One Proud Mama

My goodness - we are getting so many emails from you it is getting hard for us to keep up. If you sent us in your update please do not think we have forgotten to post it. We have all updates saved as drafts but with our schedules and blogger not cooperating at times, we are posting at a slow pace. However, since we are so sporadic with our posts, think of it as a great day when you log on and find a new post.

Doreen Mittelstaedt wrote to us and we were truly shocked to read her post - she looks like a sister to her two sons. This is what she had to say:


Well as you can see by the pictures I have two children named Marcus and Justin. They both graduated last May and they are off to college. Marcus is a Louisiana Tech in Ruston and Justin is at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. I am very proud. Right after high school I got married and had two children. My husband was in the Army so we traveled a good bit. Things did not work out with the marriage and we divorced in 1991, however I will be getting married again after all these years in October of 2007. I have been a Paramedic since 1990. I worked in New Orleans for the New Orleans Health Dept. for many years and then transferred to a local service here in St. Tammany Parish. I still work as a Paramedic part time and my full time position is with the St. Tammany Parish Coroners Office. I am a Forensic Investigator and I have been for four years. I am looking forward to the reunion.
Thanks,
Doreen


This is a picture of me and my fiance Keith. We are planning a wedding as we speak. We will be getting married on October 13, 2007.
Doreen

Will I run into you?

After graduation, I started pursuing an accounting degree at Delgado College . In 1988, I got engaged to the man I have been married to for the last 18 years. My husband, Dennis was in the Navy and we relocated to San Francisco . We lived there for 5 years and I finally completed my degree. We loved the area and there was so much to do, but the cost of living was unbelievable. In 1993, we transferred to Jacksonville , Florida where we lived for 12 years. I joined Accounting Principals, a national recruiting firm, where I managed the Jacksonville office until 2004.

I have two sons, Ian (9 years old) and Michael (4 years old) which are the joy of our lives. Lots of soccer, basketball and baseball games for us. In May 2005, we transferred again and this time we moved home. Dennis was stationed in New Orleans and we bought a house in Brier Lake . I now work for JPMorganChase as a national recruiter and continue to work with individual in the financial field. I can’t wait to see everyone again. Although I am back, I have only run into a handful of people and I look forward to catching up.
Stacey Julian Pereira

Finding Love in All the Right Places

This is me, my husband of 16 years, David, and our 4 (YES-FOUR!!!) daughters. This picture was taken in June at our newest daughter, Ella's Christening. Oldest, Sara 15, standing next to her dad, Emma, Catherine, and baby Ella. Life has been really good. I met my husband in 1989 in the unlikeliest of places. At the dental office where I was employed as a dental assistant (NO he wasn't a patient didn't want anyone to think I seduced him while he was under the influence of nitrous or anything!!!)--his mom was the patient. Anyhow, that is how we met, and it did not take me very long at all to realize that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.

So, we got married in July of 1990, and here we are today. The past 16 years have been busy!! When we had our children, I decided to be a "stay at home" mom until they started school. At that point, I started nursing school at Delgado/Charity School of Nursing. After making it through my first semester, we were surprised to find out that we would be having another baby!! (A big surprise--but a wonderful one!) My 3 girls had been begging for a little sister or brother so I guess they got what they wished for! Ella Grace was born on March 16, 2006 at Northshore Regional Hospital. One thing is for sure all of my wishes have certainly come true. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and four beautiful babies, the oldest of which started school at Slidell High this year. I hope that one day she will have as many happy memories as I do about my high school years and the lasting friendships that were made during that time. It is so good to see everyone again. I'm looking really forward to our upcoming 20th reunion!!!!

Holly Lemoine Terrell

I'm not scared of the Principal's office

We do not think Liz is scared of the Principal's office seeing how her husband is the Principal of Slidell Jr. High. We often wonder if the schools still look the same. I'm sure none of you ever visited the principal's office in Junior High :-).
Why don't you send us your most memorable moments in High School and Junior High-we would love to post them. Here is what Liz had to say:

Hello. I married my high school sweetheart, even though he went to salmen. ha ha. We've been married for 15 years. We have 2 children, Sarah is 9 and Elijah is 4. Sarah is in 4th grade at Bonne Eecole and Eli is in pre-k at Calvary Baptist School. I work for Dr. Serrant in Slidell. I've been with him for about 10 years. My husband, Brennan, is the Principal at Slidell Jr. High. I'm really looking forward to the reunion. I see a lot of people on the missing list that are right here in Slidell, so i'm trying to contact them.

I've attached 2 pictures - one of my kids ready for their day at school and one of all of us at a family reunion this summer.

Let me know if i can do anything for the reunion. thanks!
Liz Woolridge McCurley

SEPTEMBER REUNION MEETING

SEPTEMBER REUNION MEETING
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
4:00 - 6:00 PM
PJ'S COFFEE HOUSE
154 E. HALL AVE.

