Hello to all my friends and classmates at RHS! I thank Steve Alm, who used to lived in Palm Bay, Florida, for letting me know about this web site. Steve has died now and I miss him. I remember Steve having a couple of great parties at his home in Golden Valley at 3300 Kyle Avenue, back in the day. I have great memories about my school days in Robbinsdale but I didn't have my senior year there because my family moved to Oklahoma City where my dad was asked to start the Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Oklahoma. I attended a high school in OKC for the first half of my senior year and then Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan for the second half of my senior year. Since I did not have enough time at either of these schools to graduate from them, the credits from both were added to my Robbinsdale transcript and I was given a diploma from Robbinsdale Highschool in 1967.
I lived in Oklahoma and played in a band there with my two brothers for sixteen years. What a long and wonderful trip that was! Gary Lopac, RHS Class of '69, joined us there for two of the eras. In 1981 the band tried for our second million dollars in Los Angeles (we gave up on that first million it was too hard). Lots of great music was made and lots of fun and great experiences were had (like playing with and meeting the Beach Boys twice and the Jefferson Airplane twice) but didn't make the second million either.
I stayed in Los Angeles and married a woman from Iran. I became a real estate appraiser and we had two daughters. Monica graduated from UC Berkeley, worked at Google and is now in Stanford Law School. Julia graduated from UC Berkeley where she wrote a musical.
My French horn is still gathering dust over in the corner here but I still play a little piano and guitar and am now learning old country songs like Wild Side of Life.
I'm glad I grew up in Minnesota. Living in other places (Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California) has been a great experience and it has also enabled me to see what an enlightened and progressive state Minnesota is. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 45th reunion coming up!