Buzz Book

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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.

Fred Cone

Then Then
Marital status: Divorced
Children: 4
Occupation: Painter, Sculptor, Filmmaker
Comment:  
Tell us about yourself: Senator Tim Johnson Certificate of Appreciation for my proposal as a Sculptor Participant in Worldwide Memorial Competition for Memorial at 911 Ground Zero, NY. Go to Registered Archive Site www.WTCSiteMemorial.Org/Submissions.HTML. When Site comes up only type in CONE (No first name or it won't open. Exhibition cities: Kassel, Germany/NY/Guggenheim and Whitney Museum of American Art Reviews/NY/Ronald Feldman Fine Art/NY/Rockafeller Collections/NY/O.K. Harris Gallery/Sioux City Iowa Fine Art Center/ Lincoln, Nebraska Art Museum/ Eugene, Oregon/ Seattle Art Museum and Pavilion/ Seattle's one-man show/ Seattle Experimental Gallery and/or, International FLUXXUS Exhibition Seattle. Augustana College 150 Year Artists' Reunion Exhibition (my work remains on Youtube as a 5 minute performance art piece - keyword "Quran Bible Under Blood"/ At Seattle's Cornish Institute - an informal collaboration with seminal experimental musician/composer John Cage/ Two Seattle Arts Commission Artist Residency Grants/ One Washington State King County (Seattle) Art Commission Artist Residency Grant/ Two Ton work with artist Cheryl Cone for Seattle Art Museum Interior Gallery/ National Endowment for the Arts, for Public Art for Public Spaces with exhibition at Spokane, Washington Cheney Cowles Fine Art Museum/ Whitney Museum of American Art's Seminal Exhibition of Conceptual Art Exhibition at Oberlin College Fine Art Museum/ Brookings, South Dakota, Arts Council.

Sherrill (Sherri) Donahoe (Davis)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Educator
Comment: I have been a student all my life. Undergrad work at BYU; end/MA's from Wm and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth Univ; PhD from VCU in Urban Ed and Gifted Ed. Gifted teacher, Administrator, and Assoc Prof. Virginia's Gifted Teacher of the Year and recipient of the Gilman Award for Professional excellence. Retired from public education in 2010. Currently teaching for University of Richmond and VCU. It's been fun!
Tell us about yourself: Married to David...3 wonderful kids..3 beautiful granddaughters. Still teaching and loving it. Love my classics, music, travel, and gardening.I hate the gym but go anyway.

Wally Doolittle

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment:
Tell us about yourself: 1962-72--BA, The George Washington University, Army, Grad School, University of SD

1972-82--Planner, South Eastern Council of Governments, Vermillion, SD

1983-1986--Law

School, University of SD

1986--2005, Asst. City Attorney, Sioux Falls

2005 to Present, Retired

Dennis Doorn

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired
Tell us about yourself: Married 47 years to Nancy! Lifetime resident of Sioux Falls. 2 children and 5 grandkids, all local. Retired from the Sioux Falls Park Department after 35 years. I fill my retirement time going to garage sales, woodworking,and collecting tools and gas station memorabillia. We like to spend part of the winter in Florida. I look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.

Jan Drier (Graves)

Now Now
Marital status: Widowed
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Tell us about yourself: Spending time with my grandchildren and attending their various events is my very favorite thing to do. I have nine grandkids ages 6-18, but just three of them live close by.

Roald Eidsness

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Mission Developer

Cindy Ellenbecker (Chaney)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired
Comment:  After high school, I graduated from Nettleton Business College and begin working in Sioux Falls.  In 1963, I married Bill Ellenbecker, a native of Sioux Falls. We have three great sons and daughter-in-laws, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.  After staying home for a few years to raise our children, I began my career working in various positions in office administration, retiring in 2008 from Sanford Health Foundation.  After retirement our dream was to travel which we have been doing for the past few years, spending winters in AZ and TX.  We love RVing and the opportunity to visit many different places and make many new friends.  We also like visiting our son’s and their families in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Alaska. My hobbies include reading, cooking & baking, gardening, trying different things on my computer, and recently learning to play Mah Jongg-necessary to keep this aging brain busy! J

Sandy Entenman (Schuh)

Marital status: Single
Children: 2
Occupation: musician/clerical
Comment: After graduation I worked at banks and brokerage houses, married and raised


two daughters. Then - single again and my daughters on their own, that window


of opportunity appeared. For me that window had a dream of singing in Europe,


so I moved to Paris, France where I auditioned for a pianist/singer who asked me


to perform with him. I lived in Paris for a year and a half, we performed mostly


jazz and broadway. I also sang classical sacred music at the American Church of Paris.





During this time, the war in Kosovo was happening; we begin to see refugees on the


streets. War is very real in Europe, not like watching on television. This moved me


to pursue another interest that I had had since middle school years - that of


international aid work. I came home and began the application process to work


with UMCOR and for the next few years I lived and worked in Armenia,


Bosnia-Herzegovina, DRCongo, Mexico and Bolivia, coming home in-between and


doing temp clerical work.





It has been a growing-interesting life and every day I am grateful for another beautiful day. Looking forward to lots more.

Margaret Escalante (Thompson)

Marital status: Single again
Children: 5
Occupation: retired
Comment:  I recently moved to N.C. to be near family and am loving it here. Got all those great kids raised and now have 19 "Grands" that I see as often as possible. Having fun making new friends here thru church and Senior Cit. Center.  Recently learned a few card games...Love to read, do crafts, quilt and travel. Can't wait for the REUNION and for time with you all. Weren't we blessed to be raised in and go to school in SF?

Denny Esser

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired real estate broker/investor
Tell us about yourself: I am the luckiest man in America. Still in love with my original wife, Jane, after 50+ years together, and she still puts up with me. We have two great kids, David and Andrea, and two granddaughters, Charlotte and Olivia. Life is good!