Name: Marleen Swanson
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!!!