Paul Blazer Class of 1988

Steve Howard...

Here is the link to the article in today's paper about Steve Howard.  ADI   Anyone else jealous that he can retire at 38?

Scott Neill's Handywork...

Where is Hickman?

Chris Pullem's LIfe Story...

Deidre Riley Bradley's Story...

Everyday is an adventure for me and 
I have  had so many since high school!  
I won't bore you with everything though!  
After high school I graduated from 
college, married the most wonderful 
man in the world and went back to 
school for two more degrees!  I really 
liked the student life you could say.  
About three years ago I earned 
a certification in human resources and 
have been in HR for some  time now-
which I absolutely  love.  People 
think I'm a party planner  and I 
suppose I am really!  LOVE IT!!  
I thought my husband and I  were 
set-great job, nice home and no 
kids.  Life was good!  I made the 
statement to someone that if we 
didn't have any children by 
the time  I was 35 we would sell 
our home, buy a condo and take 
lavish  vacations for the rest of 
our lives.  You see, I really never even 
considered having a child.  I hate 
to admit this but as much as I loved 
everyone's child, I was fine 
without one of my own.  Then I 
read "The Purpose Driven 
Life."  I began to see that it wasn't 
all about me.  So, to make 
a long story short, one month before 
my 36th birthday we found out 
we were pregnant and were overjoyed!  
Campbell will be 18 months 
old this month and is absolutely 
a blessing.  I don't know what we 
ever did without her!  So, some of 
my plans have changed with this new 
adventure like my vacation plans.  
This year we're going to the zoo and 
I know it will be the best trip yet!!  
Hope to see you at the reunion!!


   

JED MOORE'S ADVENTURE...

Jed after Graduation

  It all started with a move to Reynoldsburg, Ohio just outside of Columbus. The first thing I had to do was find a job to save enough money for living expenses in Tulsa. I was eight months away from heading off to Spartan School of Aeronautics. I found a job at a panty factory (Victoria Secrets) that paid very well, and it was no time at all before I got a raise and had made some very good friends. I almost hated to leave that place and on my last day all my co-workers wished me good luck in Oklahoma and my boss said if it didn’t work out I could always come back. 

Move to Tulsa, Oklahoma was a very long road trip in two vehicles. Me in my two tone Plymouth Reliant and my folks in the loaded down truck with everything I owned at the time. After arriving in Tulsa it was like a flash, in two seconds I was registered at school, had a roommate and the apartment. Two seconds later my mom and dad were hugging me and saying they needed to head back. My roommate was going to school for Avionics and I was going for my Airframe & Power Plant License. What I remember is going to school for 2.5 years, working full time, meeting my wife, graduating with a license, getting a job and leaving Oklahoma.

Writing this brings back memories of day dreaming in English class looking out those huge windows at people walking by. I hated English!!

Oh yea job, first job working on aircraft was in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, the oldest town west of the Mississippi River. My job consisted of turning corporate jets (Sabreliner) into Navy trainers and overhauling helicopter turbine engines. I was laid off after about a year and went to work for a farmer down the road loading up bales of hay. That went on for awhile; then Northwest Airlink called and wanted me to work in Memphis, it was just in time because I was getting married in Perryville, Missouri the next week.   

The church was out in the boonies between rows of corn and a field with cows. It had no air conditioning or running water, and my fiancée was 30 minutes late. After the wedding we headed to Tennessee.

A quick honeymoon at the French Quarter Inn because I had to start my new job ASAP.  Northwest Airlink is the puddle jumper for Northwest Airlines so I got to work on the smaller airplanes but it came with perks. I think it was $30 to fly nonrev, the bad thing was they didn’t let you off work to use it. I did cross paths with Amy T. who worked for the same company in a better town. Two and a half years later, did I mention it was in Memphis?  The worse place I have ever lived, I feel sorry for Tennessee because they have to claim it.  Nashville was calling and I jumped at the opportunity. See how I am working myself back home?  In Nashville  I worked for a company that performed maintenance on all the puddle jumpers, I repaired everything from Kevlar reinforced panels to urine damaged seat tracks. Work got slow and I was laid off again but this time it was different, I liked Nashville and wasn’t moving again. I took a job setting up brake press for Hayward Pool Products and have moved up the ranks into manufacturing engineering. This makes my 12^th year, I miss the planes but I don’t see myself getting back into the toolbox unless it’s the one in my garage.

I have 2 kids, Ryan Spencer & Savannah Rae Moore, 10 and 5 years old. They both go to a Christian school where I hope they learn more than their old man did. I have been married to Cheri for 16 years and wander how she has put up with me this long.

HELP IS NEEDED....

We are getting down to the wire and we still cannot locate several classmates.  Please review this list and see if you all can help.

Thanks,

Julie

Arthur, Howie         
Barrow, Jackie  - living in Lexington.   
Berry, Kevin            
Bogardus, Dan 
Clark, Shawn
Collins, Melissa  (Is now Melissa Joseph)          
Crank, Deanna  - I have an email for her but I believe it is wrong because I have never gotten a response.    
Cranston, Jamie   
Crum, Tammy      (Is now Tammy Bailey)                                 
Flannery, Dianna                         
Foster, Andrew                            
Franklin, Sandra                           
French, Matt
Fultz, R.D.                              
Galloway, Ronald                         
Haney, Michael   (Is in the Indiana area)                      
Hays, Rex                                 
Henderson, Heather                  
Henry, Stacy         
Hensley, Melanie   
Hensley, Melissa                        
Hill, Teresa            
Howell, Merlyne                                             
Knipp, Joyce                   
Lambert, Kirstin
Larumbe, Karen
Long, Kathleen - her children go to Holy Family but do not know her new last name
Maynard, Sandra
Moore, Keith
McKnight, Donna
Nelson, Lisa  (Is now Lisa Nelson Oney and in Hamilton Ohio area)
Nichols, Felisha
Patterson, Mary
Patton, Nicky
Perkins, Robert
Reed, Mike
Salyers, Chad
Shields, Scott - have emailed several times but never gotten a response.
Skarbowski, Mike
Smith, Amanda
Stanley, Susan
Thompson, Jim
VanHoose, Sonja
Wheeler, Mark
Wilson, Michelle
Wilson, Shane
Young, Rob

Scott K.'s Story...

after graduation i went to the naval 
academy in annapolis, md for 4 years
(with summers spent in new england, 
the eastern seaboard, florida keys, 
and san diego); began my naval 
career stationed in panama city, 
panama followed by seoul, korea 
and finally round out my 5 year 
committment in pensacola,
florida.  it was there i met my wife 
kristin, left the navy, got into
business school and became engaged.  
i spent the next 2 years at upenn in
philadelphia, with a fair amount of 
time in new york and was eventually
hired by jpmorgan to work in the 
los angeles office of the private bank.  
I chose los angeles because my wife is 
from outside santa barbara, approx 100
miles north - close enough for convenient 
visits with family, but not too
close.  we have 4 kids:  ages 10, 8, 
4 and 4, and live in manhattan beach.
life is good - damn busy (and 
occasionally stressful), but good.  
chris irwin lives out here and i've 
had the pleasure of seeing him a couple
times...once with the hip, dreadlock 
adorned william blake.  it was also
nice catching up with carrie huber, 
chris eby and jimmy (i.e. jim) gibbs.
i've enjoyed this site and agree with 
joe avila that it has become part of
my daily routine...though it was 
difficult identifying barry stewart
without the moustache (reveals my 
sorry state of reference for old friends
- it has been 20 years).