PICTURES

HEY, EVERYONE THAT DIDN'T COME TO THE REUNION. POST SOME PICTURE SO WE CAN SEE YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES. YEA I KNOW, THE SHOWS OVER FOR THE BIG REUNION, BUT STILL WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW YOUR DOING.

Class Reunion

For those who could not attend, there was some exciting highlights, Our party was crashed,(By A Baby Bat, the kids found hanging outside the door.)

Peanut did a Wonderful job on putting together a slide show.

Lunch was Very YUMMY, Mr. Foster was Proud of how well his Biscuits turned out this time. However, he had a right to be, they was yummy. (And I normally do not like Baking powder biscuits). After the great lunch we had, As if there was room, we as served the best peach cobbler with Ice cream ever.

We had a couple teachers attend the reunion; Mr. Ellingson, I asked him if he remember the Glue in the shoe Incidence, He laughed and said yes, and Mr. Horrocks stopped by for a hour or so.

My Sister told me we had alot better class reunion than she did, Hers was boring compared to ours. YA BABY. We still kick behinds, Also, Class of "86" bragged about their turnout, they said all but five people attend, In my opinion, We had just as great a turnout.

Leslie

Class Photo Retouched

I couldn't help but notice a few girls in the front row, who seemed to be distracted. So I took the liberty of adjusting the photo a wee bit. Ahh... the wonders of Photoshop.

WOW! That was great.

Speaking only for myself. That was one of funnest weekends I have had in a long time! Thank you all for being part of it. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. For the people who were not able to make it, you really missed something great. The food was fantastic, and the company was one of a kind. The float for the parade was very "original". I would love to have your feedback on what you thought, good or bad. You can email, call, or just respond on the blog. We had about $30 left over from the proceeds. If you all don't mind I would like to give this to Peanut to help offset his costs of putting together the presentation.
Stan (Peanut) has created a photobucket account for our class. We can all upload our pictures of the reunion and share them.
Go to http://www.photobucket.com/ user: dhs87 password: eagles

OMG a picture with Fay in it!

I heard she's waiting for me to put this up!

The Kesler clan

Adam asked me to post these pictures for him.

Ken Purdy

Hey Class of '87, You all look great! I thought I had better add my update. I have been living in Heber City for the last 12 years. (Love It!) Married for 16 years to a little hottie from Texas, Carrie. We have four kids, 3 boys ( Tyler 15, Zach 12,Brydger 7) all better athletes than dad. 1 little girl ( Kendyl 3, aka Baby Godzilla!). I have been with the Utah Highway Patrol since 1996. I have been a k9 handler for 9 of those years, and the Sergeant/Trainer for 7 years. I just recently retired from the Swat Team, so that I could instruct at Police/Swat K9 seminars in North America. During my spare time, I coach the boys and make sure my Girls (Carrie & Kendyl), have everything they want, when they want it! Im looking forward to seeing all of you, and will not except any excuses for not showing up. (Tom & Doug). See you all there!

Joanne Kohles

Greetings to the Duchesne High School class of 1987

20 Years, wow! It sure don't seem like it has been that long. I have not seen or heard from anyone since graduation night.
Until Fay called my parents and that got the ball rolling.

These are my little ones
We live in Grantsville, Utah
I was a sub teacher for 9 years then became a C N A.
At this time I am a stay at home mom
enjoying my girls and all their activities.
They are both in High school.
Lori is involved with the FFA, judging & agriculture.
She really loves to rope and ride. A real cowgirl.
She also squeezes time in for her job.

Jamie is involved with drama & loves to play volleyball.
She loves to keep us all laughing.
And has a sense of humor that is second to none.

As a family we enjoy ridding, rodeos, camping, fishing. And of course all my flowers
Our biggest passion is restoring old cars.
The girls are each doing 1957 ford fairlanes right now.
I have been given the task of a 1953 Buick special (any suggestions welcome)

We love to travel every chance we get.
We try to make it back up to Duchesne at least twice a year. My older sister still lives up there. The memories come back.
I really have enjoyed getting back in touch with everyone and hope to be able to make it to the reunion but that is up in the air right now

Couldn't Resist

You knew you would regret giving me your picture one day. Dug these out of the bottom of a very deep box. Enjoy!

