Occupation:  Bureaucrat
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  4
From Cristy:
Let’s see…I spent 15 years in the San Francisco bay area, worked at Antioch College/West as their registrar, did a BA and MA at Berkeley, then went to a fishing village in rural Alaska in ’81 to finish my Anthropology PhD (but didn’t). Instead married an Eskimo fisherman, raised his two children and two of our own. Built and directed a drug/alcohol treatment center for the Alaska Native hospital in Bristol Bay and worked there 17 years. Divorced two years ago. Soon after, tried to stop a half-ton truck by hand – a really bad idea – and ran over myself, resulting in a face constructed mostly of titanium; but otherwise I’m fine. Reunited with an old love from 30 years ago, moved to Anchorage, took a job with the (brrrrrr) Republican state government directing their Mental Health/Substance Abuse Division, and now live with my new husband (wedding picture attached) and 15-year old daughter; the other one is in college in northern California. It’s amazing to see all of your strangely familiar faces (old and new)—and to think that I’ve heard Jay Young on Prairie Home Companion! Yes, David, life sure is something…
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Occupation:  Finance Assistant
Marital Status:  Divorced
No. of Children:  2
From Linda:
I graduated from Bethany College with a degree in History and Political Science and promptly moved to Florida with a job in the insurance industry. Lots of years and two grown children later (son and daughter) I received the Paralegal Certification from Rollins College in 1995 and spent a few years working in the legal profession. I have been working for Signature GMAC Real Estate in Orlando for almost 7 years on the administrative side of real estate, currently in the Finance Department. My brother moved to Orlando in the early 70s. Our children grew up together which was a lot of fun! My parents lived on Kiefer Drive until Mom moved to Orlando five years ago, several years after my father died. My favorite pastime for twenty plus years is horses. I learned to ride hunters and started competing over fences when I turned 40. I never had my own horse until three years ago when I bought an Irish Sporthorse from a friend in Ireland, and shipped him (the horse!) to Florida. I am working on my "List of things to do before I get too old..." and having my own horse was at the top of the list. I don't ride fences anymore because there are still items on that list to be accomplished and I don't bounce on the ground when I miss a fence like I used to. The next item on the "to do" list is to live in Ireland for a year. I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but if anyone has an idea, please let me know. I am looking forward to seeing everyone and being back in Pittsburgh! Linda
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Occupation:  Lawyer
Marital Status:  Married
No. of Children:  2
From Jay:
I attended Cornell University, graduating as an English major in 1969, and then taught high school English in Cortland, New York (about 20 miles from Ithaca) for 5 years. I met Martha Johnston at Cornell, and we were married in 1970. I went to Georgetown Law School, graduating in 1977. Within about a 2-month period, our son Zack was born, we moved to Portland, Maine, bought a house, and I started work as a lawyer. Ten years ago, two other lawyers and I left the big firm and started our own firm, LeBlanc & Young. We do mostly estate planning and estate and trust administration. Our daughter Maretta was born in 1986. This fall she will start her junior year at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Zack and Retta are wonderful. So far neither is married, so grandchildren are still over the horizon. Although no one in high school, including me, would have expected it, music has taken me to some surprising places. I began playing folk music on guitar in high school and progressed through rock and roll, blues, bluegrass and a couple of church choirs. Along the way, I learned to play upright bass. About 15 years ago I started playing with a group of Franco-American fiddle players and other musicians descended from people who immigrated to Maine from Quebec and the Canadian maritime provinces. There is a substantial French population in Maine, whole communities especially in the old mill towns where for several generations French was the primary language. A band called the Maine French Fiddlers coalesced out of these house parties (four or five fiddles, piano, one or two guitars, bass, sometimes an accordion) which represented the traditional Maine French culture. I was a ringer. The rest of the band had names like Lucien Mathieu, Gerry Robichaud and Ben Guillmette. We played at Carnegie Hall, on Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” radio show a couple of times, at a National Folk Festival, and at Wolf Trap. The core of that band is now playing as a trio, with Don and Cindy Roy on fiddle and piano, and me on bass. In 2004 we played at the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress, and another National Folk Festival. I continue to enjoy playing music, and I’m grateful to have had such opportunities. Thank you, Cheryl, for your efforts in organizing our reunion.
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