Tuesday, March 18, 2008

More updates from classmates.........



Sheila Poe Carter...
Ran a business 31 years.... Married 38 years, husband died accidentally in 2005...Retired now and loving it!... Friends call me Roadrunner!!





Katie Widener Yonce....
I have two children, four grandchildren. Married to Jerry Yonce. Secretary at Johnson, Johnson, Whittle & Snelgrove, Attorneys.






Darlene Johnson Paradise...
Retired from Bell South in 2003. My husband and I traveled a lot after he retired but he died from lung cancer in Sept '07. I'm working on getting used to being by myself. My only child, Crystal, is getting married in November of this year so I am busy fine tuning the wedding plans. Retirement is wonderful. I try to keep the roads hot.







Jeanette Willing Bloss...
We have two girls age 30 and 27.. Holley and Leslie... and one grandchild, Lauren, age 2.








Betsy Warner Coles...
Rick & I have retired and are living in Cypress Landing, NC. Our neighborhood is an active golfing, boating and living community. I retired after 34 years of teaching Elementary primary grades. We have 2 beautiful granddaughters and my son Matthew is getting married in the fall. My dad passed away this past June '07. We are loving retirement!



Brenda Peterson Chaplinski...
We still reside in Raleigh, NC. Have been there for 16 years now. We both continue to work for DuPont Electronics located in Research Triangle Park, NC. However, looking forward to retirement in less than 3 years. When now working, we enjoy sailing a 19 ft. Lightning class sailboat and race with the Carolina Sailing Club typically at Jordan Lake or Kerr Lake. We also snow ski once a year and this past year we went to Colorado. Don't get back to Aiken too often, but check in weekly with my parents. Catch up with my brother as time permits.....Our four children are scattered around the US. We have a daughter and her husband in Portland, OR, the third daughter and her husband in Philadelphia, PA area, a son in Greensboro, NC and the second daughter is in the Raleigh area. No grandchildren for us at this time.




Martha Deitz Rice...
I'm still teaching French at Eastside High School in Taylors but I'll probably retire at the end of this year. We have 5 grandchildren now, all in the Greenville area. Number 6 is due in May. My mom still lives in Aiken.






Tom Rackley...
I am sorry that I will not be able to attend the reunion. I now live in Houston. I have been here 25 yrs minus 1 yr in Saudi Arabia. I am married and we have a beach house in the small town of Matagorda, which is south of Galveston, where we spend most weekends. I hope the reunion is a big success.





Beth Kenney...
I've been living in the Rockies for 20 years, and love it. I ski as much as I can get away with, and work as a technical writer/editor when I have to work. I'm looking forward to the reunion & seeing people from my high school days. Big fun!





Dawn Jones Hair...
-divorced March 5, 2007
-instructor and grant assistant, now full time at Nebraska Indian Community College
-email: dhair@thenicc.edu
-thrilled I finally have a chance to come to another reunion!
-have been an owner of a 5-speed diesel green VW Beetle since 2000, 175K miles and lovin' it!!






Nonie Hudnall...
After graduating from Aiken High, I went on to Clemson, where I earned bachelors' & masters' degrees. At Clemson I fenced on the fencing team. After moving to Spartanburg to work as a psychotherapist at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, I continued fencing and coaching at Wofford. At age 40 I started running and completed ten marathons, including Boston, Honolulu, Dublin (Ireland), Myrtle Beach, Disney World, Alaska, Charlotte & Kiawah Island. I now continue working PRN at the hospital and as the "nanny" for Karen Floyd's twin 11 year old boys! Hello to all my great AHS friends... Love, Nonie




Charlene Zelnak....
Nothing new with me - still living in Florida until the storms put me back in Aiken. Still retired and loving it!! ... Charlene






Carolyn Quinn Nichols....
My husband Curtis and I are both retired. We celebrate 40 years of marriage in August. Two grown children, two grandchildren ages 9 and 14.
My mother, Joyce Quinn, is 77 and still living in Aiken. We spend a lot of time together running the roads, looking for adventure.. especially concerts and casino gambling. She wins, I lose. lol My hobbies with Curtis are fishing and camping.

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