As we receive news of classmates and teachers, we'll post brief descriptions in alpha order, here.  Scroll down to see more profiles.

Sara Walker (Davis)  lives with her husband, Gary, in Los Gatos.  Their grown children Zachary, 29, and Aimee, 20, both reside in Santa Barbara.  Sara works in Health Care and runs her own practice as an occupational therapist and certified hand therapist who specializes upper limb injuries.  Sara looks forward to hearing more about plans for our class' upcoming 45th reunion. 2/2010

Roger Biddle - After graduation, Roger attended San Jose State (engineering) and then served in the Marine Corps.  He worked in Silicon Valley during its heyday and became a real estate broker, moving to Florida in 1986.  He later returned to the electronics industry and has been president of the North American headquarters (Ft. Lauderdale) of a Chinese-based relay manufacturer.  12/2009

Burl Cohen - After 4 years on Navy subs, Burl joined his father in the textile rental industry where he's been for the past 34 years, traveling extensively throughout the Western U.S. and Austral-Asia. Burl is now with VF Imagewear, the world's largest apparel manufacturer (Lee, Wrangler, Jansport, The North Face, Vanity Fair, etc).  An avid golfer and car restorer, Burl has customized a '54 Plymouth Suburban hot rod and maintains a '59 Chevy Impala convertible. Ten years ago, Burl gave up the single life when he married his neighbor, Sharon.  He says they have one child... Bruno, a chocolate Labrador retriever. 11/2005

Denise Del Carlo - "Life is great and full of surprises," writes Denise Del Carlo who is married with two daughters and three grandchildren.  Denise works for an accounting firm in Palo Alto.  She and her husband (now retired) live in Los Altos Hills.  11/2005

Graham Dobson - Graham recently brought his youngest son, Harrison, to a BHS alumni baseball game, "to see where the old man played ball."  Graham is Water Quality Compliance and Project Manager for the National Park Service at Lassen Volcanic National Park.  His wife, Anne is Executive Director of the Lassen Association, a private, non-profit supporting association to the national park.

Bill Findley - Fed up with teaching, and culinary school, Bill Findley shucked city life to shuck corn and "whatever else we can figure out how to grow" on a farm in Marion, AL.  He and Jan were seen at Pepper Place, a farmer's market in Birmingham, AL on Saturdays through summer, "flogging our goods along with the other farmers' stuff in our co-op."  In the shot of the antique tractor seen in the Gallery, Bill says he was towing back from Louisiana and passing through the Daiquiri Drive-Through behind the house in Farraday, LA where Jerry Lewis grew up.  Bill says, "Good museum.  Good daiquiris." 11/2005

Judy Hartstone - Judy transferred to BHS in her senior year. She received degrees from UC Berkeley, Cal State Hayward and San Jose State and now lives in the Puget Sound area where she runs a nonprofit animal welfare organization. 5/2006

Phil Hazelrig  - Retired as a Navy Captain (O-6) and is now senior exec for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy at Moffett Field.  He is in charge of a 747 that carries astronomers and a 40,000 lb. telescope to study the universe.  As a NASA research pilot he also gets to play with FA-18s (see Gallery).  He has three grown sons: Matt (film-maker), Mike (Naval Aviator) and Jimmy (engineering student) and lives in Menlo Park. 10/2005

Linda Humber - Following receiving a B.A. in Psychology and French from Lewis & Clark College, Linda spent many years working with the developmentally disabled before moving to escrow, financial and real estate administration.  Twice married, twice divorced, Linda now lives in Burlingame... her daughter in San Bruno.  She is active in the SF Symphony League and treats herself to opera, symphony, museums and yearly trips to France and other wonderful places. 10/2005

John R. Lutzker, Ph.D  If you'd like to be impressed at the accomplishments of one of our classmates, Google "John R. Lutzker."  John is a widely published and respected author in the field of child development.  One of his books was described as "seminal" which means it has influenced the thinking of many scholars.  John Lutzker works at Georgia State University where he is Director of the Center for Healthy Development and Visiting Professor of Public Health. John is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Child Health and Human Development Journal of Family Violence, Child and Family Behavior Therapy, and Behavioral Interventions, and is the author of five books, including Reducing Child Maltreatment: A Guidebook for Parent Services and is editor of Preventing Violence: Research and Evidence-based Intervention Strategies (2006).  Way to go, John! 6/2009

Lynn (Magnuson) Watkins - "Marvalous and EnRiching" were Lynn's descriptions of the 40th reunion.  She provided the fabulous photo of Marva Wiedemer and Rich Coakley seen on the reunion page of this site.  To Bill, she pens, "Thanks for the entertainment... though I barely understood a word you said. "I kon't doe mutts a watter miff we."  To David Threefoot, that was a fun two-step we kicked up.  To Marie and Allan, "Yogah cittavritti nirodhah."  To John Poimiroo, "Get on those short shaped skis."  To Martha, Nancy and Jean, "Fun!", to Julie, Patti and Louise, "Fab!" and to everyone else, "Class Act and Lots of Love." 11/2005

