not do much studying so after about a year, I left and then really didn't know what I wanted to do so I attended a business school.


·        Married Jim Krause (class of '64) in 1973 and had a daughter, Jennifer, who is 27 and she has a 4-year old son.  It is great being a grandparent.  Jim was with the US Marshal Service, Department of Justice, so we moved around mostly in the southeast--one time back to MD and lived on the eastern shore (which was great!)


·        Then moved to St. Simons Island, GA, for a transfer to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick , GA.  


·        Jim and I divorced in 1997 after 24 years! 


·        During those times, I worked mostly coordinating classes for continuing education at several community colleges.


·        Now I have my Georgia real estate license and am using it to manage property and soon to list and sell property.  


·        Remarried in 2004 to Don Wright who is also in commercial real estate.