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Biographies I-NJANE ISAACS (FANTEL) '63Spouse: Alan G. Fantel MICHAEL ISACSON '62Spouse: Beverly J. Isacson MARGARET "MAGGIE" IWANAGA (PENROSE) 62½Spouse: John Morgan Penrose HARDING JACKSON '63I have been married to the same woman, Marilyn T. Jackson (Deal), for thirty years. I have a son 37 years old and Marilyn and I have a daughter 20 years old (she's not paid for yet). We live in San Francisco in Park Merced housing complex next door to my other alma mater, San Francisco State University. We rent because a decent home in San Francisco now costs $700,000 or more. Marilyn is a 2nd grade school teacher with SFUSD. I have worked in federal, state and local government for more than 15 years. Currently I work for the City & County of San Francisco/Department of Human Services as an Employment & Training Specialist ("We help people...."). Playing basketball is my chief hobby. The young guys I play with call me "OG". And so are we all OG's. I also love shooting pool, playing card games for money and chess. Pawn to King four anybody. Because of my deep and abiding faith in God, I believe I am exactly on the life path where I should be. However, I anticipate living to be at least 125, therefore, I expect to have several more successes in my life. Please feel free to email me at: harding.jackson@sfgov.org. I have not got my home system up yet. I've remembered many of your names as if you were people out of legendary tales and I'd be pleased to know what you're up to now. I have a survey question for the class. If you had all the money you needed, not just millions; but enough so that your friends and relatives needs would be taken care of also, what would you do with yourself? LEIGHTON JACKSON '60Graduated Northern Illinois University - June, 1964 SHARON JACOBS (KIMBROUGH) '61Home: Chicago, IL I graduated from Northeastern Illinois University. Was married to Walter Kimbrough, Jr. Have one daughter (Crystal) and two grandchildren (Tiffany and Ean). I have been in the advertising business for over 25 years, and am currently employed at Burrell Communications Group as Senior Vice President/Director of Broadcast Production Services. BETTY JACOBSON (HECHTMAN) '64Spouse: Burl JAMES (JIM) JOCIUS '59Spouse: Paricia CHARLES "PEE WEE" JOHNSON '57Spouse: Doris (Ware) '61 I have a B.A. in Graphic Art and Design. I am the contact person for the Hyde Park High School Alumni Association, Inc - hphsaainc@sbcglobal.net. 6/15/04 CHARLES JOHNSON '86Spouse: Theresa DIANE "OLIVE OYL" JOHNSON '63Home: Leavenworth, KS Photos of Diane and daughter Heather DON JOHNSON '64
“So, DeeJay, what ya been doing for the last 30 years?” … - Archie Ward Julien, September 2003. Okay, so I managed to graduate in the summer of 1964. Just needed one class…. No, I don’t know why someone with my lack of understanding in mathematical concepts would take Trig and Solid Geometry in his last semester as a senior in high school. DUMB! Anyway, that gives you some idea of my approach to life and the rest of the world. Let me offer my unconditional thanks to all of you that helped me survive while I tried to learn how to make it on my own. THANK YOU! From Hyde Park, I went to Loop Jr., a complete waste of the school’s time; I just wasn’t ready. But, I was smart enough to get a job cutting tool and die steel after selling records at Lyon and Healy and working in the mail room at Combined Insurance Company of America. As I was married and had a son in 1966, the United States Government decided not to absorb any more problems and left me to my own devices. I discovered mainframe computers and found a night job at Zenith Radio. From there, I managed to get hired at the City of Chicago DataCenter, which was a good thing. I worked nights, weekends and holidays, lost wife No. 1, but started to grow-up. I left the employ of the City for the Illinois Central R.R.; and, due to a good decision on my part, wound up working at what is now the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association as a traveling EDP Operations Management auditor. The next few years found me back at school to get a degree (like I said, good people have helped me all my life) and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and Jackson, Mississippi. Lost wife No. 2 in Jackson; not a very good place for mixed marriages at that time. Then, 1987 found me back in Chicago, where I was introduced (there’s that thing about people in my life helping me again) to the woman I would be lucky enough to marry, much later. In 1989, I went into business with Irmgard (the beautiful woman to whom I was introduced) selling desktop computers. Later years find us also starting a business in Muskegon, Michigan, where we do automotive kitting and packaging and assembly, www.imc-products.com. We have two children, Hiram Pratt Johnson a toy designer, and Sydney Janelle Johnson who works for Hamilton-Sundstrand and attends Rockford College. I still ride motorcycles and like toy trains (Lionel, MTH, ATLAS-O etc.); and life, thanks to all of you, has been very good. Don@imc-products.com will get to me if you want to reach out. 5/26/09 FREEMAN JOHNSON '60Spouse: Susan JOYCE JOHNSON '63Home: Chicago, IL LYNN JOHNSON (STEVENSON) '68Spouse: Billy Stevenson PAUL JOHNSON '49Home: Kingman, AZ Graduated HPHS Feb., 1950 after four and a half years (not a good student). Enlisted in the Air Force in Jan., '51. Flew combat in Korea; spent time in Europe as well as SE Asia. Was married and produced three fine sons. Left the Air Force and was recruited by the Navy as a civilian, involved with electronics. From there I went on to the Federal Aviation Administration from which I retired in 1985. Have done volunteer work as a tutor in a high school as well as the Weeks Bay Estuary in Alabama. I now live in Kingman, AZ. 10/13/04 JIM JOHNSTON '63Home: Lewisville, NC CARLO JONES '62Home: Phoenix, AZ
DONNIS JONES (ROBINSON) '66Spouse: Samuel I attended Southeast Jr. College & Harold Washington College receiving an Associates degree in Accounting. I also attended Roosevelt University but I did not complete the requirements for a degree. I worked for IMRF for 32 years, retiring in June, 2002. Now, I am doing ALL the things that I did not have time to do while working. I am doing some traveling and loving retirement. 8/21/06 GLORIA "DUCHESS" JONES (GUNN) '64Home: Chicago, IL MARY ANN JONES(-PRICE) '64Spouse: James F. Price PhD from the University of Illinois 11/26/06 WILDA JONES (BOX) '64Home: Chicago, IL LESTER JOSEPH '67Spouse: Sarah Rockwell ARCHIE JULIEN '60
