YHS 1968 Profiles

YHS GET-TOGETHER JUNE 2016
YHS GET-TOGETHER JUNE 2016
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YHS '68 Classmates -- Please click on the"Add Your Profile," box below, and write a little information about yourself.  Everyone loves photos!  Adding "then" and "now"photos to your profile will help classmates to recognize you at the big event.

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This website operates in a distinctly different way from Facebook. So don’t expect to be bombarded with emails every time there is a change. The Reunion Committee, however, will occasionally send updates and news to you about the reunion events as they evolve. But please check back on your own to catch up with new classmate profiles, photos and other news. 







 

Patrick "Smith" Smith

Occupation: Business Owner
Comment: For those who remember me, I’m known as “Smith” now.

I live on a mountain-top west of Denver Colorado (9,000 feet).

I’ve been through 3 divorces, I have an exceptional 16 year-old daughter; I have a tiny construction company, and I play Texas Hold ‘em.  I’m in a pinball league and have 28 years of sobriety in AA.  The best way to get hold of me is to write a letter to P.O Box 211 Rollinsville, Co 80474.

Robert Smith

Marital status: Single again
Occupation: retired
Comment:

Went to Yorktown

 - great school, lots of good people

Went to UVa

- still small; amazingly cheap; lots of characters; bourbon yes, study no....

Went back to northern virginia

- drove a cab; sold condos in Ocean City; went to Europe; cold sales Litton Industries; took a clerk typist test and got a job w/Solicitor's Office, Mine Health and Safety; learned why "Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away"; talked my way into a Systems Analyst Trainee program with the D.O.D. 

-Worked for the Navy as a Systems Analyst

-Went to Saudi Arabia and worked for Morrison Knudsen as a programmer/analyst

-Came back stateside and worked for a fundraising agency as the programming manager

-Worked for MCI as a senior systems analyst -

-Worked for the National Park Service as a computer specialist/database admin

-Worked as a contract programmer for MCI, SAIC, and alot of other beltway bandits

-Flipped a couple of houses - got lucky and met a beauty - got lucky and married her - got unlucky and she split (ugh).

-Decided to chuck it all and split to North Carolina - on the way down I lost half my life savings in the market (UGH)

-Spent the next few years day trading - made alot, lost more - double ugh.

-Had to find work - no one wanted my obselete skills - decided to go back to shop class lol

-Took woodworking courses, didn't dismember myself, worked with both of the big box outfits - millwork specialist - then sold exterior installations with both - then got into a pissing contest with the store manager (not a good idea).  Left the last big box retailer.  Now I'm sitting around and recontacting old acquaintances/friends.



 

Irene Solet

Marital status: Married
Occupation: retired
Comment: After college and law school, I had five jobs in nine years (including a year in Asia on a traveling fellowship).  So when I joined the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division at the Department of Justice in 1984, I did not expect it to be a long-term thing.  I retired from that job in 2013, having enjoyed it the whole time – I had wonderful colleagues and the work somehow suited me.  The main tasks were figuring out how best to defend the policies of federal agencies and writing coherent briefs that effectively explained or excused their inevitable flaws.  I found I also enjoyed the “performance” aspect of oral arguments in court.

 

I married Adam Powell in 1994 and have the pleasure of being part of the families of his two grown sons.  We live in McLean.  I have nothing bad to say about retirement – surprisingly, I don’t miss law practice at all.  I spend my time as a docent leading tours at the Freer|Sackler (the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums) and at the Kreeger Museum, and trying to improve my skills making wheel-thrown pottery.

 

Nancy Sorensen (Hawk)

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired

Andy Starnes

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Retired
Comment: Hi ,

Thanks to all that helped put this website and reunion together. 

After graduation I spent the next 4 years  at Virginia Tech  trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I landed in the newspaper business, starting in Cincinnati and spending 43 years  in Pittsburgh, ending up as Director of the photo department at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I retired last year and moved with Beth, my second wife, to Bradenton Florida where I am getting back into biking (no hills!!) and kayaking (also no hills)  

I am starting to get the hang of this retirement thing...

Regards to all,

Andy Starnes



 

Carolyn Stein (Smith)

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: After graduating from Yorktown, I attended Madison College. I graduated in 1972 with a Bachelors degree  in Early Chidlhood Education. While a teacher in Rappahannock Cpountyu a fellow tacher  introduced me to my future husband. I married Kurt ;Stein (Washington-Lee) in 1976 and was blessed to have two wonderful sons, and four fantastic grandchildren: Joseph, Zoe, Craig, and Charlotte. I recently retired from my position as a CLASS consultant . 

 

Pamela Stewart (Stewart)

Marital status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Assistant Dean, PSY
Comment: Hello all. It is exciting to get back in touch. I am currently married with 2 bio children and 2 that I am lucky to have added to my life. While I am still working full-time, it is very possible that by the time our reunion happens I will be retired? Life is a curious thing and I have noticed that one never seems to know definitively. I stayed in the area; mostly in Arlingtion and 3 years ago moving to FFX. I am looking forward to  reconnecting. 

Robert Sufit

Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Neurology Professor Northwestern
Comment: Seems like I'm one of the few people still working full-time.  What did I do wrong?  I went to Johns Hopkins undergrad and then UVa for Medical School.  Residency at U. Pittsburgh, Fellowship at Univ. Of Colorado and finally got a job at UW-Madison.  After 10 years there decamped for Northwestern's Med School.  I guess I finally learned how to keep a job since I've been here since 1992.  I've done a fair amount of clinical research focused on muscle and nerve and ALS.  No cures yet so I'm still employed.



Personally I've been married twice.  First marriage resulted in 3 children: son who is an IT specialist; daughter who is a chemical engineer and another daughter with a cancer biology PhD.  Second marriage has lasted 10 years and looks to keep right on going.  She is a rock-star federal judge on US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.



 

Betsy Summerlin (Black)

Marital status: Widowed
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired - Part Time Cashier
Comment: 50 years after High School - What a concept!  Will be good to see how everyone has aged and find out all the great things everyone has accomplished in their lives.  I have lived in Richmond since 1971 and have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.  Loving my home of 30 years and work part time at Office Max as a cashier.  Have had many careers, but my best accomplishment is my kids and grandkids. See you all next year!

Gerry Sutter

Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Math Teacher
Comment: I have had a wonderful and inauspicious life so far.  I teach High School Math and English at a residential treatment center, am very engaged with my Presbyterian church (a Deacon, etc.), and still swim 2 miles when I workout (however much, much slower than when I was on Yorktown's swim team).  I misplaced many of my unsavory habits through the years.  However, one exception is writing poetry.  My magnum opus has nearly 700 pages including an epic where the meter and rhyme scheme changes with each chapter and a 3 act play in verse.  My wife and I have two sons and two grand kids that we are with most days after school (i.e. craft supplies are a budget line item).