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             (Adell to Wilda)

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NOTE:  These profiles were submitted during 2010 as our 50-year reunion approached.  Now somewhat dated and, in some cases inaccurate due to deaths of classmates and spouses, they remain here for reference.

Patricia Smith

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Divorced
Children: 2
Occupation: Trial Consultant & restaurant owner
Comment: Thomas Wolfe said "You can't go home again." That's not true; I came home five years ago and I love it.

Becki Smith Canterberry

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Retired
Comment: Jim and I have been married for 47 years and are enjoying that special time in life known as retirement.  I retired from the Music Department at the Baptist State Convention of NC and Jim, from the US Department of Agriculture.  We have two children, a son Scott (NJ) and a daughter Staci (VA), and six grandchildren, five grandsons and one granddaughter.  Jim and I are active members at Westwood Baptist Church in Cary.  I enoy my family, my church, reading, traveling, Tar Heel basketball and especially the time we spend at our farm in Forest Hill, WV with family and friends. 

Betty Spicer Moody

Then Then

Carolyn Stephens Long

Then Then

Pete Stephenson

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 3
Occupation: Retired
Comment:

   After graduation, I spent the summer traveling the U.S. In the fall, I started to college at Concord which didn’t last too long. After leaving Concord the winter of 1961, Kenny Ellis, Fitzhugh Mills and Bob Monahan from Athens and I enlisted in the Air Force. After 13 weeks of boot camp in San Antonio, Texas, I was assigned to Bitburg Air Base in Germany. I spent the next 3 years and 2 months in Bitburg. I loved traveling Europe while I was there.

   I married Susan Lemoine while stationed there in Germany. Our first child, Daniel, was born there in 1964. We had a daughter, Michelle, who was born in Princeton in 1965. Susan and I were married 9 years before divorcing in 1972. I became an independent trucker in 1968. I remained in that business for the next 16 years. I remarried in 1974 to Judy R. Brown from Princeton. We had a son, Geoffrey, in 1976. Judy and I have been married now for 36 years. I have 4 granddaughters from my first marriage and 1 grandson from my second marriage. I also have a great-granddaughter. Judy and I love to travel, boat, water ski and hang out in Myrtle Beach. I also love to hunt, fish and hike the outback. I retired from Roadway Express in 2007 after 20 years with them.

   Judy and I reside in Vinton, VA. We would love to hear from any of our classmates. She graduated PHS in 1968.

Barbara Stepp Rumburg

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: Bookkeeper, seamstress
Comment:      I have been married to Ron Rumburg (PHS ’59) for 50 years. We have two daughters, Elizabeth (Beth) Dunn of Lynchburg, VA and Sara Guill of Randolph, VA. Ron has been a pastor since 1964 and we have lived in VA, NC and AL. We are fortunate to live near our daughters now. We have two grandsons and four granddaughters.

    I have been a bookkeeper for most of my working life but for the past 11 years I have worked with my daughter Beth in her high-end drapery workroom. Perhaps retirement will come someday. I enjoy quilting, knitting and almost any needlework. We always have a large garden and I do lots of canning and freezing. We are living out Ron’s fantasy of living on a small farm here in Central Virginia.

    Fifty years have gone by in such a hurry. It will be good to renew acquaintances.

Paul Strasko

Then Then
Comment: In 2005 Paul wrote: Retired from Celanese after 38 yrs; Married (Reba); one daughter; 2 grandchildren. Favorite hobby is fishing (TN, AL, MT).  Greatest joys: time with granddaughters and family.

Mary Lou Stroup Pincarinha

Then Then

Pamela Sullivan (Spangler)

Then Then
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: homemaker
Comment: After high school I attended Concord but wanted to travel so got a job with the airlines as a stewardess. I had many great trips to Europe, France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Peurta Rico just to name a few.  

While flying I met my husband a pilot who flew for USAir for 30 years. We have been married 44 years and have a lovely daughter and a wonderful son.
Cell Phone: 330-774-0632

Rick Swope

Then Then
Now Now
Marital status: Married
Children: 2
Occupation: CPA/Management Consultant - Working/Retired??? - When you're self employed, you don't know you're retired until t
Comment:

Marie and I have been married since July, 1965.  We have two married daughters and two grandsons; they all live in the northeast which lets them torment us about the weather in Houston during the summer and lets us balance out the abuse during January and February.  Based on the truism that “dogs have family and cats have staff”, Marie and I are staff for four cats, nine goldfish and two baby turtles.  We’ve lived in Houston since 1985, our longest stay along the road, after intermediate stops in Maryland, the Bahamas and south Florida.  Although I’ve worked on a bucket list, I seem to find that, as Carl used to sing years ago, “my bucket’s got a hole in it” so we are picking away at what interests us the most right now – first project – rebuilding an old Triumph I’ve had almost 40 years.


 


Many thanks to the troops up there for organizing this and previous reunions and we are looking forward, as are the rest of the Texas “Tigers in exile” to seeing everyone in August.