Every once in a while, the engineering siren would again call to me, and I spent a couple of years in Civil Engineering supervising reconstruction of I-80 between Indiana and the East Dan Ryan, 1966-67. I researched various campuses for facilities suitable for my interests, mostly Iowa City, Madison, and Minneapolis, but to no avail, so I returned to my music and psychology. Eventually, I turned to religion, and the Lord honored me with Patricia Ferguson, my Guardian Angel in the flesh, in August, 1974 when soon after in November we were married. I immediately returned to formal education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, soon followed by Trish; I in Chemical Engineering (BS, 1977) and Mechanical Engineering (MS, 1979), and she in Geography (BA, 1979; MA, 1981). Did I tell you Trish was from the Tropics, and the closest she had come to snow younger than 17 was when she opened the freezer door one day and observed that, "It must be like living in there." Well, she had a number of similar comments about Chicago's -25 degrees (-81 including wind chill) winters, so one fine day in 1983 she ups and applies to the Rangeland and Ecology Department at Texas A&M University at a time when my brother Guy was about one hundred miles from campus. Since Guy was close by it was hard to accuse her of exactly ripping up my roots, and I went along when she left. Once again the lure of engineering sounded, and I entered the doctoral program in Electrical Engineering in 1986. I got my PhD in 1991, and Trish got her MS in Ecology, just in time for The Collapse of the cold war, and federal funding for defense research and development. However, an engineer can just about always survive by computer programming, so we kept the wolf at bay when I took a job in Houston in 1992. Since that time, things in the engineering employment community have improved to almost the point where they were prior to The Collapse. We've had no children, but an extremely high-maintenance dog and cat for the past 15 years. I mean everybody is allergic to the cat, including the dog, and so the dog has to be bathed at least every other day, and rubbed down with cortisone. This cat is so finicky that "Morris" (the cat, remember?) has nothing on her. If her milk is more than 15 minutes old, it has to be dumped. Do you know cats have actually starved to death rather than eat what they don't like. Yeah, I know. I'm tempted. As costly as the two of them are, we could probably feed a third world country, but what can you do when it's family? CARY KABUMOTO '65Home: Lincolnwood, IL MICHAEL KAMERLINK '60Spouse: Lydia JAMES KAMP '58Spouse: Sandy I have two masters degrees - one in science and the other in education. I have taught in Chicago Public Schools for 37 years. Our granddaughter Cassandra Kamp is now 5 and in school. My son Daniel and my
daughter-in law Danielle live in Bartlett, Illinois. He is an IBM senior
computer specialist. They had a baby boy at the end of August, 2004. PEGGY KAMP (GOLDEN) '62
My life has been a series of unplanned events including a divorce, several careers, a PhD at midlife crisis and now, a faculty member and Program Director (International Business) at a large regional State university in Florida. I am a water baby (always was...even swam off the Point) so living in South Florida is very appealing. I am married to a retiring faculty member here at FAU (have been remarried 10 years). My three kids are everywhere and doing well. No grandchildren yet but number 1 son is getting married so there is hope. ANN KAPLAN '62 (attended)I attended for 2 years 1959-1961. I then moved to Connecticut, went to Smith College, Columbia Business School and now run the municipal bond business at Goldman Sachs, an investment banking firm. I have three sons, the youngest of which will enter Wesleyan in the fall. The other two are already out of school and working. My husband and I are celebrating our new found freedom with a trip to Europe. I do admit to reaching the minimum age. KATHY KARJALA '63After high school I went to Oberlin College for a year, hated it, came back and finally graduated from Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago. I spent a year in Europe, mostly in France (1969-70) and then moved to Seattle in 1971. I worked for a couple of years for the Sierra Club in Seattle, but drifting ever more rural, I then spent a year living/working on a dairy farm in north central Washington, where I met David Long, to whom I have been happily not married for the 25 years since then. We lived for 20 years in Seattle and then in 1988 bought property and in 1993 built a log home in the foothills of the Bridger Mountains about 10 miles outside of Bozeman, Montana. We both work from home in our own respective businesses. I do medical transcription via phone lines and internet (all my clients are in Seattle). David has a business repairing, painting, and machining parts for model trains for hobbyists. We see lots of deer, rabbits, skunks, porcupines, and tons of birds, plus the occasional black bear and even a few mountain lions. I never would have predicted I'd turn into a country girl (!), but there you have it. BOB KASIK '63Spouse: Sheila [Ritter] JOHN KASIK '66Spouse: Renee Kasik
5/22/09 BRENDA KAYNE/BIGEL (HERKERT) '62Spouse: Ed JOYCE KELLEY (SHOEMAKER) '58Spouse: Thomas Shoemaker Married June 30, 1958 2/2/07 WALTER "Kimmy" KIMBROUGH '62Spouse: Carolyn ADRIENNE KING (BINS) '59Spouse: Milton Bins RICHARD KING '65Spouse: Faye Askew '65 GERALD KINNARD '57Spouse: Ozzie Dropped out of HP in 1956 and joined the Air Force in April 1957. GED, served 20 years, retired May 1977. Went to several colleges after retirement, graduated University of San Francise with a BS in Human Relations. Attended Golden Gate graduate school, studying towards MBA in Hospital Administration; dropped half way through. Currently on the board of HPHSAA.Inc. 1/27/07 SALLIE KOSKY '62Home Wheeling, IL LAILA "LESLIE" KRAMER '62Home: San Francisco, CA Salsa and Argentine tango dancer; Writer; Yoga practioner 02/12/2010 BEVERLY KURTZ (GOLDMAN) '62Spouse: Richard RITA LANE '60Home: Los Angeles, CA EDDIE LAFELL '62½Spouse: Becky JERRY LAZAR '61Home: Sarasota, FL most of the year; Lansing, MI Sept, Oct, Mar, and Apr when
