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Kath today in Florida

prplhrts1@webtv.net

I haven't heard any news of the reunion lately from my "homeys" in Anchorage so thought I'd see if you had any news or if there is anything someone who isn't living in Alaska might be able to contribute to the planning. I'm planning on coming and now trying to decide how since I've always flown up there I'm thinking I might like to cruise up there or drive the Alcan. All depends on the dates of when the reunion is scheduled.

You asked for a page on each of us. That's funny cuz I doubt that anyone would even remember the little girl with frizzy hair and glasses; I was totally uninvolved (and unfortunately, bored) at AHS. Thanks to our split school day and my morning classes, I worked throughout high school as a carhop at Jay's Drive In at 4th and Gamble and the CharCo Burger on the old Seward Hwy, another on Northern Lights and one in Mt. View. I worked for the Alaska State Police after high school until I left for Europe in 1967. I spent 11 years in universities in the states and in foreign countries, became a psychologist and then worked in mental health, social services and administration for the government until I retired in March 2008.

I married Franklin Wilson and cheerfully followed him through government assignments in Europe and Asia for almost 30 years. I once counted 46 countries that we traveled in but then lost interest in counting:-) It was an exciting life and one I'm grateful for the opportunity to experience. I'm even more grateful for the chance to travel throughout the USA for the government for the past ten years to get to know my own country.

I am now a fairly well-adjusted widow, a fortunate breast cancer survivor, and most proudly the mother of two wonderful adult kids who each live within 50 miles of me. I live in one of the world's most unique communities (70,000 people living in 38 European villages around two Town Squares with 42 golf courses and 90 miles of cart paths to travel to everything on so don't need to drive, many restaurants, shops, churches, live entertainment with dancing in the squares every night, and over 1000 activities to participate in - I'm golfing, swimming, volunteering, playing poker, and am so busy volunteering and playing that I don't know how I ever found the time to work. Life's been a great adventure, and while AHS was not an important facet of my life, growing up in Alaska was. I've only attended one reunion, the 40th in 1995, enjoyed it immensely and found I love you all for we shared coming to adulthood in a most unique place in a very special time and I found at that reunion that my classmates are wonderfully interesting people!

I stay in contact with Jeanne Waite Follett and Augusta Reimer and hear from other classmates every so often.

Read today that the temperature in Anchorage was 27 - hoping our reunion is still to be in summertime:-)

Kathleen Wilson
1310 Forest Acres Drive
The Villages, Florida 32162
(352) 391-4392

I'm glad to hear from you. I found two photos, the first of me at 18 in my fur parka, the other taken last Christmas. My maiden name was Kathleen Dunne. (my cousin Evy still lives in Anchorage - she graduated AHS four years before us and my younger sister Maureen moved back up there last summer and built a home on the lake in Wasilla).

I hadn't realized how few photos I've ever stood still for till I went looking. It was fun trying to find one for you. The parka photo is really special to me. It was very soft, silky and quite beautiful.

I was surprised when I went to the reunion to get the little name tag with my senior class picture. Do you have any yearbooks? I hope someone brings one to the reunion - my mom probably sold mine at a garage sale:-).