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. 







 

Patricia White (Canard)

Marital status: Divorced
Children: 2
Occupation: RN

Bob Williams

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: bookkeeper and owner, indoor plant care business
Comment: US Army 1968-1971; Interrogator of Prisoners of War, Vietnam, 1970-71; Nichiren Buddhist (SGI-USA) 1969-present; Manager, Atlantic Perlite Co., 1971-72; NoVa CC 1973-4; Office Manager, Wm. E. Tolley Studios (art gallery and calligraphy) 1976-1982; Married to Barbara Cody, 1979-present; Owner, and manager,  Inkwell Inc. calligraphy studio, Wash. DC, 1982-2004; Member,  Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, 1992-1998, Member and Board of Directors, Va. Partisans Gay and Lesbian Democrats, 1992-2004.  Moved to LA 2005; Owner and Plant Care Technician, Greenies Plant Care 2005-present; Bookkeeper, Los Angeles Friendship Center (SGI-USA Buddhist org.) 2005-present.  One step-daughter and one foster son, one grandson.

Gayle Williams (Wilson)

Then Then
Now Now
Children: 2
Occupation: disparcher
Comment: ​I have 1 son that is in the Army and a medic, I have 1 daughter who is in customer service and she has 2 beautiful daghters 1 is 12 and the other one is 3. I work for the city of Greensboro. I have worked at vf . Wrangler jeans as a replenisment supervisor for major dept stores in the us and Canada. When I left high school I had no interest in going to college so the very next day I went to work at Defense Intelligent Agency.

Mary Williams (Grier)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired teacher
Comment: I graduated from Converse College in South Carolina with a degree in Deaf Education.  Taught  hearing impaired and other handicapped children in Arlington, at Taylor Elem. then Jamestown Elem. for 14 years.  I also got a M.Ed. in Special Education along the way, at George Mason Univ.  Married Bob Williams in 1982  and we have two children, a daughter and a son.  We live in Vienna, VA.  We love to travel, follow UVA athletics (Go HOOS!), play golf, garden, and just generally enjoy life.  I hope to see a lot of my Yorktown friends at the reunion! 

Janet Wilson

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Divorced
Occupation: psychologist
Comment: Sending warmest greetings and wishes to everyone on this momentous occasion of our 50th H.S. Reunion!

In thinking back to those years at Yorktown, I am now appreciating the ways in which they set the stage for my life path, though it was not at all obvious to me at the time.  Even the experience of being surrounded by intelligent, creative, resourceful, and largely well-intended classmates and some teachers left a positive, lasting imprint.  At Yorktown, I gained enough fluency in French language to work in Paris for 2 summers as an undergrad.  Based on that background, I was able to get a job that provided my with the financial resources to enter graduate school and to eventually become a clinical psychologist, a career that has been both challenging and tremendously fulfilling for the past 38 years.  In Dec., I retired from the leadership of a counseling center in downtown D.C., where I had been on staff since mid-1979.  I am now in solo practice in Arlington working with adults and couples.  I never tire of learning about and exploring ways of furthering the wholeness and wellness of others and will soon begin taking classes in Shiatsu massage.

For the past 8 years, I have been involved in the care of my mother who recently passed away at the age of 95, and I continue to miss her.  Though I do not have any children of my own, I have 2 your adult nieces who have careers in the business world.



I am very much looking forward to seeing all of you at the reunion and send my sincere thanks to those who have worked to plan it and  to make it become a reality.

Robert (Bob) Wolpert

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Duke University Professor
Comment: After Yorktown I headed north to Cornell U for college, following my sister Linda (Y'66), with a made-up major in "mythology", part anthropology and part comparative lit.  Turns out I wasn't very good at that, but the math-physics gig worked out so I went to Princeton to get a PhD in math.  I met my wife Ruta there (at first she thought I was studying music--- I didn't clear that up for a while, since not EVERY girl thinks math guys are great catches).  I took my only job offer, as a prof at Duke--- then in mathematics, now statistics.  After 40 years I still love my first job.  I do some theoretical work and collaborate with others on some f un applications--- recent ones include predicting volcanic risk, deciphering signals from gravity waves and from gamma ray bursts, studying the quark-gluon plasma that forms in relativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN, and estimating the numbers of birds and bats killed at wind turbine farms.  Looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion!

