Class of 1974 Bios

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Class of 1974 Bios

NOTE: Students who graduated early may be listed under their original class.

Susan Boggs Sandor
I've been married to John Sandor for 23 years. We have 3 sons, Jonathan(senior at Auburn), Ryan(freshman at UTC), & Joseph(freshman at CBHS), and a foster daughter, Jessica(junior at U. of M.).We own a lumber co. & I'm a stay at home mom who loves spending time & traveling with family & friends. I'm an artist(oil-painting) & antique collector but my greatest passion are my flower gardens. I'm a volunteer for a number of charitable organizations & I stay active on my neighborhood association board; president for the past 5 years. Life is GREAT!!

E-mail me at sndor@hotmail.com

Lydia Douglas Henderson
Hi Everyone! Since I last saw most of you, I finally left the radio airwaves, and I became a flight attendant in 2001 for Northwest Airlines...but was furloughed after 9/11. I then became a real estate agent and have been very successful with that.. but NWA just recalled me in August to fly again... now or never. I took the chance and have been balancing both careers. My daughter is 16 now, I attend Hope Presbyterian Church and I live in Germantown.

E-mail me at cruisemem@aol.com

Becky Holt Yates
"Hola mis amigos". Those of you who may remember me might also remember that I was one of the few in Mrs. Barnes' Spanish class that really liked speaking Spanish. Well, now I teach it at Mansfield High School in Mansfield, Arkansas. I have been teaching for over 18 years now, and I truly love my career and the students I teach. In 1983 I received my B.S.E. from the University of Arkansas, and in 2001 I obtained my Masters degree from Arkansas Tech University. Being a foreign language teacher, I have been able to travel to Spain and Mexico, as well as Puerto Rico. My husband, Don, and I just celebrated our 30th anniversary in March. He is an electrical engineer and owns Yates Engineering Services. Our town just built a new high school two years ago, and he was very instrumental in the design and construction of it. We have two marvelous sons...Jeremy, who is a Science teacher at Bentonville High School, and Justin, who is a fire protection and safety engineering major at Oklahoma State University. My parents moved from Memphis in 1993, and they live about 10 miles from me in Greenwood, Arkansas. My dad loves to go fishing in our pond. We live on a large farm, Y Farms, where I raise Boer goats, and my husband raises Angus cattle. I still love my animals...in addition to the goats and cows, we have 3 dogs, 4 cats, 2 horses, and a llama. I'm hoping to make our farm a place where my future grandchildren will want to come and visit often. Jeremy married a wonderful young lady 6 years ago, but no grandbabies yet. My brother, Jim, who also graduated from REHS, is still living in Memphis. I wish I could have seen all of you at the reunion, but I had prior commitments. May God bless you all.

E-mail me at BYATES@mansfield.wsc.k12.ar.us

The Marx Brothers (and Sisters)
Jeff, Cindy (Class of 81), Suzan (77), and Greg (75).

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Jeff Marx

I am married to Ann with two kids: Madison 11 and Luke 8. I have been an Episcopal priest in Memphis for seven years (the last five in Collierville). Prior to that I worked ten years in social work (Youth Villages) and was also a Roman Catholic priest for five years.

My Christian faith is the center of my life, and I love to teach and also do a lot of counseling. I have tried to maintain my "famous" sense of humor. Unlike most of our class, I was already going bald when we graduated so I have looked this way for thirty years! I completed a half marathon two years ago (a few minutes ahead of the African guy who completed the full marathon). My kids are wonderful and keep me thinking young. I hope I won't see any grandkids for a long time! I greatly enjoyed the two reunions I attended. I also have memories of a truly wonderful and remarkable group of people with whom I grew up. We were truly blessed.

E-mail me at Jeff@standrewscollierville.org

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Kassy McCree Tanner
Howdy from Dallas, TX! I have been married 26 years in January and have two kids, Kelly is 28 and Josh is 25 and I have one grandchild who just turned 8. I have been in the hospitality business working at the Embassy Suites for 20 years and really love it. I am a huge baseball fan and have hopes that the Texas Rangers will someday go to the big game. I joke with my friends about owning stock in the Lady Clairol hair products, I’d probably be totally gray now, but keep it red. I have been out of touch with so many people since moving to Texas and had not heard about any reunions previous to this one.

