Sunday, July 12, 2009

Mr. Gishe Retires?

Ken Mock went over to Northgate last week and noticed a "Goodbye Mr. Gishe" banner outside. We are assuming that means he retired at the end of the 08/09 school year. I think that Jeff Spoden would be the only teacher left who was teaching there in 1986.

Some updates from the Class Reunion Book

Few updates lately, I know, but here are some new ones from the reunion book, so they are current as of 2006:

Tiffany (Hogan) Preston: Living in Martinez, teaching Head Start preschool.

Kim (Torkington) Mitchell: After working at Nordstrom for 15 years, is training to become Radiologist, living in Seattle.

Louise (Bradford) Nguyen: BA in Poli Sci at Berkeley, living in Lafayette.

Cara (Mason) Wilfong: Graduated from Cal Poly, living in Palm City, Florida

Karen (McCarthy) MacDonald: BS from Chico State, working for a pharmaceutical company in Granite Bay, CA

Beth Schutz: Project manager for a construction company, living in Napa

Rodney Centeno: Ever elusive, he lists a spouse, Melanie, and no other information. Anyone know what he is up to these days?

Nici (Grace) Kammerer: Living in Fresno, working in marketing/sales

Laura (Potts) Page: A realtor in Discovery Bay

Rudy Oest: Sheriff's dept. detective in Walnut Creek

Susi (Haug) Farmer: CPA in Walnut Creek

Brigit Sanderson: Working on a wildlife biology PhD, was living in Washington state

Wendy (Wilk) Spence: Teaching 5th to 8th grade in Santa Clara

Charlotta (Johannesson) La Via: Plastic surgeon, Pacific Palisades

Michelle Stashyn: Sales rep. with McBee/Deluxe in Walnut Creek

Colleen (Sharapata) Huber: Living in Granite Bay, CA

Jodi (Matthews) Buie: Lawyer in Santa Barbara

Andreas Eckelmann: Doctor of general medicine in Dahn, Germany

Michelle (Hilverda) Rice: Sales Director, Pampered Chef, Bozeman, Montana

Spencer Williams: Insurance Underwriter, living in Concord

Kristin Hicks: Living in Brookline, Mass.

Blair Stientjes: Sales, Union Bank, living in S.F.

Lisa (Hamanaka) Ellsworth: Educational software design/development, Arlington, Mass.

Andrea (Lee) Carboni: Living in Coppell, TX

Christopher Gillis: PG&E/Schwab, Concord

Laurie (Lentz) Rades: Living near Milwaukee, WI

Laura (Moran) Wilber: Ad Sales for CBS Radio, El Dorado Hills, CA

Gretchen Schmidt: Applications developer for King County, WA, living in Seattle

Christy (Richardson) Mitchell: Dental Assistant, Lincoln, CA

James Doss: Finance/Accounting, RF Industries, San Diego

Neda (Mansourian) Whitney: Living in Concord