Seth

Slowing down is for losers. Lets see I finally married 6 years ago, to a girl from Lake Town UT and we have 4 kids, Brandon the eldest is 16 and my stepson, Seth Jr 6, Tiffany 1.5 and Nolan who is 3 months. I am currently living in Tooele UT. and have been there for the last three years. I am working for a private contractor for goverment equipment as a Electronic Technician. Looking foward of seeing the rest of the Class.

This me and Jr on the first boat we made with a chain saw.

Ken Purdy

Hey Class of '87, You all look great! I thought I had better add my update. I have been living in Heber City for the last 12 years. (Love It!) Married for 16 years to a little hottie from Texas, Carrie. We have four kids, 3 boys ( Tyler 15, Zach 12,Brydger 7) all better athletes than dad. 1 little girl ( Kendyl 3, aka Baby Godzilla!). I have been with the Utah Highway Patrol since 1996. I have been a k9 handler for 9 of those years, and the Sergeant/Trainer for 7 years. I just recently retired from the Swat Team, so that I could instruct at Police/Swat K9 seminars in North America. During my spare time, I coach the boys and make sure my Girls (Carrie & Kendyl), have everything they want, when they want it! Im looking forward to seeing all of you, and will not except any excuses for not showing up. (Tom & Doug). See you all there!

Tessie

I am going to take a quick minute and post.
I have been married to my wonderful husband, Bill, for 15 years. We live in Payson Utah. We like it here. It is small but growing. We will probably spend the rest of our lives here. We both still have family out in the Basin so we return to visit occasionally. But the longer we are here the more Payson feels like home.
We are the parents of 3 beautiful children. Our oldest daughter, Camille is 11 going on 25. She is out to conquer the world. She already knows everything and isn’t afraid to tell you that she does. Our next daughter is Careasa. She just turned eight. She is the peace maker of the family,
she will gladly give up the last piece of candy or a toy just to make the other child happy. If the world were full of people like Careasa it would be a much better place. Caiden is our little guy.
He is five, soon to be six. He says the cutest things. He keeps us laughing all of the time.
He wants to be just like his Daddy.
I have spent the past years being a stay at home mom taking care of my family. I love
being a mom. It keeps me busy taking the kids to all of their activities. They are involved in
softball, baseball, piano, orchestra, track, soccer, basketball and their varied church activities, just to name a few. It seems like the list never ends. People tell me I should limit how many activities they can participate in, but I remember that being involved probably kept me out of a lot of trouble when I was younger. Besides I like to watch them play. I do require that they keep their grades up in order to participate. At our house a "B" on the report card stands for "Below The Mark" They are smart kids and we expect them to show it. As long as they keep their grades up I will keep driving them around to their many activities.
Caiden, my baby, starts kindergarten this fall. I went back to school last summer to renew my teaching certificate. This fall I will be teaching 6th grade at Barnett Elementary. I feel really blessed to be teaching there because it is the school where my kids attend. I’m excited to teach. I am a little nervous, and a lot busy preparing my lesson plans and my classroom. The summer is slipping by fast.
I also spend a lot of time fulfilling my church calling. I am currently serving as the
Primary president in my ward. We have a lot of children in our ward. It is a busy calling but I am enjoying it.
I am happy. Life has been good to me. I look forward to seeing you all in August.
Love, Tessie

Grade School

Here is the other class in 5th grade to go with the one Sheree posted earlier

Pics

I though this might be fun to see, I was Mrs. Hayes's Visiting teacher, She gave this to me after we graduated.

Brian & Roxanne Ringel Clark

I have been told that it is time that I posted something, so here it goes.

I have been married now for going on 19 years to Brian Clark, we have 4 children my oldest Michael is 16 (soon to be 17). McKaylee is 13, Michelle is 12 and Matthew is 8 (yes they all begin with M, I do not know how that happened). We have been living in the Heber Valley now for the last 5 years and we just love it here.

I work part time for a small company here doing all the bookkeeping, office managing and anything else they throw at me. I also manage 5 other small companies for the CEO on of which is an airpark located out in the Fruitland area. Some of the other things that keep me busy besides my kids are; I still play volleyball, I donate my time to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, I am the PTA Treasurer, church callings and I work part time for my husbands business. Brian keeps telling me I have a problem saying NO, hence I get myself in a lot of trouble and sometimes go crazy with all the running around that I do. My children also contribute to the many hours I spend running around by being active in drama, power tumbling, dance, baseball, soccer, basketball, and piano to name a few.

