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Jan Kersgaard
 
Teaching Nurse Aides
Single
After graduation I picked beans one last summer. Then got my RN diploma in Portland, worked one year at Western Lane hospital in Florence and went to the Appalachian hills of Kentucky where I worked and studied nurse midwifery for 2 ½ years. Got a BSN from OHSU in 1999. I worked as a midwife in Shiprock New Mexico at a Navajo hospital and at Sacred Heart in Eugene. In 1977 I left for Pakistan where I worked for the next 32 years (with occasional visits to US) teaching nursing and midwifery at an 80 bed hospital 100 miles from the Afghan border. We cared for wounded “freedom fighters” during the Russian occupation, held prenatal and vaccination clinics in surrounding villages, persevered through droughts and power shortages. We saw village men and women learn to care for very ill and wounded patients, assist with births, administer anesthesia for surgery, and take over the village outreach. I made many wonderful friends and was very blessed. I can’t imagine having done anything else. I returned to Eugene in 2009 and am now teaching Nurse Aide students at LCC 12 hours a week. I look forward to catching up with classmates at the reunion and on this site.  Send Jan a Message
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Janet Gilmore
 
Married
2
Hey Folks, Looking forward to catching up a bit after 50 years. I am in denial about how time has passed. I’ve now spent more time in exile from my beloved state of Oregon than in it, but I’ve returned every year for weeks to months, and sometimes years at a time, to visit family, friends, colleagues—and enjoy the thrift shops. After graduating from Churchill, I next graduated from Reed College in Portland during the troubled times, then became inspired by a University of Oregon folklore professor to study Folklore at Indiana University-Bloomington. There I obtained advanced degrees in Folklore, but in between spent a couple of spring quarters teaching at Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston on the Oregon Coast. Students inspired my dissertation research there, so I stayed on a couple of years to work and fund my field research with commercial fishing families. I thought I might live there for the rest of my life. When I returned to Bloomington to finish up though, I got tangled up with another folklorist and lived in Lexington, Kentucky, for several years. We lived a year in far northern Wisconsin, his home state, where I finished my dissertation, and then I spent some time in Seattle, recovering and exploring work opportunities. But soon I returned to Kentucky, where our daughter was born, and then we moved to Wisconsin, where our son was born. We’ve stayed there working as public folklorists, doing contract fieldwork and exhibit and festival production for small non-profit art, history, and cultural organizations. I continued my commercial fishing and fish foodways study in the Pacific Northwest and western Great Lakes areas. Late in life, I joined my husband in becoming a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor in Folklore and Landscape Architecture. Both kids have now graduated from college in Washington (WWU-Fairhaven) and Oregon (OSU), and both continue to live and work mostly in the NW. Since my aged mother died in 2015, we’ve all been spending a lot of time in Eugene managing the homestead, where my husband and I hope to retire and keep working on the deferred maintenance, updates, and landscape restoration—amid City and utility regulatory aggravations, climate extremes, and threats of earthquakes, tsunamis, and North Korean missiles. Where else would I want to be?! Send Janet a Message
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Jeanine Lindeland (Starritt)
 
Retired
Widowed
I attended U of 0 and later got my MBA. I had a career in Product Development in the furniture and accessory industry. My work took me to Asia and Europe, as well as across the US. I still have the travel bug, and have continued my journeys after retiring 3 years ago. I love cruising and have taken several birding trips. I am looking forward to a trip to Egypt in October. my husband Joe and I enjoyed ocean racing our sailboat and later motor yachting. I am widowed but have two wonderful stepchildren and four wonderful grand children who I remain very close to. I volunteer at Hamilton wetlands, an army corp of engineers restoration, and for California Audubon doing bird counts. I am currently living in Novato California, just North of San Francisco, but have been spending a week at the Oregon coast each year. I have lost touch with most of my high school friends, but I have the great joy of having a 63 year friendship with another of our classmates, Robert Engrav. We enjoy spending a month or more in Mexico each year. We will both be there.
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Jeff Stone
 
Retired Research Chemist
Widowed
1
We will all have 50 years of great stories. Diane Lemery and I reconnected a year ago and are having a blast. Looking forward to seeing old friends.
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Jerry Druliner
 
Retired
Married
7
Many years in Eugene, then to Bend in 1995 where I met and married my wife Connie. Connie's deceased husband was Bill Worrell who taught at WCHS. Our family is blended with hers, mine and theirs. Youngest is approaching 40! How did that happen? 15 grandkids from 6 to 24. Send Jerry a Message
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Jerry Gardner
 
Retired
Divorced
2
After HS, I served in the military and went to VN. I returned to Eugene and graduated from the UofO. I had the opportunity to attend the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA to study German. I also obtained a MA from USC in International Relations and worked in military intelligence in Germany for several years. I returned to Oregon with my family in the early 80's but it was hard to find work so I went to Willamette Univ to get an MBA. I worked in economic development for most of my professional career. I retired from the Ore Dept of Agriculture as their Business Development Officer two years ago. I also held the same position with the Ore Economic Development Dept for a number of years focussing on establishing jobs in the mid-Willamette Valley. I was fortunate enough to travel to Asia and Europe promoting Oregon agricultural products over the years. I have two great kids who both live in Oregon and two grand children. I'm glad to see so many old friends have signed up to come to the reunion. See ya soon!
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Jerry Madsen (MadJerryamadsen@gmail.comsen)
 
Madsen Well drilling
Married
1
Did my trip to Vietnam. Came home went to LCC ,Forest. went to work in the woods became a Faller 24 years, back to shcool started my own buissnes drilling well fixing pumps still doing a little work been married 44 years to Sarah , she has a good wife we had our up and downs, she has a good retirement glad she shearing. Had 2 son Derek and Nathan , Nathan got lost in 1989, 9 years old we found his remains 9 months later, Derek work with me a couple years " Dad didn't pay enough" he a linmen. life been alright I plan on attend the reuion we do a pig roast every year at our house we talked of doing the picnic here |
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Jim Schneider
 
Retired
Married
2
Have never stopped beliving: married Kathy Miller on December 20, 1969. We have 2 sons, Brian and Jimmy, Jimmy passed away in january 2017. We have 4 grand children. We are very blessed. Graduated from the University of Oregon in 1971 with a Bachlor of Science degree. Taught physical education and coached in the Eugene School District for 2 years. Joined the Eugene fire department in September 1973 and worked there for 21 years. Became fire chief in Clovis California in 1994. Became fire chief in Kent Washington in april 2002. While fire chief, the Kent fire department became the Kent Rfa in 2010, the Puget Sound Rfa in 2017, and I retired from the Puget Sound Rfa as fire chief on august 31, 2017. We are moving back to Eugene in October 2017. I was very lucky to coach high school basketball at Churchill High School for 5 years. In retirement I plan to continue to play golf, coach basketball, volunteer for a veterans organization, and workout so I can attend the 60th class reunion and see all of you again. The class of 1967 was special.
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Jim Spears
 
Ret - 41 yrs Cummins Partsman
Married
2
After graduation I attended the U of O for a year and a half. I then joined the National Guard and started working full time in the parts dept. at Kenworth and then Peterbilt. Working at Kingsford Charcoal for six months was a dirty job that I left ASAP. While I worked for Leavitts Freight I met my wife Tonya who lived in Portland. I started working in the parts dept. at the local Cummins Engine distributor in 1971 and stayed 41 years. Tonya and I have two daughters, two grandsons, a grand daughter and two great grand children.
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