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Posted on: Nov 02, 2022 at 8:40 PM

Happy Birthday Steve, hope you are having an amazing day using up some of your fun tickets. I enjoyed our visit at the reunion.

Happy Birthday, It was nice seeing you at the reunion.

Yes, Helen and I very much enjoyed our 60th. Can’t wait for our 65th! Thanks to the committee for putting in the time to make this an enjoyable event.

Happy Birthday Greg, hope you are having an amazing day.

Posted on: May 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM

Hey, All you Girls with Grandmother Faces! Remember how much fun we had ten years ago when we got together at my house? Well, let's do it again! Please come. It won't be the same without you...East High, Bonzai!! Sally Norton Smith :) Friday, August 22, 5:00 p.m. 2400 Sunnyside Avenue. No Cost. Please RSVP! text: 801-245-0054 email: sallysmithslc@yahoo.com

Happy Birthday Bob, hope you are having an amazing day using up some of your fun tickets. Hope to see you at the reunion.

Posted on: Jul 02, 2025 at 11:40 AM

Greetings from Wilf Gardner in Texas (or Maine)! I had hoped to attend the East High, Class of 1965 60th reunion on August 23 in Salt Lake City this year. Unfortunately, that day is Mary Jo’s and my 45th Wedding Anniversary and it also falls in the period when our three daughters and their families can visit us in Maine, where Mary Jo’s parents (now deceased) have a camp on a large lake in southern Maine and the summers are much cooler than in Texas. In Maine, we love picking strawberries, blueberries, or raspberries when in season, water skiing, rowing daily in single shells, sailing, swimming, and playing in the sand with grandchildren. There is also an annual Renaissance Faire and a County Fair within walking distance of our camp.
Having just read all posts after the previous reunion I attended, I’m very sorry not to be able to attend this reunion to reconnect with great and noble friends. I hope to share my history with this post.

After a year at MIT, I served a mission in Finland for 2.5 years. After my mission I took the train to Lenningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia) for a week. I had forgotten most of the Russian I learned at East High, and Finnish didn’t help much in Russia. And the Finns worry a lot about their eastern neighbor, having fought them in previous wars to gain independence. I then got a Eurail pass and traveled through many European countries, which included working with my brother in Sweden for a couple of days where he was a missionary. I went to Denmark, then flew to West Berlin and passed through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin on their “May Day” (like July 4th in USA, but they have a huge military parade). Decades after WWII ended, East Berlin was still in very bad shape with some people living in collapsed buildings. After taking the train and stopping in Vienna Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, and Netherlands, I then flew to Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and back to SLC.

I graduated from MIT (Boston-Cambridge, MA) in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1972 and Mary Jo Richardson graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. I entered the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) joint program in 1972 and a couple of years later Mary Jo joined the same program. We had the same wonderful advisors both at MIT (Boston) and WHOI (Woods Hole, Cape Cod, MA). We shared offices at both campuses and went on a couple of oceanographic expeditions together in the next couple of years. I earned my PhD in 1978, and Mary Jo earned her PhD in 1980 and we soon got married.

Happy Birthday, Ron

We planted our flag in Woodland, Utah, in 1976, eventually moved here full-time. We now have a posterity numbering 97 (including a new one on the way soon).

My update is that Patsy died suddenly two years ago, and I am officially an empty-nester. Health has returned after brain surgery five years ago to remove a tumor. Happy to say the better parts of my brain remain in tact.

I have treasured memories of our time together at East. All my love and best wishes to each of you.