CLASSMATE PROFILES

NOTE:  Deceased Classmates can be found on the Memorials Page

TO "CLAIM" YOUR PROFILE THE FIRST TIME:

STEP 1: SEARCH FOR YOUR NAME on the list of Classmates below using the SEARCH BOX.

STEP 2:  If the link next to your name says "Is this you? Fill in your profile here"  click on that link and you will be asked to enter a Username and Password that will be required to edit your profile in the future.  Go to Step 3.

If the link next your name says "Is this you? Click here to gain access to your profile."   click on that link and ask us to send you a Username and Password.   Skip the other steps in this section and go to Edit Your Profile (see below) to add information to your profile.

STEP 3: Enter information into your profile!!  Please update us on your recent past in the Comments section.

STEP 4: We've uploaded a Then photo for you which you can replace if you like.  Please Upload a Now photo by clicking on the "Browse" button that appears below Then and Now and finding the image on your computer.

STEP 5: Click on the Submit button at the bottom of the form to save the changes.


TO EDIT OR UPDATE YOUR PROFILE:

After your profile is complete and displaying on the website, you can update your profile anytime .

Step 1: Click on the Edit Your Profile button above the profiles and enter your Username and Password.

Step 2: If you forget your username and password, please click on the link that says, "I forgot my username and password." The username and password will only be sent to the email address listed in the profile. If you have changed your email address or didn't enter an email address you will need to use the Contact Us page to ask the administrator of the website to add or edit the email address in your profile.

Step 3:  Enter your updates or photo.

Step 4:  Click on the Submit Button at the bottom of the form to save your changes.

ANY QUESTIONS?  Contact Us and we will help.  We want your updates!!

Mary Ackroyd (Baker)

Then Then

Vernon Adams

Then Then

Bill Adkinson

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Tennis, fishing, eating, sleeping
Comment: Hello Fellow Burros,


To paraphrase Bob Seger, Fifty years now, where'd they go?





   For me - Journalism degree UT-K '69. Newspaperman editing and writing in Knoxville, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Miami Beach. Associated Press writer and editor Miami and Washington D.C. VP of Publications National Association of Realtors, Washington and Chicago. La di da. Been retired, aka unemployed, since age 49. Not working sure beats working. Stock market timing can be successful.





Low point - lost my wife of 16 years in 1992, to cancer.


High point - married my current (and last) wife, Astrid, 18 years ago in the British Virgin Islands. We're loving life as much as anyone could here in Sarasota County FL.


  Memories of HHS. Coming from Parmer Elementary,  that first day in the fall of '61, stepping off the bus in front of Hillsboro High School, damn! This place is big!


How many of you remember Principal Mr. Koen (Cohen?), our freshman year, who then handed over the reins to Mr. Harris? By sophomore year, I knew every inch of HHS, and hated every inch of that gym presided over by "Physical Ed" Hesse. I hated the pep rallies, but it was fun to see Tam up there shaking her pom poms. And Sam up on stage with his guitar while Mr. Harris played harmonica.  Sara, our brightest student in the Class of '65, wasn't a cheerleader as I remember, but do I remember right that Sara was our star Burros basketball player? Those were the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end.


   So many people, some I don't remember, but many I do. Painful, the ones now gone. Carla Wiebeck, my freshman prom date and girl next door, gone. Spike Adams and Dutch Adkisson, alphabetically in front and back of me all those years, gone. Kay Tarpley, whom I dated awhile our junior year, but now I learn she died at age 19.


  Fifty years, wow. This will be fun. The only ones of you I've had any contact at all with this past half century are my best school friends Bob Neaderthal and Kin Moore, and with them only by phone and email the last few pre-reunion weeks. I hope some of you others remember me and say hello, no matter what we look like now. And know that, at least in my mind, each of you will always be ...Forever Young.  -- Bill A  





ADDITION on July 13. Muchas gracias to all of you Class of '65 folks who have put this reunion together. The time and effort you've expended to make this happen is invaluable. I look forward to seeing all of you. I will be wearing tan khaki slacks and a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up -- my high school uniform.  I hope all the girls are wearing mini-skirts. Yeah, those were the days. -- Bill A








