Millie Turner

As a volunteer through Master Gardeners and the University of California Riverside Botanic Gardens, I lecture on herbs, wildlife habitats, and edible flowers often providing refreshments such as lavender lemonade and tuna salad stuffed nasturtiums. My handmade quilts (appliqué and foundation piecing) decorate my home and walls of the Technical Services Dept. of the UCR Library where I am still cataloging books after 25 years as a Library Assistant. I follow horse racing, enjoy photography and travel, although my husband, Sam, has toured 95 countries mostly without me. Last year my essay, “Stuart Finds a Home”, about my orange cat, won first prize ($40 Target certificate) in the “Art for the Animals” competition sponsored by the Western Riverside Shelter. Entries were auctioned off to raise funds for homeless pets. My anniversary of Nov. 9, is the day I stepped onto a Continental Trailways bus and left for California at age 19. My new name, Jean, came about when a friend misread my middle name, Jane, on my birth certificate. I never corrected him and have been “Jean” ever since!

Jeff Toner

Graduated from Carnegie-Mellon Univ ( Carnegie Tech ) in 1966, BSEE
Drafted and served two years in US Army
Worked for Westinghouse/Bechtel for 41 years, as a program manager/executive in the Navy Nuclear Program
Retired and moved to N. Carolina in 2010, St. James Plantation, Southport NC.

Joann Smoose Girardi

We are doing fine. Right now we are in Phoenix where we live from Oct-April. Our daughter lives out here which is what brought us out this way. We have 3 granddaughters on this end. Kim and her husband Dana have 2 girls Lexi (12) and Niki (9) and Dana's daughter Sammi is here and she just turned 21. In April we go back to Delaware where we live in the summer. We live in a little town called Dagsboro in an RV park 7 miles from Bethany Beach. Our son Mark and his wife Ursula live in York, PA along with 6 grandchildren. Mark Jr. is 19, Morgan 17, Ryan 16, Gabri 14, Savanna 9, and Dominick 2. So we have a real crew. Of course all of our brothers and other friends live back east as well. We are not sure how much longer we will go back and forth but eventually we will live here in Phoenix as this is where we have a house. We really like it here and are slowly getting to know people. I started quilting after I retired and I belong to a charity quilting group here so that keeps me busy. Joe got his personal trainer certification so he is dedicated to working out and has clients from time to time. We have a gym in half of our garage. I workout too but I am not nearly as dedicated. We are both in good health at this point as are all of our brothers and their families. So we have a lot for which to be thankful.

Joan Roberts Upshaw

I left Edgewood in June 1962, attended Penn State, married in 1963, graduated from Penn State in 1965, moved to northern California in August 1965. I have been here ever since - now live in Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco. I began teaching in Sept. 1965, middle school English; and retired from teaching in 2003, after a great career of almost 35 years. After 10 years at the middle school level, I moved to high school - taught in a upwardly mobile community with mainly gifted students; changed schools and communities, and found my real niche in working with remedial students in high school English/reading. Taught in psychiatric hospitals, continuation high schools, and special ed classes.

I had two children, son Dan, 36 yrs old, lives in Portland, OR, married, no children; daughter Sarah, 34 years old, lives in Kirkland, WA, not married, no children. I divorced after 34 years of marriage, was single for 6 years, remarried in 2004 to a great guy with 4 children and 10 grandchildren (ranging in age from newborn to college freshman), so have all the grandchildren contact one could ever want. One of his daughter's was in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics in track, so have spent the past 6 years traveling pretty much all over the world following her career; and then at the end of each trip, staying on and doing our own touring and adventuring.

Over the years I have been an avid skier, tennis player, runner - and now that my knees are completely shot, I have transitioned to golf and long distance hiking/walking. I volunteer in various tutoring agencies, volunteer for the Oakland Museum, and in general enjoy life.

