YHS 1968 Profiles

YHS GET-TOGETHER JUNE 2016
YHS GET-TOGETHER JUNE 2016
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Janet Price (McEvoy)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Teacher
Comment:


My thanks to the Reunion  Committiee for all the work you have done .  It's been a huge task and I am grateful to all of you.





After Yorktown, I went to  a small teacher's college in Boston and loved it.   I married soon after graduation, taught in Loudoun County and then in West Germany.  We divorced and I moved back to the US.  A few years later I moved to Boise, Idaho .  I met my husband Rick at the local ski area where we both worked.  After a few years, he decided to try something completly different and was hired by the Department of State . We spent much of his career abroad - Syria, Dominican Republic, Oman, Nepal, Colombia and Spain.  We also had two assignments in DC and now live in Falls Church. We have two daughters, one teaching in Boise and the other is a farmer in Colorado. Rick retired in November, but I'm still teaching 4-days a week and still loving it.  





 

Barry Printz

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single again
Occupation: Event Planner
Comment: After my graduation from Yorktown, I got my undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 in Business Management.





In the mid 80's, I traveled to Australia and came back with some cookbooks and started Royal Printz Catering and Co. and I also co-founded the American Australian Association.  At this time, Australian wines were being introduced to the U.S. market and what better venue to showcase these wines than at the Embassy of Australia for a wine tasting event?





I also took care of the event planning for the Women's Apparel Store opening by Olivia Newton-John for her store, Koala Blue, within the Galleria II at Tyson's Corner.  The event was for 450 people in the store after hours and was well-received.





Shortly after that, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia before the Olympics and did mortgage re-financing, and then graduated to Raymond James Financial, doing investment planning and selling insurance.  The stock market was quite turbulent and I decided to retire from the investment game.





Since that time, I joined Publix Supermarket as an event planner and have been in this role for the past ten years.

Nancy Prisk (Prisk)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single
Children: 2
Occupation: Silversmith and Family History Researcher

Donna Pruitt (McGhee)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2

Bruce Radford

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Editor/Journalist
Comment: Well. Here it is, early August 2018, the reunion upon us in a month. And yet I'm just now putting finger to keyboard to compose a profile. How not to make it read like a job application? Or perhaps more to the point, like my obituary?





Not just what I've done, or failed to do, but rather, who am I?





Last year, 2017, the day after Thanksgiving, I married Bethany Martin, of Bay City, Michigan, five years' my junior. The  day marked the first marriage vows for either of us.  That should say something (no children, for example). But what else, I'm not sure. At this point we are both retired (me as an editor/journalist -- see below -- and her as a patent law secretary).





We live in town, in DC, on Connecticut Avenue, in an ancient co-op building that once claimed Richard Nixon, Huey Long, and Margaret Gorman (Miss America 1921) as reisidents. Our apartment lacks air conditioning, but makes up for that with charm. So they say. This setting, with windowns that open on Rock Creek Park, and a metro station one block away, colors our lives as bona fide city dwellers. We walk everywhere -- grocercy, drug store, post office, dry clearner, library, liquor store -- or else take public transport.  Yes, we have a car, but it's 12 years old, with only 26k on the odometer.





My public life has included 40 years of inventing a somewhat unique career for myself (not my original intention at all, mind you) as an editor and journalist at a small legal industry publishing company, specializing in electric utility law, regulation, finance, economics, and overal policy. Believe me. It does not make for good cocktail chatter.





This career came after a BA (Econ) at Univ. of Va., a law degree at Wake Forest (which I see clearly now as a mistake), and then a somewhat self-indulgent Master of Laws degree in Taxation, earned through evening classes at the Georgetown Univ. Law School.





I finished up as company president, doing this and that (personnel decisions -- [yikes!], strategic planning [yuck], managing the 401k plan [boring], etc.). But I finished it all off by orchestrating an M&A deal in Spring 2018 that found me convincing our stockholders to sell off half the company -- that was the half that I liked the best, but it had to be done. Afterward, there was nothing else to do but come home.





