Shelley, Van, Casey, Caylsa, and Cade

Laurie Bauer Rosborough: (This is written by Rob) Laurie Bauer and I  left Philomath in 1985 bound for the home of the fighting Ducks. We spent 4 yrs there both in pre-med. Laurie (who is much smarter than me) decided at the last minute not to go to med school, while I was accepted and attended OHSU in Portland. We were talking about marriage as we started life in Portland, but delayed that until 1992 due to financial aid reasons.(Rob needed ALOT) In Sept of 1992 we were married in the Old Church in Portland. We spent our honeymoon backpacking in Belize for 3 weeks the following February. Laurie confirmed that the bugs, bats and caves were not much to her liking. She prefers the coast, beaches and marine life. I liked it all - especially the fly fishing and diving. I decided during Med school that I had to have a practice where I could get to know my patients well and to interact with them regularly, so I chose Family Practice. I had originally thought that Pathology and forensics would be cool, but alas dead people don't usually talk. Laurie and I decided to go out of the northwest for residency, so we spent 3 years in northern Minnesota. Freeze your ass off in the winter; heat, humidity, and bugs in the summer. Nice people, but the weather was too harsh. During my second year in residency, our son, Kelsey was born. He had a little bit of a rough start but rallied quickly and is now a smart, funny, athletic 10yr old. In 1996 we moved to Silverton,Or to join an established Family practice with a classmate and great friend and her husband. We are lucky to live in a community where the Family docs still provide obstetrical care. We all deliver babies and do a full hospital practice.

In 1997 our 2nd child Erica was born in Silverton. Our little house in town now too small, we found a great place out of town. We live in a little Paradise down the end of a 1/2 mile drive. Our house is right on Butte Creek with a deck right on the creek. Its a fairly large creek and frequently see kayakers floating by in the spring. Our 4 acres is surrounded by a large 1500 acre farm so we are tucked back all by ourselves. (Laurie's Mom built a house next door.) but wait - there's more!

Christy & Larry Nelson

Nancy Craig Higgins: I married my husband Kevin in 1989. He's a great guy, and I am still happily married. I am a stay at home mom with two scrumptious kids and on a good day, I love it.  On a bad day, I would like a little more freedom, but it’s all good.

It was fun to read the other bios. My favorite thing about our school is the smallness of it. I get teased frequently when friends find out how small our graduating class was, but I always remind them how non-pretentious it is. Everyone genuinely cares about each other and most of us grew up together.  There were about 5 of us at the DQ for the 5 year reunion and around 10 of us at the park for the 10 year.   Maybe we can beat 20 of us at the 20 year.
 
Anyway, it will be fun to see everyone.
 
Sincerely, Nancy Higgins

Nancy with Levi

Andy Epperly: Hello fellow Warriors. After high school I attended L.B.C.C. with many of my fellow PHS alumni, we had some great fun there ( some of you know what I mean ) even learned a thing or two. I also met some of my best friends to this day at good ole’ Low Buck. Ended up in both auto and diesel tech ( go figure ). I also competed in two national V.I.C.A. competitions in auto mechanics, with respectable results. After all that I was burnt out on being an auto tech, so I became an "auto parts specialist" for several years.

Around 1994 my mother, brother, and I started A-1 Taxi in Corvallis. Talk about stories, Corvallis and Philomath are still pretty small towns. Then again not! We had a lot of fun running the company, and had a lot of great drivers. After we closed up shop with the taxi I slacked, and worked with a logger friend running equipment for a while before getting my current employment with the U.S. Postal Service. I enjoy my job, and have a great boss.

I am still a motor head, however my real passion these days is all things railroad. I am a self described train geek. I have been a member of the Corvallis Society of Model Engineers ( in Adair Village ) since 1996, and club VP for the last 5 years. I have also been a member of the National Railway Historical Society Toledo OR. chapter since 1999. In both groups we have done some great work, and had a lot of fun doing it. Last summer I attended my first National Model Railroad Assn. national convention in Seattle, talk about overwhelming. (5000+ of us freaks from all around the world.)

So now you have some of my info for the last 20 years. Hope to see as many as we can muster in August.

Andy Epperly

Toby and Antonette -

Toby, we need a new family shot that includes Bella! Congratulations to the new mama and papa.

