My husband, Jim, and I moved back to Iowa City with our two kids, Jessica (17) and Adam (13) about 12 years ago. Jim and I both worked at the U of I for many years, however, I quit the University in September. I am now a REALTOR with Coldwell Banker Real Estate Professionals and have been working very hard to establish myself in a new career. We also built a new house this year and moved in June. My daughter is a Junior at City High (sorry!) and my son is in the 7th grade at Southeast. Kids and a new job keep us all very busy.
Category: Family News
Bonnie Tappan Weldon Update
Hey everybody! Happy New Year!!!!
Still in Iowa City and keeping very busy. I am still married to Larry almost 24 years this Feb. E-mail anytime. I would be glad to hear from anybody from “73.
Just thought some of you might be interested in knowing how West is doing. We now have a wonderful lighted football field as of two years ago. It is very nice to finally have our own field. I get to see many of our teachers still at West as our youngest son is a senior there. We have spent a lot of time at West over the last few years. Our oldest son graduated four years ago from West too. We had a wonderful football year with a 9-0 record until the playoffs. We lost the first game of the year and unfortunately did not get to go to state. My son was player of the year and on first team all state. We were very proud of him and all the guys on the team. They did a great job. Thank god for Deb Barnes Rogers. We got through the season (and last five years of football) half way sane. There is also a new auditorium. It is really nice.
So, West has changed quite a bit. Somehow, you walk through the halls and it comes right back to you. I will keep you updated as we go. My husband and I have a business which we started up five years ago and it is going very well. We do customer service work for business owners and evaluate their employees to give them feedback on how we were treated as customers (mystery shopping). So, we work 7 days a week. It is worth it though in the end. I see Brenda Schrock, Steve Riggan and Karen Villhauer a lot. I also ran into Nancy Masbruch and Sue Davison last week. It is always nice to see people you haven’t seen for awhile.
See ya later.
Rich Altmaier Update
It is hard to believe 24 years have nearly passed! Recently my wife, Paulette, 2 daughters, Elizabeth age 9 and Rachel age 6, took a vacation to India to visit my wife’s family. This was my 3rd visit, but the first since the children were born. We stayed mostly in New Delhi, but went to the Taj Mahal (“Dad, I’ve seen white buildings before”) and took an overnight train south into the state of Kerala. Kerala is in the tropics and was warm and green in December.
Visiting India always brings home how friendly the people are, and how resource poor also. Recently I have my eye on a sports car, but in India one cannot think of such things. Driving is not done for pleasure. It is a strain to get anywhere, on roads half asphalt and half dirt, no apparent traffic rules, terrible air pollution, too many cars belching exhaust, and every road crowded with pedestrians, animal drawn carts, and cars. It is a pleasure to relax and talk to people, but not to drive.
These Internet web pages are pretty interesting. I’m expecting the “killer ap” to be multi-player games. So far it is really useful to disseminate information, and play games. Anyone for a game of Warcraft II over KALI?
See you,
Rich
Bonnie Tappan Weldon Update
…The class of 1973 at City High had called me and asked if would like to have a joint reunion with them. Let me know your thoughts on it all. I currently have a lot ties with West as my youngest son is a junior there. I have been around there quite a bit for the last seven years as my kids have gone to school at West. So I probably will have one more year and then be done with my parenting duties, HA HA. I stay in touch with several 1973 people. Many have returned to I.C. in the last year. Steve Riggan, Deb Gardner, Deb Rogers, John Waite, Linda Vedepo, and of course Brenda just to name a few.
Judy Becker Bryant Update
I’m now Judy Becker Bryant. I graduated from Yale, and came to the University of South Florida in Tampa after completing my PhD in Child Psychology in 1981 (can it be that long ago???). I love teaching and am getting used to Florida, still.
I met Dave, (a former cop, now a counselor in a diversion program for first time drug offenders, an inventor, and a self defense and judo instructor) who was a neighbor, in 1994. We got married in Iowa City in 1995. In August of 1996 we had our first child, Sam, who is a real joy to us (although he keeps me from spending as much time on the computer as I’d like sometimes!).