teaching BRENDA LEMAY (JACKSON) '64Home: Chicago, IL BURTON LEVIN '41Spouse: Lenore Wife, Lenore, retired medical administrator and teacher. Hear from Elwin Simon and Dick Abelson (HP '42). STAN LEVIN '58Spouse: Sharon Southern Illinois University--Class of 1962 CHERYL LEWIS (BEVERLY) '63Home: Palm Springs, CA ROBERT LEWIS '61Home: Sierra Vista, AZ WENDY LEWIS (ORLEY) '61Spouse: Ray RICKY LIBLES 62½Spouse: Janie CAROL LIEBERMAN (HARRIS) '65Spouse: Gene Harris MARTIN LIEBERMAN '65Home: Monsey, NY I have had an exciting and varied 40+ years since graduating from Hyde Park
High School in 1965. The exciting years were at the University of Michigan from
1965 to 1968. Those were the Viet Nam War years, and like so many of us, I did
my best to fight against the war. In 1968, I spent a summer in Israel and
decided to study the Jewish Religion full-and-part time. This took on a variety
of activities and ultimately led to a suicide attempt in 1971, as I rejected the
life I came from. This is not a precept of the Jewish Religion. I remember almost all of my friends from Hyde Park High School; and have
tried to keep up with the lives of many of you. Even though I am on the East
Coast, and most of you are in the Midwest, or elsewhere; I get home to Chicago
almost every year, and I'd love to see you next time I'm there. Hyde Park
Indians do not jive! Best Wishes, Marty L. 08/02/2009 LARRY LINDAUER '61Spouse: Kathryn GENE LINFORD (WILLIAMS) '61
Married to Tom Williams for 40 years. BA degree in English Literature. 11/17/06 LEE LITTLEWOOD '64Spouse: Ann Parker Went to Ray School; I still remember Mrs. Knaus as the Principal and Mr.
Erlich's 6th grade Science Club. Then Hyde Park HS and some really good teachers
(Mr. Helms/Geometry, Mrs. Scholl in algebra teaching Sandy Brewer how to do
tatting before class started). Four interesting years - remember EVERYBODY in
the halls singing "Duke of Earl" when it came out? Or talking about the Sonny
Liston/Cassius Clay (his name then) fight? And what class were you in when your
teacher sort of drifted off to the teacher's lounge, to see the replay of
President Kennedy's assassination? I don't remember if school officially let out
that day, just that the classroom doors were open and everybody sort of left to
go home... Was there school the next day? In other news – got married (to Ann Parker ‘68) in the Reed chapel, bought a “starter” house in southeast Portland and helped starter a family (2 boys and a dog), moved to another house in northeast Portland and found that the boys were going off to college, the dog was getting foggy, and Ann and I are still doing fine. She’s had a much more interesting time than I : working at the Zoo for 12 years, then learning some computer skills and writing technical manuals for software, and finally managing a group of technical writers at Kaiser healthcare. Three jobs in 30 years – I’m sure our children will think of it as totally sedate, even though I see it as wild and reckless. When I realized that it was getting late and I hadn’t gotten this letter written (shades of Hum papers) I went looking for the letter from the ‘93 reunion. But I couldn’t find it anywhere, and now it has become this brilliant bit of writing out on the edge of my memory – probably the best writing I’ve ever done. It was probably a nostalgic stroll with old friends and old memories, and may have wondered what would have happened if we all hadn’t gone to Reed. I don’t know about you, but I found my main squeeze and my lifework here, along with a whole bunch of friends and grass to play Frisbee on, so I’m pretty happy about the whole deal. 8/24/06 ALBERT LIU '66Spouse: Beverly Having worked for Uncle Sam in various positions, I'm now retired from government service. FRANCINNA "FRANNIE" LOVE (WRIGHT) '96Spouse: Javae I graduated with a degree in Early-Childhood education from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. I have taught in the Urbana School District for the past 6 years. Recently, I took on the role of being the Sr. Vice President and CFO of a company called Leadaz International Sportswear. At the present time I am running the company alongside my wonderful husband Javae'. I have 1 daughter of my own and 2 stepchildren that keep me going all the time. 4/23/06 ESTHER "EMME" LUNDEEN (FALLEN) '64Spouse: David Fallen After HPHS, I went to college in Minnesota, a small private liberal arts college, Gustavus Adolphus, while most of my closest classmates went to U of C, Harvard, other Ivy schools. No surprise that, while I enjoyed the experience, I left to be an actor on tour with a company in '67. ANYONE who left school to go to Europe in 1967 was unlikely to return/continue! I met my husband of 36 years, doing theatre in Chicago and lived on the North Side. We married in 1970, moved to Maine 1973, had two children (daughters), started a Dinner Theatre (part of Bangor Community Theatre). I worked for local TV and husband worked for a construction company building waste-water treatment plants and bridges. Since moving to Virginia, I have been an ATT employee, our daughters are grown, we still do theatre , mostly with The Elden Street Players, Herndon, VA, which actually owns their performing facility. Over the years, I have acted and directed, recognized by some awards....... I have enjoyed reading the bios of classmates from my era! So, I'm going to "risk" sharing my memories! I transferred to HPHS as a Junior from "the east" in Sept 62. I
remember... ALLAN LUSTER '64½Home: Marina del Rey, CA LINDA LYTHCKE '60After graduation, I was off to Northern Illinois
University with classmate, Grace Sakuma, where we were
roommates freshman year. I graduated in January of 1964 with
a B.S. in Education. After graduation from NIU, I planned to
teach 2 to 3 years and began employment as a middle grades