Mary Fletcher: I have been all over since graduating from high school. I got my B.A. from Oregon State then I taught one year in Madras, Oregon. Then I went over to Guam with a friend of mine from college and taught 4th grade for one year. Then I moved to Seattle after that. I taught reading and worked at a daycare. Next, some friends from college persuaded me to move to the Tri-Cities and I have been here ever since. I taught 4th and 1st grade at a private Christian school for three years before losing my job. I went to school in Portland for one year, then I moved back to the Tri-Cities. I met my husband, Tracy, four years ago. We’ve been married for three. He has a daughter, Ashley, who is 10 years old. Our son, Ian, was born last year on July 9th. He is almost nine months old. I am substitute teaching and working on my Master’s degree in Literacy at WSU Tri-Cities.

Frankie Gee Anderton: Well, well, well!  I am one of the few who still live in Philomath.  I think I wanted to get out more than anyone.  But I find myself older (not grown up!) and raising my children here.  Where to start... Ive been married 10 (almost) years to a 1981 graduate of PHS, Buzz Anderton, and we have 2 girls - Morgan 15 and Drew 8.  Buzz owns an Accounting firm in Corvallis and I stay at home and work part time at the office and do nail extentions at my Salon in Philomath (Wild Hair).  Morgan is a sophomore at PHS, she is a cheerleader and also plays softball. We have 10 acres just east of the middle school on Chapel Drive.  I know this is hard to believe but I am a farm girl! Cows, cats, dogs, goats and one horse (it's Drew's). I look forward to seeing all of you in August!

Ann-Sofie Goransson-Sydow : I´m not sure if anyone remembers me but I graduated at Philomath High School in 1985. I was the Swedish exchange student that lived up Old Peak Road with the Wendlands.(We still have contact and I see at least Judy once every other year. Rich came to my wedding.)
When I came back I went on with school and graduated formally in 1986. After that I decided to take a break. The world was waiting for me and I worked
enough so I could travel around it for half a year (alone). I came back and took up studies again, Art history at the university of Lund. I dropped out (a good start as a student but please don´t stop reading...I didn´t fail completely). I moved back home and started to work as an art teacher and at the same time I traveled some more. I actually went back to Philomath four times...plus some other places. I also took up painting and for a while I did take sewing classes. I had the ambition to make everything myself...haha. Well in the early 90´s I started at an artschool, painting full time. That went well. I had a studio and had some exhibitions but I felt I hadn´t had enough of studies. I went on to Stockholm and four more years at the University College of Arts Crafts and Design (Konstfack). For a while I worked as a Deputy Dean at a College. A wonderful experience but it swollowed my time. At the moment I work at the Interactive Institute as a researcher and project manager. A job that fits my personality really well. My focus is on learning, art and interactivity. A little bit of this and a little bit of that.

Privately, I married a wonderful man, Petter Sydow (a gameproducer), and have two kids, Rut 2 years and Erling 4 years. We live in an apartment in Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden. I still paint at home but as we say here "everything has it´s time". Maybe I will paint some more one day. I must say it has been a great experience to read about all of you. But I must say that I had to look up some of you in my Yearbook of '85 to be sure it actually was you. It would be nice to see you all again. I´ll keep on looking up the page.

Love, Ann-Sofie (not Aunt Sofie :-))

Bob Hendricks : After High School I took a job at Evanite Fiber working the graveyard shift. During the next 3 years, in order to keep my sanity, I coached volleyball at Corvallis High School.  Deciding that enough was enough I enrolled at OSU. During my time at OSU I played and coached for the Men's Club Volleyball Team and was the Student Assistant Coach to the Women's Volleyball Team.

I graduated from Oregon State University in 1993 with a BS in Physical Education (have never officially used it).  I moved to Sacramento, CA in 1994 when I met my first partner and then on to San Francisco in 1998 after my partner passed away.  From the time I had moved to Sacramento I have been working contract jobs.  Those contract jobs consist of: Software Instructor (several companies), Account Receivable Manager (Sacramento County Courts), Toll Free Auditor (MCI), New Product Coordinator & Software Documentation Coordinator (HP), Off Campus Housing Manager (USF), Facility Manager (Positive Health Program, UCSF), Project Coordinator (D.C. Construction Company), and Security Database Analyst & Security Services Analyst (UCSF Police Department) which is now a permanent job.  The contract jobs have allowed me to travel, play competitive volleyball, and pursue my other hobbies and interests.

I hope all of you make it a point to attend.  As someone recently told me about our class, "What I noticed about your class is that by the time you got to be Seniors you didn't seem to have "clicks", you just all seemed to interact so well."  I would have to agree completely and hope to get a chance to see ALL of you again.

