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Virginia Hawkins (Bryant)
September 21, 1944
Bountiful
UT
Retired from Radiology Billing
Married
3
After graduation, I landed a great job, that I loved, working for 2 prominent doctors. My plans to attend BYU in the fall were foiled after my family was involved in a fatal car accident that took the life of my Dad. My summer job turned into much more. After a few years, I married my highschool sweetheart, Dave Bryant (class of 61). We have had 3 great children a 10 amazing grandchildren. I retired after 27 years of doing rdiology billing in my home. Dave and I have traveled a lot and served a service mission together. We divide our time between Bouniful and St George where we ride our bikes everyday, weather permitting. I love life and yes,cheers to 50 years.  Send Virginia a Message
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M. Sydney Larsen (Post-Heald )
October 17, 1943
Murray
UT
semi retired -- Recreational Therapist
Married
2
50 Years is a long time ago. Life is Good Have been a professor at U of U, then off to the private world where I worked with a psychiatrist and also had my own consuslting business. Now have a few agencies, and am a nomad beween our home in Mesquite Nevada, Salt Lake City, and Polson Montana. Send M. Sydney a Message
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Pamela Cram (Lee)
May 11, 1944
Moxee
WA
Retired
Widowed
4
This is going to be an awesome reunion.After graduation, family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where on my first Sunday at Church I ran into three high school classmates from East. Later on I ran in J.B, Stewart while he was on his mission there. Coming home we traveled through Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo. We were the last commercial flight to fly over Vietnam before the war really broke out. Came back to states and went to the U of Utah for two years. Then moved to Bellevue, WA where I had my first child, the moved to Lake Oswego, Or, got divorced and re-married and had three more children. Worked at various jobs, the most interesting was secreetary to the 747 Fuel System engineers when it was being built in 1966. Lived in Gladstone, Oregon for 34 years. My husband died in 2004 and I lost a son to suicide in 2008 due PTDS after being in Iraz and Afghanistan for 6 years and then he re-upped for a 7th. That is when I moved to Moxee where I live with my daughter and her family and five of my grandkids, which is wonderful. Most of my life has been spent as a mother and wife and I wouldn't change for a single thing. The most important thing I have learned from my life is to be sure and tell those you love that you love them every chance you get, because you never know when you might not see them again. Send Pamela a Message
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Neal D. Maxfield
December 01, 1943
Salt Lake City
UT
Business Professor
Married
7
Aloha to all of you. I am enjoying teaching at Utah Valley University in the Woodbury School of Business. Retirement is still a few years away. Having good health is a blessing. I look forward to our 50-year reunion and being with you. I remember when my mother had her 50-year reunion and asking her if very many were still alive. She said, "Sure, a lot of people came." My perspective has changed over the years and realize we are a lot younger than our age sounds. Almost 90% of our class has survived the past 50 years. Come and join the celebration.
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Berta Clegg (Richins)
April 29, 1944
So Ogdne
domestic engineer/housewife
Married
2
Alma & I have celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on June 16th 2011.. Send Berta a Message
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Lynn Kimball (Backman)
March 19, 1944
Draper
UT
Retired Graphic Designer
Married
3
The day after graduation I went to Jackson Hole and worked for the summer as a waitress. I went to the University of Utah and had a great time. I was a cheerleader for two years and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. I worked three nights a week as I waitressed at the Balsom Embers all through school. Each summer I went someplace different to work. I worked in Hawaii for two summers as a waitress and after graduation I worked on Martha's Vineyard before going to Europe with my East High girlfriends. We had a blast driving around in our $400 Opal Sadan. It made it for the three months that we traveled. When I returned I married Brent Jones who was a year ahead of us at East. In 1972 we moved to Kansas City and raised our three children there for 18 years, then moved to Des Moines, Iowa for 10 years. I was a Graphic Designer all those years and had my own business. When we moved to Iowa I went to work for Meredith Corporation. It was my dream job. I designed Direct Mail promoting Better Homes and Gardens and 17 other national magaziners and when I returned to Salt Lake I became self employed again and built up a successful base of clients. When we returned to Salt Lake in 1997 and were thrilled to be home. Unfortunately Brent died in January of 1999. I figured I would travel from one child to the next for the remainder of my life. Then one day Jim Backman called and asked me out. We will have been married 10 years this December. Life is sooo good. We travel a lot, golf, travel from one child to the next and enjoy our condo in Midway and our 25 grandchildren. You just never know what life will bring. Send Lynn a Message
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James Smyth
July 10, 1944
Saint George
UT
Retired
Married
6
My wife Mignon and I spent the majority of my working career in Idaho and there raised our six children. I retired at the end of 2009 from BYU-Idaho, after 31 total years of delightful employment; the final 20 years of that time I served as Administrative Vice President. After having survived 31 hard winters, we elected to move to Saint George to enjoy a warmer climate in the years ahead. I am looking forward to the reunion and becoming reacquainted with many of you.
