1960 Anchorage High Reunion: Classmates

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Jim Shook and Julie (Edwards) Shook

Jim Shook 1960 AHS yearbook

Julie Edwards, 1960 Sophomore

Hello Craig: Thank God I got to marry Julie Edwards. After I graduated, Julie moved with her parents to Seattle as her dad had transferred there with the Army. Julie finished her schooling there at Lincoln High. In 1961 I flew to Seattle to purchase a piece of heavy equipment ( a WWll amphibious DUCK) and drive it up the Alcan to Haines.

I stayed with the Edwards family while in Seattle and the night prior to my departure we took a walk down to Green Lake and I proposed marriage to her. Julie turned me down and I left the next morning sad and dejected. I wrote one letter soon after and then lost track of her for the next 30 years.

Following two fourteen year marriages to two nice women I had been foot loose and fancy free for a while then in my mind began a recurring theme that hounded me for weeks. Find "Tiger", find Julie Edwards! I called my sister Susan in Haines she knew Julie's sister, Charlott, who lived in Seattle and kept in touch. I knew nothing of Julie's life or circumstance but had to find out why I was becoming so involuntarily obsessed with Julie Edwards.

I got the number, called her that evening. As soon as we heard each others voice, it was all over. I thought my heart was going to explode. I was dumfounded at my reaction but clearly madly in love. That was Oct. 21st 1991. We were married March 3rd. 1992. It has been an intensely romantic time ever since.
Jim Shook

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