Wes Alderson spent forty years of his life in his career in Electronics and Acoustics. He sold his company and retired in 1994, then turned to professional writing as a new, more enjoyable career. He still gets the guitar out now and then, and feels nostalgic for the Garret. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, except when traveling to a couple of vacation cabins. |
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Joan Baker has been been a musician (BA in music), a legal secretary/paralegal, a Unity minister (before she left Unity to convert to Catholicism), and currently teaches 5th grade in a public school (master's in education). Now she's looking into becoming an auctioneer and/or gemologist. "Never a dull moment," says Joan. |
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Tom Blackburn III and Christine Blackburn (née Christy Hawkins) met at The Garret. They've been married for 42 years and have lived in Texas for the last 25 years. They have two children, Thomas IV and Shannon. |
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Lacy Bosquez has been living with her partner, Sybil, on 15 acres in Oklahoma since 1984. They board horses and raise chickens and Lacy works for Geophysical Research Corporation as an electronics technician.
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Liz Burkhart retired from the United States Navy after 22 years of service, finishing up as a Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Service Corps. She lives in New York.
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Tana Chamberlain is an artist living in the Pacific Northwest.
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David Cramer is a retired telecommunications consultant living in Atalla, Alabama. He maintains a blog (Web Log) at http://www.dncramer.com/BLOG/.
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Jon Cutler lives and works as a wine and marketing communications writer (and Real Estate broker) in the small town of Sonoma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.
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Sandy Davis has worked as a Film Editor on many feature films and TV series during the 70's, 80's through 2000. The last show she worked on was Murder She Wrote, which ended in the late 90's. In 2000 She started a non-profit animal rescue organization called Friends for Animals & The Downtown Dog Rescue.
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Diane Gerow (now Corn) is a retired ICU nurse. She lives in Arizona with her husband, Ken.
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Mary Lou Green is an Executive Sales Associate with Coldwell Banker Success Realty in Arizona. Previously, she was Marketing Director for Ice Capades and NBC Entertainment.
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Bob Hamburg has retired from his job as an inspector for the U.S. government. He is married to Glenda, has a son, Brian, and lives in Southern California. He spends his spare time fishing, square dancing and travelling around the country with his "fifth wheel" camper/trailer with the intent of eventually driving through all of the "lower 48" states. You can follow his Travels With Glenda adventures on his trip blog.
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Christy Hawkins (see Blackburn above).
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Ceil Hojem, former Hoot Night regular, is a retired postal worker living in Illinois where she plays banjo for local organizations and retirement homes with the band "The Happy Cookers." She recently attained the degree of "College of Regents" in the Women of the Moose, and is also the editor of the local newsletter for the Antioch Moose Lodge. Former Hoot Night attendees may recall her performing her original humorous lyrics: This Land Is Disney's, The Huff'n'Puff Song and The Baldwin Hills Disaster Song while accompanying herself on her ukulele. |
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Jerry Hollombe is a retired software engineer. He keeps busy as webmaster for The Garret and also as a firearms instructor affiliated with Defense Training International, Inc. He also produced and published Terrea Lea's latest album, Terrea Lea, By Popular Demand, available from The Garret's Record Store. He is married to Lydia Uribe. |
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Debbie Kellett received her Ph.D. from Harvard in about 1968 or '69; she went to work for the VA in Boston as a psychologist, and ended up running the whole shebang by the time she retired a few years ago. She and partner Alice (also Ph.D., in Romance languages, from Harvard) own a period home - 1789 - in Massachusetts, and both are retired. Deb now works part-time restoring period homes in the area. |
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Ann Klein is a software engineer, specializing in mainframe programming. She is currently between contracts. |
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Andrea Konow is a public defender in Pennsylvania. |
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Randa Krakow teaches school in Southern California.
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Donna LaFortune is a teacher in Southern California.
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Sheridan Littlefield is retired and celebrating 32 years of marriage this year. She lives in Southern California in a house her husband (an architect) is restoring to its original 1924 condition.
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Stacey Lubell is a horse breeder and owner of Belmara Arabian Stud.
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Leslie Michaels (now Watson) lives in New Mexico with her husband, Dennis.
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Heidi Neprud (now Salzmann) lives in Bremervoerde, a small town in northern Germany, half way between Hamburg and Bremen, where she teaches in a German elementary school. She has two adult sons (28 and 25) from a previous marriage, but has been single for the past 12 years. She does a lot of traveling around Europe and tries to get to California every few years.
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Marilyn Noyes has a pet sitting business in Southern California.
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Georgia Roser (now Tracy Betancourt) spent a number of years as a bartender in various bars around the Southern California area. She decided to go back to school after floating around in more jobs than she can even remember. She studied Photography and Television Production and Broadcasting, then worked for a number of T.V. shows around the L.A. area doing camera, directing, editing and producing.
Her Father and her friend both passed away within a year of each other so she and her mother moved to Oregon to combine forces. They've now been here for 14 years.
She went to work immediately after arriving there at the ABC affiliate and worked the local news as a floor director for two years. Then she got an offer from the NBC affiliate to produce and direct a half hour magazine format medical show, Adventures In Medicine. She also produced, directed and edited local commercials. She was there for 8 years and is now retired, getting back to her first loves, photography and music.
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Lyndia Rubenstein (now Lowy) lives in southern California. She is divorced and has three children, Stephanie, Diane and Matthew.
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Cathy Singleterry is retired and living in London.
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Jan Vose is retired and living in Georgia.
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Morrie Yess is now Rabbi Moshe Yess.
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