EMP-11
Richard
C. Ross has retired from IBM & AT&T and moved to
Barrington, Ill. He and his wife, Sigrid Reusse Ross, can
be reached at 847.304.6653 or at richardcross@attglobal.net.
Rob
Milburn is currently living in Columbia, S.C., where he’s teaching at Webster University in the graduate
program. He’s also consulting and managing a startup
company in his free time. Rob and wife Marlys plan to spend
a lot of time in the north woods of Wisconsin.
Ron
Nicholas writes to us from his room on the Mona Campus
of the University of West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica.
Says
he’s on a consulting gig there. He’s also involved
in faculty work with the University of Phoenix. Ron will
also be visiting universities in Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad,
Guyana and Suriname. Sounds like one big vacation to us,
Ron. He can be reached at ronnicholas@charter.net.
Cheryl
Stepney continues at Microsoft as a data-based-industry
evangelist and is executive chair for March of Dimes and
for a feed-the-hungry program called Loaves & Fishes.
Her daughter, Camille, now has her masters of law, son Adam
is completing a degree in interior design and Cheryl is a
grandmother to kindergartner Cassidy. Cheryl can be reached
at cstepney@microsoft.com.
Jim
Szewczyk has hung up his spikes after 20 years with Nabisco/Kraft.
He and wife Deb have moved to Chattanooga, Tenn. They are
doing lots of traveling, including to Chicago, to see a
new grandson. Jim says to stop and see him if any of you
are
in the area. He can be reached at 423.326.3500 or aeri2@comcast.net.
Jan
Leestma says we should have seen him on “Court
TV” awhile back. He was testifying at the Peterson
murder trial in Durham, N.C. Jan can be reached at JLeestma@aol.com.
John
Goebel says he is in training for retirement. He’s
pulling the plug on Feb. 2. After going through three sales
of the company in the last eight years, John says he has
had it. He can’t believe that it’s been 20 years
since we started EMP-11. Time flies! John wants us to start
using his new email address: john.goebel@verizon.net.
Carol
Laporta is vice president of development for a cosmetic
company that is doing well. She says most of her fall has
been spent sorting out the 137 governor candidates. Carol
spent several weeks in France this summer and was in Toulouse
for a nephew’s wedding. Temp was 100 degrees. Wow!
Carol’s daughter, Lisa, signed a deal for a show on
HGTV scheduled to air next season. Lisa is a graduate of
the design school at UCLA. Son Philip lives in Chicago, is
in real estate and owns some rental properties in Indiana.
Carol hopes we all have a great fall. She can be reached
at CLAPORTA@aol.com.
Russ
Luedtke, your class rep, has hung up his real estate broker’s license and is doing only locksmithing and
rental property management for the present. My wife, Joan,
gave her five-year notice two years ago, so in three years
maybe we will both retire. It seems that everyone I know,
though, is busier in retirement then they were working, so
I don’t know what will come. I am going to start drawing
Social Security in January, however.
I enjoy
keeping in touch with those of you who write, and hope
that more of you will reply to my call for class information. |