Stephanie Maiman - We recently received a note from Dorothy Oliver containing news about Stephanie Maiman.  Stephanie teaches math in Montego Bay, Jamaica, does portraiture, has lots of dogs and looks as if she found the fountain of youth.  For more about her, visit her blog at http://360.yahoo.com/marleykingston.  12/2007

John McCulloch - Just removed from the missing list by Marva Widemer, John McCulloch was located in Oxfordshire, England.  John has been living in the UK for many years with his wife, Nancy.  She passed away recently and the report is that John plans to return to the U.S. once real estate prices recover there and he is able to sell his home in the Cotswolds. 12/2009

Marva (McGrady) Whelan-Wiedemer - After receiving a BA in Poli-Sci from UC Davis, Marva rose to Senior Group Manager of Worldwide Event Marketing for Apple Computer and now owns her own event strategy and management company, Whelan & Associates, serving the high-tech industry.  Married twice, divorced once and widowed once, Marva lives in Healdsburg, CA. She has two daughters, Natalie (University of Nevada admissions manager) and Sandy (computer graphics artist), a son-in-law and two grandchildren (Zach, 17 and Cassie, 12) who live in Reno.  Active in Healdburg non-profits, co-producing the Mr. Healsburg Pageant ( a fund-raiser for the local Raven Theater) and providing marketing communications for the Healdsburg Historical Museum. She enjoys traveling to Hawaii and Europe. 12/2009

Katya Miller - Katya has been living in New Mexico for 10 years where she has written, filmed, directed and produced several films and videos, including Lady Freedom, the story of the statue that tops the U.S. Capitol dome.  Katya received a B.A. degree in design and art history from UC Berkeley in 1970.  She is presently involved in an organic farm, Mid-east peace work, and writing an historical documentary. 10/2005

John Poimiroo - John and Joan (Gabler - Carlmont '66) live in El Dorado Hills where John has a private consultancy providing marketing communications and public relations services to travel companies and destinations.  He is also executive director of the National Parks Promotion Council and travel columnist for California's oldest daily newspaper, the Mountain Democrat.  They have three grown children: Nicole (a private government analyst based in San Jose), Louis (CFO for Fox Digital Media and Senior Financial Analyst for 20th Century Fox) and Aimee (Sales Manager, Palace Hotel, San Francisco). John took Lynn's advice, trading in his long boards for tiny shaped skis.  Last seen, he was wiggling his way down the Silver Belt at Sugar Bowl.  12/2009

Leah (Smith) Champion - Since 1973, Leah has lived in Montara, CA.  She writes that her introduction to the coast occurred after she attended drag races at the Half Moon Bay airport.  Soon afterward, she became a coastside and car enthusiast.  At 25, while still a flower child, Leah invested in a small seafood restaurant located in Pillar Point Harbor ( Princeton-By-The-Sea).  She ran the ”Crab Cottage” for ten years, "learning lessons one can only get by running a small business.  At 35 Leah changed careers and became a real estate broker.  She writes that in those days, "interest rates were 17%!  When they went down to 12% we were in heaven.  Today the rates are at 5% yet I dream of the good ole days when banks actually made loans!"

Leah married Michael Champion, who she'd known since the age of 14.  Leah and Michael are child-free and says, "We forget how old we really are since we have not watched our children get their first grey hairs."  And, so they remain "a couple of kids at heart still figuring out want we want to do when we grow up.  We have a drum set and a piano in our living room and we enjoying playing songs from our youth like Santana, The Beatles, The Who, Dave Brubeck, Cal Tjadar, and favorites from our middle ages like Billy Idol, Taylor Dayne, Stevie Ray Vaughn to name a few.  We have no interest in Rap “music” and could not cross that generational music divide. 

Leah's new interest today is in alternative fuels and their production.  She says another business may be in its infancy for her.  On the esoteric side, she explores and keeps up with the latest guesses in physics and metaphysics and enjoys their frequent intersection.  Leah says she plans on living as long and learning as much as she can.  "We live in interesting times and I am very curious to see, of all the possible futures, which one still awaits the remaining mates of the Class of '65." 2/2009

Joanne "Jody" Zeimer Lawson was quoted in the Spring/Summer 2009 edition of Panther Postscript writing about art teacher Mr. Pat, "When I saw him at our 40th class reunion in 2005, I told him that he was the reason I chose to major in art at UCLA.  I have used it to some degree all of my adult life."

Editor's Note: Find additional updates on the Teachers page.

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