If this is the Daily Planet, Ted McKosky is chief editor Perry White (Great Caesar’s Ghost!) and I, Mike Rountrey, am cub reporter Jimmy Olson. The roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane have not yet been cast. With Perry’s, uh, Ted’s, approval, I bring you the news on what a few of us are doing, where we’re doing it, and who we’re doing it with/to.
Jim "Tunes" Bordner (’71) has retired from the City of Norfolk after 35 years of exemplary service. He is now employed with Portsmouth Community Health Center where they let him wear a lab coat and write on the blackboard. His beautiful wife Carla is retired but stays busy looking after Tunes. He still hopes to get a real job one day soon as a greeter at walmart.
3237 Deerpark Drive
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452
757-431-8641
jbordner@cox.net
Colin Forrester (’72) is a physician practicing family medicine in the little Northern Neck town of Callao, Virginia. Take two whatevers and call him in the morning. He has since moved on from Callao to parts unknown . . .
Dan Gallagher who lives with his lovely wife Rita Irwin in the Florida Keys.
Robert Hines ('71) lives in Cary, NC with his dog Max. Bob works for the American Kennel Club in Raleigh.
109 Killam Court, #2C
Cary, North Carolina 27513
919-481-9675
roberthh@sprynet.com
Duncan Howe After 3 years with Uncle Sam went to Grad school at Duke, spent 5 years at Duke’s marine lab (almost like summer camp), got PhD in zoology, went through mid life crisis at 30, got divorced, remarried with 3 ready-made boys who are now in their 40’s, research fellowship at Washington State, decided bench research wasn’t my cup of tea, spent 10 years as radiological engineer at DOE bomb factory in central Washington, got tired of the bureaucracy and security stuff and returned to academia with faculty position at University of South Carolina School of Medicine as medical physicist for 8 years, then transferred into medical school’s office of rural community health where I’ve been the last 12 years. See then and now pictures spanning 39 years.
Fred Johnson (’75) lives in Saluda, Virginia, and manages the Crown gas station/C-store in Tappahannock, Virginia.
Jon Knowles (‘75) is Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance for ZLB Plasma Services (sounds like vampire stuff to me). Jon, wife Martha and son Davis live at:
Jon and Martha Knowles
5567 Lake Shore Village Cir
Lake Worth, FL 33463
phone: 561.212.8880
jknow84243@comcast.net
CSL Plasma
5201 Congres Ave
Suite 220
Boca Raton, FL 33487
561.981.3723
jon.knowles@cslplasma.com
Curt "Byrd" Larson ('66) August 1966 to August 1968 I was in the Army in Seattle. September 1968 to February 1970 I worked in Pensacola and Warrington, FL.. March 1970 to March 2008 I worked in various jobs with IBM in Wash., D.C., San Francisco and Atlanta. I worked at branch, area and hq locations. I retired Mar. 1, 2008. Hallelujah !! I'm married and have two great kids. Brian works in the finance industry in Atlanta and Dana is a project manager with the Discovery Channel in Wash., D.C. Many of you are grandparents and I have that experience to look forward to. I remarried in 2001. Del and I live about 45 miles north of Atlanta in Ball Ground, GA. It's a little like Ashland -- small town with railroad tracks in the center of town. We're just a few miles from the mountains.
Ted McKosky (’71) and his wife Deidre live in Radford, Virginia. Ted and Deidre have both retired, living the high life, well not like we used to.
205 Pershing Avenue
Radford, Virginia 24141
540-639-0517
tmckosky@radford.edu
dkmckosky@verizon.net
Alan Rashkind ('69) - Suzette and I now married nearly 37 years, continue to live in our empty nest in Virginia Beach, and try to get to Cape Charles to play with my toy trains when we can. We were in Cape Charles this weekend with Tom ('71) and Marilynn Gale, who also have a place there. Our older son Graham (RMC Class of '96) and his wife Cameron (Class of '94) live in Richmond, where Gray sells real estate for Keller Williams, and Cameron nurtures grandsons Ethan (6) and Lucas (3) and awaits the arrival of grandchild # three in August. Younger son Doug is single, and lives in Virginia Beach and works as a teacher's aide at Chesapeake Bay Academy, a K-12 private non-profit school for students with learning differences, where Doug went as a student from the 2nd through 8th grade. Suzette also works there in what is called a part-time position, as Special Events Coordinator, a development job at which she excels. I continue to work full-time as a civil litigator with the Norfolk law firm I joined immediately following law school in 1972, although now instead of being the youngest one there, I am the oldest. This year I am finally cutting back, to just 5 days a week. For the last 7 years, I have been teaching one course as an adjunct professor at William & Mary Law School each spring, and of course enjoy listening to myself talk, and having a captive audience of young adults who have incentives to laugh at my bad jokes. I remain very active at RMC, where Gray is also active. I serve on the Board of Trustees, as my Dad once did, and Gray serves on the Alumni Board, as I once did. Gray is running a new series in Richmond called "Macon Connections," with morning networking programs for the Richmond area that are so good they even occasionally draw Milt Martin ('67). I am looking to see as many of the AEPi's at Homecoming 2009, which is also the Class of 1969's 40th reunion.
Bill Rawls (’74) is a substitute teacher in the Fairfax (Virginia) public school system.
5823 Robins Nest Lane
Burke, Virginia 22015
703-239-1481
wsrawls@cox.net
Jack Rhodes (’71) is a professor of English at The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C. As such, he is a colonel in the South Carolina Unorganized Militia (SCUM). His wife Jean is a nurse-midwife; she runs a breast-feeding educational program for new mothers at the Medical University of South Carolina (send your dumb titty jokes directly to Jean; I don’t want to get involved.) They have two kids, Evan and Emma. Evan is in grad school (English, natch) at UVA, and Emma is attending Kenyon College.
