(Click on photo for larger image)Cards can be mailed to Kevin's wife, Cindy at 1132 Toledo St. Sidney NE 69162
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Kevin Tritt Dies At Age 48
Kevin Tritt (48) passed away on Saturday, December 5th at Oceanside, CA.
I will post his complete obituary as soon as it comes out. I will try to get an address if anyone would like to mail his family a card.
I will post his complete obituary as soon as it comes out. I will try to get an address if anyone would like to mail his family a card.
Monday, November 16, 2009
It's Not Too Late
It is not to late to send me "What you have been doing over the last 30 years". There are alot of people wondering about you....
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thought For The Day
Have you ever wondered if the bills in your wallet were ever in a stripper's butt crack? If not, you're wondering now. Have a nice day ..
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Valerie's Photos
Valerie at Winter Park
Husband Larry, Grandson Grover and Step Daughter Jennifer
Valerie and parents, Dee and Vince
Valerie at her home
Painting by Valerie
Painting by ValerieHere's What Valerie Havorka Has Been Doing
Sum up 30 years? Really? Here goes!
It has been a whirl wind tour since May of 1979, a tour that I am sure all will agree, has gone by way too fast.
I stayed in Sidney for a while after high school, but unlike Lori, I needed something different. I moved to Denver and went to the Colorado Institute of Arts for 6 months. Ran out of money and ran back home to mom and dad and worked for Cabela's for 2-3 years. Then I moved to Lincoln, NE to live with my sister and hangout. I still didn't know what I wanted to do when I grew up so I could not bring myself to check out college. So, I waited on tables.
In 1984 I walked the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City, MO to Santa Fe, NM, 980 miles in 91 days. It was an amazing experience. I fell in love with being out doors, and I believe it is what has drawn me to physically challenge myself ever since. Unfortunately, all this out door physical fittness doesn't pay the bills. So, out of money again, back to mom, dad and Sidney. Started working at UPS. That was okay, but yet, there was still something missing. I needed more stimulus, so, it was back to Colorado for college.
I had decided to move to Boulder in 1988 and go to CU because I didn't want to go to a "football college". Besides, Boulder is cool and artsy fartsy! Well in 1990 or so, CU became a "football college". While I went to school I worked for the biggest Liquor Store in the (world) state of Colorado, Liquor Mart. On "Football Saturdays", whenever CU played Nebraska, I proudly wore my NEBRASKA paraphanalia. I really enjoyed that pin that played the fight song. Whenever Nebraska scored, I played the pin over the intercom.
Then in 1991, I met Larry Kahn and married him in 1992. In 1993, I ran the Leadville Trail 100 in August and graduated college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting that December. In 1994, we moved to Winter Park, Colorado and became professional ski bums for 11 years. As someone had told me at our 20th reunion, I was "living the life". Of course I had to hold down 2-3 jobs at a time to do it, like waiting tables, teaching nordic skiing, painting, and being a secretary for the elementary school.
As my husband and I are avid runners, hikers, mountain bike riders, and nordic skiing enthusiasts, we loved living in Winter Park. We could dress up in the gear du jour and walk out our back door to which ever trail that called to us. It was in short.....WONDERFUL! I have run and hiked thousands of miles on mountain trails, climbed some of the highest peaks in Colorado, (Larry has climbed all the 14ers in CO), road over trails on a mountain bike that I never thought I could, and experienced scenary, animals and weather conditions that could blow you away. I have nordic skied thousands of Kilometers, training for and participating in, ski marathon races all over the country, CO, CA, WI, MN, MT, WY, ID, UT. I never thought I could love a sport so much as I do nordic skiing! And tomorrow is another day!!!!!
Larry has a daughter, Jennifer, who is awesome. She was 18 when I met her, so we get along like sisters and that is pretty cool. She lived with us in 1993 in Boulder for a year until she decided to go back to North Carolina, shere she grew up, and to college. Then again in 1996, she moved to Winter Park for a summer. She met her future husband, Chris, back in NC. They eventually moved to Colorado and lived in Boulder. They were married in 2001 in Mexico on the beach. What a great place for a wedding.
