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| Shawnee City Council member; President of Sandifer Leasing, Corp (land development); chairperson St. Patricks Day parade and Old Shawnee Days; Involved with Nights of Columbus, Irish American and German American Clubs |
| Since I moved away before graduation, to live in Texas, I have worked accounting jobs, and kept up with my kids lives, I am very active with all they do, along with our youth at church. |
| Shoveling dirt, raising 3 daughters, working on cars |
| Family, Starting a Business |
| Started my own construction business. |
| I have worked the last 26 years at Yellow Freight as a mechanic. Spent approx 18 years drag racing semi-professionally. I am happily married and have two children, one finishing school and one just starting!My family and I spend our free time at Stockton Lake.We enjoy boating and have plans to build a log home in the near future. |
| He has worked at General Motors for 37 years. He met Kelli in Detroit two years ago and got married in 2003. They met in Detroit while working for General Motors. |
| Tole painting, gardening and redecorating our home. Raising our family, working as a Registered Nurse @ a local hospital, traveling with my husband and enjoying our two grandchildren. |
| I have worked at General Motors for 24 years. I graduated from Baker University with a degree in English in 1996 (I'm slow). |
| Are you kidding? Lot's of stuff. |
| Work with Commercial & Mortgage Loans, banker since 1977, starting at Shawnee State Bank, currently at Kearney Commercial Bank. |
| I am a Telecommunications Manager for Middlesex Community College |
| Graduated from Kansas State in 1978 with a degree in Business and went to work in public accounting in Oklahoma City and Wichita. Was hired away by Pizza Hut in 1983 and have been working for them for the last 21 years; primarily in Wichita but moved to Dallas in 1997 and then to Louisville in 2001. My current role is the controller for the international business for YUM! Brands(Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers and A&W parent company)and risk management--insurance. It provides me the opportunty to travel to many of the major cities in Europe and Asia. On the personal side I got married in 1979 and we had two children, Benjamin who will be 18 in August and Timothy who died at age five from leukemia. Shortly after his death we divorced. Ben is very involved in football so the fall pretty much is focused on Friday night games(kind of reminds me of the old high school days!) During the holidays, spring and summer I travel quite a bit so we squeeze everything else in between trips. |
| Been married, divorced and remarrying again 8-2003. Work for the county. I have my a wonderful man who loves me,two dogs and a Harley. That's about it! |
| I attended Jccc for a year. Got married, had a daughter (Katie), Got divorced. Remarried and moved to Connecticut where we lived for 5 years. We then moved back to Kansas for 6 years before moving to Kentucky. We some how found our way back to Kansas again and are living in Louisburg. I worked in insurance for eleven years and then returned to school and got a degree in nursing. |
| A housewife,bookeeper,and restaurant/bar owner. |
| I got married in 1977; worked full time. Enjoyed traveling to places like Colorado, Florida, Chicago, Atlanta, California and Hawaii. Had my only child in June of 1993. Divorced two years later. Remarried in December of 1996. Have taken two cruises; 1st time to Cozumel, Caymen Islands and Jamaica. 2nd cruise to the Bahamas and Key West. Am currently employed with the Shawnee Mission School District. |
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| Joined the USAF in 1974 and retired January 1, 1999. Lived in Florida for a great deal of that time. Participant in Desert Shield/Storm. Leaving for a contractors position in Iraq. |
| How do you sum up the past 30 years? Currently I am a retired Air Force Officer working with Qualis Corporation as a contractor here at Eglin Air Force Base in NW Florida. My last assignment in the USAF was flying F-15's with the 33d Fighter Wing at Eglin and before that I was flying F-4G |
| Nursing Degree, William Jewell College,
Nurse at Methodist Hospital in Omaha |
| Raising my kids and now I am an Office Manager for a scale company. I also have 3 grandchildren and will have #4 in November. |
| Have owned or been a part of restaurant businees since1976 Graduation from college in 1978 from Ottawa University |
| Working and living life to its fullest. |
