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Class of 1975 Bios

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Karen Bargery Ross
I've been in South Florida since 1980 -- I have survived several major hurricanes (even Katrina -- Aug 28, 2005!) Having worked for lawyers for 20+ years, I leapt into a Real Estate career in 1998, joining my mother who was a 40-year veteran in the business. In 2004, I was hired as the full-time training instructor for Broward County for EWMRealtors, a Berkshire-Hathaway company owned by Warren Buffet. I have a (side) marketing business for real estate agents. I enjoy teaching them how to market themselves.
My daughter Melody is now 27 and is a deaf-education teacher in Savannah, Georgia. She has been married since 02/02/02. Her Husband is an Army captain currently serving in Iraq.
I've enjoyed both of the combined reunions--they were very "healing."
The photo is me with my "fuzzy boys," Max & Murphy, Christmas 2006.

E-mail me at ross.k@ewm.com

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Betty Davidson Scalf
After graduation, I attended UT Martin and then transferred to Memphis State where I received my BS in Elementary Education. I taught 2nd grade for almost 5 years in public schools in Tennessee. In 1984 I remarried and moved to Hawaii for 3 years. What a life! I taught pre-school in Hawaii and spent a lot of time at the beach and having mainland visitors. My husband, Steve Scalf, was then transferred to California and we have been here ever since. I work as an administrative assistant in an independent school and my husband and I work part time at HP Pavilion in San Jose as ushers. We love it and were positioned at the players’ benches for the San Jose Sharks’ Stanley Cup Playoffs. We work all of the concerts and other events there. My step-daughter (25) plans to be married in Marietta, GA in June 2007 and my son (25) has tentatively set an August 2007 date to be married. The reunion website made me really want to attend the reunion, but we were in Memphis the first of July.

E-mail me at betty13@sbcglobal.net

Kim Cisneros
I left Memphis in 1984 to work for UsAirways airlines as a flight attendant in Pittsburgh, Pa. In the past 23 years I've lived in Nashville, Bowling Green Kentucky, Naples Florida, Oxford Miss. and Dallas Texas. I moved back to Pittsburgh 2 years ago. I started college at Memphis State after high school and finally graduated from Western Kentucky University with a journalism degree. With all the changes in the airline industry I'm looking to go back to school and hopefully moving back to Memphis. I spend most of my free time writing, traveling and of course supporting the Pittsburgh Steelers!!!!

E-mail me at kcisn@hotmail.com

Kathy Faulk Pozgar
Hey everybody! I am living in Birmingham, Alabama. My husband and I have been here since 2002. Prior to Birmingham, we lived in Nashville for 15 plus years. I have been in advertising sales and marketing more years than I am willing to admit. I met my husband in college and we have been married 27 years. We have a beautiful 23 year old daughter that has graduated from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!) and is now attending Nursing school in Atlanta, Ga. My parents and sisters are still in Memphis. Life has been great.

E-mail me at kpozgar@gmail.com

Bill & Dana
then and now.

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Bill Gossett & Dana Spiva Gossett
Bill moved to Memphis in 1973 from Virginia - so a lot of you don't really know who he is. We met and dated thru the remaining years of high school and married in July 76 and we are still married (they said it wouldn't last). Our oldest son Kevin was born in October of 1977. After several years living away with the Navy we moved back to Memphis in 1981 and our second son Kurt was born in May of that year. Bill formed his own custom painting company in 1981 and still has that same company now 25 years later. He works exclusively with one builder working on custom estate homes. I worked several different jobs over the years - but focused mostly on being a MOM. I currently work for CLINIQUE at Oak Court MACY'S. Our very handsome sons: Kevin works for his dad and married this past May, and we feel very fortunate to have a daughter now. Kurt is working as an A&P Mechanic, unmarried but very attached. Eight years ago we moved to Nesbit, Mississippi. We love it down here - not to far from the city but just far enough to be away... trying to find the countryside. I have run into so many of you over the years and often think about all my friends from school.

Marie Grammer Thompson
After graduating early with the Class of 74, I went to Memphis State University, played flute in the band there for a few years, then graduated with my B.A. in social work. After two years of working for the Department of Human Services, I went back to school (really, the longer you go, the better it gets) and got my M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Southern Mississippi. With that degree in hand, I flew off to Tokyo and taught English there for three years, at the same time working with a Christian organization reaching out to business and career people. It was a great experience. Back in the States in 1986, I went to work teaching ESL at the University of Memphis. While I always wanted to be married, God had other plans, and it wasn't until 1994 that I finally got married. I'm glad I waited, although my children are probably younger than the grandchildren of some of y'all!! My husband is Gerald Thompson, a physical therapist at Baptist Hospital. I quit teaching when our first child was born in 1995 (Ginny Elise). Our second child is Rebecca (born 1997) and our third child is Lukas (born 1998 in Slovakia and adopted by us in 1999). We go to First Evangelical Church where there are at least 3 other REHS grads. Our loves include working with kids at our church and being involved in an outreach program to international medical professionals at St. Jude's. In light of all I've done, high school seems only a vague, sometimes good, sometimes bad memory. But my senior year I was introduced to Jesus Christ, and that changed my life, inside and out, more than anything else could ever do.