In between, I have spent an inordinate time reading and bike-riding -- often 500 miles or more each week in summer.





For example, in the 1980s, when we held our summer Saturday-afternoon company picnics in the Blue Ridge foothills out beyond Leesburg, I would go back and forth pedaling only by bike -- leaving in the morning fom my apt in downtown DC, out to Frederick, Md, across White's Ferry to Leesburg, and then in the evening (a few hamburgers later) wending my way back through Virginia to Key Bridge, Georgetown, and up to NW DC.  About 70-80 miles or so. My co-workers could not believe it.





And even in my mid-fifties, weekdays sometimes would find me commuting by bike to and from work -- from home in NW DC out to Tyson's Corner (the highest point in the DC area) and then back again.





And before I forget, I should also include meniton of my second career -- playing postal chess.  A single game can last years. You send each move to your opponent on a post card, written in an obscure notation that only chess players can recognize. Humphrey Bogart could, though -- he played postal chess back in the 1940s, and it almost got him arrested as a spy during WWII. So I guess I'm in good company (though my wife may dispute that). The charm wore off when computer-based Internet Chess took over from post cards. But at one point I achieved an expert rating -- within the top 100 or 200 in the U.S.





At present, Bethany and I find ourselves working on a pet joint project -- both or us together are re-reading Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- going over old ground, perhaps, but let's hope with more mature and worldly perspectives than during our college days.





We (husband and wife) plan to attend the Saturday Reunion "Main Event".





Look forward to seeig you there !





Bruce Radford 


 

Karen Rasmussen (Rasmussen)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single
Children: 1
Occupation: Retired - World Bank
Comment: It’s been an amazing journey since YHS, made all the more meaningful by the friendships forged along the way.  I went Ohio University, studied in France my junior year, and received my MBA from George Washington University.  The majority of my career was spent at the World Bank working in the Middle East and Africa, mainly on public/private energy infrastructure projects.  I’m grateful to have travelled through Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon when these countries were safe.  Africa is also a fascinating continent, where my main assignments took me to Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. 


 


Now that I’m retired, it’s the tennis court and golf course that consume most of my energy.  While travelling for work was fascinating,  it's the awsome adventures over the past several decades shared with wonderful YHS friends that I cherish the most. 

Irene Respess (Gahagan)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Homemaker
Comment: Thanks to all of you who are working on this reunion. 





50 years is a lot of years!  After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1972, I worked for Thalhiemer's Department Store then haded to Atlanta where I worked for Bauder Fashion College as Director of Education for 15 years.  During that time, I met my first husband, Carl Kiblinger who passed away in 1997.  We were married for 23 years and have one daughter that we homeschooled throughout most of her school years.  I remarried in  1999 to Bobby Respess, a pharmacist who owns his own pharmacy just north of Atlanta.  Our combined family includes 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, 13 grandkids, and 4 dogs.  We currently live in Destin, FL where we enjoy boating, golfing, and relaxing at the beach.    I am very active in discipleship our church and also  teach sewing classes at a local fabric store.

Abby Reynolds (Metsger)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married

Abigail Reynolds (Metsger (Adams))

Marital status: Committed Relationship
Children: 2
Occupation: retired Department of State
Comment: At our 20th reunion in 1988, I became reacquainted with classmate Rick Reynolds. I had been divorced for about 4 years then and was living in Arlington with my kids Elizabeth and Adam. Ricky was living, ever the bachelor, in nearby McLean.  We enjoyed each other's company for the next 13 years, then got married on January 4, 2002 and I moved to McLean. Now 17 years later, not much has changed. We are still living in the same house (although Ricky renovated it twice, while building other houses as he always has for business.)  We have two black standard poodles who control us, and we enjoy having "the kids" and three grandchildren nearby.  I LOVE reuniting with you, my Yorktown classmates.  It's great to be together after so many years, and miles, and whatever, behind us.  I'm still 18 at heart, but grateful for getting this old and having so many blessings....like Yorktown classmates who shared the same exact passage of time, growing together in some ways, all along. 

Alexander Riddel III

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Mechanical Engineer