Cindy and I are enjoying retirement in the foothills of North Georgia. Here’s a recent photo of our family (left to right Zach, Grayson, Cindy, Madison, Ben, and yours truly). Our kids have grown up as you can see; however, we still have one in high school (Grayson). Soon we will be empty nesters. We just returned from an awesome trip with Leslie & Bill Higgins and Susan & Kevin Brofford to the Dominican Republic.
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After I retired from the Navy in 2012, I then worked as a Program Manager for a subcontractor in the Newport News Shipyard in charge of the overhaul of CVN distilling units. All of my time in engineering in the Navy helped out. (I was a “deckie” by the way.)
But during COVID, my wife Linda and I decided to retire for good and move back to western PA to be closer to her mother, who was in need of some help. We found a house south of Pittsburgh which was built in the 70’s and still had pink, blue and green toilets. I am pretty handy and renovated the place from top to bottom. I also put in a vegetable garden, which I love to grow my own veggies. I put some of them at the end of the driveway for my neighbors.
We now go to the gym most weekdays and follow that up by driving for Meals on Wheels a couple times a week.
For fun, we have a motorhome on a site in the mountains near a river. It is alongside a bike rail trail which we use daily. Then at least once a year, we take a big trip in the RV. This past fall we did the New England trip all the way to Bar Harbor, stopping at several places there and back.
This summer will mark our 41st anniversary. We have two kids who are doing well. That’s all for our exciting lives.
Greetings from Florida where we met up with Marie & Ted Hercamp and David & Young Heinbockel in January for a meal in Sarasota Florida. We heard about Young and Davids trip to Antarctica and told them how great the fishing is in Florida. Heinbockels went back north in time for one of Philadelphia’s many snowstorms!
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Rick Boudiette sends an action-packed update:
Retirement is good. I recently moved back to Northern California, settling in a small town east of Sacramento on the American River.
Dan Baerman drove up from Southern California to spend a few days at my new place last month. We had the opportunity of catching up with Chris Cioni, who lives in Sacramento.
And Steve Nicholson was in the Bay Area with his wife, Priscilla, visiting their boys. One works north of SF, the other south of SF. We got together for dinner during their stay.
Will be heading to Thailand for a 95th birthday party of a former colleague. While there, I’ll connect with John Wright.
Will be back in New Orleans for JazzFest with Frank/Kim Liantonio and Jim/Anne Quern. Skip/Sam MacAloon will already be in Rhode Island for the summer.
Mark Suter reports:
Wanted to share that a few of us gathered at Jane & Mike Logan’s house last weekend for a general catch up, retell old stories and some new ones, and enjoy some warmer weather. The group included Craig Ellixson, Erin and Bob Bennett, Kevin Fauvel, and Rich Colonna.
Mike and Jane are gracious hosts and we enjoyed their home and boat including a chocolate football. Craig made some incredible meals and Mike cooked up some awesome Chili.
My 2026 has gotten off to a busy start. I’ve traveled to NJ/PA a couple of times for some family events. I had dinner with John Ayres ’88 during one of my trips. He’s doing well and planning on visiting us in TN in April.
I am finishing my trip to Las Vegas, as I type this, where I played in the alumni golf tournament. Steve Dear ’85, Chuck Klehr ’85, and Matt McGovern ’86, rounded out my foursome. Brian Foy and Joe Walsh were also there. I didn’t see any other classmates, sorry if I missed anyone that was there. We had a great time and I’m looking forward to the next one. I hope more of our classmates will come out and play, just have fun and reminisce about the days at KP. The quality of your golf game really doesn’t matter as I am the epitome of a hacker.
We also got to catch a show at the Sphere and did a little hiking near Red Rocks.
We had dinner with Tom Heberle tonight. It was great seeing him.
Bruce Garrott shared some classic photos from our classmates at flight school in 1984, including:
Class of ’83 USN/USMC Flight Students watching the Blue Angels perform at the NAS Pensacola airshow, Veteran’s Day weekend in November 1984. Other photo was taken in Philly, on my drive south to NAS Pensacola, to begin my Naval career. Bill Higgins is the other soul in the photo.
The recent storm in the NE made me remember the blizzard that hit KP, on a Friday in February of our 1st class year. I made quite a bit of $$ the weekend of the storm, shoveling driveways. It was a heavy, wet snow, too.
I appreciate that Susan Pawlukiewicz emailed just to compliment me on our KP83.org website:
I looked at the website you so beautifully put together. I’m impressed and enjoyed looking at it. It’s cool to see where classmates have connection been travelling and to see the faces in the “older” person as you remember them as a younger person… their features are there!