Donna Pederson Major

     Since graduation, I have worked at Grays Harbor Paper Company and will retire in three years. I have two sons and two daughters and four granddaughters and one grandson.
     After our 1981 reunion, I started visiting my aunt, uncle and cousins in Camas and Washougal, Washington and got hooked on fun vacations.
     Went to Hawaii one year with relatives - had a lovely time. In 1988 flew to Nova Scotia to visit my grandfather's homeland. Just last year we all boarded Via, the train of Canada, in Vancouver, B.C., to visit Nova Scotia again and stop to visit towns like Jasper, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal. We stayed in Sydney for three weeks. It took 5 days each way to get there and back. Almost 10,000 miles in six weeks and mostly by train - it has been a good 10 years.

R. Dennis Prather

     I went to Grays Harbor College with a lot of you and attended one semester at Western Washington college. I spent two years in the Army, 16 months in Korea, in the mid '50s.
     I then went to work for the IBM Corporation (planning to work for a year and then return to college) never made it back to college and spent 33 years with IBM. I had an interesting career with IBM working in management, regional staff, Division HQ staff and personnel. I was transferred and reorganized several times and got to see a lot of the country since the two regions I worked in covered country from Fairbanks, Alaska to Lubbock, Texas, and division headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. So, we have lived in Olympia, Tacoma, Portland, Denver, Atlanta, and three different times in the Seattle area.
     I married Sandy in 1968 and we have two children. Robert Dennis III who is a junior at Washington State, and Courtney, who is attending Wenatchee Valley College.
     I like to fish (having the opportunity to do so in Montana and Alaska in my IBM travels,) am a lousy golfer and doing wood working projects around the house.
     Looking forward to seeing you all,  I haven't been to a reunion since 1981.

Nancy Parpala Markoff

     George and I are still living in Beaverton, Oregon (population 53,350 and growing), and thoroughly enjoying the new home we had built in 1986. Best wishes to all . . . Nancy.

Bonnie Parshall Kalinowski

     I'm sorry to miss the class reunion. We will be at the Elks' National Convention during that time. I hope everyone has a wonderful time at the reunion. I'll try and make it to the 50th.

Ann Pierce Gensel

     In September, 1991 we will mark our 40th wedding anniversary. We have one son and two daughters. As of this date we have 5 grandsons.
     We enjoy our RV, tried retiring in the early 80's but decided that wasn't for us just yet. Came home and both of us went back to work.
     Loren had a bout with cancer in 1989 and in 1990, I had my turn, (must be something in the water). In any case, we're both fine now and are looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion and enjoying Ocean Shores again.

Frank H. Parker

     After graduation, I served a machinist apprenticeship at Lamb Grays Harbor, (1952-1956). I received APPRENTICE OF THE YEAR award from N.A.M. for Washington State in 1955.
     Married Jeannette Hale from Grayland in 1954, we have 4 children (3 girls and 1 boy), 7 grandchildren (6 girls and 1 boy), so far! We celebrated our 37th anniversary on July 3rd.
     We moved to Seattle in 1962 and bought a home in the Burien area. For the next 17 years, I worked as foreman for two job shops in the area. For 5 years I worked as a lathe operator for Morgan Actuators and when they closed up I went to Boeing. I am now working for Boeing Military Airplane Division. I am lead in one of the machine shops there.
     About 10 years ago I acquired my private pilot's license.
     We like to go boating, fishing, camping, bowling and to Las Vegas where our oldest daughter lives, also Reno in between.
     Our son is port engineer for Icicle Seafoods in Dillingham, Alaska, for the fishing season, and I am planning a fishing trip up there in August. Our other two daughters live not too far away here in Seattle.
     We are counting down to retirement when we can take our rig and tour the U.S.A.