Ever taken the time to look back over the last 20 years and wonder what your best friend or arch rival from high school is doing now?

It’s amazing how time flies and how life derives its crazy course, isn’t it?

It has been ironic what a challenge it has been to find some of our fellow graduates, but also how easy it has been to find others. I am constantly amazed when Cindy calls me and says…hey, i talked to Missy Shafer or hey, I heard from Lori Pierson or when Troy emails and said he talked to Jeff Garland and Greg Gilchrist is interested in attending the reunion as well, when I was at a loss on how to find them.. Or, oh yeah, I talked to Michelle Dugan Wilson Figg, she lives in Sullivan now.

Well, here’s some of the interesting tidbits…that have been amazing to discover in the quest to put together a smashing reunion weekend….

Duane Long owns an Elk Farm in southern Indiana.

Mark Haines is a sculptor with a lovely daughter living in Michigan.
Check out his profile on www.classmates.com.

Shelley Phillips (Tudino, now) is RETIRING from the Air Force this year. How cool is that?

Francie Tidwell (Brown) has 4 lovely kiddies–and she homeschools them, from their home in Knoxville Tennessee, where she mills her own grain and makes bread.

Vanessa Mahan and her lovely family are living in upstate Indiana and are presently practicing the Amish faith.

Debbie Taylor lives in North Carolina and works for a BMW dealership. For real–she’s had two poems published formally.

Laura Edmondson is a Professor of Theater at Dartmouth. You can check out the courses she teaches at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~theater/people/edmondson.html.  Laura Edmondson is a scholar and playwright whose work focuses on East Africa.  Her articles on Tanzanian and Ugandan theater have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, TDR, and the anthology African Performance Arts (Routledge 2002). Her book, Politics and Performance in Tanzania, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities and the American Association of University Women.  Her creative work is closely tied to her research interests, as seen in her play, “Out of Isak,” which is set in colonial and postcolonial Kenya.  She is currently collaborating on a performance piece, “Vessels of Fire,” with Ugandan performer Okello Kelo Sam and Tanzanian musician Robert O. Ajwang’.  The piece integrates music, dance, and text to explore Okello’s personal experiences of the civil war in northern Uganda.  Prior to coming to Dartmouth, she held positions at the University of Georgia and Florida State University.  She has also taught theater history and playwriting at the Bagamoyo College of Arts in Tanzania and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Lew Sharp took his turn at racing midgets in the USAC ranks, and even got to fill in a little bit for Eric Darnell in a Roush owned Craftsman Truck at ORP–untill he kinda hit the wall at Winchester Speedway and um, well, broke his neck. Not to worry–I have seen him, he isn’t disfigured or anything–and he’s not worse for the wear at all….looks just the same…and still has the need for speed, though his lovely wife, Barb isn’t feeling the same need for speed.

Janet Woods won’t be able to make the reunion, because she and her husband, Ismael,  are expecting their first child in early October.

Want to find out what everyone else is doing now?

Then, don’t forget to submit your RSVP for the reunion events by this Friday!! Reserve your spot to join in the fun and catch up on old times!!!