teacher, in Hazel Crest, IL. CLIFTON MACLIN '62Home: Carson City, NV MARY A. MADDEN '63From November 1997 until February 1999 Mary Madden was the Vice President of Public Records at ChoicePoint Inc. In that position she has overseen the development of a strategic new technology, worked on several acquisitions, assisted in the development of a legal market strategy, and participated in the senior management of the company. In February 1999 she transition to a consulting role for ChoicePoint so that she could devote her time to working on a few projects at ChoicePoint and with other companies outside the ChoicePoint family. For the 1996/1997 academic year she was an Executive in Residence and lecturer at the DuPree School of Management at Georgia Tech. Prior to her year at Georgia Tech Mary had successfully founded Information America, grown revenues and profits, and taken it public. She is on the Board of Library Specialists, Inc., and she has invested in a Seattle legal market startup. Mary Madden was President, CO-CEO, and CO-founder of Information America, Inc. from 1982 until 1994. Madden and her partner, Burton B. Goldstein founded Information America in February 1982. Information America is a leading provider of on-line information services designed to satisfy information needs arising in the complex commercial transactions and business litigation. The products and services were designed to be easy to use and to help uncover the interrelationships between people, businesses and assets. IA was a public company with revenue of approximately $27 million generated from over 500 on-line databases, when she left. The company has since been sold to West Publishing, a leader in legal information. In the 1984-1994 period, Information America revenues increased more than 25-fold. Under Goldstein and Madden's guidance, the company was named the nation's fastest growing database company and one of the top ten on-line innovators in the nation by Information Industry Bulletin, ranked three years in a row #93 (1989), #229 (1990), and #378 (1991) in Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest growing companies in the nation, and ranked virtually every year in the Arthur Andersen's Fast Tech 50 for Atlanta businesses. In 1989 and 1990, Madden was named a finalist in the Inc. Magazine "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition. The company went public in 1991 and the stock was traded on NASDAQ. For the first two and one half years as a public company Madden handled relations with financial analysts and institutional investors. The company completed its first acquisition in 1993. Prior to founding Information America, Madden spent 12 years working on various library automation projects, including catalog conversions, on-line catalogs, authority control systems, circulation systems, inventory control and subject matching systems. The clients included the University of Toronto; UTLAS Project; the University of Illinois, Urbana Campus; the Detroit Public Library, and the British Columbia Library Consortium. Madden currently is on the Board of the Society of International Business Fellows, and is a member of the Committee of 200, an organization of preeminent women business leaders, and assists in recruiting Southeastern and Technology members. She is a member of the Atlanta Roundtable, and the Business and Technology Association. She served for several years on the Board of the Information Industry Association, an industry trade organization. She was President of her 25th Reunion Class at Vassar. She was Chair of the Board of the Atlanta School from 1986 until 1991. She was on the fund raising committees for the 7 Stages Theatre and for Project Open Hand. She often coaches youth ice hockey for her sons' teams. A 1967 graduate of Vassar College, Madden earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University in 1969. Professional activities:
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JILL MANSCHOT (WALL) '65Spouse: Bob NAOMI MARGOLIS '63Home: New York, NY DANNY MARKUS '63 attendedSpouse: Karen ELEANOR MASON '62Home: Brookline, MA OWEN MAYER '61½
Attended Kozminski School 1948 to Mar. 1956 Worked at the U of C Pathology Department as a photographer and museum curator 7-64 to 1-1966. Dr. Robert Wissler, father of Mary Wissler, was Chairman of the department for many years and was involved in heart disease research extensively. Married Harriet Gourdine 10-64. With threat of draft, joined U.S. Coast Guard in June 1966. Except for boot camp in Cape May, N.J., served entire enlistment in the Duluth-Superior area at the west end of Lake Superior. Honorably discharged June 1970. The area was beautiful and the people absolutely wonderful. Harriet made many friends and taught in the Duluth elementary schools. But jobs were scarce there and I decided to finish college. Finished UIC June 1970 to August 1971, B.S. Biological Sciences. September 1971 to Nov. 1973, worked as an assistant toxicologist for a testing laboratory in Northbrook Illinois. Coordinated toxicology studies on rats for client pharmaceutical and drug companies. I was concerned about people and events in this company and resigned. This laboratory had severe management problems and the FDA investigated. The company closed around 1976 and company officers were put on trial by U.S. attorney Scott Lassar in 1984. I made a decision not to sell my townhouse even though jobs in this field were difficult to find in the Chicago area. Instead I worked at Lion Photo Supply in Schaumburg from 1973 to 1978. I worked in most areas of this operation. (Around 1990, this firm was bought out by the Wolf Camera chain.) Also I built a lot of Heathkit test gear and repaired televisions in my home. In May 1973, our daughter Genevieve was born. Since 1978 I have worked for United Parcel Service in Addison, Illinois. I worked a package delivery route for 11 years and have driven a semi since 1990. The pay and benefits of this union job are outstanding. I really enjoyed my experience at Hyde Park High and made many friends. I have always felt that my teachers and peers were unique. I want to extend my greatest compliments to two teachers: Mr. Rosenshine for the very high quality of his lessons, for making us think, and for his unique example of individuality; and to Miss Sheer for the high quality and detail of her art instruction, and for helping me to enter two photo contests. Read more about Owen and Harriet at http://home.comcast.net/~owenma1/index.htm ELNORA MAZIQUE (ABSTON) '68Spouse: Mike Abston JYNNELL McCLELLAN '91Home: Justice, IL BOB McCRACKEN '61Spouse: Elayne VIRGINIA McEWAN (ARNOTT-WALD) '62aSpouse: Ted Wald ANDREW "ANDY" McFALL '65Spouse: Jolena LASHUNA McFEE '96Home: Chicago, IL Evangelist LaShuna M. McFee was born February 6, 1978 to Joe Lee and Georgia
McFee in Chicago, IL. She attended Countee Cullen Elementary School until 4th
grade at which time her family relocated to Jackson, MS. While there she
attended North Jackson Elementary School and graduated from the 6th grade in the
top 10. September of 1990, LaShuna and her family returned to Chicago’s