Brenda Hunter Draper: After leaving Philomath the end of my freshman year, I moved to Corvallis and graduated from CHS.  I moved to Eugene in 1988.  I married my husband in 1996 and became an instant mom to his son.  I was blessed to adopt him in a couple years later.  We had our second son Jan. 1, 1998.   I work part-time as an accountant and my husband is in the real estate business.  Our boys are now 13 and 7.   They keep us busy with sports, school and church activities.  For fun we enjoy camping, biking and skiing. 

Don & his daughter, Avalon.

Eric Hutley: I live in Central Oregon.  Graduated from OSU in 1990.  Taught English for a while.  Went back to school. Graduated in Computer Science.  I'm a system administrator now (also known as someone who gets paid to be a computer geek.) As to the social life--well...hard to say.

Ethan Kennedy: I came across this web site by accident doing a google search. I was impressed Ariana great job! To my surprise it warmed my heart to read about the reunion. I was very happy to see how well everyone is doing, Bob H., Trish S., Stacy Pool, and anyone else I didn't mention. Jack Noble is something else 5 kids, wow I thought I had it rough, and so is Rob R and Laurie, Shannon and Robin. I am so happy for everyone. I am sorry about Kim Stokes and her MS. As far as I know with the exception of Roger B. no one else has passed. I hope this perception of mine is true. I saw the picture of the reunion and everyone looks great. I saw Aaron M. and he looks awesome.

As far as bio stuff here is a few things. My life has had its ups and downs over the past 20 years. I will mention the up stuff. However, the down I don't regret because its made me a better person.

In 1990 I graduated Oregon State with a Zoology degree. I was accepted to pharmacy school at Oregon State and also a medical School in Kansas City. I choose medical. I graduated from medical school 1995 and did a 3 year residency in Family Practice down in Mesa Arizona. Like Rob R. I like primary care medicine. Between 1991 and 1998 my wife Melinda and I had 4 boys, healthy, and I am very proud of them. The oldest one is allot like me (scary). From 1998-2003 I owned a private medical/family practice In Apache Junction Arizona. I left private practice in 2004 and now I work as a medical director in urgent care medicine and part time for a drug rehabilitation center in phoenix. Needless to say I am tired all the time. My children are now 14, 13, 10, 8. I am considering a move back to Corvallis in a few years.

I wish everyone the best and may see you at the next reunion. Ethan

Llama, Murdock the: Are you awake?

I don't remember Murdock, but Don says he was the guy who sat in the back in science class and almost set Mr. Gosser on fire. You'd think I would remember eyes like those. Maybe he had less facial hair in his younger days.

All I remember from science class was that Sharleen and I would write our names on the tables in alcohol and then light them. And that I spent a fortune that year on broken test tubes. I think I could still identify an owl pellett. Oh, and the smell of burnt hair. Mmmmm. Smell bad. Memory good.

:-)

Rebecca Magness: Greetings to you!!

When I got out of high school I went to Linn Benton for awhile, then went to Phagen's Beauty College, where I graduated as a Cosmetologist. I then moved to Roseburg where I got a job with my aunt for awhile. I then decided since I had no ties and wanted to see the world, I joined the Navy. I served four years and loved it. I got out because I married and was going to have a baby and wanted to be home with my family. Later my husband and I separated and divorced. I lived and worked in Roseburg for 8 years until I met my second husband and we were married in 2003. He and I worked in a stud mill.

I am doing very well and keep busy. I work in an adult care facility now, in the memory care unit. I enjoy taking care of people. I enjoy being there for peoples' families and being part of a team. My husband, daughter and I live in Lincoln City. We moved here just last December as we love the coast.We also enjoy hiking, and camping, and just being outdoors. I like to fix things, I'm good at it, and enjoy live entertainment and sports.

I've thought about my classmates alot and sure was surprised to receive the invitation in the mail. I look forward to seeing you all and hope to hear the stories of where you all have been, and how you are doing. I look forward to catching up. Take care! Becky

Pat & his wife, Silke

Tom & his pet tractor

Luann Morris Swisher: After graduating from Philomath I did get married, and of course it only lasted 1 year.  I then moved to Seattle along with half of our class.  After about 3 years I moved back and started working at The Corvallis Clinic.  A few months after I had been back from Seattle I met my husband of 14 years.  I transfered to the Albany  Branch and work for a family practice physician in Albany. I am a Certified Medical Assistant and love it.  In my free time  I am also a Team Oregon Motorcyle Safety Instructor.  I love motorcyles and love to teach people how to ride them.  My husband and I do not have any children; only 1 cocker spaniel and a tank full of fish.  Our other hobbies are RC airplanes and cars.  We live in Albany where we bought a piece of property about 4 years ago.