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Robert Buehler
Bountiful
UT
Retired
Married
3
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Terry Jensen
Sandy
Married
4
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Jim Derrick
 
June 07, 1944
Salt Lake City
UT
Manager
Married
7
I was hoping to wait until I could write my “last” chapter before submitting this report to you. However, it was not an option afforded me. What is there to say? I am an old man! Notwithstanding, Karen and I are still trying to have children. We are aiming for thirty seven. We are coaxing our three sons and four daughters to contribute a just few more. We discovered the joy of family! About me? Retirement is on hold for now until my bride qualifies for Social Security benefits; a legacy of robbing the cradle forty-one years ago. Until then I will continue the ritual drive to Jordan Commons. When Larry Miller promised me “never a dull day” I didn’t realize how accurate his commitment would be. Managing property and working on special projects for the Miller Group of Companies has been a fulfilling way to complete my business career. Perhaps, I am getting ahead of myself. Undoubtedly you want to know what this survivor did with these fresh fifty years. Good question! All the Sisyphusic days since high school graduation are finally making sense and are not so futile. Age had a way of changing my perspective and the value of trials. So, here is my report. My education at the University of Utah was interrupted by thirty months of church service in the Southern Far-East Mission. Upon arrival at the mission home I was told I would be spending my time learning Cantonese and teaching the people of Hong Kong (the other possible options were English in the Philippians and Mandarin in Taiwan). The influence of this LDS Church mission continues to define who I am today; one who frequents any Chinatown or Cantonese restaurant that can be found. In addition, every Oriental I pass is scrutinized as to which Far-Eastern country they originate with the hope that I can shock one with a Chinese greeting or two. (Can you imagine the embarrassment of saying hello in Cantonese to a Korean?) Upon returning home I reenrolled at the University. Cantonese skills earned me a call from the CIA. I was invited to join them after graduation. (I never gave it a second thought.) My schooling was interrupted again as I found the compelling need (our generation knows what that means) to enlist in the military. Again, using some Chinese credentials I qualified for the Army’s Intelligence Branch. There I was trained with the “Super Spooks” (never sure why they were nickname this or what they actually did) to be an image interpreter (regarding aerial surveillance) and an interrogator of POWs (I was Mutt and the other guy was Jeff). True to military protocol, training and application never intersected. After five years of studying at the U, I graduated with an engineering degree. My résumé lists employment in various capacities and businesses commencing with Kennecott Copper Corporation and Western Steel Company. Later, I formed a manufacturing and contracting business which operated in the states of Utah, California and Washington. Upon selling this business I became a consulting engineer. This work ended with a consulting position in remediating a uranium millsite in Monticello, Utah (the commute was a killer). After this Larry Miller invited me into his office and offered me an unspecified job with an undefined salary (it was his unconventional way of doing business). I am mostly famous in life for marrying Karen Guymon, a native of San Francisco. Wherever I am introduced I hear the words, “Oh, you are Karen’s husband!” (I never thought that this was the way I would be recognized as a celebrity!) In 1976 we built a home in a new subdivision in the Avenues of Salt Lake. Aside from the mission, my feet have forever remained within our old East High School boundaries. A lifetime of daily challenges hasn’t been easy. I often wondered where this struggling would lead me. But now, looking back these many years, I have realized much happiness. Oh, there are many things I would have done differently, given the chance again. But, I am satisfied with the results. Yet, inasmuch as there are surely more rocks left to roll, I would have preferred having you wait a little longer for this report so I could include them in my final chapter. I am still hopeful that this last piece will explain how I used my vast wealth to bailout our federal government and would include something about my involvement in that world peace thing. As I recall, they were both on my 1962 To Do list. I have probably put those things off long enough and should really start to focus on getting them off my bucket list. Now you now have my Fifty Year report. Please don’t think I will be doing this again in 2062 just for the sake of including that final chapter. Yet, it could be done! That’s why I have that posterity. Let’s see what they have to write for my obituary. Oooh, I can hardly wait to read it! Send Jim a Message
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