Christine Pryce Webler

50 years in eight sentences!
I found a New Yorker at Penn State who caught me by surprise. I married him and we became Midwesterners. We raised two children (Ted and Liz) who are both married and living in Chicago. We see them often. Liz has a two year old boy, Nolan, who is the apple of our eye, and we have shared many wonderful times with him. We are both retired, (Ed from printing and I from education), and are enjoying as many of life’s pleasures as we can. We garden, renovate, shoot photos and travel often. I am intrigued with the plans for a 50th class reunion and look forward to great stories and classmates who will surely bring me big smiles.

Bill McCullough

I worked at a linen service in Lawrenceville for 40 years. I started there on Jan. 16, 1967 and retired on April 24, 2007. During that time, the company changed hands 3 times. I was married twice in that time period. I had 2 sons with my first wife--Brian, who lives in Las Vegas and Shawn, who works for the same linen service. I married my second wife in 2002. She has cancer, but it is in remission right now. When I retired in 2007, we moved to Ellenton, which is about 5 miles from Bradenton, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates spring training. GO PIRATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John McIntosh

JoBS Economics, Physics Math minor Otterbein College
MS Industrial Management, Clarkson College
Industrial Engineer ALCOA, Massena, NY
Economist, NY State Gov, Council of Economic Advisors, NYC
Statistician, Great Adventure Theme Park, Jackson, NJ
Market researcher, Forecaster, Strategic Planning Manager, Marketing Admin. Manager, American Greetings Cleveland Ohio
Real Estate agent, Cleveland Ohio
Retired 2006 to Port Clinton, Ohio
Currently traveling down south each winter to hide from the cold.

I have a daughter, Heather who is a professional musician and has toured with Gnarles Barkley and Lil' Wayne. She is currently working on music for a film.

Real estate agent

Cal Leitzel

Hi everyone,
Just a short history of what I have been doing the last 48 years. After Edgewood I went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa for two years and then went to Pitt and graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in Business School of General Studies. After Pitt I got a job with Firestone Tire and Rubber Co in Cleveland, Ohio in the stores accounting department. Then I almost got drafted but I join the Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport R.I. I was assigned to a DE out of Newport, We took a trip to the Med and then went into the Boston Naval Shipyard for 9 mo.After I got out of the Navy in 1970 I returned to Firestone and worked until I retired in 2004.
In the mean time I got married in 1973 and had a son in 1974. We still live in the Cleveland area in the house we inherited from my in-laws.
Rich (our son) is a Transportation manager for a international Coal and Coke Company, isn't married, and lives about three miles away.
Since I have retired I do taxes with a small CPA firm and keep busy during tax season.

George Gustafson

After Edgewood I went to Penn State for 4 years and got my degree in Civil Engineering. Shortly after graduation I joined an environmental engineering consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts and worked for them for about 35 years. After we sold the company I stayed on with the new firm for about three years but then quit and started my own firm. Last year I "retired" but decided that I needed something to do so I joined the Peace Corps.

The Peace Corps sent me to Panama and I am working (and having the time of my life) in a small town outside of Panama City assisting them in their drinking water and sanitation problems. I will be here until October of 2012 but still hope to make it back for the reunion.

I have two children. My son Eric is a doctor in New Orleans, Louisiana and my daughter, Jamie, is a lawyer in Washington, DC. My son is married but has no children. My daughter is not married.

Because I am in Panama and the mail system doesn't work too well it would be useless to give you my mailing address. My telephone number in Panama is 50760675143.