Southside. After graduating from Murray Language Academy and Hyde Park Career
Academy, she attended Illinois Institute of Technology where she received her
Bachelors of Science in Political Science. JAMES MC GUIRE '39Spouse: Edra TIMOTHY MCREYNOLDS '64Spouse: Velvet ANDY MECALL '63Spouse: Sheila Andy passed away 10/26/00 of a heart attack. MARLENE MEERSTEIN (DELOTT) '55Spouse: Herb HP'54 RAY MELDERIS '63After leaving HP I spent 2 years at UI @Navy Pier/Chicago Circle. I then went to UI- Champaign-Urbana on a swimming scholarship. In 1967 I got drafted and went to Viet Nam for 17 months. When I got out on an early discharge I drove a cab in
Chicago for 1.5 years. We then moved to Carbondale (SIU) and I pursued a
Master's Degree in exercise physiology. SUZANNE MENZEL (ALLSWANG) '56Spouse: John Allswang (HP '55) B.A., Languages, University of Wisconsin; M.A., French and German, University of Tennessee My first years were spent in Europe and I came over to Chicago shortly before my admission to HPHS. At the time I did not speak a word of English, but in those days you learned or failed, so I learned. HP was the beginning of my Americanization--where I made new friends, learned about America, the US academic system and extra curricular activities, etc. It was a fun and easy-going time in my life. I graduated in January and went to Navy Pier for six months, then in September of 1956 I transferred to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where I got my B.A. in languages and political science. I had thoughts of becoming a diplomat, but, not being daring enough to go around the world by myself, I instead worked for Encyclopedia Britannica as a research geographer. That was not very exciting, so I quit after a year and went to visit an aunt in Knoxville; while there I got offered a teaching assistantship in the German department of the University of Tennessee. I loved teaching at the university level. I got my M.A. and went back to Chicago. I taught French and German at the U of C Lab school, and met my husband John, another HP alumnus (we had never met while at HP). Love at first sight. We married and moved to various places in the US (he was a university history professor) and around the world for both his work and our increasing delight in traveling. We have two married daughters, who, with their husbands, pursue the family love of travel. And our first grandchild recently came on the scene.. I also taught French and German at several universities and then when languages faded in the US, changed careers and became a travel agent. It was something that I always considered--I love organizing trips, conferences, meetings, etc., and I have now been doing it for a long time. Having lived all over the world, and traveled widely, and having received formal training for various aspects of the field, I think I am well-prepared for almost any travel needs. My clients have gone on business and vacation travel to just about everywhere in the world, from the US to Vietnam to France, from Alaska to Antarctica, and many popular as well as exotic places in between. I am very dedicated to my work and my clients no matter the size or the price of the trip. So if anyone needs any assistance with their travel for pleasure or business, do give me a try. LAURA MERIWEATHER (JOHNSON) '65Spouse: Jerome Johnson '65 MICHAEL MILLER '82Spouse: Valerie Retired from the U.S. Air Force August, 2003 after 20 years of active duty service. Started teaching soon after and have been since. At the time of this writing (Dec 2006) I've been married over 20 years and have two children (Victoria, 10 and Marcus 8). Moved back to the Chicago area (northwest Indiana) in August 2004. 12/27/06
MYRON "MIKE" MINKOFF '59Spouse: Roberta, d. Jan. 18, 2003 GEORGE MITCHELL '59Business: Insurance Got married about 9 years after Hyde Park. Moved out of Illinois to Madison, Wisconsin in '75 and moved back to Roscoe Illinois in '79. Two sons now grown. Still think of the old school once in a while and the teachers that could really teach instead of having to worry about civil actions against them for even hugging a child. Worked in the South Office for 4 years for Mr. Trienzenberg (sp?). IRIS MITLIN '63After HPHS I went to Knox College, hated it, and transferred to University of Chicago after one year. I met my husband Mike Lav, who was a graduate student at U of C, and we married in the fall of 1965. So we are in our 34th year. I graduated in 1967, worked in Woodlawn for a couple of years, and then we moved to Washington, D.C. so Mike could take a job with the World Bank. We've been here ever since, with the exception of two years living in Bangkok, Thailand in the mid-1970s. I got an MBA from George Washington University in 1972. For a large part of my career I've done analysis on policy issues for the labor movement, first as part of a consulting firm that did work for various unions and then for eight years with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). I'm now deputy director of a 60+ person nonprofit organization called the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that conducts research and analysis on government policies and programs, with emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income households. As the motto on our organization t-shirts says, "It just sounds boring." We spend a lot of time trying to make things actually happen in the policy/political fray. (www.cbpp.org if anyone cares to know more.) I've just become president of our synagogue, which adds about a 20 hour per week load on top of a more than full work schedule. I also keep working on preserving sufficient time to pursue various religious studies. I keep telling myself that time is a relative concept. We have three children: Aaron, 28, who came to Hyde Park to go to U of C and stayed -- he writes software; Daniel, 23, who graduated from U of C and for the past two years has been in a yeshiva (studying to be a Rabbi) in Jerusalem; and Jennifer, 21, who just graduated from Hampshire College and is looking for a paralegal job in a public interest law organization anywhere in the country. (Resume furnished on request.) None of the kids are married, no grandchildren, three grandcats. NANCY MOLLNER (FRIEDMAN) '57Spouse: Dick Friedman Kenwood school.... lived at 5245 Kenwood... until we moved to 7036 Paxton. Then to O'Keeffe...and onto HP .. Class of 57. (PI EP) 1 year at University of Miami /Coral Gables, FL.... engaged, but didn't marry Bob Karol. Married Dick Friedman, and graduated from the School of Hard knocks. Now living in St Louis Mo., after a stint in San Diego, CA. President of Telephone Doctor Customer Service Training company - and a professional speaker on sales, customer service and communications. Often in Islamorada in the Florida keys. Need/want more info? email me at nancy@telephonedoctor.com. 01/04/2010 AUSTIN MOORE '61Spouse: BJ DAVID MOORE '63Here are the basic way points after Hyde Park High: Knox College, University of Chicago, Peace Corps (Jamaica), Michigan State, Syracuse University, 29 years at Jefferson Community College doing all kinds of interesting things. Currently doing Continuing Education (but ask me about prison education). Married to Nancy Prytherch in 1967 and still going strong. Two fabulous strong daughters making lives in San Francisco and Chicago. No grandchildren (yet). Nancy's an agent for State Farm insurance, which I can still hardly believe after 12 years; most of the white shoe guys are out of the business, however. Hobbies and interests: Lay Ministry, Old trucks, blacksmithing, backyard pond, Patrick O'Brian and Tony Hillerman novels, canoeing. Living in Adams Center, NY, near Watertown and the Thousand Islands. ADDITION TO BIO 7/29/03: Daughter Sara is still in SF/Oakland area. Daughter Lauren lives in NYC with her husband. Lauren gave birth to fraternal twins Ian and Eric, on June 19th. After becoming a grandparent, class reunion helped me feel young again. More power to the Class of '63, and don't forget to protest the proposed destruction of the school! KRISTIN MOORE (HAY) '65I am a graduate of the class of 1965. I currently live in South Haven, Michigan. I am a writer and publicist for non-profit arts and cultural organizations. I received my bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and a master's degree in English from the University of Michigan. I teach creative writing and Yoga. I also sculpt and paint as a hobby. I have lived in Michigan most of my life, except for one short stint in California. I am the sister of David Moore who grduated in 1963. LOIS MORA (BROUTMAN) '52Spouse: Jerry SUSIE MORGENTHAU '63After graduating from the University of Wisconsin (with Wendy Turner--we're still close friends), I worked with Bruno Bettelheim for some time and then spent a year in London working with autistic children in a residential institution. I then moved to New York and studied at the New School for Social Research in clinical psychology. Since that time, I've been working as a psychologist; my interests lie in diagnostic testing of children. For some time I worked with young criminals (that was an eye opener) and then I decided to move on to children who have problems but are not dangerous, as of yet. Shortly after my parents died in 1980, I moved to Jerusalem and tried living and working there. (Wendy and Peggie Holt Price (still a very close friend) understood my desire to be closer to my roots, whereas, a lot of my other friends did not.) I returned after two years. I loved being there but it was not a place for a single person. Back in New York, I went on my first blind date ever and
got married to him 8 months later. Alan Mintz teaches modern
Hebrew literature at Brandeis (to which he commutes from our
apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan). We have two
daughters, Avital (almost 9) and Amira (almost 11). We tried
living in Newton, MA for two years, but could not stay away
long from the diversity of New York City. It's been an
experience being older and wiser parents. I've spent a lot
of time telling my children about what it was like to grow
up in Hyde Park and some of the special values of that time
and that place. Here's my mailing address for anyone who
would like to be in contact: 838 West End Ave., Apt. 6C BOOKER T. MORRIS '61½Spouse: Clementine Gilmore '63½ [Deceased
04/10/07] SEE CLEMENTINE GILMORE '63½ FOR MORE INFO ON CHILDREN JUD MORRIS '62Lynne and I have lived in the Northwest for 15 yrs. We have one daughter, Sharon, she lives in NYC where she is a Columbia grad student in arts administration. Lynne is a social work professor at Eastern Washington University and I am a grant writer for a social service agency in Spokane. We enjoy the outdoors and spend most of our free time biking, running, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. In 1998 as part of a presentation at the University of North Carolina I filmed a documentary about small town murals (published in 1999 as a book chapter). This year my wife and I will be making a presentation at the University Of Maine on the impact of resort development on rural communities, and then it is on to Nova Scotia to run in a marathon. [March 2002] First, profound sympathies for those impacted by 9/11. This last year and a half since our fabulous reunion has been interesting and good. My daughter, Sharon, graduated with an arts administration masters from Columbia, lives in NYC. I am enjoying new job as regional grant writer (Cascades to Idaho/Columbia to Canada). I have taken up extreme triathlon and last year was 2nd at USA Nationals (Lake Tahoe) in my age group. Went to Worlds on Maui, (bike broke but it was great season). My wife, Lynne, and I just got back from the Winter Olympics (snowboarding was rad, dude). I am planning on more triathlons, running NYC marathon and looking forward to the 2003 HP reunion. See you all then. WILLIE "BULLMOOSE" MORRIS '63Spouse: Linda P., Married 32 years RICHARD MOSES '51½Spouse: Pauline GLORIA MOSLEY (STEVENSON) '66Home: Country Club Hills, IL DIANE MOY '63Life has certainly been full of experiences for me as I look back to bring you up to date. I've done what all of you have done since high school - went to college graduating in 1966, taught, married, started a family, but then along with 50% of America got divorced after sixteen years of marriage. In 1984 I went back to the workforce as a marketing assistant for a man who was patenting a process. It was a bit overwhelming trying to market a product that turned out to be 15 years ahead of the times. So I left to work for the Printing Industries of America (PIA), which is the world's largest trade association for sheet fed and web printers and lithographers. During the 15 years I have been with PIA, I have managed programs that train emerging managers, owners and executives to manage printing companies. I've