2774 Christ Church Court
Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29466
843-881-0648
rhodesj@citadel.edu
George Roden (’74) and his wife Connie live in suburban Richmond, Va. George is a self-employed Certified Public Accountant, and swears he knows nothing, absolutely nothing, about Enron. Connie is proprietor of Roden Personnel, an employment firm specializing in the placement of accountants (she placed George in marriage, among other accomplishments). Laura Roden, daughter of George and Sandy Harris (’74) graduated from Va. Tech in 2001. Connie has 3 adult children.
11702 Robious Rd.
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
804-379-3672
rodencpa@aol.com
Mike Rountrey (’71) is a commercial real estate appraiser with Integra
Realty Resources-Richmond (formerly known as Rountrey & Associates) and
can think of absolutely nothing funny or interesting to say about that.
1413 Nottoway Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23227
804-266-0024
mdrountrey@verizon.net
Adam Rountrey (’03), nephew of Mike, having out-pointed that 14-year old
genius Greg Smith for honors at graduation, lives in Ann Arbor MI. with
his wife Melanie. Adam is a graduate student at U. of Michigan, & just
(August 2006) returned from a field trip to Siberia. (No kidding.
Obviously not an English major).
Mike Shack ('64) is living in the San Diego area with his wife of 44 years, Elinor (AEPi's first sweetheart). After graduation, I went to med school at U. of Maryland graduated in '68. I interned at the U. of Colorado,
spent my service time in the US Public Health Service with NIH in Phoenix (beat Viet Nam!!). Then it was off to a residency in neurology at U. of Minnesota for 3 years. We arrived at our final destination, Escondido, Cal, in 1974 and have been in neurology practice since.
We raised a family of 3 daughters, now all married. We have one in Chicago with 2 grandsons (now a stay at home mom after being in TV news), one in LA area with one son (she is in the movie business - worked for 5 years on Las Vegas, the TV show; Charlie's Angels movie, among others), and third in Escondido as a special ed teacher.
We have some family back East, but enjoy traveling around and have not made it back there very often. In fact, the 2009 reunion will be our first visit back to RMC for any extended time. We did drop in for one day when my oldest looked at colleges, but she decided on the U. of Colorado. We got to a lot of Big 12 football games!
If you ever travel out west, stop by for a visit.
Michael & Elinor Shack
404 Camino Bailen
Escondido, Ca 92029
760-294-9206
mjshack@yahoo.com
David Sproul (’72) has been with WMAL Radio (WMAL_AM News Talk 630, WRQX Mix 107.3 FM, WJZW Smooth Jazz 105.9) in the Washington D.C. area for over 1/3 of a century, and is Chief Engineer (“Warp 6, Sproulie! Cap’n, she canna take much more!”). Dave & Robin, who is Bureau Chief at ABC News Washington Bureau, have daughters Catherine (just graduated from Harvard, a/k/a “the Randolph-Macon of the north”) and Anna (Columbia).
Bruce Thornton (’72) is a guidance counselor in Howard County, Maryland. Bruce usually counsels his students to plead guilty to lesser charges. In the summer, Bruce paints houses because the high from the paint fumes reminds him of his college days. Many people don't know this but Bruce stared along with Ernie Kovacs, Doris Day and Jack Lemmon in the 1959 film "It Happened to Jane".
Bruce & Yvonne live at:
231 Carolstowne Road
Reisterstown, Maryland 21136
bruce_thornton@comcast.net
Skip Vichness fInished a PhD in History in the mid 70's and after a short stint of teaching left for the camping business. In 1984 bought a day camp in New Jersey and ran it for a little over twenty years. Retired from the day to day running of camp six years ago - and currently am the head of a "group" that invests in day and resident camps in the north east. Raised our two boys in South Orange, NJ but have lived in downtown NYC for the past 12 years Still working on first wife - Ilana - but you never know. We also have an apartment in Jerusalem and spend at least a couple of months a year there. Have two sons - one in camping and one in the financial world - at the moment both employed. Forty years summed up in three lines- not bad- cannot wait to see everyone.
Jim Wester ('69) and his wife Jennifer still live in Chesterfield County. Next month will be 38 years since they "tied the knot." This June made 29 years for Jim working for Capital here in Richmond selling trucks-some even to Radford University, Ted. Even though Jennifer was a drama major, she has been working for the Commonwealth for years in a variety of administrative positions.-presently with the Dept of Labor and Industry. They plan to stick it out for a couple of more years before retiring. Maybe she can support Jim for a couple of years so he may retire sooner. Their first and only grandchild Nathan Christopher Centore was born August 6, 2006 to their older daughter Allison and her husband Jim says, he now understand why grandparents can be so insufferable about grandchildren's photos. Jim is playing 2-3 rounds of golf per week but it belies the saying that practice makes perfect. Other than that they are proof that there is little difference between a groove and a rut.
Al Willyard and his wife Beth Bull (both”75) live in Hanover County two I-95 exits south of Ashland. Al is owner, president and sole employee of Charter Glass and Door, and Beth is a BenDocSpec. at WellPoint/Anthem/Blue Cross. Their son, Andrew ('10), is due to graduate from RMC in May with a degree in physics, minors in math and astrophysics, after which he will pursue his mission of finding life on distant planets.
9401 Dogwood Garth Lane
Mechanicsville, Virginia 23116
804-550-1082
agwillyard@aol.com