Bill Hoover

I went to Lafayette College. During my senior year I married Lois Fletcher from Wilkinsburg, PA. After Lafayette, I went to Lehigh University to complete an MS and PhD in Metallurgy and Materials Science. Our daughter, Julie was born while we were at Lehigh. My first job was with Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM where we lived from 1970 to 1977 when Sandia transfered me to Livermore, CA (outside of San Francisco). Our son, Mark was born while we were in Albuquerque. We moved from Livermore to San Diego in 1987 when I took a job with Alcan Aluminum Corp. Then in 1995, after being laid-off from Alcan due to a business closure, we moved to the Milwaukee, WI area where I went to work for the A.O. Smith Corp. We thought we would stay in Wisconsin for five years and I would retire and we would move back to CA. Well, I worked until 2 years ago and we are still in Grafton, WI because we like it and have found nowhere else that we would rather be...except in March and April!Our son, Mark, is in Chico, CA with our daughter-in-law and two grandkids. Our daughter, Julie, is in Atlanta, GA where as a single woman she owns a home so Dad gets to spend a lot of time working during our visits. Lois and I are really enjoying retirement. We travel a lot as you might expect with kids in CA and GA. In addition, I am quite busy with work for Habitat for Humanity and our church. I, also, do a little consulting and teaching just to keep my hand in the technology. I am looking forward to a reunion sometime in 2012, it should be fun to see everyone!

Glen Goddard

The last 50 years in a nutshell: I moved away at the end of 10th grade to Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ. I never graduated from HS. At that point I had moved some 24 times in my lifetime and my education was a disaster. I was tested while attending Edgewood and they found that I had the education level of 8th grade math up to 2nd year college level of reading comprehension and writing. That was very discouraging for me. HS graduation seemed to be out of reach being so far behind. I never returned to HS upon getting to NJ. I joined the Navy, worked as an enlisted Sonar Technician and during that enlistment an officer convinced me to take the GED and I scored well and actually got my HS diploma from Edgewood HS in 1966 [?]. Later I went to Regis University [Denver CO] and graduated with a BS in Business, minoring in Economics. My career has spanned telecommunications, hospitality and hi-tech manufacturing, working mostly in the HR management environment.
I have lived in PA, MA, NJ, NY, VA, FL, CA, CO and lastly South Africa for almost four years. We just came back to the States and now live in San Diego.

John Benjamin Gillespie (Jack)

After high school, I spent about two years at Kentucky Wesleyan. I transferred to Triangle School of Drafting in Pittsburgh and spent about four years in this field in both the Pittsburgh area and Columbus, Ohio. While in Columbus, I took flying lessons on a Cessna 150. I also became interested in computer programing and took some courses. I left drafting and found a job with Koppers Co., Inc. as a computer programer for the next eighteen years.

During this time I met my wife, Nancy Poth. We married in 1975 and raised two children, James Perry and Nancy Ann Gillespie. Jimmy and I spent many years in the boy scout program including memorable trips to Filmont Scout Range in New Mexico. Jim is the father of our granddaughter and a brand new great grandson. Nancy Ann graduated from Westminister College with a B.S.A. in Chemistry and is currently a forensic chemist with the medical examiners office of Allegheny County. She is living in Monroeville with her husband, Mike Love, a sports writer.

Nancy and I lived in Ardara, a little community that is part of North Huntingdon Township. We were active in our church, serving as Deacons and Elders, Sunday school teachers and superintendent, and we sang in the church choir. We also worked along side of our minister who was an active auctioneer, enjoying many fun and crazy times. Two and a half years ago, Nancy was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. She died last summer after a courageous struggle.

I am now retired and as you can see from my picture, I finally have my own red jeep!

Stephen Easley

1966 - B.S. Civil Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology1969 - M.S. Civil Engineering, Northwestern University1969-71 - U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Third Powerplant Construction Office,Grand Coulee, WA1971-80 - ABAM Engineers, Inc., Tacoma, WA1980-81 - Port of Grays Harbor, Aberdeen, WA1981-2009 - Mettler's Orchard, SAL Orchards, and self-employed. Chelan, WA.Note: I shifted my focus from engineering to managing apple & pear orchards in 1981.Summers 2006-2011: semi-employed as park aide at Lake Chelan State Park, Chelan, WA.Married to Toby Levy from 1971 to 1980. No children. She died in 2007.Hobbies: Mountaineering(ret.), backpacking, crosscountry skiing, birding, volunteer tutor in H.S.

