Name: Rhonda McDonnell Maiden: Fogleman

Personal narrative!

I'm still in Loveland!   Have been married to Bob McDonnell since March 1, 1968.  We lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for 15 months while Bob finished some college classes, and then returned to Loveland.  We have been blessed with a son, Chad, 32, who is a stockbroker at Charles Schwab in Denver and his lovely wife, Jennifer.  Although no grandchildren are in the picture currently, we do have a granddog, Maxine (85 pound rottweiller), who does visit us frequently. My siblings also live in Loveland.  Although our dad passed away in 1985, our mother is still living in Loveland. Bob teaches business classes at College America in Fort Collins.  Although I took an early retirement from Hewlett-Packard after 24 years in 2002, I returned to a different opportunity four months later.  Currently, I'm working for Manpower at Hewlett-Packard on a part-time, temporary basis.

A Loveland memory from 1950/60 era!
I remember the wonderful teachers we had:  Mrs. Whitehouse and her love for Shakespeare; Mrs. Cuney and Ms. Scott and their insistence in the importance of the English language.  (Doubt if they would be too happy today, seeing how the unacceptable is being deemed acceptable language use today.)  I loved to go to the City Dairy to get a lemon slush and basket of potato chips before school.  I remember cruising Loveland south through Longmont and back to north Fort Collins when we should have been doing our bookkeeping project. Now, today, kids can't do the cruising too obviously because some took inappropriate liberties in the community.  Remember the lingo developed by our class: Yang-gang, ya ain't got no, no dirt.  Don't remember who came up with the phrases or that some of them really meant anything, but they were always funnier when Terry Wells said them.