E-mail me at kassy.tanner@ihrco.com

Amy and Nick

Amy, Scotty & Robert

Hoyt, Natalie & Robert

RIO Lips tour

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Amy McNatt Nutzell
After graduating REHS I attended MSU studying Journalism and of all things, Home Economics. I married my childhood sweetheart, Mike Nutzell (class of 73) in 1977. During my newlywed days, I became seriously ill and spent several months in the hospital which forever and dramatically changed my life. I have dealt with a serious chronic life-threatening illness (lupus) ever since spending lots of time in hospitals and doctors offices. By the grace of God I’m not only happy to say, but blessed to say I’m still around and enjoying life to the fullest. Mike and I are blessed with two beautiful children, Natalie, 24 and Nick 16. Natalie is engaged to professional poker player Hoyt Corkins (www.hoytcorkins.com) and she lives in Las Vegas and maintains a condo here in Cordova. Nick is Senior Patrol Leader with his Boy Scout troop. He has been active in scouting for 10 years. Mike works nights Wed – Sat at FedEx as an electronics technician and basically keeps all the conveyor systems and bar code scanners working in the hub at FedEx. Several years ago I once again became a college student, (part-time) at University of Memphis to obtain a 4 year degree in Paralegal Studies. I continue to go to school when work, health and life allows me to work on obtaining that degree. In the fall of 2003, after many years of being fascinated by poker, I decided to learn to play. Shortly thereafter I won several small tournaments in casinos and then several large online real money tournaments which resulted in me becoming involved in a poker related movie’s limited release (Shade) complete with red carpet Hollywood premiere. It was fun and my 15 minutes of fame so to speak. I currently work in Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations at GTx, Inc. which is a men’s biomedical company that is working on several health related issues for men, including prostate cancer and androgen deprivation therapy (muscle wasting). I love my job. However, poker is my passion. In 2004 I went to poker dealer school and obtained my gaming license and worked as a dealer during the WPO in 2005. I travel about the country playing in some tournaments but mostly playing the cash games related to the WPT and WSOP Circuit events. I’m a strong cash game player but I’m working on my tournament game, which needs improvement. This year I played in the World Series of Poker Ladies at the Rio in Las Vegas. If you are interested, you can check out my poker travels and poker yarns at http://amnutz.blogspot.com/.

E-mail me at amnutz@bellsouth.net

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Jeanie Palmer Dowdle
After graduating from Memphis with a BBA and Masters of Science, I married Wayne Dowdle (he was a Sr. at Memphis when I was a freshman). We only dated two months, got engaged and married within six months and are still together 27 years later. We have three great kids, Clint, Brooks and Blair. Clint attended Christian Brothers University on a basketball scholarship, graduated last May and is getting his master's at UT in Knoxville. He is currently on staff in Football Operations and reports to Coach Fulmer. After all these years we are actually becoming Tennessee fans, not easy since Wayne played college football and I cheered for Memphis. Our daughter Brooks just finished her 2nd year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. We were truly a house divided at the Alabama, UT game last fall. Our youngest, Blair is 13 and will enter the 8th grade at Evangelical Christian School. I work for International Paper and have for 20 years - long enough to receive 5 weeks of vacation - yipee! My husband, Wayne, owns Dowdle Sporting Goods and also coaches football at ECS. We stay busy supporting our kids activities, are active at First Evangelical Church, and enjoy attending football games.

E-mail me at jeanie.dowdle@ipaper.com

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Bill Pinch
Since we graduated, I have actually been able to do many of the things I wanted to, but had no idea how to make them happen. Right after graduation, I did ride my motorcycle on a loop through Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, down the California coast and ultimately back to Memphis. After returning to Memphis (with a mild case of pneumonia!) I started at Harding College (now Harding University) and was able to room with high school buddy Mike Gipson. Through the magic of CLEP, when we finished our freshman year, I was a junior and had to declare a major. I had no idea what I wanted to study so I left school. (God bless all of you who had a plan!) Worked a couple of jobs I hated. During those few years I made a motorcycle trip to the other coast up into New England. I haven't owned a bike for many years now (they kept getting stolen) and I really miss riding. Went to work for my mom's second husband in 1978 though they were no longer married. He kept me on the road for several years which is how I came to Florida. While here I bought a small hobby shop with the intent of getting it on its feet and moving it someplace where the seasons change. By the time the shop was doing well, I was married and she was at the front end of a now long career at the Space Center. The marriage lasted 13 years (ended in 1996) and produced two beautiful, brilliant, athletic daughters; Sydney now 16, Taylor 13 (second photo). While going through the divorce process, I was finishing up an A.A. at the local community college. Some interning I did as part of my communications classes led to opportunities to DJ and get involved in TV and film. If you watched the FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON series on HBO, you might have caught a couple of close ups directors Michael Gross and Sally Field were kind enough to give me in a couple of episodes. I was never given "a line". Stayed busy with all that stuff through '97 and part of '98. At that time I sold my shop and left film to take a "real job" in the electronics industry. BIG MISTAKE! After three years the company downsized, but it didn't take me even that long to realize I shouldn't have left the things I was passionate about. I have now been with UPS for five years. Good job, great company, but in another five years (when Taylor graduates) I will be looking seriously to move where the seasons change. So, I seem to have been many places and done many things, but have not fashioned a career from any of them! At the same time I was leaving the film and hobby industries, fate smiled upon me in the form of Judi Miller. Those of you who attended the 1999 reunion met her. We met in 1978 in Columbus, GA where we attended the same church. When her marriage ended (two years after mine) we began seeing each other again. We have been next - door - neighbors for the past six years.