Mimi Domer Broyles

After graduation from EHS I attended Grove City College for two years, then went to work in the personnel department at Union Switch & Signal. In 1966 I secured a better job at Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation's corporate office downtown, where I worked until May of 1970, when Lecky Hodder and I moved to Denver. Although never really good at it, I learned to ski and for two years spent most weekends during ski season at Vail. I met my husband Norman, a California native, in 1975, and we were married in 1978. Having worked as an executive secretary for what I thought was a long time, I decided on a career change in 1980 and became a travel agent. That really did not turn out the way I thought it would, so I returned to secretarial work but kept a hand in the travel agency business part-time until we decided it was time for a change in climate and moved to South Florida in 1990. In 1992 I was hired as a member of the start-up team at Silversea Cruises and worked there until 2005. In 2006 I went to work for Regent Seven Seas Cruises, where I am currently in the guest relations department. We have been so fortunate that we have been able to travel worldwide, but are now looking forward to our next adventure visiting the national parks and western US after I retire in 2011.

George Craig

Finally graduated from EHS in ’63 after being in class of ’62 from Kindergarten to ‘62
Earned degree in Economics in ’67 from Westminster College
Moved to NJ chasing Sue from Bedford PA who was teaching in NJ. Married her in ‘67
Taught HS and coached Basketball and Swimming for 3 Years
Joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1970
Had a daughter in ‘70
Earned MBA at Seton Hall University in 1972.
Had a son in ‘75
Left Bell Labs in 1985 to join Blessing/White as a Director
Left Blessing/White in 1995 to start own firm
Still married to Sue, business still open, but slowing down
Have 2 grandkids in Vermont

Sharon Brubach Narins

Graduated with BA from Pitt in 1968. Married to David Narins for 17 years with two children, Joshua (40) and Rachael (38). Married to Bill Rapone for 17 years (next week) and have his four children and their children as family too. Jules (44), Anthony (42), Mary Jo (40) and Ted (34). Three grandchildren: Sami (Anthony), 16; Taylor (Mary Jo), 8 and Rider, (Jules), 3.
I taught for a while and then married and left Pgh. for New York City. Three years later I moved to NH where we lived on an 18 acre farm in Rochester. My children were born there. Later moved to New Mexico (3 years) and NJ (23 years at two separate times) and then to FL, where we currently reside. In NJ I worked for Chubb Insurance Company as an underwriter. I retired from Chubb.

I have been so lucky to have been able to travel my whole adult life. I've been to places I had read about and dreamed of visiting: Tunisia, Afghanistan (before Russians took over), Greece, Turkey, Italy, Chile, Peru, Japan, and many more countries. David Narins was a pilot and we flew for practically free. My husband Bill and I still fly for free with those airmiles programs many people think don't work. In the last five years alone, those airmiles took us to Italy three times, to Hawaii, Alaska. Next year in July we'll use them for a trip to Sweden, Denmark and Russia. No doubt, I am lucky (knocking on my wooden head).

I paint. My work can be seen at Gallery East in Belleview, Florida. Painting is my passion and I cannot express my pleasure at being afforded time and health to do so.
I often paint subjects from mythology, thanks to an interest sparked by Miss Ireland and ignited by reading and travel. It surprises me when my paintings sell and they do sell.

I have not been successful in the usual sense of the word, but as my Aunt Ethel used to say when asked how she was doing, "I'm doing."

Not much of a bucket list for me because I've been able to experience so much : living in New York City with free tickets to Sol Hurock concerts and the opera and ballet and theater; living on a farm and working it; living in suburbia (Monclair, NJ); retiring in a golf community. There are those youthful dreams, of course, that I am learning to accept eluded me. I will never be an archeologist (but then, my aching back.....). It is too late to run away and join a camel train off the Steppes of Central Asia, though I have seen a camel train wind its way in to a once.a.month market south of Mazar I Shariff. Standing on a carpet I was thinking of buying, I was surrounded by men who stared. Perhaps they had never seen a Western woman. Their "banker" (sitting at a 2x3 table in a hole in a wall without a roof) had never seen a check. He took it and I fretted that it did not clear. More than a half a year later someone got to a town and found someone who knew what to do with it. Relief.