Jack Noble: Hello! Jack has been so busy and has not been able to write, SO he is at the mercy of his dear wife's writing ability and sense of humor. Though...I do not believe that any can top Rod's biography and picture!

After high school Jack headed over the mountains to attend Eastern Oregon State College. While there he played on the EOSC football team, blew his knee out at the end of the season and was not able to play baseball. It was during this time that he met the woman of his dreams (he just didn't realize it for three more years!). The cows were calling him back home and so for his sophmore year he headed to OSU. The summer before his senior year it finally happened and he realized that he had found the "woman of his dreams" a few years earlier. He graduated from OSU in the 1989 and was married in the fall. The next fall he had his first daughter; the next winter his second daughter; the next spring his third daughter; the next winter his first son, and the next spring his second son. Whew...sometime in there he managed to work at the Corvallis Auction yard, Copeland Lumber and then to the job he has stayed at until now. He has worked at the Dept. of Agriculture since 1996 and coordinates the Livestock Brand Inspection Program. He gets to tell people what to do, where to go and gets to go on exciting excursions to exotic places like Vale, Burns, and Medford on a regular basis!

Our sixth child, Laura, was born Dec. 30, 2003. Her brothers and sisters think that she walks on water and absolutely adore her! As you can imagine, our home is a bit busy, especially when you add in that we home school. Jack teaches math at 6 AM before he leaves for his office in Salem and gets to be the principle (his power thing). We have a small farm out in Wren where we raise sheep, goats, horses, cats (too many) and dogs. He is also taking care of his folks and is running the ranch for them in his spare time, not to mention farming about 120 acres around Philomath.

This photo was taken above Wallowa Lake last August. From left to right, Megan, Cassandra, Mary, John, Jack, Diane, baby Laura and Joseph.

Michelle's family in Cabo 2005

Alexander "Sasha" Radisavljevic: After that highlight year in Philomath I headed back to Yugoslavia facing a bit of an anticlimax: a mandatory military term in the army. My mother thought the service would make me a man but it felt more like doing time. This extra time, however, allowed me to prepare for university entrance exams that I missed during my senior year. University of Ljubljana, about 2 hours from my home town, taught me computers, pattern recognition, and speech processing which was to become my life’s passion. On the personal side I carried on with choir singing (that I discovered during my PHS year), kayaking the remote rivers of Yugoslavia and ballroom dancing. I also witnessed the disintegration of my country along the language and ethnic lines so by the time I was ready to start my productive life my homeland was called Slovenia and was the size of a Florida key. A mix of this disappointment, my passion for learning and adventurous spirit brought me to University of Florida into the Master’s program. My budget was good only for a semester or two but I figured it would make a nice trip anyway. Fortunately, graduate work opportunities (and Clemens foundation - thanks) allowed me to finance my degree to the end. I got to work on cool projects with neural network models, MRI and radar image recognition, published a few journal papers. My wife Bosha and I started realizing we wanted children, and to settle somewhere for good - like Canada! Turned out it was difficult to immigrate to the US ... legally at least. So here we are cozy on the beautiful west coast in Victoria. We have three girls: Nina(10), Mateya (7) and Helena (4). We live in a cute little townhouse on a 3 acre property (shared with the other 66 units though), but heck, there are at least lots of playmates for the kids around. Professionally, I’ve worked at IVL Technologies all this time creating algorithms for understanding and changing human voice and musical signals. We are the designers behind products for TC Helicon, Digitech, Onkey Karaoke, etc.Class reunion makes me really think what I want to do with the “other” 20 years. Unfortunately, I’ll have to miss it this time around due to an extended family trip this summer but I would love to do a 21st anniversary if anyone is interested.

Tricia Schoof: 2005 is going to be a fantastic year including our 20 year reunion.  I'm looking forward to seeing all of you.  After high school, I moved up to Portland and went to school at Mt. Hood for one year and then spent a semester in France.  I also spent some time in New Jersey and New York.  I lived in Houston, TX for three years, but I missed the Northwest.  My home is now in Brush Prairie, WA on 5 acres.  The cows are gone, but I know exactly where to pour the foundation of my dream home.  I have a beautiful daughter, Haley.  She is 5 years old and in kindergarten.  Reminds me of Kings Valley Elementary School!  I was in banking the last 14 years but have recently decided to go back to school and start a new career.  That is a big adventure for the new year.  It has been fun catching up with a lot of you already.  The reunion will be something you will not want to miss!  Please e-mail me or call with any questions or suggestions you may have.  360/721-0559 - elkcamp66@yahoo.com

Jim Scott: Living in beautiful Bend Oregon the last 20 years. Lovely wife Carol of 13 years. Charming teenage daughter Kayla. Living the dream.