| I worked in the music business for ten years after high school. I have been working as a professional chef for almost twenty years now. I have been with Lidia's Kansas City for the past five years as their Executive Chef. |
| College: BA in Education Married: 23 years left Kansas in 1980. |
| Married to Debbie Nonemaker 25 years. Two sons; Derrick 22 Devry computer programming major, Grant 20 Mid-Am Nazerene business/coaching athletics |
| Facing all of the trials and tribulations in life, from marriage, through raising two children, losing my dad, and moving gracefully into middle age. The amazing thing is that I still feel like I did when I was about 20 years old, and I don't take life too seriously. I just go with the flow. |
| I worked and put my husband through law school at Cornell. We then lived in SC for a year. Then on to DC where we have lived for 22 years. My oldest son is married and I am expecting my 1st grandchild in June. I have enjoyed many outdoor sports. |
| U.S. Postal Service Letter Carrier |
| I attended KU and received a degree in secondary education. I was Miss Kansas in 1974, and took off one semester and traveled with the USO performing in Europe, North Africa and Southeast Asia. I did my student teaching at Shawnee Mission South, but then took a job with Southwestern Bell for two years. I married Jim Fender in 1979 and moved back to Lawrence. I opened the Dance Gallery, a dance studio in Lawrence, KS. I've been teaching dance ever since! Jim and I have two sons, Ryan, who will be 23 in July and is completing a degree in business at KU, and Jason, 21 who has spent the past three years at the University of Wyoming playing football, but is planning on attending either Ft. Hayes State to go to school and play football or KU and just be a student,in the Fall. |
| Graphic Artist & illustrator |
| I work for the Oklahoma State Department of Health as the Chief of the Child Guidance Service - I started as a Speech Pathologist in Clinton, OK and have had a great career with the Health Department. Can't believe they let me be in charge of the program! We had kids in our mid-30's so we are spending our time at ball games and dance recitals when many of my classmates have all of that out of the way. Not much time to do anything else! |
| Boy alot has happened in 30 years! I began doing restaurant management within a couple years of graduating high school. I managed restaurants in Kansas, Iowa, and Topeka. I have three children, |
| worked at GE for 18 years doing reaining and performance development for managers and employees. The last five years I have ben with a company called Drake Beam Morin working as a consultant for executives and individuals going through job transitions. Most recently our oldest daughter and her husband had their first child, so I am now retiring to take care of our grandson, Benton Joshua Harding, three days a week. This will be lots of fun. |
| Working and raising my family and trying to enjoy it to its fullest |
| I have worked at Water Dist.#1 of Johnson County for almost 26 years.I have three children,one daughter and two son's.My daughter is a R.N. and getting married this summer.My oldest son has just come back from Japan,being stationed on the USS KItty Hawk,and is now getting out of the Navy(20 more days).My youngest son is a junior in high school and an all star goalie on the soccer team. |
| 4/20/04 KansasCity Star "...John Sarver admitted that he robbed six banks in Leawood, Prairie Village, Shawnee and Olathe between January 2002 and December 2003...Sarver faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, without chance for parole, on each count. Sentencing was set for July 12." |
| Navy after High School, college, joe jobs, currently work for the Federal Prison system. |
| Business degree from KU, then into the printing and electronic industries. For the past 20 years I've been in management of an international restaurant and supply company based in KC. |
| Pastor of Westminister Presbyterian Church |
| Shauna is a nurse in a doctors office, pastors wife, mom |
| Retired |
| Owns Shawnee Mission Builders. Enjoys weekends at the lake and vacations at the beach. |
| After Graduation, I attended Kansas University where I majored in Elementary Education and minored in Theatre. I graduated from KU in 1977 and taught my first kindergarten in Lawrence at a small Christian school. I continued teaching until 1988 when I married my wonderful husband and had five beautiful children. We have homeschooled for the last ten years. I teach art to other homeschooled students and teach/act at our church. I stay busy and love my life. I consider myself very blessed. |
| BS Math from UMKC, MS Ed from KU |
| Railroad Managment, Fishing and camping |
