Buzz Book
How to create your Buzz Book entry:
Click on the Add Your Profile button to include your current contact information in our Buzz Book. You'll need to enter a User Name and Password; jot them down so you can return and add or change information later. Be sure to include your e-mail address if you want to receive e-mails from other classmates or the reunion committee. Expect a delay before your profile is displayed on the page, perhaps up to 24 hours.
Click on the Add Your Profile button to include your current contact information in our Buzz Book. You'll need to enter a User Name and Password; jot them down so you can return and add or change information later. Be sure to include your e-mail address if you want to receive e-mails from other classmates or the reunion committee. Expect a delay before your profile is displayed on the page, perhaps up to 24 hours.
Mary Briner (Quitter)
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Occupation: | Retired |
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Comment:
Moved after 4 years of college in Missouri to Denver to teach school and my graduate studies in Learning Disabilities. After 7 years began traveling with my husband and had an absolute blast---landed in Phoenix and lived on the Gulf Coast in Texas. Missed my own personal home so moved into Boulder City, Nevada, brought our boat along with our stored furniture and enjoyed water skiing and golfing. Got bored not having a "real purpose" and opened a little cafe and fed many kids---got back to my love for OTHER PEOPLE'S kids!! Have now lived in Las Vegas for 36 years had a real adventure working at a Strip Hotel and Casino in Sales&Marketing. Thereafter got into real estate but my biggest challenge was land acquisition. Purchased, with 3 partners, 10 acres of raw desert and developed that in to 20 half acre home-sites with very up-scale custom home buyers. This is now part of the very prestigious "Summerlin" area which Howard Hughes originally bought for almost nothing in the late 50's. Over the years I've done extensive traveling, especially through Europe---7 times. Have enjoyed both Mexico & Hawaii several times but I really want to return to Greece some day and also adventure to New Zealand. I'm so fortunate to be from Sioux Falls, learning true integrity & honesty, growing up with the nicest of people like all of you. Miss my family Saturday lunches(after catechism) Dad brought home from my favorite---Hamburger Inn!!! I've never missed any of our class reunions, but sadly, I won't be able to make our 50th---have the best of times---all of you!! My very best. |
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Jim Brix (na)
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Now
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Self employed entrepreneur |
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Comment:
I'm sorry to report that Jim has passed away. These are the comments he made at the time of our 50th reunion:
Will have to sit and think a bit about this: comment on what? |
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| Tell us about yourself: Will handle this when I finish my comments section | |
Barbara Brue (Johnson)
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| Tell us about yourself: After WHS, attended Augie for 2 years, married Ron Brue (class of1960), graduated from U of Minn and taught in el ed. Due to Ron\'s banking career we lived in Minn, SD and Col. We have 3 children and 5 grandchildren. We retired to Sun City Grand in Phoenix and spend our summers in Park Ctiy, Utah. We love traveling, golf, bridge, and watching our grandchildren\'s sporting activities. |
Carole Buchanan-Brown (Buchanan-Brown)
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Now
| Marital status: | Committed Relationship |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
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Tell us about yourself:
My post-WSHS chronology (just the facts, ma'am): Lake Forest College in Illinois Thunderbird School for International Management (but no degree) in Phoenix New York City, married college beau, one daughter Amy Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park NY 1976 moved to Minneapolis (single again), various culinary and office jobs 1990s and 2000s - taught cooking classes, magazine writing and research, cookbook editing 2006 moved to Sioux Falls to be closer to parents With James Jackson for 10 years and we both enjoyed our 10 years in Sioux Falls 2016 James and I have recently moved to the Boston area. I'm now very near my daughter and her two wonderful children Life is good! |
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Marla Burtis (Carlson)
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | business owner - Heaven's Best Carpet Cleaning |
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| Tell us about yourself: I stayed in Sioux Falls, married a classmate, Gregg Burtis. I taught chapter 1 in the school system, then opened my own day care which I had for 25 years. Gregg and I then opened our own business 9 years ago. I have 3 wonderful children and 8 fantastic Grandchilden. Don't know what else to add because 50 years is too hard to cover. | |
Leslie Canary
| Marital status: | Divorced |
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| Children: | 5 |
| Occupation: | Occupational Therapist |
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Comment:
After graduation I got a degree in Occupational Therapy at U of ND, which served me well as I was destined to be a single parent to 5 small children. I lived and worked in Grand Forks, Fargo, Sioux Falls, Minneapolis, Yankton, Alaska, and this year in Texas. I have 11 granchildren. I have a home in Sioux Falls but spent the last school year near Austin Texas so my daughter could take college classes. I like to putter in general, but especially in the garden, flea markets, and bookstores. I volunteer and am active in church. Frequently I worry about the 30 minutes of aerobic exercise that I do NOT get so I try to climb Crazy Horse every year on my birthday! Love to travel when I can, camp now and then. I enjoy the road less traveled. Going to Costa Rica on a mission trip in July. The best thing I ever did was live and work in Alaska for one year. The saddest thing that has happened to me was the loss of of my 9 year old twin boy, Toby, in 1988 in an accident on I 29. Looking back on my high school years I regret that I was too shy to join most activities, so I have tried to make up for it in my life now. :) |
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Jim Cindrich
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 2 |
| Occupation: | Retired |
| Comment: See my webpage for a little more info. | |
| Tell us about yourself: Retired military {USMC and USAF}. Also retired early a few years ago from a civilian job. Still sending the wife to work, and keeping very busy doing what I like. Egg art, pen makeing, fish pond design and build, home remodeling and repair,and too many more intrests than I need. | |
Dick Clark
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| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
| Tell us about yourself: Graduated from USD for both college and law school, then married June Ettles (WSHS \'65). After working in the US Attorneys Office in SF, served in the Army JAG Corps in Virginia for 4 years and took a job with the law firm of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver in 1973 where I still practice law primarily on international business matters and disputes much of it with companies in Asia. June and I have 3 daughters, all married, plus 7 grandchildren, and we enjoy traveling and spending time at our small place near Vail, Colorado. | |
Pamela Class (Peck)
| Marital status: | Widowed |
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| Children: | 3 |
| Occupation: | retired |
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Terry Comstock
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| Tell us about yourself: Nothing special but I do have five pretty special grandchildren. |