I don't know if I'll make it to the Reunion, but I may. I look forward to hearing what you've done with your lives (so far).

Warren Brennan

CEO / Founder
SMA Informatics
wbrennan@smainformatics.com

Warren T. Brennan, MHAManaging Partner and Chairman of Executive CommitteeWarren Brennan is the founder and executive leader of SMA Informatics Partners, LLC, www.smainfopartners.com a new entity dedicated to proving outsourced analytic services for multi- hospital networks and physician organizations seeking to improve quality and measure efficiency under the term “Clinical Integration.” He provides strategic guidance on the development of SMA’s clinical and financial business intelligence tools, as well as managing business development activities for the organization. Warren has more than three decades of experience in academic medicine, physician practice management, and the development of healthcare informatics companies.Additionally, he serves as CEO of Strategic Medical Alliances, Inc, www.smainformatics.com a national healthcare informatics organization with a client base of hospitals, health plans, medical device companies and investment banking organizations, as a well as, serving as managing partner for Healthcare 2.0 Reliance LLC www.hc2r.com a 2009 startup in the field of combining healthcare informatics with advanced web 2.0 audio-video technologies.Prior to forming the current array of healthcare informatics companies, Warren served in key roles with a multi-national healthcare publishing company, a NASDAQ healthcare informatics company and NYSE physician practice management company. He and five partners formed and built the largest surviving private physician practice Management Company in the US.Warren began his lifelong interest in healthcare informatics, serving as a clinical research associate in the late 1960’s using a PDP8 computer as part of NASA sponsored studies of zero gravity effects on human subjects. His interest in the business dimension of healthcare began during military service which included a tour of duty as the executive officer of a 350 bed hospital in the Republic of Vietnam.He was a senior manager with Touché’ Ross consulting services and served as Senior Vice President for strategic planning for a combined medical school and hospital system.He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, masters in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and attended the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine as a doctoral candidate.

Jim Berry

After graduating from Edgewood I studied year-round in both undergraduate and graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and began my career as a Professor of Speech, Communication and Theatre at the age of twenty-four. For the next thirty-eight years I taught at Carlow College in Pittsburgh; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; East Stroudsburg State University; and the University of Hebei, Shijiazhuang, China. At the same time, in my spare hours and summer vacations, I also worked in theatre as an Equity actor, playing lead roles for the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, the Civic Light Opera, the Playhouse Professional Company, The Clarence Brown Theatre and the Knoxville World's Fair in Tennessee, and Victoria Fair in British Columbia, Canada. I also directed over thirty-five plays and musicals. Although I never married, my companion for the last forty-odd years has been Dr. Marcia Godich, Professor of Speech and Rhetoric, and a talented costume designer in her spare hours. We have traveled, both professionally and recreationally, much of the United States and Canada, and also in Mexico, China, Japan and England. No children (who had the time!) We are now both retired and "letting our garden grow."

p.s. Although the Bryn Mawr area and Maple Avenue look much the same today, that sameness is an indication of lack of progress in the last fifty years. Wilkinsburg, only an eighth of a mile from both streets, just at the base of Ardmore Boulevard below Channel 4 TV studios, has become a blasted out area of drugs, burnt out buildings and abandoned houses. Areas of Forest Hills and Edgewood, those nearest to Swissvale, Braddock and Wilkinsburg, having experienced middle-class flight some time ago and which are now experiencing blue collar flight, are definitely unsafe after dark! So so sad!