also written professional training programs and I contract the speakers for seminars held in conjunction with a huge industry trade show. Just recently PIA has started working with E-Commerce issues. Remember that patented process? It is the process "Dot.Com" companies are using today for business transactions with printing companies over the Internet. Alas, there were no stock options back then! In 1997 God blessed me abundantly with my marriage to the Reverend Michael E. Koch, a Lutheran pastor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. We make our home in Kettering, Maryland. My sons, Eric, Matthew and Michael Swanson are wonderful young adults. Eric (28) has his Masters in Physical Therapy and works in Melbourne, Florida. Matthew (25) is teaching 9th grade in Georgia. Michael (21) is majoring in marketing and will graduate from Florida State University in May. Michael has three brilliant children - Stefan (28) and Martha (23) are teachers in Virginia and New York respectively which Rebecca (21) is experiencing life in Hawaii. None of our children are married! Diane wins prized award; share her joy: http://www.gain.net/PIA_GATF/GASF/koch.html MEI-YING MOY '61After majoring in Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, I spent about eighteen months in Taiwan. This time included shorter stays in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. I also managed to spend nine years in Germany before settling in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Although I went to both Taiwan and Germany as a language student, I wound up teaching in both places. The pattern continued in Ann Arbor where I now have been teaching English as a Second Language for twenty-three years. Music (I haven't played a violin in years, but still play the piano.) and travel are still frequent activities, but my main energy goes into being a student of meditation (yoga), a student of Esoteric Healing and a Reiki practitioner. JEELAN MUHAMMAD '97Home: Chicago, IL BILL MULTACK '63After graduating from HP, I knew that I wanted to work for IBM designing computers. That fall I was off to U of Illinois Champaign-Urbana to get a degree in electrical engineering. After two years of doing math problems until I was blue in the face, I decided that maybe engineering was not for me (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics cinched it). I had already taken all of the computer classes offered at the time, and switched to ‘Jewish Engineering’ and received a degree in Accounting in June 1968. It took five years, but I wasn’t in a hurry to graduate for reasons known to all of us as ‘Nam’. After graduation I was hired by IBM in data processing sales. My career there was very successful, but too short for my liking. There was still a war going on with a lottery for induction into the service. Lady Luck didn’t treat me as well as she had at IBM and I drew number 4! I imagined myself holding a M-16, covered in mud, surrounded by rice patties and guys with dysentery. My knees went weak. I hurried to a recruiting office hoping to get a direct commission. None was available, but I found a sweet deal with the Navy. They needed experts in data processing and I qualified. For this I got a 30 month enlistment, with a 95% chance of being stationed in Washington, D.C. or Hawaii, no basic training, and entering as a Petty Officer 1st Class (a rank that usually takes 14 years to get). The only thing that I cared about was the fact that I wouldn’t be using my passport. I really enjoyed my time in the Navy although I never saw a ship my entire enlistment. Stationed at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Arlington, Virginia, just up the hill from the Pentagon, my primary responsibility was to oversee the conversion from 5 smaller computers to a giant IBM 360. (I watched guys enter data). In addition, one of my unofficial duties was to preview movies deemed possibly “objectionable”, (e.g. Woody Allen’s “Bananas” and “Woodstock”) to be shown aboard ships and at Naval bases. Thankfully, it wasn’t your typical Viet Nam experience. A year into my enlistment I traveled to Miami Beach to visit an aunt. I was introduced to Jodi Davidson and we were married three months later in August 1970. I got out of the Navy in August 1971. My father-in-law gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse, and went into the family drugstore business (FEDCO Discount Centers). At that time there were four stores in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. In 1976 I started a new subsidiary, a private label vitamin company; the FDC label is very popular throughout Latin America. We grew the business to over 20 stores, and 5 wholesale divisions. I became president in 1983 and CEO and Chairman in 1996. We sold FEDCO in March 1999. I stayed with the new owners helping them with computer conversions and Y2K issues and retired at the end of January 2000. Unfortunately, Jodi passed away in July, 2004 after a courageous fifteen year battle with breast cancer. nd I am an active members in several charitable groups at Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami Beach) and I have been on the Board of Trustees for over 10 years. In addition, I have served on the boards of two synagogues, and am currently on the Board of Directors of the Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation. I have been a member of Young Presidents’ Organization, and since I don’t qualify as young any longer, I belong to its graduate groups World Presidents’ Organization and CEO. For recreation I enjoy scuba diving, skiing, playing bridge, hiking, and travelling. Jodi and I have a 32-year-old son, Spencer, who graduated from University of Miami School of Law. He is a prosecutor for the Broward County State Attorneys Office, is married, and has a two year old daughter - Jolie. 5/26/09 CHRISTOPHER "KIP" MUNCKE '61Home: Bovingdon, England First marriage to Wendy Orley (nee Lewis) two children: Lisa and David. Divorced in 1981. Second marriage to Sara Muncke (nee Strange) four children, Josh, Sam, Luke and Ellyn. Divorced in 2002. B.A. Dramatic Art - Univ. of Cal. Berkeley, 1967. Dip. Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London,1969. I worked for three years with Steven Berkoff forming the London Theatre Group, before branching out and working as a jobbing actor in London theatre, radio, TV and several films. I left acting in 1990 to teach full-time. 3/27/09 ANITA "NITA" MURRAY (BEARD) '61Spouse: Lindsey DONNA MURRAY (PARROTT) '60½Home: Chicago, IL RAVEN MYLES '96Home: Chicago, IL LENA NEAL '64Just a reminder that I was in the June, 1964 graduating