E-mail me at gandmthompson@hotmail.com

Vickie Gray Lynch
I am still in Memphis living in the Cordova area. Both of my children are now grown and living on their own. My son is a draftsman and my daughter is studying Radiology.
I have my own business with internet auctions. I love the flexibility that it gives me.
I attend Jazzercise classes 4-5 days a week in Germantown and have been doing so for about 8 years now.
I am divorced but have a wonderful relationship with a man whom I adore. He is my best friend!
The best thing that I have done is starting a group called the Memphis Blues Queens for which I am the Boss Queen. There are 12 of us and we are a local chapter of the Sweet Potato Queens. We dress in blue sparkly dresses, black wigs, tiaras and boots and perform in local charity events as well as march in the Million Queen March in Jackson, MS at St. Patrick's Day each year. We have a TON OF FUN! Check out our website at www.memphisbluesqueens.com.

E-mail me at viclynch@comcast

Rick Harwell
I currently live in Unalaska, Alaska, some 800 mile west of Anchorage where I serve as the City of Unalaska Parks and Recreation Director (http://www.unalaska-ak.us/). After graduating, I completed my B.S. and M.S. in Recreation Administration at Memphis State and went to work for Tennessee State Parks. After four years, I headed back to MSU to teach in the Parks and Rec. Dept. Then off to the University of Utah to work on Ph.D. in Parks and Recreation. I left Utah in 1988 to work for the U.S. Navy in Maryland where I traveled around the world teaching recreation management. In 1992, I began college teaching again at East Carolina University and then at Clemson University. In 2001, I returned to Millington and worked another three years for Navy recreation until I moved to Unalaska to accept my current position. I am single again and have no children.

Sheila Hunter Brown
I am now living in Richmond VA, moved here from Memphis about 16 years ago. I am married to a wonderful man I met while working with the Defense Depot in Memphis. We have two beautiful daughters ages 15 and 17. My husband (Mikal) and I both work for the Defense Supply Center in Richmond. I am a IT Specialist Supervisor and manage 150 + Computer servers. I have 4 years left with the government and plan to retire and do some traveling. I was unable to attend the reunion because I was moving my mother from Florida to Virginia to be close to me. We make trips to Memphis to see my step daughters that still live in the area. Hope to see everyone at the next reunion.

E-mail me at sheila.brown@dla.mil

Greg & Brenda Christmas 2005 (above) and in August 2006, after Brenda started chemotherapy.

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September 2007

Brenda Ison Calhoun

I have been married to Greg Calhoun [CBHS Class of '73 and Susan's brother (REHS Class of '76)] for 30 years. I have one son, Geoff who is married to Chelsea (9/2004) and one daughter, Amy who is married to Wes Parker (8/2003). Greg owns his own software business, and I am the office manager for an investment firm. We have lived in Birmingham, AL since 1991~love it, love it, love it!

[Update posted 9-5-06] I wasn't able to make the reunion because my breast cancer returned and I started chemo the same week. Bummer. If you are interested, visit my Live journal link at http://bekay29.livejournal.com/. I have other news, tho....Greg and I are awaiting the arrival of our first grandchild, a boy, this Christmas! My daughter, Amy and her husband are expecting! We are obviously thrilled!

UPDATE--September 15, 2007

My cancer is currently in remission! It was a long, long nine months~~only three near-death experiences! I am back to work and back to life! We enjoy our 8 month-old-grandson so much. Now I know the meaning of that phrase, "If I had known grandchildren were so much fun, I would have had them first!"

I had an enormous amount of support from so many people, including many of my classmates I had not heard from in such a long time. Thank you all so very much! I had an incredible medical team but most importantly, I had a LOT of prayers~~and I know one could not do their job without the other!