Jim McCartney

I graduated from Geneva College (1966) in Beaver Falls, PA and met my wife there, who was a fellow biology major. Upon graduation, Vicki began work at Parke Davis Pharmaceutical (Ann Arbor, Michigan) in research while I worked on my masters in audiology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The trips to Ann Arbor in a Volkswagen were always eventful, with the “pedal to the metal” up and down hills on the freeway rarely ever exceeding the speed limit. Those trips were no more eventful than our trip to Seattle, Washington in our little “bug” after we got married in 1968. We lived in Seattle several years while I worked on my Ph.D. in audiolgy at the University of Washington (U of W) and Vicki worked in trachoma research at the University hospitals. We loved Seattle and hiked weekends in the Cascades, took trips to Mt. Rainier, ferry rides around Puget Sound and thoroughly enjoyed the northwest environment. Many car trips were made across the US while our parents were alive and those trips back to Pittsburgh remain some of our most memorable travels when our two boys were young. National parks and the beauty of this country are truly amazing. We tried to take both northern and southern routes to vary the scenery and experiences while the boys were young.

We weaned ourselves from Seattle after I completed my doctorate when I took a job on a grant at Portland State University (PSU). The U of W is “publish and perish” and not being too fond of perishing I chose my true love of teaching and working with graduate students. Our first son, Owen, was born in Portland, Oregon (1973). It’s interesting that he returned to the state to attend the University of Oregon and married a “native” and now lives but a few miles from where we lived in the early 70’s (Beaverton, Oregon). My primary job while on a grant at PSU was research on hearing problems of the elderly and providing hearing services to senior citizens – how apropos. We moved to California in 1974 where I have remained ever since at California State University, Sacramento. Our youngest son, Sean, was born in Sacramento (1978). I’ve thoroughly enjoyed teaching, supervision and administration during my 35 years; working on national and statewide committees and most recently working on a grant for our national association on research and research ethics. I completed my early retirement but still teach one course a year and provide some supervision of graduate students in our speech and hearing clinic and community each semester. Vicki worked with various engineering firms as an environmental chemist, which prepared her for her county government work as an environmental health specialist where she is still employed. We visit our son and daughter-in-law in Beaverton, Oregon and our two granddaughters whenever possible. We are finally enjoying our youngest son once again, whom we hadn’t seen in over 2 and ½ years while he was in the Peace Corps in Madagascar (a former French colony). Subsequent to those three years he traveled across Africa and the Middle East on land for the next year on his way “home” – where we met him in Paris the spring of 2010 on our first trip to Europe.

We’re really looking forward to Vicki’s 50th class reunion in the summer of 2012 and Edgewood High School’s 50th in the fall.

Jeanne Hulen Donie

I left Forest Hills after high school to attend Westminster College for one year and then transferred to Thiel College. I graduated from Theil in 1966 with an English degree. I married a boy from Thiel after graduation. I returned to Pittsburgh for one year and we moved to the Chicago IL area for about 7 years. While there we adopted 2 daughters. We moved about every 2 years to North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia. I settled in Youngstown, Ohio in 1976 and have been here since. I divorced my first husband in ’79 and married George Donie in ’84. Together George and I have 4 children, 4 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. I retired after 30 years in the same school system as the junior high & high school secretary. George and I snow ski, have a boat we enjoy during our short summers and are both golfers. We are enjoying more time to travel now that we are retired and have daughters in Hawaii and Orlando, FL which gets us out of the cold some winter weeks.. We’ve been to the British Isles and Italy and have seen a great deal of this country as well. I have been blessed with a wonderful life and family and I’m really looking forward to a reunion and the chance to get to see all of you.

Glenn Jenks

Four years after high school I graduated from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio with a B.A. majoring in Sociology and minors in History, Philosophy and Psychology.

In June of 1966 I married Nancy Ann Scott (“Scottie”) with whom I had gone to school from Jr. High all the way through college. She too was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1942. We were married for over 41 years. Scottie died in November 2007 after a four year battle with colon cancer. We have two children: Christie Schwalbe and Michael Jenks, 40 and 28 years old respectively.

