Nokes glad he visited his teacher before she died

Paul Nokes was looking for a company press release on the web. He put his name in a search engine, and voila, up pops the '65Roundup. He went to work, wrote a bio, and here it is. Nice going, Paul! Wish everyone was so resourceful. We've got a lot of work to do this year if we're going to find everybody on the class list. The list is below. The way this works, Paul, is that your classmates are supposed to be working industriously to help the Trailboss (that's me) turn lightface names into bold. I'll be turning yours bold as soon as I get a chance. And you get a Star* by your name because you contributed something about yourself. So far it has been slow. We're hoping things catch fire in the New Year. Got some stuff today from Lorlee Bartos, Tom Obert and a promise from a member of the Class of '64 that he will write something fun soon about Jerry Deleski, but that's about it right now. Does your pal John Kloehn have email on the farm? If so, give him a post and get him on this site. Class president Paul Strandberg has always had a soft spot in his heart for the Kloehn Twins. He explained to me once that "Kloehn Twins" is a sort of clever pun. Anyway, thanks for the note. Keep checking in and contacting classmates, deputy. -- The Trailboss

Paul Nokes writes:
Hi Stan.... I did not expect to find this site tonight as I was poking around on the net. We stopped getting the paper about a year ago and were wondering what was planned for the 40th reunion. We were last at Garfield in late October to see Mom.... we were on our way back from a visit to the Peace Gardens in North Dakota. We last saw most of our classmates at the 30th reunion.
Paul's short bio:
I went into the USAF right after graduation as did some of our classmates. I retired from the Air Force in 1990 while in Texas and moved back to Omaha 1992 and have been at Children's Hospital since then. I am presently the Manager of IT Operations.
I have been married for 36 years to Jeanne Gann (whom I met in Omaha in 1967) and we have two boys, now 24 and 30. I enjoy working for the kids at the hospital and have no intention of retiring any time soon.
I still spend time with classic cars and have three '68-69 AMXs and a '74 Bricklin that I have restored and show at area events. I also still keep in touch with farming by donating time to several local area farmers here. I greatly admire those classmates of ours that are still in the farming business. In fact, I always make time to stop and visit with John Kloehn when I come home and always enjoy his company. For those that are Viet Nam vets they will know what I mean.
Garfield will be having its 100th birthday celebration the second week in August and we will be coming up for that. We will keep checking the web site now that we know about it. Hope to see you all this summer.
(There, wasn't that easy to do, classmates? Well done, Paul. -- Trailboss)

Paul Strandberg writes:
I don't know if it's the fault of my mother, who was Paul Nokes' teacher in Garfield (he was a favorite), but if the last time Paul saw his classmates was at the 30th reunion, there are only two conclusions:
1. Nobody told me about the reunion, or
2. My mother didn't do a good job of teaching him arithmetic since I, even in my declining years, remember the last reunion being the 25th.

Neither option is encouraging.

Paul Nokes responds:
I saw the post from Paul S and he is correct.... it was the 25th. About all I could remember is that we drove up from San Antonio and we lived there from 1985 until 1992. Anyway, on one of our trips to Minnesota I took time to drive over to the Nelson area and found his mom's place and stopped and paid her a visit. I had not seen her in 25 plus years and was she ever surprised to see us. It is a shame that we do not take more time to visit the people that made such a positive impression on us during our early years. My mom has always said that if we wait until we retire, the folks we want to see have long since passed and we will never recover the lost time.