| Worked for a year,moved to Dallas,Went to KU, Married Joyce Kemper from SMS, Worked for Bell Helicopter in Tehran, Iran then back to KC, then Atlanta to computer technology school, graduated and transferred to Ft. Lauderdale, then Miami, then Columbia, SC., then Amarillo, TX., then Albuquerque, NM., back to Amarillo,TX, then moved up to Lenexa for 3 years and then back to Amarillo in 1997. I currently own my own ISP/ASP/Wireless networking company and search engine mydot.com. The business side focuses mainly in Healthcare providing these services. Beginning new "smartpark" development contract in Amarillo called Pointwest. check it out at pointwestamarillo.com |
| Raising three beautiful daughters. Now that they are on their own I am working in an elementary school as an office aide. Best job ever, lots of days off! |
| Working in medical administration; raising two children, traveling to Europe, Greece, and Turkey. |
| Working, School/College, Marriage, Daughter. I am an RN working as a school nurse for nine years. Previously worked at KUMed Ctr. I have been settling into a new house and that has taken up a lot of time! |
| Working! Raising my family. |
| Graduated Electronics Institute in 1976. Worked at Armour Amusement in KCKS until 78 and went to work for Union Pacific Railroad. While working for UPRR and living in Shawnee I was a Reserve Police Officer for Shawnee until I moved to Omaha in 1984 for UPRR. While at UPRR I received my BS from Bellevue University in Business Admin. in 1994. I left UPRR after 22 years as the Sr. Manager of Fiber Optics and went to Norman Oklahoma as the Vice President of C&S Construction where we installed fiber optic cables. I left there in 1999 and came back to Omaha where I was partners in a consulting company doing fiber optic installation monitoring. In October of 2002, I formed McCall Enterprises, Inc. and bought Omaha Electronics and now am the proud owner of my own business (too many hours and no pay:The American dream). I married Julie Schelstrate in 1975, had three kids-Matt 23, Adam 21 and Angie 16. Divorced and in 1990 married Joan in Omaha. Joan and I have no children of our own, but Adam works with me at the store and lives with us and Angie recently came to live with us in Omaha so we have a house full. I have a 70 acre ranch in Southern Nebraska (10 miles from Kansas) which is where I like to spend my time. I still do project management for fiber optic related projects and getting ready to ramp up for a year long class action lawsuit related to fiber optics. |
| College at K-State, Lived in Texas Married, Kids, US Navy- Desert Storm two tours, divorce, Married with children farm (Dis-L-Do Ranch) Power Plant operator, Horse activities and activities with family |
| Working, raising two daughters, coaching & watching alot of fast pitch softball |
| Besides working at the CDC, I am also in the US Army Reserve. I recently participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
| Joined the Navy in 1976....and I'm STILL on active duty! |
| I have been an artist for the last 25 years, although it is not as good as it may sound. Lived in alot of places and traveled . Grew older and a little wiser. |
| Working in direct marketing industry, lived 3 years in New Jersey, 9 years in London (England), 3 years in Fort Lauderdale. |
| Living, Loving, raising my three children, working & traveling. |
| Raising boys, working at Deluxe Check Printers, once owned a gift shop, lots of traveling including Germany and Alaska, own/operate Donovan's Service with my husband Patrick, his grandfather started the business in 1937. |
| I have been in the manufacturing business since I got out of the Marine Corp. I have moved around a bit since then. I have lived in Arizona, South Carolina and now in Florida. I'm back in school going for a career change. I'm working on a RN degree. Manufacturing is moving over seas and I'm ready for a change. |
| Went to JCCC for an AA in Nursing. Have worked for St. Luke's Hospital since 1876. Went back fro BSN at KU, graduated in 1986. Got married in 1993, divorced in 1996. Now have a beautiful, energic daughter. |
| Traveling and working in Sales |
| I graduated from Iowa State University in 1978 with a Mechanical Engineering degree; joined the Marine Corps and saw the world, did wild things, and met interesting people (but didn't have to kill them); married Elizabeth from Boston, lived in Hawaii for awhile, and settled in Maine. My wife is a nurse, I have two wonderful children, and everyone is healthy. I'm the chief mechanical engineer in a small design firm, which is very enjoyable and challenging. We live in a small town on the coast of Maine, which is a wonderful place to live. I have a boat moored off the beach that I use for lobstering; I'm able to build an ice rink in the yard for the kids to use; we all ski, run, and bike; and, we don't need air conditioning (I don't miss those hot Kansas summers). Winter is my favorite time because we can skate and ski so much. |