***Please note that PJ's Coffee House is allowing us to reserve the room FREE of CHARGE as long as we buy their products and kindly tip the servers accordingly***

HOMECOMING-Mark you calendars for Friday October 27.
SHS vs Hammond @ SHS 7pm. More specifics to follow but we will be getting together after the game at THE CONTINENTAL which is in Old Town.

Missing List - If you haven't had a chance to check out the missing list please do so by clicking on the THE MISSING & INCOMPLETE post. If you see yourself or someone else on that list that you have info on, please contact them and ask them to email us OR you can email us directly & smoke them out yourselves . We have recently updated it as many of you have been doing just this. Please keep the tips coming!!!!!!! We need your addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and any name changes.

Reunion Blog - Try to keep up with the reunion blog as it can get a little tricky searching through old posts. We started the blog on June 1. If you need help navigating through it, please email us and we will help you out.

Help us out with taking a walk down memory lane or catching up with old friends by emailing us some of the following:
fun high school photos, college pics, wedding photos, exciting travels, or just any ole funny photo you would like to share with everyone (OLD OR NEW) or your more recent pictures along with some personal updates, Please be kind & keep them to PG-13 as we are now officially linked to Slidell High's web page......Thanks to all those who have done so already. We love reading about what you all have been up to in the last 20 years!!!!!!! Have you already sent in a personal update but have some exciting news that you would like to share with us? Send in the info & photos & we will post it for you. Note that your pictures may also be used for the Video Presentation that Donna Busby Dusang is putting together. It will be shown at the Reunion (June 23, 2007).

TV Came A Callin

Hello fellow peeps of ’87! I’m so excited that the reunion is finally coming together, especially since I missed the 10 year. Anyway, those of you who have lived in Slidell for the past 14 years have probably heard my voice or seen my work on TV and didn’t realize it. I’ve been making local commercials for Charter Media here in Slidell and freelance projects all over Southeast Louisiana . Being a true nut for New Orleans , I was fortunate enough to get to come back home and work here in Slidell after graduating from USM in ’92. Luckily, I got to continue playing baseball in college, but television came a callin’. Who wants to make all that money in the big leagues anyway!?! My wife Jennifer is from Lafayette and we’ve been married for four years with no kids (yet). She runs the real estate and community channel “Mainstreet TV” on cable channel 22 so you may have heard her voice and seen her ads too. Although our house was flooded in Palm Lake , the hurricane didn’t run us off and we moved back in a few months ago. I’m anxious to see and hear what happened to everyone and catch up. I’m sure those of us who are still in this area will agree that the last year was the craziest of the past 20. Hope EVERYONE is doing great!
Lee Williams

From Slidell to Japan-Konnichiwa

It amazes us when we get emails from you and you live so far away. I'm sure there are others other than Paul and Robert who live abroad - we can't wait to hear from you. Robert Sloan emailed us from Japan and this is what he had to say:




Since graduation I have moved around having a bit of Hemingway life…

After receiving a football scholarship at Marion Military Institute I transferred to Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. My Masters degree was completed at SLU in Health Promotion and Exercise Science. From there I worked for the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, TX and then Ochsner’s Heart and Cardiovascular Institute in NOLA.

At age 25 I was recruited and hired by the DoD to develop and manage wellness centers and disease prevention programs. Currently I have been living in the Tokyo area for the last 6 years, prior to that I worked in California and Florida. Believe it or not along the way I continued to play football in various minor league organizations, Arena football, and 5 years for the Japanese professional X-league that I just retired from this summer. I am 2 years away from completing a PhD in Public Health and most recently I was offered a position in New Orleans that I am considering. My family still lives in Slidell and my father is still a Captain of the New Orleans Fire Department. Mike Albarado and Scott Wadleigh (Class of ’88) remain to be two of my very good friends and we stay in touch and speak quite often.


Look forward to seeing all ya’ll next year!
Rob Sloan

A Pastor's Grace

After high school and college at Louisiana Tech, I moved to Simi Valley, California in search of work in Management Information Services. I hired on with Enterprise Rent-A-Car and transferred back to Shreveport, LA to marry the love of my life, Melissa. We met the summer of my senior year at LA Tech. After 4 years with ERAC, I was recruited by and joined the pharmaceutical industry. For the last 8 years I have worked for Shire, Inc., Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson while at the same time serving as a part-time pastor at my church. I recently made a career change decision and accepted a full time position as Associate Pastor and Director of Staff Development and Communication at Grace Community Church in Shreveport.

Melissa and I have three children - Trevor (12), Ainsley (9) and Emma (4). Most of our free time is spent with the kids in one of their many activities - football, cheerleading, dance, guitar lessons, piano lessons, swimming...