 
College: UT-Knoxville
Grammar School: Parmer

Rose Marie Alexander (Evans)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: retired teacher
Comment: I am looking forward to seeing, hopefully, many old...I mean friends from the past..haha!  My husband Bob Williams and I live across the road from Percy Priest Lake between Mt. Juliet and Smyrna.  We have been together 7 years and married 4 months...we are very happy newlyweds.  While I am retired from MNPS, he has a year to go before he leaves MNPS (yes that's where we met) then we will be moving to our home on Pine Island (about 5 miles from Sanibel Island in southwest Florida).   So I feel very lucky that our reunion is this year.  All 3 of my children and my 4 grandchildren live in middle TN...Bob's 3 children and 2 and 1/2 grandchildren..one on the way also live in the area.  We stay busy with familhy, friends, boating, camping and partying.  I have only run into a couple of classmates over the years...I have moved around quite a bit, so this is exciting for me!


 
College: University of Memphis, Cumberland Univ.
Grammar School: Pierce El.
Grandchildren: Drake, Beau, Kelsey, Amy

Bill Alley

Then Then

Linda Ames (Ballentine)

Then Then

Heather Argo (Maillie)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Domestic Engineer
Comment: After college I worked for 3 different companies until 1976.  Our daughter was born in 1977 and our son in 1985 and we now have 2 granddaughters - ages 12 & 15.  Our daughter and family live in Brentwood so I get to see the girls often which is great.  Our son lives in Nashville and is not married.  I worked for 5 years after our children were grown as the Event Coordinator at the Factory at Franklin but have not worked since then.  I am just enjoying friends, family, traveling and playing.  Life is good.
College: Peabody
Grammar School: Burton
Grandchildren: 2

Jim Armistead

Then Then

Judith Atkinson (Deceased) (Atkinson)

Then Then
Marital status: Committed Relationship
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired realtor/business owner
Comment: Thanks so much to everyone on the Reunion committee!   You all do such a wonderful job of getting out the information and making sure everyone is contacted!   I wanted so to be there, but have been diagnosed stage four pancreatic cancer and am doing the chemo treatments!  It has been going on for about a year, so I am fighting!  Some of the pictures of you look better than when we were in high school!!  I am so happy  to see how many of you are living relaxed lives after years of following your chosen occupations and doing so well!!  Congratulations to all!   Thanks, too, to our Mary De for all the emails and updates! Will miss you all but my heart is in Nashville with you!    Judi Atkinson
College: Stephens College,Columbia,Mo
Grammar School: Julia Green, Percy Priest
Grandchildren: 2

Joe Baker

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Occupational Health and Safety
Comment: I am sorry to miss our reunion and really enjoyed seeing pictures and summaries of how some of us have turned out, especially all my choir friends - we have done pretty well!  After college I taught Jr./Sr. high science and chemistry in RI, then got a Masters Degree in Environmental Health from Temple University.   Last year I completed a 40 year career in the practice of Occupational Health and Safety, working for several chemical companies and finally with ERM, a global environmental engineering company, as a Partner.  





I have visited Nashville over the years for conferences and work in Paducah, drove past "home" on Estes Road, went in to HHS lobby just to see how it felt after so long.  We left for Rhode Island right after graduation and so I did not ease myself away as others did.  





I have been very happily married since 1969 to Joan, a retired elementary school counselor and Pennsylvanian, who I met in college.  We have lived and raised a family in Madison and Florham Park, NJ and here in West Chester.  We have two great daughters, Beth, an environmental scientist, and Amy, a chemical engineer/now stay at home mom.  Five grandchildren.  





I hike a lot and we have just staarted doing some Viking river cruises.  As as an avocation I have written over 40 SATB church anthems which have been sung locallly and can be found/heard at sheetmusicplus.com under my name as composer.  





It is easy to be nostalgic about our times together 50 years ago.  We made some stong and formative connections roaming the halls that we can recall fondly.  On the other hand - life is good right now and I wish us all good health and happiness.  Best to all!
College: Gettysburg College, Temple University
Grammar School: Peabody Demonstration School
Grandchildren: Luke, Justin, Emily, Jessica, Julia