In 2005 we were feeling like we needed to expand our horizons, so we moved to Montana. First things first, where are the trails? Then the search for jobs and a house. We are pretty confident when we say, that we were the people that bought the last house, at the peak of the housing bubble, and that burst it. But, we now live in Montana and we love it.
One year later, my husband Larry, found out that he can no longer run, as he has bad hips. The good news is, he can still nordic ski, hike and bike, so not all is lost. I still run with friends but it is not as much fun to do without Larry. So we hike more and ski a bunch when the snow flies.
Currently I am working for a large Plant Nursery in Bozeman, MT and we live in Belgrade. I have been enjoying learning about flowers, trees and shrubs and have loaded my yard with every new love. (Maybe I should have studied Hort. Oh well...) I have not been painting since we moved to MT, except the walls in my new house. But, I find much pleasure in gardening. I call it painting with flowers.
We love discovering all the trails and vistas that Montana has to offer. To me MT is like living in Colorado and Nebraska. There are beautiful fields of wheat and cattle as far as the eye can see and then there are all the mountains. It too is WONDERFUL!
In April of 2008, Larry's daughter Jennifer and her husband Chris decided to make us grandparents! (Does that make us old?.....Nahhhh!) Grover is the happiest kid I know, and oh so cute! (So, now I sound like a grandparent.) They live in Raleigh, NC which makes it difficult to see them as often as we would like, but, we have the technology! We get to visit on Skype. We watch him walk and do all the growing up baby things on our computer. What fun!
In a nutshell, I still don't know what profession I will have when I grow up. It sure has been a great adventure so far. Life is a challenge, you may as well enjoy everything while you can right? I hope to never rest on my laurels (for very long). As for today, it's snowing!!!!!
Yippee!
It really has been great to see all the old and new photos of everyone on the blog. I am really sorry I missed all the fun. Sometimes it seems that everything happens at once, and I think it is getting a little harder to keep up with it all. (Then I visit my parents, I can't keep up with them either!)
Anyway, it is great to see everyone so happy and well. Come to Montana sometime and we will show you the sights!
Take care, as always, love to all, Valerie
It has been a whirl wind tour since May of 1979, a tour that I am sure all will agree, has gone by way too fast.
I stayed in Sidney for a while after high school, but unlike Lori, I needed something different. I moved to Denver and went to the Colorado Institute of Arts for 6 months. Ran out of money and ran back home to mom and dad and worked for Cabela's for 2-3 years. Then I moved to Lincoln, NE to live with my sister and hangout. I still didn't know what I wanted to do when I grew up so I could not bring myself to check out college. So, I waited on tables.
In 1984 I walked the Santa Fe Trail from Kansas City, MO to Santa Fe, NM, 980 miles in 91 days. It was an amazing experience. I fell in love with being out doors, and I believe it is what has drawn me to physically challenge myself ever since. Unfortunately, all this out door physical fittness doesn't pay the bills. So, out of money again, back to mom, dad and Sidney. Started working at UPS. That was okay, but yet, there was still something missing. I needed more stimulus, so, it was back to Colorado for college.
I had decided to move to Boulder in 1988 and go to CU because I didn't want to go to a "football college". Besides, Boulder is cool and artsy fartsy! Well in 1990 or so, CU became a "football college". While I went to school I worked for the biggest Liquor Store in the (world) state of Colorado, Liquor Mart. On "Football Saturdays", whenever CU played Nebraska, I proudly wore my NEBRASKA paraphanalia. I really enjoyed that pin that played the fight song. Whenever Nebraska scored, I played the pin over the intercom.
Then in 1991, I met Larry Kahn and married him in 1992. In 1993, I ran the Leadville Trail 100 in August and graduated college with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting that December. In 1994, we moved to Winter Park, Colorado and became professional ski bums for 11 years. As someone had told me at our 20th reunion, I was "living the life". Of course I had to hold down 2-3 jobs at a time to do it, like waiting tables, teaching nordic skiing, painting, and being a secretary for the elementary school.