Mark Worthington

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 5
Occupation: IT for Department of Defense
Comment: Congratulations to all who have organized this reunion and web site.  Great work! 



After graduating from BYU I worked in a family business with my sister and Dad.  In 1990 I got out of small business, went back to school briefly, and got a job  doing IT with the Defense Information Systems Agency where I currently work.  I plan to retire in March 2019.

In 1975 I got married to my wonderful (even though she's graduate of W&L) wife, Nancy.  We have 5 children and 6 grand children.



Sadly, I will not be able to attend the reunion since our youngest son has chosen that weekend (can you believe it!) to get married in Utah.

Bruce Wulfsberg

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: retired competitive eater
Comment: Hello my name is Bruce.  Im a person in long term recovery since 2010.

Just had to get that off my chest.  If there are any others out there maybe we can meet.



Cyndy and I have ended up on a farm outside Decorah, IA.  We both went to college here and returned.  I work for Mayo now, they have saved my life and my job, which I love.  Cyndy and I spend much of our time visiting Kids and Grandkids.  We have a garden, Cyndy has bees, and I grow mushrooms.  Hobbies, making wooden boats by hand and flying kites.  And yes I did retire from competitive eating,  You can see us both if you search "norseman" and "wingbowl"  looking forward to the get-together...

Cyndy Wulfsberg (Ellis)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Business Development Manager-Catechem
Comment: I have so enjoyed getting to know you all over again through your postings, and happily add my thanks to the inspired committee!  Bruce and I have the reunion date on our calendars and look forward to the weekend.  I apologize to Bruce in advance for poaching his profile, but we have known each other so long, I could hardly write mine without mentioning him.



From Yorktown I went to U of Illinois because my guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get in as an out of state resident and I had never been to Illinois.  From our class to one of many thousands in the flattest place I had ever seen with freezing sleet winters, was too much for me.  I transferred to Luther College in Iowa because Bruce was there and it seemed like a nice place. We graduated in 72 and came back to Virginia for Grad/Medical School. We married in 73, graduated in 76, and headed to Hawaii for B's internship and residency courtesy of the USArmy.  Our 2 children were born there, and I sold real estate.  Next stop was Wurzburg, Germany, then Springfield, VA, and then to Moorestown, NJ for 25 years, where I was determined to stay after the AirForce brat transient life, followed by our own.  There I was on the school board, worked as a lobbyist, ran a consulting business, was an adjunct prof at Fairleigh Dickinson U, buried my parents, raised our kids, and stayed long enough to see the roses I planted grow and bloom for once. 



Bruce grew miserable in his medical practice, so eventually we uprooted and moved to Iowa, a move We never anticipated.  We timed it perfectly to coincide with the recession, so it took years to sell our NJ house, but we bought a farm in Iowa and have been restoring prairie and woodland, and I have bees.  They are an excellent crop since they don't need me at all.



The move to Iowa meant leaving the roots we had put down, job, friends, and the house I thought I would leave in a box one day.  A friend had a company selling on farm screenng tests for dairy animals, so I went to work for him, and eventually became North American Sales Manager for PortaCheck.  I will be happy to discuss cow udders, the pros and cons of organic dairy products, the demise of the small American farm, etc.,  should anyone really want to. Really?! I recently took a new job with a Chemical product company based in Connecticut as Business Development Manager so I am re-learnIng Chemistry, which it turns out is more fun than cleaning my basement.



Our children are married, thriving, living in Michigan and California. We have 3 grandchildren 8, 6, and 5, plus the grand pets.  We love traveling to see them, and will probably stay on the farm in Iowa as long as we can still manage our jobs and the travel.



Most frustrating for me as I read your profiles, was how often we were in shouting distance of each other, with no idea.  I would have loved to get reacquainted sooner, but am enjoying this pre-reunion connection very much.  If any of you have a hankering to visit Iowa, please get in touch and we would look forward to hosting you and smashing your preconceptions about 'fly-over' country.