E-mail me at bpinch1@bellsouth.net

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Gail Rasberry Schledwitz
I have been married 24 years to Karl Schledwitz. We have 2 wonderful daughters; Kathryn is 22 and just graduated from Emory University this spring and is working in New York City in Commercial Real Estate; and Karly is 19 and just finished her Freshman year at Furman University in Greenville, SC. They have been and continue to be a great source of pride and joy for us. We moved in June of 2005 to downtown Memphis on the South Bluffs overlooking the River. We love it!

My mother is 83 and very healthy, still living in Millington. My father is deceased. I have been building houses for the last 10 years, but I am slowing that down and not working as much. We like to travel (the picture was a visit to Florence to see Kathryn during Thanksgiving last year), play tennis, and we are big UT Vol fans.

E-mail me at gail@southlandcapital.com

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Ruthann Ray
I've been married to Rex Deloach since 1982. We moved to Oxford, Mississippi in 1994 and live on beautiful property outside town with our 5 horses, 3 cats and 1 dog. I have a 45 year old stepson, Marc. I graduated from Rhodes College in 1978 after rooming all 4 years with Karen Anderson, now Rev. Karen Wismer. After working for Arthur Andersen in public accounting for 3 years, becoming a CPA in the process, I went to graduate school in Boston and received an MBA from Harvard University in 1983. Upon graduation I came home to Memphis to my patiently waiting husband and went to work for Malone & Hyde. I worked there for 8 years. I also taught accounting at Rhodes for a year – it was interesting to go back to my alma mater as a teacher. After Rex and I moved to Oxford, I did financial consulting work on a 3/4 time basis for many years until we bought a 50’ boat in 2001. We cruised offshore through the Bahamas and around Florida before selling the boat in 2002. Now we are landlocked once again. Rex retired from Arthur Andersen in 1996, well before their collapse. Still, that hurt as it was a firm that we had both worked for and been quite proud of. We work together in the financial consulting business today when it suits us, but try to not take on terribly time consuming projects. I seem to be better at retirement than my 68 year old husband. I have stayed in touch over the years with Cathy Smith Norwood, Karen Anderson Wismer, Janet Pfeiffer, Tina Byers Voelker, Susie Simpson Carlson, Susan Crow Granger and Jamie Sessions Murphy. That’s pretty good considering that only Susie still lives in Memphis.

E-mail me at RuthannRay1@aol.com

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Steve Reid
The beautiful child in the photo with the old man is my 7 year old son Grant. Love being a father and enjoying all that it has to offer. Working as a Manager for a small Wallcovering Company out of Ohio with a great group of co-workers. Enjoying my time giving back as best I can through international missions and local urban projects through my church. Working to improve family life for children and parents through the TN. legislation to put "families" first, specifically for children of divorced parents. In my spare time I do some horse trail riding with family, golf with family and friends.