E-mail me at bekay2929@yahoo.com

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Chuck Johnson
Thank you Lord most of all. Special thanks to Dale Berryhill for designing this wonderful website for us all. Great job! May it be maintained for future updates. To Vickie, Karen, Lydia, and the whole committees for all the work you have done on the Combined Reunion 2006, and adding the memorials page. To my long time good friend Leslie Maddox, (the best drummer, audio/video man), for keeping me informed in all things. I have put Jesus Christ first in my life! Someone once told me, go in the direction of your dreams. Well, to borrow a phrase from an old pioneer up here in the Ozark Mountains, near Branson, ‘I’ve been travelin’ a long, long time on the wilderness road’. From Lakewood Hills, to Raleigh Presbyterian Kindergarten, thru Coleman School, and Raleigh Egypt High School, (MSU, KVS, GCC, TRW), each and every one of you all have touched my life, and God Bless you for that. Make sure your name is written in the Lambs Book of Life, so we will all be ready to Graduate into our Heavenly Home in Paradise. I Love You All, and The Lord Loves You too! Peace Be Unto You.

E-mail me at sand777@interlinc.net

Bill Linke
while working full time in retail, i earned an associate's degree from state tech at memphis in 1981 in electrical engineering. i then transfered to christian brother's college (now christian brother's university) to earn my b.s..i got married in 1979 to barbara (bobbi) wente from lawrence, kansas. the true love of my life. the way we got together was that she hired me to be the drummer in her band. she had a daughter, kelly, from her first marriage that was eight years old when we started dating and eleven when we finally got married. i consider her to be my own child and she will tell anyone that i am her dad. she has blessed us with two grandchildren, taylor (girl) 12 years old and tanner, five years old.(that should win me something for having the oldest kid or grandkid or something, right?) even though i studied engineering, i never left the retail industry. i am currently an executive team leader (target slang for "manager") at the supertarget in cordova. up until five years ago, i was still active in music. after working the clubs around memphis for the better part of twenty years, including playing with the original DRIFTERS one night, bobbi and i got on with a country "sanger" who was able to get pretty far in the industry. we had a two year gig every weekend at the texas troubadour theater in opryland and i even got to be in the tnn movie "the dottie west story". i played the drummer in the grand ole opry house band the night that dottie west, played by michele lee of "knot's landing, makes her debut. if you ever see the movie, i am the geek with the slicked back hair in the ugly green blazer faking, i mean "playing" the drums.

i am looking forward to coming to my first rehs reunion this summer and seeing if it is just me, or has everyone gotten older (i mean - more mature)?

E-mail me at link3231@bellsouth.net

Pat Martin Burress
I have been living in Cullman, AL since "89". I Went back to school when I was 42 and became a hairdresser. I have three children Brooke 27. Jesse 22 and Wesley 21. I have been divorced 5 years so I hope to see some single people there LOL!!!!

E-mail me at burress7058@bellsouth.net

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Ronnie Mote
I'm still 18 years old (living in Destin helps erase time), although miraculously I've been married to my wife Carol for 24 years, and even more miraculously, she still tolerates me! My oldest son Jeffrey (20) lives in Oxford, Mississippi where we all spent 18 years of our lives owning a Danver’s Restaurant franchise. (Dale Berryhill, Tony Reid and Steve Green can attest to the fact that while I was in Oxford, I was still a Tiger fan. Yes, I was a Rebel fan, too, but I was still a Tiger in my heart.) Matthew (17), Carol and I are now living in Destin, Florida. I changed careers about 4 years ago after closing my restaurant and meeting the (then) CEO of ResortQuest, who was then located in Memphis (before selling out to Gaylord Entertainment). He then sent me to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where I was the Operations Manager of ResortQuest’s location there until February of 2005. He then partnered up with a few long-time friends and bought into a company called Sterling Resorts (www.SterlingResorts.com), which has its home office here in Destin. In March of 2005 he recruited me to join his team as Senior Regional Operations Manager, so here I am. Just slightly over a year ago we managed around 350 vacation rental properties, and now we're already topping 1,000. Once our current projects are built-out and completed, we'll be at just over 6,000, from Destin & Panama City, through Pensacola, Gulf Shores and all the way to Biloxi. So, as you can imagine, today I’m merely incompetent in knowing what I’m doing, and tomorrow I’ll be 20-times worse! So if you thought I was dumb at REHS, it didn’t get any better with age. (Now I’m dumb AND old!) Amazing that when you’re 17 you think, “I’m sure I’ll have it all together when I grow up.” WRONG! Unfortunately, because we were right in the middle of our busiest season, I wasn’t able to make the reunion this year. But THANKS to Dale and all of those who are making this website such a “live” site, I will at least feel like I’m “home”. Please keep posting the pictures and bios! They each bring a welcome smile (and usually a pretty nice flash-back).

