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 1961 Alumni Facts

Linda Andersen Jessen '61
Attended Augsburg: 1958-1961
Graduated AAHS: 1961
Favorite Augsburg memory: Loved cheerleading, all the student council and AYA trips
Special friends you are trying to locate: Beth Reinisch
Since leaving Augsburg: Compiling a roster of 50s & 60s Augsburgers. We had a reunion in San Francisco July 8-11--had a fabulous time.
Current Address: 3476 Silver Lane, St. Anthony, MN 55421
Comments or suggestions: Anyone who wants to be included on my list should send me name, address, phone #, e-mail address, & graduation year. Am willing to share this info with anyone who asks.

Larry Bitow '61
 Retired ... residing in Hope, Idaho

Norma Jean Boyd Yates '61
E-mail: moxnix@bbtel.com 
Attended Augsburg:   1960 & 1961
Graduated from AAHS:   1961
Address:   5485 Haysville Rd.,  Guston,   Kentucky 40142

Phyllis A. (Clem) Hackleman '61
Attended Augsburg:    1960-61
Graduated AAHS:    1961
Special friends you are trying to locate:    Betty Hancock
Since leaving Augsburg:    Married for 34 years, 2 sons, 3 grandchildren.  Currently engaged in photography; especially interested in photographing old steam trains and abstract photography.  My interest in writing hasn't changed since High School.  I ran a genealogical manuscript business for several years and have written several genealogy books and articles.

James S. Deaton '61
Attended Augsburg: 1957-1958
Graduated from AAHS: 1961 but not from AHS
Favorite Augsburg memory: There were several - the time we had to push the bus to get it over the hill to get to school . The foot ball team winning.
Special friends you are trying to locate: no
Since leaving Augsburg: I have been in/out of the military . I worked in the space program for a while and now I live in Orlando , Florida with my wife and kids and grandson .
Current Address: 8628 Black Creek Blvd, Orlando, Florida 32829

Quentin F. Higgins '61
E-mail: bjrk1152@aol.com
Attended Augsburg:    1956-57-58
Graduated, but not from AAHS:    1961
Friends I am trying to locate:   not at this time
Since leaving Augsburg:   4 years USAF 25 Years Alaska State Troopers Retired 1995 Living the good life in Texas
Current Address:   1201 VZCR 4709,   Ben Wheeler,   Texas 75754
Comments: make this easy to use for us old timers

Mike Hittesdorf '61
E-mail:   mhjahittesdorf@cs.com
Attended Augsburg:    1959-1961
Graduated:  1961
Favorite Augsburg memory:   AYA Trips; Senior Skip Day & Football Games and Track Meets
Since leaving Augsburg:   Married Joyce Kauffman, another Augsburg Alumn. She would be class of '63 if stayed but her father was rotated in 1961 to Denver, CO. I looked her up there and all else is history--Three Kids and three Grandkids. I was a corporate vagabond for a number of years but finally settled in Carmel, IN.-Suburb of Indianapolis. Graduated from IU and working as an Accountant for a national Real Estate Investment Trust.
Current Address:   13841 Waywing Ct., Carmel,   IN 46033

Judy Holcomb Revell '61
E-mail: judyrevell@contextassociated.com   
Attended Augsburg: 1960 - 1961
Graduated: 1961
Favorite Augsburg memory:My time at AAHS seems like ages ago on the one hand and like just yesterday on the other. Thanks to this I''m remembeing events and people as if the event had just occurred and I'd just seen the people. (After I looked at some pictures). I especially remember what I interpreted as Herr Lepik's determination---good role model for me. I dated some special boys and was friends with both girls and boys who were quite instrumental in my development. (ie CONFIDENCE).   
Friends I am trying to locate: I'll write to anyone who writes to me.
Since leaving Augsburg: 1962: U of Md., Munich and George Mason. 1963-1965 Mary Washington College. Matried Randy Revell in 1965. Had daughter Elisabeth in 1968. Also moved from Ft.Meade, MD to San Francisco. 1978 co-founded Context Associated. I991 had aneurysm and I have been in a wheelchair and fairly non-verbal since. 2004 moved from S.F. to Vashon, WA. 2004 husband died. 2005 moved to North Bend, WA (which reminds me of the Augsburg area) where I live now with my daughter and her husband. No grandchildren yet.
Current Address: 15201 451st Ave. SE, North Bend, WA 9804
Phone: 425 831-7155
Comments: Great idea. I've always thought I lost contact with all the people I knew in Augsburg.

Jim Montoya
E-mail:  indjm@mindspring.com
Attended Augsburg:   1958 to 1961
Graduated: Did not graduate from AHS
Favorite Augsburg memory:   all sports, parties, friends.
Special friends you are trying to locate: Pat leach, Paul Amadio, coach Devona
Since leaving Augsburg:   Marine Corps, retired Police Detective, Rodeo for 9 years
Current Address:   3712 Moana Way Apt. B,   Santa Cruz,   California
Comments:   Miss my old friends

Jerry Ruch '61
Attended Augsburg: 1958-61
Graduated from AAHS: 1961
Favorite Augsburg memory: Wild and wonderful. AYA trips to Garmisch and Bertschesgarden
Special friends you are trying to locate: George York and Bill Thomas
Since leaving Augsburg: College Marriage Children Working. I am a veterinarian and spent most of my time in biomedical research.
Current Address: 5912 Running Deer Trail, McFarland, WI 53558

Edward G. (Jerry) Turner '61
E-mail: egtwarrior25@sbcglobal.net
Webpage: AAHS50s60s@YAHOOgroups.com
Attended Augsburg: 1959 - 1961
Graduated from AAHS: 1961
AKA: Jerry
Favorite Augsburg memory: Attended from fall of 1959 through June of 1961, Graduated in 1961. Favorite memory is the trips to away games both football and basketball. The Basketball Championship trip to Nuremburg. The AYA trips and club. The PEP club???
Special friends you are trying to locate: All my classmates from Class of '61
Since leaving Augsburg: Served in the U.S. Army from 1963 through 1968 as a Warrant Officer Helicopter Pilot. Married in 1963, wife Lucille, two children one boy (Joel) and one girl (Lesa), three Granddaughters, one Great Grandson. Flew commercially for ten years, then went to work at Singer/Link Flight Simulation as a Quality Control Flight Specialist, stayed with the company through several acquisitions and mergers, currently in Houston, Texas, supporting NASA at Johnson Space Center.
Current Address:1116 Londonderry Ave., Friendswood, Texas 77546
Phone: 281-482-3192
Comments: Updating my information in the database. December 2004

Warren L. Watts (AKA: Skip) '61
Attended Augsburg: 1959-`61
Graduated: 1961
Favorite Augsburg memory: My best memories of AAHS was Coach Don Devona. My favorite teacher was Dorothy Larsen. Classmates I remember most are Fred Patrick, Jerry Turner, Linda Anderson, Mike Hittesdorf, Joyce Kaufman, Paul Amadillo, Kathy Cummings.
Special friends you are trying to locate: No, found them all.
Since leaving Augsburg: Graduated from Indiana University with a degree in Forensic Science. Retired from US Army as a Chief Warrant Officer. Vietnam Veteran. Special Agent in CID. Since military retirement, was Regional LPM for Blockbuster Entertainment (New York, New England, and Hawaii).
Current Address: 47-622 Halemanu St., Kaneohe, HI 96744
Comments or suggestions: Linda Anderson, keep up the good work.

Donn Welton '61
Current Address: Two Elm Lane, Stony Book, NY 11790
Years at AAHS:1959-196

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