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. 







 

John Cooper (Cooper)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 7
Occupation: Self Employed
Comment: Yes, you saw that right.  My wife, Lisa and I have had seven children together.  After Yorktown, I took a little walk on the wild side.  I went to Virginia Tech and took on the mantle of hippie and rock singer.  I did finish Tech with a B.S. in Psychology, but my real passion was always to fly.  I flew charters and small commuters for a number of years, but situations took me out of the flying realm and eventually into training for ministry, doing factory work and contracts to pay the bills.



Lisa and I have been married for 34 years this June, and our four girls and three boys are all enjoying successful careers and marriages.  We are very proud of all of them.



I have recorded the era we all grew up in with a wild story called "From Woodstock To Eternity."  It is on Amazon, and I promise you won't be bored.  I have been looking forward to this reunion for a long time, and I just hope we can recognize each other and remember everybody's name.

Stephen (Steve) Cortelyou

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Single
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: I graduated from Tulane University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering after 2 serving years in the Navy.  I was married for 10 years but divorced in 1985.  I have 2 daughters who are both married and 5 grandchildren with one on the way.  I am a member of the National Ski Patrol and patrolled at Ober Gatlinburg, TN for 20 years.  I Retired in 2006 after working 30 years at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, TN facilities for the prime contractor.  I bought a 45 foot sailboat in 2006, sold the house in 2009 and I have been living aboard and sailing the US East Coast, Bahamas and Eastern Caribbean

David [Tom] Crocker

Marital status: Married
Occupation: Retired
Comment:
it's been quite a journey these last 50 years  from George Mason to Vietnam then to Baton Rouge before returning to Arlington so the girls could gradute from Yorktown [05 &08] then retiring to Hawaii .....WOW what a dream

Linda Crosby (Ortiz)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Retired
Comment:

Hello fellow classmates!  It’s been fun reading everyone’s profiles and catching up on the past 50 years (hard to believe)?!! After graduation I left for Radford College earning a BS in Design - Interiors.  In my junior year I met Steve Crosby at VA Tech and we’ve been together since.  We married in ’74 and lived in Staunton for several years then work took us to Fauquier County where we continue to live today.  Our son, Kevin, is a VA Tech graduate and works for Vail Corp in Colorado.   Professionally I spent 15 yrs. In residential work, studied for 2 more years, then worked for Prince William Co. Gov't. for 25 yrs. as a Facilities Planner/Project Manager.  Steve and I are both retired and enjoy music, art, travel and spending time in Cape May.



Thanks so much to the reunion committee who worked tirelessly to bring us together.  Greatly appreciated!!!  Looking forward to saying hi to all.

Maurna DeVane (Halsey)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Interior Designer
Comment: i finally am slowing down with my design business after closing my 3 stores in California. �Going part time taking care of clients and friends but with time to �visit our beach house in the Bahamas! �We are now able to do this after moving to Delray Beach, Florida. �We sold the 20 acre avocado ranch and house and left my home state after 50 years of California living! �Ralph (Class of 66) retired from Santa Barbara County Fire Department in 2006 and was farming full time. �We are now enjoying a different life here in a community and more beach time! � We have one daughter and she, although got her degree in Fashion Retail Merchandising, has been a fitness instructor since 18 and has always fit in her classes with her busy life with her husband and our 3 grandchildren. �We started early so grandchildren are grown and we see them pretty often.�

We are looking forward to seeing everyone after five years and 50th we attended. �Thank you for the hard work from your committees!!�

Jane Dingivan (Cleek)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 1
Occupation: Retired Attorney
Comment: Will not be able to attend reunion. Enjoy reading the profiles and know the reunion will be a memorable occasion!  My best to all!

Chad Donovan

Marital status: Married
Occupation: retired
Comment: Lived in CT last 42 years.  Will have been married 40 years as of Nov '16. My nephew (little sister Claire's son) is currently attending YHS.

Irene DuBois (DuBois)

Marital status: Single again
Children: 4
Comment: Still in  Northern  VA

Gerald Dudeck

Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Civil Engineer (retired)
Comment: I have lived in Raleigh, NC most of the time since graduating from VMI.  I have a Masters degree from NC State University and am a registered Professional Engineer.  I worked my entire career for the NC Dept. of Transportation and am now retired.  I enjoy running and have completed many 50 and 100 mile endurance races.  Both my sons are civil engineers and my wife is a nurse.

Elizabeth English (Wetmore)

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Education Consultant
Comment: Prior to retirement I was an educator in Virginia for over 30 years.  25 of those years were spent in FCPS where I held a number of central office and building based posiitons. During the last ten years of my career I was principal of Sunrise Valley ES in Reston.  After undergraduate school I attended UVA and received both a masters in education and a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics.  During that time I married and had three children.  After teaching at UVA for four years, I became Title I Director first in Albemarle County and then in Charlottesville City. In 1994 I returned to Northern Virginia where I have lived since - 14 years in Leesburg and 8 years in Reston.



I have three children.  A son who lives in Cambridge and is a professor of Physics at Brandeis, another son who lives in Vancouver, BC  and is a computer animator with Image-Engine, and my youngest, a daughter, who just received her Ph.D. in sociology from UCSD and is opening a functional fitness center this July in San Diego, CA.