Name: Marleen Swanson
(2004)
Personal narrative:
The years have gone
by. I talk with colleagues’ and realize
they weren’t even born when I graduated from high school – oh well! We are blessed to be here to talk about it.
My life has been good
but like all has had its ups and downs.
I chose to be a dietitian only because my advisor told me I’d never get
out of school unless I chose a major.
It’s allowed me to really find work.
Can’t computerize eating! (Or outsource to
My major regret is
certainly not having the family that most of you have had. But life does go on. I am blessed with an extended family that is
dear to me. For that reason, it was time
to return to my roots – so I moved to
A
As for memories of
high school, wow!! We were so lucky to
grow up when we did. The pressures on
our lives were certainly not the same as exists today. We weren’t concerned with guns, knives and
drive-by shootings. Coke to us was what
we drank at Santeramoes with pizza – not that beer wasn’t around – Oh horrors!
Certainly my fondest
memories were all of you! We had such
fun – sports, Wigwam, Rag Day, Annual stuff, Latin, gorgeous Mr. DeFries, etc, And
how many times was I left on the corner during a Chinese fire drill while
cruising Loveland!!
Specifics – I
remember when Terrie Loomis fainted in Mrs. Cuney’s
English class, Mrs. C merely asked a
student to get the nurse and went on with the class while Terrie lay on the
floor (or was that “lie”). And then
there was when Gary Gray so readily fabricated the story of the “ghost” in the
mountains. So of course, it’s a
joke! Some 30 of us piled in cars to
have a laugh only to have this “ghost” come out from behind some
tombstone!!! We couldn’t get back to our
cars and out of there fast enough. Of course, later we learned the ghost was
Gary himself!!
Anyway, my best
wishes to each of you for making those years so special!! Happy 40th – has a good ring to it
– if it were our age!!!