St. Louis Park High School Class of 1972

Rick Oestreich

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Birthday:January 20, 1954 Occupation:Retired - Technology Sales Marital Status:Married No. of Children:2

From Rick:Hello Everyone,

The Last 50 years have been a learning experience with many lessons and blessings along the way. I played Rugby for 15 years and after hanging up the boots, became a Rugby Administrator helping to grow the sport. Had a career in software programming and melded that into a career of twenty some years of software sales . I married Pattie Gerr from St. Paul in May of 1985 and we haven't looked back. We raised two great kids, a daughter and a son, both great and live close in the Twin Cities. Pattie and I are both retired and taking advantage of retirement by traveling and seeing the country. We are checking off our bucket list of National Parks to visit. I spoke to Charlie Solender and he said he would go to the reunion if I go so here we are. It should be interesting to see who shows

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Joan Oxman

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Birthday:April 20, 1990 Occupation:Realtor and Teacher Website:www.joanoxman.com Marital Status:Married No. of Children:2

From Joan:I can't believe that 40 years have passed! I'm really looking forward to connecting with all of my friends from the past.

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Vicki Dahl (Palmquist)

Birthday:June 08, 1954 Occupation:Website Designer Website:www.windingoak.com Marital Status:Married

From Vicki:Fully enjoying life. My husband and I work with 170+ clients around the world, many of whom write books for children, as website and print designers. We're celebrating our 35th year in business. Theater, jazz, cooking, gardening, and great friends keep us busy.

John Payne

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Birthday:July 23, 1954 Occupation:Account Services Manager Marital Status:Single

From John:Back in 1972 I was "fleet of feet". Now I let my right foot do the racing!

Happy I made it 50 years. A number of employment opportunities took me through 7 states, 10 homes and oh, 2 marriages! Met a lot of interesting people along the way and made a few friends as well.

Enjoying the South in Atlanta Georgia and look forward to seeing "Y'ALL!"

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Jeff Perlman

Birthday:May 20, 1954 Occupation:Residential Developer/Investor Marital Status:Married No. of Children:1

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Nancy Herman (Perlman)

Birthday:May 23, 1954 Occupation:Business Executive & Consultant Marital Status:Divorced

From Nancy:Looking forward to seeing everyone on August 4!

Barry Plotnick

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Birthday:August 27, 1954 Occupation:retired Website:www.bordersmelonseast.com Marital Status:Married No. of Children:2

From Barry:Even though my family moved out of SLP after my sophomore year, I've always felt a part of the "Class of 72". After all, I did go to school with a bunch of you guys for 10 years. Anyways, now that I see all the people attending, I wish I had made the decision to come. Maybe I'll make the 50th if I'm invited. Enough about that.
I've been happily married for the last 12 years. I have a daughter from my first marriage and a wonderful step-son courtesy of my wife. He just got married in March.
For the past 35 years or so I've been involved in the fruit & vegetable industry. I've been very blessed and fortunately, my business partner decided to buy me out almost 2 years ago. Retirement is great! Every night is Friday night and every day is Saturday. Y'all have a great time and look me up if you're ever passing through south Georgia

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Janet Porter

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Occupation:Retail store owner/manager Marital Status:Single

From Janet:I graduated from the U of M in St Paul with a degree in Food Science. I moved to Decorah, Iowa, in 1978 to manage the Sears Catalog Store and eventually owned it. Then in 1993 I started my own retail store in Decorah called Bargain Outlet. I love to travel.

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Nancy Keen (Potter)

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Birthday:August 28, 1954 Occupation:University professor Website:spokane.wsu.edu/academics/Health_Sciences/SHS/faculty/potter.html Marital Status:Married No. of Children:3

From Nancy:

As I moved from state to state over the past 40 years, I have increased my collection of good friends.

My husband, Mark, and I met the first day of college. My "Mrs." degree was the first of many. We raised three grown sons and numerous international students. Clueless to the cost of college for four, I trotted off to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a PhD in speech-language pathology as the boys were working on their undergrad and grad degrees. Many loans later, everyone finally finished. I specialize in speech impairments resulting from rare genetic disorders. (A topic difficult to work into a dinner party conversation.)

I continue to be a slow learner as evidenced by my daily need to be reminded that God is in control of the past, present, and future and likely is not in need of my vigilant supervision.

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Nancy Keen (Potter)

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Birthday:August 28, 1954 Occupation:Professor Website:https://medicine.wsu.edu/overview/faculty-and-staff/nancy-potter/ Marital Status:Married No. of Children:3

From Nancy:I married the first guy I met at college, earning my Mrs. degree (later a BS, MS and much later a PhD). I do rare disease research, spend way too much time in meetings, and ~~teach~~ torment graduate students at Washington State University in Spokane. My current research involves starting therapy with children who have rare genetic diseases shortly after birth. My role is to conduct virtual (thanks to COVID) annual assessments on 2, 3, and 4 year olds for follow-up. When the boys left home, we moved to the NW then all 3 sons and 7 grandchildren moved back to the Midwest.

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