Kim Stokes: After high school, I went to Oregon State and majored in Marketing/Management.  Went straight in to retail management--been at Eddie Bauer for about 11 years.  I was grandfathered into a part-time management program after my first child, Nicole, (who is now 7).  I worked part-time, and my husband Rody and I owned a bar for about 5 years.  I had a second child, Jacob, (now almost 4).  We sold the bar, I went back into full-time management running my own store when I was diagnosed with MS.  The worst part is the shots a few times a week which create headaches.  It is supposed to slow down the progression--so far, no real symptoms.  I just accepted a position as a sales rep for a small company out of Seattle to cover southern Oregon in Natural/Specialty foods (an industry my husband is now in).  I start in April...kind of scary after 16 years in retail, but the rewards should pay off (no nights and weekends!)  My hobbies include water skiing and golf in the summer and lots of shopping in the winter!  

Sara & her son, Ray

Rodney Watkins: Since high school I have tried to do as many things as possible. I went to LBCC for 1 1⁄2 years while working in the mills. I was riding my motorcycle out by Burnt Woods in October of 87 and was hit head on by a pickup truck. It is weird to see a vehicle out of control coming and hitting you like that. I spent a long time recovering. What it did was make me want to live life. I moved to Seattle and met my to be wife Kim while working at a hotel. I then moved to Alaska (loved it). Saw Tom McDonald in SE AK.(Hi Tom) I worked for Mark Air Airlines up in AK. They sent me to Seattle and I became the Lower 48 Cargo Sales Rep. I then went back to school for a bit and then to Starbucks.

From Starbucks I became an  Iron worker as a rod-buster (rebar). It was a great time and I loved the job (the heights were fun). During that time period I had 2 torn rotator cuff surgeries from screwing around and being attacked by a dog. I then had to find a career.  One week while riding my bicycle from Seattle to San Francisco to raise money for AIDS research I had a burning thought. It was the same one that I had the year prior riding across Alaska for AIDS. I don’t know if it was the 100 miles a day or what but I thought-What if all I have done and lived for is wrong! I hit me really hard.

When I left Frisco and went home Kim and I sold every thing we owned and have become Gypsies. We live off the land in a remote part of Washington and are strict vegans. I have become an extreme member of an elite environmentalist group. Kim and I conceived our son JAXON while living in a Redwood tree for 1 month. WE SAVED IT! So don’t bark up my tree. JAXON is 16 months and looks super in clothing but he is almost always in HEMP clothing. He is the light of our life and loves to hug trees. The picture is us prior a protest and our super boy.

This is not a current photo of Melody and her famiily saying cheeeeeeese!

Lisa Weigel Watkins: Under pressure from Rod, I'm finally sending in my bio (better late than never?!) Let’s see . . . after school I attended LBCC. In 1989, Russ and I got married (yes, that’s Rod’s older brother) and we bought my parent’s house that I grew up in on Woods Creek Road. For those of you that knew my dear mom & haven’t heard, she passed away last year after a short bout of cancer . . . sad year for my family.

We have two great kids – Brooke is 13, and Riley is 11. I work part time as the payroll specialist at the Philomath School District, and I do the books for the four log trucks that we own.

See you in a couple weeks!

Kim Woolery Askren: How do you summarize 20 years in a few paragraphs . . . ?

I attended college in Idaho and graduated with a music-education degree, with a small interlude of being a nanny in New York. My husband Eric and I got married during my first year of teaching, and we moved to Kansas City, Missouri so he could work on his master’s degree at seminary. After recovering a bit from the culture shock, I started my master’s degree, taught music for a year and half, and then planned to stay at home with my daughter when she was born.

Eric got a call from some friends in Scotland, who wanted us to come over and work with a church in Perth. Our oldest daughter Carly was born there, and we stayed for 6 months. We came home, Eric finished his thesis, I finished my coursework, and we moved to the California Bay Area to pastor.

After four years of California life, more culture shock and the addition of another daughter Marlena, we were ready to move back to the Pacific Northwest. I found a teaching job in Othello, Washington (another small town), Eric is now a chaplain for the Washington Department of Corrections, and we anticipate staying put for a long time.

I’m looking forward to hearing about everyone else at the reunion – it sounds like fun!