Right now I am learning to play single parent as my husband is currently serving in Afghanistan until the 1st of October. He is with the 67th Aerial Port Squadron, United States Air Force Reserves, and his unit was called up back in April. He has been gone officially since the middle of May and I am finding myself counting the days until he comes home. I have to say that I am proud of my husband and the sacrifices he has made to serve his country.

I am excited for our reunion and look forward to attending in August.

Here's another...

Comments are welcome!

Pictures from Joni

Joni sent me a few pictures.

Reunion Update

Stan (Peanut) was able to track down Mr. Foster. Not only is he going to show up at the reunion, he is willing to cook a dutch oven meal for all of us at a great price. These are the options he gave me. Please give me some feedback on how you feel about this.

$11-Adult
$6 for kids under 12
I could do your choice of either BBQ Country style ribs or BBQ chicken, Dutch oven cheesy potatoes, Baked Beans, Corn on the Cob, Green salad, Peach Cobbler w/ ice cream and Lemonade and ice water. I supply plates, cups, bowls and utensils.
Or for $2 more per person, they could have both ribs and chicken.
Or for $1 more per person you can add canned pop.


Makes me hungry.

Events of 1987

Can anyone remember, exactly, what was going on in the world when we graduated?
Bon Jovi was "Livin' on a Prayer".
Ronald Reagan was up to his eyeballs in the "Iran-Contra" scandal.
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers was mired in the 21st century.
Uhhmm...

Alright, I'm breaking out my old Van Halen albums to try and joggle some synapses.

Anyone?

Stiff and Spikey

Amazing what 20 years can do to a man...eh?

pictures

More Pictures!

I found my yearbook! Memories....

Has every one fizzled out or what?

It's like every one has climbed under a rock. I thought this was such an awesome thing getting in touch with everyone again, hearing about every one's "life after Duchesne" I have a question, Is anyone doing what they Had envisioned themselves doing when we were in school? Has anyone besides myself learned from being in school what to have our kids learn that we never? (for instance I have enrolled my Daughter in Tae Kwon Do so she doesn't get picked on in school like I did in all my school years). Any way I guess I will stop babbling on and just keep watching for more updates on everyone. Bye for now.

Todd, Amy & Natalie Nielsen

Hello everyone. Peanut has been pestering me to post to this blog and so here it is.

When I left Duchesne I spent a long time working in construction operating heavy equipment. About 6 years ago, I joined up with a couple of guys and we have an excavating company that so far manages to pay the bills.

I met my wife, Amy in 1995 and we got married in 2000. She is from California. Our daughter Natalie just barely turned 3.

We currently live in Bountiful where Amy stays home with Natalie.

Hope this covers what I'm supposed to write. See you all soon.

Sandra Swasey (Alred)

Sandra Swasey (Alred), Bryan (18), Tyler (15)

Hello Class of 1987,

A couple years after graduation I married Kirk Swasey, He joined the Navy we spent the first 8 years or so living the military life, we lived in Virgina Beach, and Mississippi, After Kirk left the Military we returned to Utah and moved to Orem, Where I returned to school to become a Dental Hygienist. After Kirk and I Divorced he returned to Duchesne, Me and the kids still live in Orem.

Raising 3 Teenagers by myself is Exciting, to say the lease.

Bryan (18) as you can see just graduated High school this year. He also made the honers role every quarter , he received an achievement in science award. He just left to spend the Summer working in Moab.

Tyler (15) is my sport freak, he races dirt bikes, He has competed in a few competitions and did really well. He also loves to skate board. Because he Loves the outdoors, we have agreed that if he keeps his grades up he can live in Duchesne where he can have all the space he wants to race his bike.

Toni (13) my baby girl, is being the normal 13 year old, I hope both of us makes it pass this stage in her life. I will get some update pictures of her soon, the only question is going to be what color will her hair be this week.

I just sent my laptop to Moab with Bryan, However, I will get on here and check up on the class as often as I can. It is so exciting to see what everyone is doing. I would also love to hear from all my friends, Danen and Stan has my cell phone number. I feel that a class reunion is a fantastic Idea and I am excited it see everyone there.