CLASSMATE PROFILES
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!!
Sam Weedman
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Occupation: | Sort of retired |
| Comment: Hello Classmates....OK, to summarize 50 years in a few words, luckily, it went OK. After Vanderbilt, with a degree in Physics-Astronomy and then some time as an Air Force officer, I cleverly decided to spend 35 years bashing about in the music business. We know how often that story works out well. But fortunately, I lived in the right place at the right time, so the magic of owned and inherited real estate saved me...and along the way I learned I enjoyed building stuff more than music, so I spend most of my time on some project or another. In doing so, I have been forced to color my hair gray and thin it out somewhat, get some glasses, have my jowls surgically enhanced, and have an aesthetician roughen up my skin. It has worked well, I think. | |
| College: | Vanderbilt |
| Grammar School: | Stokes |
Mike Werner
Then
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Occupation: | Retired (Medical Technologist) |
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Comment:
My family moved to Nashville from Manhattan, KS at the beginning of my junior year at H.H.S. My father was a graduate of K-State in architecture and moved to Nashville to begin work with Earl Swensson & Associates. Dad was instrumental in the design and construction of Opreyland Hotel and the Library and the Fine Arts buildings on the Tennessee Tech campus as well as Whites Creek H.S. and many other projects. I was initially referred to as a "Damn Yankee" but still managed to make a few good friends during my two years at H.H.S. After graduating from H.H.S. in '65 I went to Martin College in Pulaski, TN for one year and to U.T. Knoxville for one year. I saw some great football games at U.T. but other than that I accomplished very little. U.S.C. was rated in the poles as No. 1 and to the consternation of U.T. fans U.T. was rated No. 2. (Oregan St. had beaten No. 1 rated U.S.C. and had tied No. 2 rated U.C.L.A. earlier in the season but unfortunately U.C.L.A. had beaten U.T. in their opening game in Knoxville). I received my induction notice into the U.S. Army on my twenty-first birthday. I went to Ft. Benning, GA for basic training and then to Ft. McClellan, AL for advanced infantry training. I spent the year of '69 in Vietnam serving in a 105mm Field Artillery unit (1st Bn/21st Arty) assigned to the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division. In some respects, my life's experiences oddly parallels that of Forest Gump's. I survived the perils of Vietnam although I did not get shot in the "buttock" and I did not receive the Medal of Honor. I was never very good at playing ping-pong and I never met a president of the U.S. although I did see J.F.K. in person during a motorcade through Nashville in the spring of '63 (six months before he was assassinated in Dallas in November). I did, however, talk to Mickie Dolenz of the Monkees on the telephone and I have shook the hand of the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore). I have never even been to Washington D.C. I was unable to attend Woodstock since I was in Vietnam during the summer of '69 and Aids was just beginning to be recognized as a potential problem in the early to mid 1970's. In retrospect, the time I spent in Vietnam matured me sufficiently enough to want to aggressively continue my education. I received a B.S. degree from M.T.S.U. in '72 and a Medical Technology degree from Vanderbilt in '74. I started working at Nashville General Hospital in '74 and supervised the Microbiology/Serology Department for thirty-eight years and retired on July 3, 2012 on my sixty-fifth birthday. I presumably have helped save the lives of numerous patients while, to my knowledge, have never contributed to the demise of anyone. At this point I guess I had better mention that I married a wonderful, loving, caring woman, Annelle Ashburn, on October 19, 1985. Annelle is a homegrown southern lady born in Manchester, TN. Annelle graduated from Springfield H.S. and received a B.S. degree from M.T.S.U. and a Medical Technology degree from Baptist Hospital in Nashville TN. She then went on to attend graduate school at the U.T. Medical Units/Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, TN receiving a Specialist degree in Immunohematology and then becoming certified as A.A.B.B. (American Association of Blood Banks) qualified. Annelle was working as the Blood Bank supervisor at N.G.H. where we met and fell in love. I am now retired and am trying to stave off diabetes by diet and exercise (my father lived with diabetes for thirty years before he died last November). I also stimulate the "little gray cells" by reading a lot and working the L.A. Times and the N.Y. Times crossword puzzles every Sunday (my mother died in August of '85 with alzheimer's). Annelle and I live in a two-story house so we are currently looking for a suitable one-level retirement home, but as of yet have not decided on a location. As of this writing the reunion has come and gone and due to the diligence and hard work of the reunion committee it was a fabulous success. I enjoyed seeing and talking to old acquaintances and re-visiting H.H.S and reviving old memories. What a wonderful experience! |
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| College: | M.T.S.U./Vanderbilt |
| Grammar School: | Manhattan, KS |
Brad West
Then
Gretchen West (Lavely)
Then
Jim West
Then
Jackie White
Then
Kathy White
Then
Tom White
Then
Now
| Marital status: | Married |
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| Children: | 1 |
| Occupation: | Sales |
| Comment: Attended MTSU worked with my father and moved to Memphis after short time and stint in the National Guard . Married to my sweet wife for 37 years with one son Christopher . Own and manage my own packaging materials supply business since 1994 . Still working ,miss my high school friends and the 'carefree' days. Just glad to be here! | |
Walter White
Then