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Remember Me? This page is for those that will not be able to make it to the
reunion and I convinced them
 to let us know what they've been doing since High
School.
In order to head this page up right, I thought it would be good to start
out with someone we all remember. Rebecca Wedell, Guidance Counselor. This year
she celebrates her 100th birthday in December. If you make it to the reunion, be
sure to sign her birthday card, which will be sent to her for her birthday
celebration in Lake Tahoe. Thanks to Wanda Munson Davenport for reminding us.
Al Stotts, Class of 1967: After graduating from Grants High School I attended Abilene Christian College
in Abilene, Texas. One semester at a church school was quite enough, so I
transferred to the University of New Mexico, from which I eventually graduated
in 1975 with a degree in journalism and political science. The delay was caused
in part by being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970. I served as a medic in
Korea, then came back to UNM in 1972. After another semester, I volunteered to
work for Shiloh, an inner-city tutoring and counseling program in New York
City.
While at Shiloh, I lived in Manhattan's Lower East Side in a so-called "old law"
tenement building. That experience confirmed my absolute fascination with and
love for New York City. It continues today and I visit New York numerous times
each year. In New York I met Melissa Hinton, a Texan. After we left New York
we both enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin. Later we married,
transferred to UNM, and finished our first degrees. Melissa is a reading teacher
and a principal at a South Valley elementary school in Albuquerque. We have a
son, Spencer Cody, who is taking freshman
classes at Albuquerque TVI. He will transfer to UNM and study biology. Cody is
fascinated with computing, the environment and backpacking in New Mexico's
wilderness areas. But best of all, he is a good Democrat.
As a UNM student, I worked part-time as a reporter for KOB radio in
Albuquerque. I continued there after graduation until the UNM Office of Public
Affairs offered me a job. I stayed at UNM for 13 years doing media and
community relations activities. In 1989 I was offered a public affairs job at
Sandia National Laboratories. That brought me into the world of the U.S.
Department of Energy, which oversees Sandia and the other laboratories in the
nation's nuclear weapons complex. In 1995, DOE offered me a public affairs job
and that's what I do today in an organization called the
National Nuclear Security Administration. I'm a public affairs manager for
media and government relations. I spend a lot of time working with and at our
headquarters office in Washington, D.C., as well as in Albuquerque. We give a
lot of attention to emergency public affairs activities and practice how to
respond in case of accidents or terrorist activities involving nuclear weapons
or weapons facilities. The reason I will not attend the reunion this year is
because I'm about to leave for England where we are having an emergency response
exercise with the British Royal Navy.
That's my post Grants High School career. Personally, I'm involved with
Democratic Party politics and other public service activities. I have served on
numerous boards and commissions. I just finished two terms on the Albuquerque
Landmarks and Urban Conservation Commission and I am now a member of the
Albuquerque Open Space Advisory Board and the State of New Mexico Polygraph and
Private Investigator Advisory Board. I run a lot and I go backpacking with my
son and other friends in a vain attempt to stave off old age. The two high
school friends I have seen most often since
graduation are Mike Bustamante and Jim Lister, neither of whom has changed
significantly despite their legal (judicial and police) careers. I hope the
reunion is very successful and I hope I'll be able to attend the next one.
Just wanted to pass this information along. My little brother Paul informed
me that I was listed as possibly deceased in the memorial section of the
upcoming reunion of Grants Pirates classes of 65-69. I looked at the
website and found that he was correct. It is a good picture of me when I
was 70 pounds lighter and had all of my hair and none of it was grey but
probably my picture should not be shown in the memorial section!
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of my demise are
premature. I have had a number of near death experiences since leaving
high school, but none of them have been terminal. I am very alive and
intend to be so for many years to come.
I regret that I will not be able to attend the reunion to
validate that I am still alive, but my little brother intends to attend the
reunion and can attest to my health and vigor.
thanks,
Tom Bonomo, CLASS OF 66
District Ranger, Prescott and Coconino NF
I will make the "Where I've been and what I've been doing since High School"
short and painless. I married Robert Carrasco in Nov. 1970 in Grants. We left
Grants in 1975. Robert obtained his B.A. in Engineering and I obtained my B.A.