As my husband and I are avid runners, hikers, mountain bike riders, and nordic skiing enthusiasts, we loved living in Winter Park. We could dress up in the gear du jour and walk out our back door to which ever trail that called to us. It was in short.....WONDERFUL! I have run and hiked thousands of miles on mountain trails, climbed some of the highest peaks in Colorado, (Larry has climbed all the 14ers in CO), road over trails on a mountain bike that I never thought I could, and experienced scenary, animals and weather conditions that could blow you away. I have nordic skied thousands of Kilometers, training for and participating in, ski marathon races all over the country, CO, CA, WI, MN, MT, WY, ID, UT. I never thought I could love a sport so much as I do nordic skiing! And tomorrow is another day!!!!!
Larry has a daughter, Jennifer, who is awesome. She was 18 when I met her, so we get along like sisters and that is pretty cool. She lived with us in 1993 in Boulder for a year until she decided to go back to North Carolina, shere she grew up, and to college. Then again in 1996, she moved to Winter Park for a summer. She met her future husband, Chris, back in NC. They eventually moved to Colorado and lived in Boulder. They were married in 2001 in Mexico on the beach. What a great place for a wedding.
In 2005 we were feeling like we needed to expand our horizons, so we moved to Montana. First things first, where are the trails? Then the search for jobs and a house. We are pretty confident when we say, that we were the people that bought the last house, at the peak of the housing bubble, and that burst it. But, we now live in Montana and we love it.
One year later, my husband Larry, found out that he can no longer run, as he has bad hips. The good news is, he can still nordic ski, hike and bike, so not all is lost. I still run with friends but it is not as much fun to do without Larry. So we hike more and ski a bunch when the snow flies.
Currently I am working for a large Plant Nursery in Bozeman, MT and we live in Belgrade. I have been enjoying learning about flowers, trees and shrubs and have loaded my yard with every new love. (Maybe I should have studied Hort. Oh well...) I have not been painting since we moved to MT, except the walls in my new house. But, I find much pleasure in gardening. I call it painting with flowers.
We love discovering all the trails and vistas that Montana has to offer. To me MT is like living in Colorado and Nebraska. There are beautiful fields of wheat and cattle as far as the eye can see and then there are all the mountains. It too is WONDERFUL!
In April of 2008, Larry's daughter Jennifer and her husband Chris decided to make us grandparents! (Does that make us old?.....Nahhhh!) Grover is the happiest kid I know, and oh so cute! (So, now I sound like a grandparent.) They live in Raleigh, NC which makes it difficult to see them as often as we would like, but, we have the technology! We get to visit on Skype. We watch him walk and do all the growing up baby things on our computer. What fun!
In a nutshell, I still don't know what profession I will have when I grow up. It sure has been a great adventure so far. Life is a challenge, you may as well enjoy everything while you can right? I hope to never rest on my laurels (for very long). As for today, it's snowing!!!!!
Yippee!
It really has been great to see all the old and new photos of everyone on the blog. I am really sorry I missed all the fun. Sometimes it seems that everything happens at once, and I think it is getting a little harder to keep up with it all. (Then I visit my parents, I can't keep up with them either!)
Anyway, it is great to see everyone so happy and well. Come to Montana sometime and we will show you the sights!
Take care, as always, love to all, Valerie
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Angel of Hope Dedication
Click on image for larger pictureThe tile the class purchased in memory of our classmates for the Angel of Hope project is pictured above. The ceremony dedicating the Angel was very touching. I am sure our classmates that have gone before us would be proud.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Interest??
Is there any interest in a CD slide show or just a CD of the photos of our class reunion photos?
Thursday, September 10, 2009
A Note From Mr. Higuchi
Click on image to view a larger version.Thought I would share this note of thanks with you all. I was glad that he and Mrs. Elwell could make it.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Next Reunion 2014
The Class of 1979 will have a 35th reunion in 2014 during the Oktoberfest, which is always the first weekend in October. Mark your calendars!
If you move or change your email, be sure to let me know (that is...if you want to stay in contact).