| I got a BA in Drama in 1978, got married, got a teaching credential in 79, had babies and taught high school drama in Arroyo Grande, California ever since. |
| Raising a family. Matt is a junior at KU. Celebrated 25 years of marriage May 2003. I take art classes and love to quilt. Rick & I enjoy traveling & spending time with family and friends. Also just welcomed our 1st grandchild; a beautiful little girl, born July 21st. |
| I have a degree from K-State in Home Economics but have always worked in the accounting field. I was working for Heartland Corporation (makers of Spot Shot Carpet Cleaner)as an accounting manager but the company was bought out by WD40 and moved operations to California. |
| Works at WaterOne. |
| Six years in Navy, married 20 years (divorced) Work for an international packaging machine manufacturer. |
| Started a printing company in Shawnee with a Partner in 1990, raising 2 kids and enjoying life. |
| I teach at Pratt Community College |
| Raising a family and working in the Medical field administraition. |
| PBS "Frontier House" |
| Living life! |
| Raising children,working in spcial ed for the school district,currently emplyed in Bank Card Review with JC Penney's. |
| breathing |
| Restoring my parent's home that I grew up in. |
| For the past 30 years ... Learning (in & out of the classroom), Loving (wonderful spouse,family & friends), Traveling (U.S., Western Europe, Eastern Europe), Growing (as a person, an educator and software engineer), Enjoying Life (in a variety of places with a variety of people and a variety of challenges), Serving (20 years in the Air Force), Writing (freelance stuff), Smiling (every day), Contiplating (everything). Who am I? |
| I went to K-State after graduation, I worked for Earl May for 13 years, then worked for the J.C. Nichols Company until 1999. I now work for Ryan Lawn and Tree. I met my wife Beth at K-State, we will be married for 23 years this May. We have two boys Matt, 20 and Dale, 18 and a senior in high school. |
| MBA Avila College and lots of computer classes. I spent most of my working years in Telecommunications. I am currently doing website design. Tim and I just celebrated our 20th anniversary. |
| After spending eight years in business we became missionaries to Africa. We've lived in Congo, France and currently in Côte d'Ivoire |
| raising my boys |
| Teaching the youth of America, or at least trying, rescuing dogs, and stumping the medical community. |
| During the summer of 74' joined the Marine Corp, traveled around the world three times over, got married and divorced once, married had three children and divorced again and after thirteen years and eleven months was disably discharged. I then went to work for the US Post Office and became a disgruntled postal worker. After about eleven years of that I had found out I had become a chronic drug addict living in dispair and saw no way out til I was called in for voluntary questioning by Kansas Cities finest. I was taken to KU Crises center for an evaluation and was then transported to Providance Hospital Menninger Hall for detox. Come September 24 03' I will have had five years sobriety! Thanks to the good LORD and Detective Seifert. I then met for the first time my true Soul Mate and after about one thousand times of proposing and getting the answer "maybe and maybe someday" she finally said yes! We were then married on December 19, 98' (Three times a charm). In August of 00' we were blessed with a millenium miracle baby boy! Terri had also been married twice before and had no children, so we thought she couldn't. Now I'm a proud, forty-seven year young, father of a two year old! That pretty much sum's it up. |
| To make a long story short, my husband of 27 years is a locomotive engineer for Union Pacific. I am a stay-at-home mom with six children and three grandchildren (who live with me). My eldest daughter is married and lives in Shawnee. My eldest son Craig is a religion major at MNU. |
| Raising my sons and working for an International Labor Union. |
| Living in Colorado, Texas and Europe...working as an environmental consultant...traveling around the world (China, Australia, Africa, Indonesia, Europe)...recently moved back to Kansas City and opened an environmental and engineering consulting company in old town Lenexa. Life is good! |