in Finance. Both degrees from NMSU in Las Cruces, NM. We have two children,
Martin (25 yrs--attends UTEP) and Ana (19 yrs-- attending NMSU). I own a freight
brokerage company in El Paso (Trans-Logistics Int'l, Inc). Robert is an engineer
presently on assignment in Detroit, Mi for two years (and the reason I won't
make the reunion--I don't have a date!! ). And you won't believe this, he will
be coming home for two weeks on the 28th of June. Wow, my whole life in three
short paragraphs. Just to let you know, I really enjoyed the website. It
brought back many memories, though I was saddened to see some of our classmates
are deceased. And at such young ages, because you see, I still consider myself a
young person. My best wishes to all those classmates attending the
reunion. Hope everyone has a great time reflecting on times gone by,
appreciating the present and looking towards the future. By Barbara Griego
Carrasco, Class of 1968
 Jim
Wilde, Class of 1968
Since High School... Well the very short outline is like this:
The summer we graduated, in 68, several of the GHS Golf Team members caddied at
the NCAA tournament in Las Cruces. I caddied for a University of Oklahoma player
who later became a successful PGA tour pro. I attended UNM between 68 and 72,
majoring in Anthropology and Geology. I was on the UNM golf team in 69 and then
quit competitive golf to focus on other things. I took a semester off for my
"walkabout" in 71, driving around the western US, camping, fishing, visiting
friends and relatives, meeting women, climbing mountains, and just generally
exploring cities, forests, rivers, highways, and the Pacific coast from
Vancouver to San Francisco. A wonderful blast of nearly perfect freedom. I
returned to Albuquerque and UNM in Jan 72. Attended an archaeological field
school in Puebla Mexico, summer 72.
I helped my parents move from Grants to the Washington DC area
right after I graduated UNM in Dec 72. Then I worked for almost a year on a
large archaeological project in central Mexico. I met a woman there and followed
her back to the University of Illinois while she finished her degree. We married
and moved to Oregon in 74. I worked for about 1.5 years at two juvenile criminal
schools near Salem and in 76 I began graduate school at the University of Oregon
in Eugene. In 77 I spent a glorious summer as a US Forest Service archaeologist
in Montana. I had a USFS 4x4 pickup, a compass, stacks of air photos and maps,
cameras, site forms, and camping equipment, and spent nearly every day alone,
walking/surveying chunks of the Deerlodge National Forest. Spent many fine
evenings fishing small creeks in the forest.
My son Colin was born, I earned my Anthropology MA, and
started my doctoral research in 78. Divorced in 79. My ex-wife and Colin moved
back to the Chicago area [she's a wealthy CPA now; Colin is an artist/designer.
I worked on several different projects in OR, WA, NV, UT, and NM, while I was in
the PhD program. I moved to beautiful Seattle in 81 for a job and to finish
writing my dissertation. I led projects in UT, NV, WA, OR, AK, WY, and MT while
working for a Seattle consulting company. In 83 I married my lovely wife Deborah
in Seattle. We both took teaching/research positions at Brigham Young University
(Provo UT), in 84 [we're not LDS]. I earned my Anthropology PhD in 85. My son
Matt was born in 87 and Russ was born in 89.
I was an Anthropology professor and directed the BYU
contract archaeology program until 95 [left BYU during a serious move to have
only LDS faculty. I
took my current position soon after leaving BYU in 95, working as the US Air
Force Archaeologist, at the Headquarters, Air Force Center for Environmental
Excellence (HQ AFCEE) at Brooks AFB, San Antonio, TX. My wife works at the
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. I travel a lot. I truly enjoy and
am very proud of my sons Matt and Russ, who are now both in high school
themselves. Our lives are centered around music (Matt in Band and Drum Corps;
Russ in Orchestra; Deb and I are officers in HS Music Booster organizations). We
also love mountain bike trail riding, golf, guitar, writing, computers, and
gardening. Matt wants to be a pilot, symphonic musician, and/or a professional
mountain bike racer. Russ wants to be either an astronomer, geologist, surgeon,
or cartoonist. That's
pretty much the gist.
James D. Wilde, PhD, RPA, Air Force Archaeologist
HQ AFCEE/ECS, 3300 Sidney Brooks
Brooks City-Base TX 78235-5112
I'm sorry I will miss seeing you all, but have a
great time and send me the scoop on how it goes. Since high school: Attended UNM,
then got married to Joe Arvizu (his Dad was the Superintendent, and his sister
MaryAnn was in my class). Married for 4 years then divorced. No children. Went
back to school, got my M.A. in Special Education from UNM. Ultimately continued
school, got my Administrative Certificate, Educational Diagnostician's
Certificate, Licensed as a School Psychologist, Licensed as a Mental Health
counselor, Licensed as a Sports Counselor. Am also a Reiki Practitioner. I have
worked in the field of Special Education since 1973: Los Lunas Hospital &
Training School, Socorro High School, Pueblo of Laguna, BIA in Laguna and Ft.
Defiance,Az., Gallup-McKinley County Schools, and Cibola County Schools. then
went to UNM and rna Indian Children's Program (an outreach program for Indian
children). currently have been at TVI, A Community College for 10 years as a
Diagnostician/Counselor for students with disabilities!Have been officiating
sports since 1979. Have done volleyball, basketball, football, baseball and
softball. Currently do high school football and baseball and college softball.
Did college baseball for about 13 years. Have worked the Connie Mack World
Series twice and made history as the first woman to work the World Series. This
year worked the Class 2A football championship and made history as the first
woman to call a state championship. Also work recreational softball, baseball
and football. Currently am working men's semi-pro and minor league football and
I attended Pro Baseball Umpire School.
For leisure enjoy sewing, quilting, needlework and playing the piano.
Would love to hear from people!
Terri
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