I received my Master of Divinity with honors from the Philadelphia Divinity School and was ordained an Episcopal Priest in 1969. I served as Rector of All Saints Parish in Aliquippa, PA from 1969 until 1974. In 1974 we moved to Tucson AZ where I was the Assistant to the Rector at Grace Church doing primarily youth and college ministry. In 1979 I left Grace Church to develop and direct an Hispanic ministry as Vicar of the Chapel of the Resurrection on the South side of Tucson. While I was Vicar of the Chapel of the Resurrection I enrolled in the Law School at the University of Arizona. I graduated from the Law School in 1985 with a Juris Doctorate with distinction.

We moved to Phoenix in 1985 and from then until 2005 I made my living practicing law, principally in the area of criminal defense and personal injury while also serving a number of parishes and missions as a supply priest or part-time interim-rector or interim-vicar. In 2005 I closed my law practice and gave up my license to practice law in order to become the Rector of Good Shepherd of the Hills, Cave Creek. I served in that position until my retirement at the end of January, 2009

In retirement I now pursue my passion for photography and serve the Diocese of Arizona doing part-time ministries in local congregations as needed. You can visit my photography web site at www.glennphotostudios.com to see some of my photos. I love to travel and have made two mission trips to Africa and I spent two months living in Ecuador while on sabbatical in 2008.

I have worked with, and been an advocate for undocumented immigrants since 1979, both as a priest and a public defender. As Rector of Good Shepherd in Cave Creek I supervised their controversial Day Worker Ministry until it was targeted and shut down by the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio, in 2008 as a part of the Sheriff’s anti-immigrant campaign. I now work with the Valley Interfaith Project, and the Arizona Interfaith Network engaging congregations in taking responsibility for the issues that affect our families and neighborhoods: jobs, home foreclosures, workforce training, education, health care and immigration reform.

John Snyder

After EHS, I attended Carnegie Tech briefly, majoring mostly in sports & parties. I took leave to work briefly, then entered the US Navy for about 4 years. I attended Navy schools in San Diego, San Francisco, Pensacola, and then served at a US Navy base outside a small town in northeastern Scotland for nearly 3 years. I conducted electronic espionage – tracking Russian ships/intercepting & translating message/etc. My job was to maintain all the equipment (high tech for then – now long obsolete).)
I then went back to Carnegie-Mellon U. (after school name changed), as a much more serious student. I received a BS in administration/management science and an MBA, both from their business school in 1975.
I married a girl from Scotland while in the Navy, and had two daughters. We divorced after 24 years, now about 20 years ago. My oldest daughter is a registered operating room nurse. She and & her daughter are now living in Scotland. My youngest daughter is married with two boys, and was living in Albany. She recently graduated magna cum laud from law school, only to not find a job for over a year. Her family recently moved back in with me. She is currently working at a local college and also teaches Yoga.
After CMU, I joined an engineering & manufacturing company named Dresser / Dresser-Rand and worked for them in Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, Corning (NY) and lastly Olean (NY). As a single parent, my youngest daughter requested we stay in Olean until she graduated. I did, found out I really liked it and made it home, and it stretched out to 20 years.
I worked in various aspects of Human Resources my entire career, finally making it to Worldwide Vice President for Dresser-Rand Company, and retired after 30 years. I traveled on business extensively to almost every USA state, Canada & Mexico, throughout Europe (German, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, France, & Italy) and to the Middle East (Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, & Dubai). We had factories in 8 countries and service centers in about 30. I came out of retirement to help our local hospital also as VP-HR for a few more years. I have been retired again for about 3 years.
I have been enjoying retirement. I took up golf when I moved here, and have been playing a lot of golf at our local club with my girlfriend for the past 10 years, Patty Sweet. I have been doing a very modest amount of consulting mainly for local firms who already know me. After about 12 years serving on our United Way Board, I “retired” a few years ago. I served our local Community College as a Director as a Foundation Board Director for 8 years, and now continue to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees for about 4 years, to date. I have vacationed to Florida for a number of years, to the Sarasota/Bradenton area.
I have had intermittent contact with a few high school classmates, but unfortunately, too few and not frequently enough. I am looking forward to attending the class reunion, and seeing everyone.