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Page 4"Does anyone have a list of the members in the 1959-60 band, chorus, or orchestra? As an alternate, can anyone name all or most of those pictured in these musical groups on pages 114-116 of the 1960 "Tartan"?"
Tim Ross
"After graduation I obtained my AA from MJC. Over the years I have attended various schools taking courses in whatever interested me at the time, but never getting a degree. Neil Forrest and I were married for nine years and had two children, Neil and Kelley, now 38 and 35. When Kelley started school I entered the work force wanting to do something that interested and challenged me. I ended up with a world-wide insurance brokerage firm working with the Colorado ski industry. There was a side benefit of free skiing for the kids and me throughout Colorado and we participated most winter week-ends. Great sport. In 1992 I married Larry who passed away two years ago. I have been retired for 4 ½ years, spending three months on Siesta Key and 9 months in Colorado. My granddaughters, Brooke 8 ½ and Kayli 2 months, will keep me in Colorado, a place I love. Brooke has always been Grandma's girl, and spends lots of week-ends with me, joining me for movies, theatre, and Avalanche hockey games as well as vacation trips."
Sandy (Newell) Schumaker
"I was in the Navy from 1962 to 1966. Married Elaine Dunn in 1966. Moved to Cheshire, Connecticut in 1971. Adopted my son in 1974 and moved back to Georgia, near Elberton, in 1972. Elaine died in 1991, and I moved to Oldsmar, Florida, to help my mother, in 1992...I have a grandson (4 yrs.), and my hobby is working with Boy Scouts. I have been at it for 18 years. I'm still in the work force."
Fred M. Barton
"I have managed to avoid revealing a lot about myself until this time, through considerable shyness, but feel that it's only fair to add my mini-biography. After Riverview, I spent 10 years in college, eventually receiving a master's degree from Harvard in paleontology and a Ph.D. from Florida State in biology. While playing biologist in some out-of-the-way parts of the Pacific, I contracted malaria, thereby avoiding all future interest in me by the military. With all this education, I expected a fulfilling career in academia. There were few such jobs available when I graduated, so I took a temporary position with the newly-formed Florida Dept. Air & Water Pollution Control. It rapidly became clear that applied environmental biology was my real field, and I stayed with it, in Florida government, for 30 years, as Chief Biologist with the Dept. Pollution Control and the Dept. Environmental Regulation, then head of the Central Biology Laboratory of the Dept. Environmental Protection; finally retiring in 2000. In mid-life, I was briefly married to a lady named Nancy, acquiring a delightful step-daughter and, a bit later, an equally delightful natural daughter (now graduating from Stetson). The split was amicable, and we shared in the child-rearing. Much later, I married another Nancy, increasing my family with two more fine step-children, and, at the turn of the millennium, to the large surprise of everyone, a new son. My wife still works, and I am very pleased to be able to spend much time playing with the now-three-year-old. The fact that the two local Nancy Rosses are both mothers of my kids causes some confusion from time to time."
Tim Ross
"After Riverview I went to Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, for three years on a drama scholarship. Before my senior year I became ill and met my future husband while recovering. He was the director of the community theatre so we had a common interest. We had two daughters, Jeanne and Sharon, who are now grown of course. We divorced after eleven years and I went back to school at New College. I loved it and earned a BA in literature, which of course made me a lot of money! I then got my master's in counseling at USF and have been a psychotherapist for 25 years. My older daughter has three boys and my younger daughter (in Tampa) is pregnant with her first – another boy! I have three dogs and a weird cat."
Linda Willson
"Fall of '60 went to Manatee J C for one year then opted for a four year stint in the navy. Back to MJC, then one year at Milwaukee School of Engineering (married Holly Eberly SHS class of '65). Finally settled at U of Kansas where I received a Bachelor of Architecture in '72. Late '72 moved to Tampa and have been there since. Became registered in '75 and had my own firm from '81 to '91. Since then I have found my 'niche' as an owners representative running construction projects at USF, Pinellas County Government and for the last three years at The University of Tampa. Holly and I split in '73. Remarried Marilyn in '76. Have two kids, Stephanie 24 Sr. at FSU, and Matthew 19 at International School of Design and Technology in web design and a drummer in a local band. I've been a board member of the children's cancer center for 19 years. I'm also a Knight in the Krewe of Sant Yago (they put on the Ybor City Night Parade just after Gasparilla parade). My daughter got me into acting when she was in high school, so since '95 I've been in about eighteen Broadway plays at the performing arts center."
Bill Neyland
"In 1963 I married Richard Duval. We have two sons, John Duval age 38 and Richard Duval Jr. age 36. Richard and I divorced in 1990. I have two grandsons, Diego age 4 and Luc age 2, and another on the way. I am now single, but have a 'significant other' whose name is Andy Mamary. We've been together many years and just don't want to mess up a good thing. We are both retired and do a lot of fishing, boating here in Sarasota and also love to travel. My son John was transferred to NE Pennsylvania and Rick is now in Dallas, Texas. So you see my need to travel."
Carolyn (Caldwell) Duval
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