| Following my boys all over the southeast as they compete in soccer tournaments. |
| Going to school! I have my Masters of Science in Nursing as well as some post-graduate hours. I am a Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health. That means I can diagnose and prescribe within my scope of practice, but I'm not quite an MD. I like being an advance practice nurse. |
| CPA |
| Went to KU, and thought I was in love with a guy who moved to L.A. Followed him. Didn't work out. Met my husband and have been married 20 years with 3 sons. I was home with the boys for 10 years and went back to school to get a Master's in Special Ed. I now teach 3rd grade and all three boys are in high school. |
| Working. Working. Working. Seems as though I have been out of high school forever, I went to college in Arizona (Prescott College) and have a BA in Creative Writing. |
| I am a registered nurse working as a research nurse at St. Luke's Hospital |
| College (JOCO)/ (KU) - International Paper Co - Ethyl Corp. (and college SAU) - Self employed (last 12 years) |
| Trying to get away from ........ |
| I went to KU and graduated in 1978 in Education then taught for 2 years in a small Christian school. Mark and I were married in 1980 and I've been a housewife and mom ever since. We have 4 children: Kristen is finishing her second year in college, Chad is graduating from high school this year, Courtney is 16 and has Cerebral Palsy - I have the joy of caring for her at home, and Camden is 5 - he joined our family from South Korea when he was 6 months old. Mark was in business for about 18 years until a few years ago when we went with our church as full time staff members. We have lived in Blue Springs for about 15 years. |
| Landscaping |
| Moved to Washington, DC 1987; practing law in Washington, DC and Canada |
| Dru is a Senior Business Analyst at Argus Health Systems. |
| Getting older and wiser gracefully. |
| Went to Colorado State and graduated with a bachelor's in bilogical science. A B.S. in B.S......how appropiate! Moved to Estes Park to teach skiing at the local ski area, Hidden Valley, managed to find a way to stay in town. Got married, raising four pretty great kids, operate a lumberyard, trying to age gracefully. Pretty much living the normal "American dream" sort of stuff. |
| Graduated from KU with degree in Occupational Therapy. Worked at Parkland Hospital in Dallas Texas in the regional burn unit as a therapist for a year and a half. Started graduate school in Healthcare Admin, - went to work for Chubb (Chubb Group of Insurance Companies) in risk management/loss control. Did that for 20 years in Dallas, Tulsa, Houston then back to Dallas. Changed direction and went into administration/marketing. Have been in Tulsa, OK past 3 years as Branch Manager for Chubb. Coming up on my 25th anniversary with the same company. Got married to Gloria in June 1983, (21 years-wow!). Have two great kids, Erin 16 and Mark 14, although not sure I’m going to survive the teenage years. |
| Graduated from KU in 1978, and got married a few days later, moving to Independence MO at the same time. I began to work in social services, later returning for a masters degree in Social Work, which I completed in 1996. We live in an old historical neighborhood, close to family, church, and work. |
| Graduated from KU with dual majors, married my college sweetheart Art (who was an SMS grad), moved to DC area (Alexandria, Warrenton, Montclair), had a child, got divorced, remarried (Brian), moved to Ithaca, NY (he is a research engineer with Cornell), finished my MSW (Master's of Social Work). I have worked with Alzheimer's patients, developmentally disabled persons, HIV positive persons, and currently with at-risk families with small children. |
| Working. Raising my kids to be fine young adults. The two youngest are very active in singing and dancing, they have recently auditioned for a new t.v. series for the christian channel TBN. The youngest Nathan was picked to be one of the host for the show. And Danielle as a back-up singer and dancer!! And My oldest hasn't missed a day of school since the 4th grade. I am so proud of all three of them. I am a salesman for a local lumber company and we stay very busy. Between work and my kids activities I am always on the go. |
| It would be easier to ask what haven't I done. I have not found what I want to do for the rest of my life, so I keep trying new things. |
| Working as a nurse, selling antiques, making jewelry, raising my children |
| Raising two sons, working fulltime, currently working for my brother who is a tax attorney as his office manager |