E-mail me at rmote@sterlingresorts.com

Michael Murray
Since graduation, I served in the Navy. I am now a nurse. I live outside Memphis in a small town in Mississippi. I have been married and divorced twice. I enjoy traveling. I go and visit my brother yearly in Russia.

E-mail me at mlpnm@aol.com

Teresa Music Fraser
Was very quiet in high school. Was not in the popular crowd. Now I talk all the time and married my high school sweetheart from Kingsberry High. Together since 1973 when we met each other in 10th grade. Still together after all these years. Have 4 children--three married and one 14 year old still at home.

E-mail me at mothertrisa7@bellsouth.net

Marilyn Nabors Lynch
Class of 1975, but graduated in 1974
After graduation in 1974, I married Ron Lynch in 1975. We have been married for over 33 years! We had a wonderful, amazing son, Matthew, in 1978 and a beautiful daughter, Erin, in 1979. I have been a registered nurse for over 25 years, specializing in pediatrics and Hospice. We lived and raised our children and 2 foster sons in Germantown where history repeats itself by making Mr. Chism my children's principal as well! We moved to east Tennessee in 1998 after our children graduated high school and were in college up here. We live outside of Gatlinburg in the most beautiful part of our state. We lost our precious son in April 2000 in a traffic accident. Our daughter, Erin, has 2 degrees from ETSU and is a vocational coordinator and addictions counselor for an adolescent dual diagnosis addictions recovery center. At the ripe old age of 51, I am back in school pursuing a Master's degree in Nursing Education

E-mail me at Nsg4Him@aol.com

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Danny Neal
Well after graduation I attended Memphis State for a short while and had to go to work. I moved to Little Rock in 1978 got married and had 3 kids, currently divorced after 25 years. I live in Bentonville AR, and I am a Regional Sales Manager for a window manufacturer. Many of you may remember my Dad preached the baccalaureate for our class at Raleigh Baptist Church. My parents are near Jackson and Dad is still preaching. Also my younger sister Diane is still living in Memphis close to Fed Ex HQ.

E-mail me at dan.neal@sbcglobal.net

Spike Phillips
Hello everyone. It’s been a long time since I’ve spoken to anyone from REHS (other than Chip). After graduating in 1975 I went to Southwestern@ Memphis(now Rhodes College) and then finished med school in Memphis in 1983. I had never planned to leave Memphis, but I ended up in Columbus, Georgia for a one year internship followed by four years in sunny Orlando, where I completed an orthopaedic surgery residency in 1988. I met my future wife in Columbus( you know that whole doctor nurse thing) and we got married in 1984. I now live in Spartanburg, South Carolina and I’m in solo practice. We have five kids ranging from 25 to 11.

E-mail me at drspike@charter.net

Mike Rinehart
Following graduation in 1975, I attended Memphis State and received a BS in Biology in 1980 (crammed 4 years into 5!). After working for Bill Pinch's stepfather blowing insulation for 6 month's - a hot miserable job -, I thought I'd better try to do something with my degree. I was fortunate enough to land a position in research at Schering-Plough, where I worked until 1987. In October 1985, Denise McIntyre - a wonderful, kind and caring person - took leave of her senses and consented to marry me. Thank goodness she has not yet come to her senses and has been my bride for the past 20+ years. In 1987 I took a position in clinical research at Avon Labs in Suffern, NY, and we left Memphis for good. In 1989 we again moved - this time to Ft. Worth, TX where I worked for 6 years in various clinical research positions at Alcon Laboratories. In 1994 our daughter, Amanda, was born and a year later we moved again (hopefully for the last time!) to Napa, CA when I took a position as Manager of Clinical Affairs at Santen, Inc., an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company. I stayed at Santen for 7 great years before accepting my current position as Director of Regulatory and Clinical Affairs at Dey, LP, a mid-size pharmaceutical company concentrating mostly on pulmonary medications. Yep, there are 2 pharmaceutical companies in Napa and I've worked at both of them (and you thought Napa only made world class wines)! I never thought I would end up in California, but we love living/working in wine country. I often marvel while watching the red tailed hawks circle overhead as the sun sets over the western hills of Napa how indeed fortunate I am to have a great family and a career that has taken me to this place. The Peter Principle is working overtime in my life! We usually get back to Memphis once or twice a year to visit family - we are the only ones who have escaped!