class. After graduation I attended Beloit College in Beloit,
Wisconsin where I completed at BA in Political Science and
Theatre Arts and a Masters in Teaching. I returned to
Chicago and taught school on the south side for a few years. I have lived in Naperville, Illinois for nearly 26 years. During that time two things have remained the same for me: my zip code and the last seven digits of my phone number! JAMES "JIM" NELSON '57Spouse: Laurel LELAND NEUBERG '60Spouse: Donna EDWARD NEWMAN '63Education: ZIGGY NITECKI '63After Hyde Park, I went to U of Chicago, which was for me (unlike my kid sister, who left after one year) a great place. When I finished there, I was ready to leave home (and Chicago) and ended up at UC Berkeley. I timed things well, arriving a year after the Free Speech Movement and leaving a month before People's Park: the "interesting times" (in terms of the Chinese curse). It was certainly not dull, and there is much I remember with fondness, not just the climate (I find 70 degrees and cloudy ideal) and landscape (like the eucalyptus grove that seduced Merry Selk), but also the cultural excitement, especially the music, and (for me) the mathematics, which was top notch at Berkeley in that period. Also, by contrast with my experience in Hyde Park, I was amazed to learn that you don't always have to look over your shoulder when you are on the street at night. On the other hand, I found the political culture oppressive: I was marginally more appalled by the Oakland cops and Governor Reagan than by the provocation-for-its-own-sake radicals in town. It seemed to me that California culture (which to be fair may have been just Berkeley culture) allowed for no sane middle (or sane anything?). So when I finished my thesis (footnote: two of the three members of my thesis committee were cofounders of the Vietnam Day Committee: Steve Smale, my advisor, and Charles Pugh) I applied exclusively for jobs on the East Coast. I lucked out, getting a two year stint at Yale (or maybe it wasn't lucky?). Having been a political wallflower at Hyde Park High and at U Chicago (which to my surprise was a bit to the right of HPHS) and even Berkeley (which didn't mean innocence of tear gas) I reacted to Yale by getting at least a little involved in the politics around the Panther trial: I marched a bit and joined the "monitors" who were organized by the Panther supporters to help keep the demonstrations from giving the cops an excuse for mayhem. I think being a Hyde Parker really did make me more sensitive to racism as the underlying American problem than to imperialism or whatever (I say this with humble acknowledgement of the fact that I was spared the threat of the selective service, because of my relative academic success, that many of you reading this were not). Anyway, when the two years at Yale were up, I applied (influenced by my office mate Richie Tolimieri, who had excellent radical credentials and hated New Haven so much that he commuted to Yale from the East Village) exclusively for jobs in New York City. I got one at City College, and moved to the (west) Village. I loved the life, taking the "A" (or was it "D") train to work in the morning, then spent many afternoons at the Graduate Center in midtown (across from the Public Library) where all the active mathematicians from the City system hung out. But late that year, I got married and moved away, to Cambridge, Mass., where Alicia was living (and teaching then in the Northeastern U. English department), and started at Tufts, where I have been now for 27 years (with a few breaks, see below). The rest is easier to summarize. One perk of my profession is the opportunity to use professional activities as a pretext to travel. I spent 4 months in England between leaving Berkeley and arriving in New Haven, have had two extended trips to Brazil (the second with Alicia), several to Poland (including a 6-week visit to Warsaw in 1980 that ended a few days after the first Solidarity strikes), and many summers and one sabbatical year in Goettingen, which is Mecca to mathematicians, at least historically, and is the only college town that I really like. The Goettingen trips (from 1984 to 1994) allowed us to also travel in the East (Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia) and observe the change--Goettingen was 10 km from the German-German border. These and related travels were at the core of a book Alicia wrote a few years ago ("Recovered Land", published by U. Mass Press) which reflects on many of these trips that involved locales associated with her family's experiences during the War, as well as the changing scene in the East. She is currently doing some translations from Polish and writing a book on Flossenbuerg concentration camp, where her grandfather was imprisoned. We have a daughter, Elizabeth, who will turn 16 in a few months, is finishing her first year at Melrose High, and is an avid (ice) hockey player, a budding writer (sci-fi and fantasy) and artist. I abhor middle-class parents like me who refer to their offspring as "gifted", but I do think particularly as a writer she has some real talent; so look out for her (or one of her pseudonyms) in Asimov's Science Fiction sometime around 2010. We live in a rambling Victorian house in Melrose, Mass, which we share with two cats and a dog. For most of my life, I didn't get it concerning "hobbies": life seemed complicated enough without creating artificial hurdles. But, in addition to my lifelong addiction to recorded music (anything but opera or Guy Lombardo, which is a category that includes our generation's entry, Kenny G.), I took up cooking just before I hit the age of admission to the reunion. I mean "cooking" in both senses of the word, although I am more confident of my culinary skills than of my keyboard chops. So, I think, are my housemates. FRANK NORRIS '63Spouse: Melissa NORA NORTH '62Home: New York, NY |
My
last great achievements in Hyde Park were in the Chemistry
Lab. So, after leaving Hyde Park in June 1960, I spent a
year enjoying the campus at Ann Arbor pursuing Chemical
Engineering. I left to spend a few years studying Music and
Psychology at the Point and Jimmy's. I went to The Big Hyde
Park Be-In in 1965.
Spouse: Jerald Smith