E-mail me at steveallanreid@bellsouth.net

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Alan Rowell
Hello! After my one year at REHS, my family moved and I found myself at Ridgeway High School. Similar to RE, I was in the second graduating class of the school's history. After that, went to UT Knoxville and had too much fun. Wound up back in Memphis, then many years and as many jobs before I found myself in Baton Rouge, LA and decided to go back to school at LSU. Switched from playing bass to drums. After working in ad agencies, I focused on graphic design. Next headed West and rediscovered my love for two-wheeled transportation and learned a lil' computer operating system from 2 geniuses in a garage in Cupritino, CA. Wound up combining my hobby and my training and have been working in the motorcycle industry for
nearly 20 years now and love it. Webmaster for local dealerships in Northern California and also the North American importer of one of the Italian sportbike manufacturers. In between I have ridden back and forth across the country a few times, taken many photos along the way, met a slew of interesting people, embraced Barry Bonds as the greatest baseball player of our lifetime, seen parts of this great land that few have been lucky enough to experience and turned into one of those #$%@ San Francisco liberals that most of the US doesn't understand. Never got married, no kids, family still back in Louisiana and happy with my life. Currently living north of SF in Marin County about 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean, my sometime commute is a twisty lil' backroad through coastal pine forests past Skywalker Ranch on Lucas Valley Road. I thank George every time for that lil' piece of asphalt nirvana! So yeah, I've turned into a total gearhead.

E-mail me at alanrwl@gmail.com

Bruce Ruoff
Graduated from State Technical Institute in 1979 as an Electrical Engineer. BSIT from Southern Illinois University in 1989. Got married in 1980 to a Japanese woman I met next door. Have 2 to beautiful children Jennifer 23 student at UTK and William 19 Student & Athlete at New Mexico Military Institute.
Got old, fat, lost my hair, started wearing glasses, and losing mind. But I still have my original teeth.
Presently employed at Smith Nephew as a Facility Project Manager. Recently built my own home at 4794 Germantown Road Bartlett, TN 38002 and will probably move to Fayette County or Knoxville in the next five years.

E-mail me at bruoff@bellsouth.net

Annette Taylor Bramblett
Steve and I have been married for 31 years and live in Madison, AL. We have two children. Shana is 28, married and lives in Memphis. She is working at Regions Bank and will graduate from University of Memphis in December with her Masters Degree in Technical Writing. Her husband works for FedEx. Our son is 21, married and lives in Huntsville, AL. He and his wife work and are going to Virginia College. I am office manager for Document Destruction Services, have been there for 5 years and love it. Steve is an Electric Engineer and a graduate of the 73 class. He can tell you all about his career himself. We have a great life, enjoy our time together more every day. Now, I'm just waiting on the day I can spoil grandchildren.

E-mail me at annettebr@knology.net

Cliff Tvede
Greetings from Albuquerque, NM. After graduating, I graduated from State Tech. in 1976, Memphis State in 1981. I went to work as a Field Engineer for an Oil Field Service Co. in Hobbs, NM, Odessa, TX and Roswell, NM. (no UFO's seen). Met my wife Karen at a well site 50 miles east of Roswell in 1984. Was laid off in 1986 and got married about the same time. Went back to school in Albuquerque. Graduated in 1987 and also was picked up to train as an Air Traffic Controller. Moved to Houma La. then Midland, TX where my daughters were born. Taylor is 14 now and Hayley, Rachel, and Lacey are now 11. YES TRIPLET GIRLS and YES IT'S BEEN AN ADVENTURE. Now we have been living in Alb. for a little over 10 years.

E-mail me at cmtvede@comcast.net

Gary Vaughn

Hey Classmates, What’s been going on over these many years? Well, as Joe Walsh said “Life's Been Good to Me So Far”. My folks are retired and living well in God’s Country, Arkansas. Their health has remained good. Susan and I play golf quite often with Dad. I have two wonderful kids in college. My daughter, Katherine, is studying law at the University of Miami. My son, Tyler, is majoring in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. My better half (and if you know Susan you know that is very much the case) and I are a great team. We enjoy golf, swimming, movies, partying, … well you get the picture. We enjoy life together. Susan is a very good friend of mine, too. A wise man once said that if you can count your true friends on one hand you are a very lucky man. Well, I’ve been very blessed because it take two hands to count my true friends.

On one of our trips to New Orleans a few years ago Susan picked up a desk trinket for me that sums up my life. It reads, “If you haven’t grown up by 40, you don’t have to.”! The theme for this reunion has to do with “Who are these old people?” Well, Jimmy Buffet described me to the tee when he said “I’m growing older but not up”!

Now I’ll tell you a little bit more about me… I’m currently marketing for a sports uniform company out of Columbus, OH, Ares Sportswear. I have also been refereeing Division I men’s college basketball for the last 15 years. Shocking that I have stayed in the sports world, huh? As I alluded to earlier, I still enjoy all outdoor activities and especially with my family. P.S. We are cat people 5 times over! Just ask me about it!

E-mail me at garywvaughn@yahoo.com

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