E-mail me at mike.rinehart@dey.com

Dennis Schilling

Wow – 30+ years and counting. I am married and have two boys, William (10) and Neil (7). Yes, I’m a little older parent than most of you but didn’t really want to rush the marriage thang until ready, so I married at age 36 and well worth the wait. We live in Nashville – I moved here with Morgan Keegan in 1986 and love it. I’m still (23 years) in the investment “bidness” with Suntrust Investment Services, dealing with institutional/corporate clients, endowments, pension funds and foundations, yadayadayaday. We just celebrated our 12^th anniversary, (again the wait was worth it). William (10) plays baseball, basketball, lacrosse, golf, will start 5^th grade football this fall, and is currently at summer camp in N.C. Neil (7) plays baseball, basketball and golf and not quite ready to go away to summer camp for 2 weeks (a real momma’s boy). Both boys go to school at Harding Academy, (not Church of Christ or Memphis HA related). Donna has a full time job taking care of us boys, runs a small art business, volunteers and works on committees for some of the Nashville charity parties, etc.

What happened between 1975 and now? Quick recap, I received a tennis scholarship at a small school in FL, got homesick and came back to Memphis, then was offered a scholarship to play tennis at UT-Martin (76/77) and Union Univ. (78/79), went to work for a small bank in Jackson, TN (79), went to work for Morgan Keegan (83), learned to fly a plane (85) moved to Nashville (86), came close to getting married (86), took up golf/gave up tennis (90), tied for 4^th in first round of State Open- (94), got married – Donna Craig (June 94), first child - William (Oct 95), stopped playing golf (97) to play Dad/coach and become, of all things, an artist (something I could do at home with the kids around, and it turned out that people wanted to buy it, who knew?), second child - Neil (Mar 99), took up golf again (03) and currently husband, dad, worker, golfer, artist. The period between 1980 and 1993 was a bit of a fun blur, during the adult bachelor years. It’s been a fun ride with a few more up’s than down’s and worth every minute.

This site has been a virtual walk down memory lane. To see pictures and read comments and bio’s from people that I spent my teen years with, and in some cases have known since the 3^rd grade is a great thing.

E-mail me at theschillings@comcast.net

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Michael Smith
Been living in TX since ’88. Lived in the Houston area for 15 yrs and moved to DFW a couple of years ago. It figures the Astros would go to the World Series after I move to Dallas, but at least there's better weather and no threat of hurricanes!!! Currently the Purchasing Mgr for a lighting showroom and electrical supply house in Dallas. Married going on 28 yrs and have 2 grown daughters. Hilaire lives in Memphis with her husband and a CBU graduate in Chemistry & Biology. Brigitte is finishing this year at Texas State in Music Education and lives in San Marcos, Texas.

The top photo is me, my wife of 28 yrs, Marita, and our youngest daughter Brigitte & her son Cayden, taken at church Christmas 2005.

The second photo, taken the same time, is both daughters and all the grandkids. The daughter on the left is my oldest, Hilaire, who has 3 of the kids. The are Cecelia (being held), who just turned 3. Next is Simon, who just turned 5 and the baby being held is Lilian (6 mos at the time). The daughter on the right is our youngest, Brigitte. Her son is the blonde one standing next to her, Cayden just turned 4.

The third photo is of our son Justin on his prom night. That was about 3 months before he died. He was 17 and died July 17^th 1999 and found July 24th. (This was just before the 1999 Combined Reunion, which is why I wasn't able to attend.) He was missing for a week and when they found him drowned in a canal, they surmised he was in the water for a week. His case is unsolved, but there are suspects but not enough evidence for a case. Sure miss him. Our younger daughter’s son somewhat favors him and when he was that age, but he still looks more like his daddy (he’s 6’3” and dark blond).

E-mail me at astrofan98@verizon.net

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Nancy Smith Faust
I went on to college after high school. I graduated from Pharmacy school in 1982. I met Keith, my husband of 24 years, in Pharmacy school and we married after we were both graduated. We have two great children Jeffrey, 21 and Amanda, 18. They are both currently in college. Keith and I live in Bartlett and both work as pharmacists. My sister, Suzanne Smith Reynolds graduated in ' 73 with the first graduating class, and we are both looking forward to attending this combined reunion. The attached picture is me with my husband and children taken at my dauqhter's 2005 high school graduation.

E-mail me at Nancelf@aol.com

Dana Spiva Gossett
[see Bill & Dana's combined bio above]

James Stone
Survived my high school education and reputation and graduated from Christian Brothers (Class of ’79), then rode quite a few different rides in the carnival of life before settling down. Married to my best and prettiest friend for 18 years, and have been designing and coordinating mental health / forensic intake and referral systems for several hospitals and correctional facilities in the Mid-South. When not working, I amuse myself with computer graphics, photography, skip-tracing, living history, and just tinkering about in general.

Glad to see that those of you here are doing so well, and best wishes for the future!

E-mail me at razorslap@hotmail.com

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