If you move or change your email, be sure to let me know (that is...if you want to stay in contact).
Tim Schneider - Voted Most Hottest Bod
Tim....you should have never given me so much crap about taking so many pictures.
I just had to show you off!
Hey, Georgia and Doran...."What you lookin' at?"
Ron is just not impressed at all.
FYI: Tim Schneider is spreading around Face Book that some of his classmates might post info that is not true. Don't believe him. All my posts are true and accurate. : )
Mrs. Elwell and Mr. Higuchi
The Class of 1979 was honored to have Mrs. Elwell and Mr. Higuchi attend our Class Reunion dinner. Mr. Higuchi did not bring any paper clips or rubber bands and we all behaved accordingly.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Memories From Robyn
39c a gallon gasoline
Trying to figure out who would be the one that would have to drive around will Bill Makey in his white pickup to get him to buy us beer.
Miller pony 8 packs (two of these and I was out)
Turning around at the pizza hut and down main and turning around at Michelin tires to go back for HOURS…
Ice skating in the park
At the movie theater: Saturday Night Fever Grease Star Wars
The Eagles Journey and Billy Joel
Lunch at A&W
Mindy and Mike
Mr. Higuchi’s secret holds and all his aloe vera plants and the amazingly accurate papers clips wrapped with paper and tape that he would shoot with rubber bands
Hans, the foreign exchange student
The street out the south end where some people went to get high at lunch hour
The little Mexican food joint we would walk to at lunch to get tortillas with cheese melted in them
Tastee Freeze (gone =-( )
Pasture parties –those were great
Radio: “Goooooooooood Morning. It’s a BEEEEEautiful day in Dalton!! So and so when to so and so’s to play bridge. Mrs. Somebody’s granddaughter was in town this weekend for her birthday. {So on and so forth}” Does anyone besides me remember this?
Trying to figure out who would be the one that would have to drive around will Bill Makey in his white pickup to get him to buy us beer.
Miller pony 8 packs (two of these and I was out)
Turning around at the pizza hut and down main and turning around at Michelin tires to go back for HOURS…
Ice skating in the park
At the movie theater: Saturday Night Fever Grease Star Wars
The Eagles Journey and Billy Joel
Lunch at A&W
Mindy and Mike
Mr. Higuchi’s secret holds and all his aloe vera plants and the amazingly accurate papers clips wrapped with paper and tape that he would shoot with rubber bands
Hans, the foreign exchange student
The street out the south end where some people went to get high at lunch hour
The little Mexican food joint we would walk to at lunch to get tortillas with cheese melted in them
Tastee Freeze (gone =-( )
Pasture parties –those were great
Radio: “Goooooooooood Morning. It’s a BEEEEEautiful day in Dalton!! So and so when to so and so’s to play bridge. Mrs. Somebody’s granddaughter was in town this weekend for her birthday. {So on and so forth}” Does anyone besides me remember this?
Back to School for the Class of 1979
Doing what we have always done best.....
The bell rang....oops....the tour started.
Thought I would throw this in.
And this too.
Meeting of the minds.
The gym
The BOYS LOCKER ROOM.
Self explanitory
I like this!
SIDNEY RED RAIDERS!John....you missed out!
More of the 30th....
Tim Schneider (ha! ha!) Got ya again Tim!
Jen and Den
Tim (back), Karen, LeighAnn, Pam
John, Mel, Sue, Duane, Steve (back)
Cindy, Cindy's hubby, Susan, Kathy
Steve and his wife
Tony and his wife
Phil and Kevin
Darin (not a classmate), Sue and Mike
Doran, Susan, Lori, Todd and his wife, WyattThe Class of 1979 - 30 Year Reunion
Lori, Rich, Jay, Duane, Susan, LeighAnn, CindyJanet, Doran, Lisa, Joe, Jackie
Tim, Melanie, Pam, Wyatt, Todd, Steve, Sue, Tom, Mike
Phil, John, Rich, Deanna, Chris, Denny (hidden), Kevin (hidden), Kent
I think someone is behind Tim...don't know who. Could be Marlin?
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