I look forward to the opportunity to see everyone at homecoming and again at our 20 year reunion. Wow! My son was right. I am really getting old! Keep up the great work!
Chris Williams
Associate Pastor
Grace Community Church, A United Methodist Congregation



We need your help in finding those classmates who are on the missing and incomplete list. Homecoming festivities will be posted shortly and we don't want anyone left out. Please get the word out so that we can update our database.

Thank God For Google!!!!

My old friend, Sue, called out of the blue this week. As we were catching up, it occured to me that our 20 year reunion would be held this year. The events of the past year pushed thoughts such as these to the back burner, as I imagine it did for most of us. Thank God for Google; I was able to find this great blog that you all put together. You all are awesome for doing this!

So twenty years for me in a nutshell...here goes. I went to Southern
Miss for a couple of years after graduating, but being naive, etc., I dropped out after two years. I married my high school sweetheart around that time, too. After seven years of bartending made me realize that coming home smelling like a frat house carpet wasn't my bag, I enrolled at UNO where I graduated with a degree in secondary social studies education. I taught at Northshore High (where my students enjoyed hearing about how I was nearly kicked out of a Northshore dance for bringing my 45 of "Eye of the Tiger" to one of their first dances) and later McMain Magnet in Uptown, followed by three terrific years teaching at-risk inner-city kids at one of the first New Orleans Charter schools. While I adored my students, an opportunity arose to join the world of corporate training and I've been in this field since 2002. I am now the Senior Training Supervisor for Medco Health Solutions in Irving,TX (outside of Dallas).



On the personal side, Sam and I went our separate ways shortly after I graduated from UNO. I met Eric shortly thereafter. He moved to Lousiana in 1998 from a blink-and-you-miss-it town in Western Massachusetts. We were married in 2000 and now have a beautiful three year old son named Dane. I've attached pictures of Daddy and Dane doing their favorite activity (anything involving computers), of Dane playing on a hillside, and a couple of me (the wedding was my sister's). We moved to Dallas recently and are still unboxing, so these pictures will have to do for now. I'm looking forward to the reunion and to catching up with so many of you!




C/O '87 Rulez!!!!!!!!!
Krista Richardson-Allen

Then and Now

Lori White contacted us with her update. We are so pleased that so many of you are willing to let us and our classmates know what you have been up to. We know there are a lot of you out there who are reading but have yet to reveal your identity. What are you waiting for? Someone may be reading, waiting to hear from you and to see what you have been up to.

So, this is basically what's gone on with me. I worked in radio for a few years in the mid 90's. Set up the software and programming to put Georgia's first totallycomputerized station on the air. Pretty cool. Also served as their MIS and News Director. Hard to believe, but yes, there are radio groupies.

I then worked for Medicare as a Data Analyst for several years developing andsubmitting reports.What I do now is I work for a multi-national payroll company setting up clientdatabases for tracking time and attendance and training clients on how to usethem to analyze their time and create their payroll. I spent 3 years based inCalifornia working for this company and the past year I've been fortunateenough to move back to my house in Georgia where I telecommute to theCalifornia office still.

Previously married, no kids, unless you count the furry four legged variety. I've been fortunate enough to do a good bit of traveling, so all in all, it'sbeen an interesting 20 years, but that's it in the proverbial nutshell.:)

Sincerely,
Lori White
Class of '87

Wedding Planning is her story

We heard from Michelle Caswell Adams and she sent us these pictures. The first one is a recent picture of herself and the second is of her two children. Michelle is a wedding planner in New Orleans and is in the process of starting her own business. She is looking forward to the reunion.





There are so many of you missing and it is our goal to find each and every one of you. If you know the whereabouts of someone on the missing list, please have them get in touch with us. We want to make sure everyone is accounted for before invitations go out next year.

Hope to hear from you soon.

U Got The Look

U Got The Look-1987-Prince & Sheena Easton



JUST FINDING THE BLOG? NEED HELP NAVIGATING thru it?
We started the blog June 1, 2006 so many posts have been put into the Archives. On the right side of the blog you will see ARCHIVES. Click on a particular month and you can scroll down to see all the posts for that month. If you would like to comment, at the bottom of each post is a Comment section. Click on it and go from there. When you are done with a particular month then click on any post title to the right & scroll all the way down to the bottom where you will see HOME. Click on HOME & it will take you back to the most current post. Then start over for whichever archived month you would like to search. To post a personal update with photos you need to email it to us @ shsclassof1987reunion@yahoo.com. We will cut & paste it to the blog. Any questions? Send us an email. A big Thanks to all those sending us info on THE MISSING & INCOMPLETE!!! KEEP SEARCHING for our MISSING CLASSMATES..........See The Missing & Incomplete Post