Can't take the city out of Patricia Peterson

Hi Stan,
I encountered a former Alexandrian at work and she gave me the copy of the Echo Press in which the Class of ’65 was looking for lost folks. I was on the list! Looks like a whole lot of folks are on the island of lost things. Bummer.

After 9/11 my position as the Enterprise Data Architect with Northwest Airlines went away. My husband owns his own trucking business, drives over the road, and didn’t care where we lived so we sold our house of 16 years in Bloomington, Minnesota and moved back into the house I grew up in up here in Alexandria. Strange being back.

It’s been three years and I am still not used to it. We had a big old house in Bloomington, and moving was like putting 50 lbs of potatoes in a 10 lb sack. But I am grateful for the house the folks left me, and think of it as my cabin in the woods (well, by the park…).

After consulting with Alex Tech for a while, I am now a data consultant down in Eden Prairie. I telecommute some of the time and the rest I spend there. Can’t take the city out of the girl, I guess. I do look forward to getting home at the end of the week and getting my dog Jenny out of the kennel.

Is there a reunion this year? How are you and who have you heard from? Did you find any others of the ‘lost’? It seems just plain weird that we graduated 40 years ago. Doesn’t seem possible that we could be 40 years old. I have seen a couple of folks around town, Sue Graves, Larry Olson, and Kathy Nelson come to mind.

Hope all is well with you and that you found more of the ‘lost’.

Regards,
Patricia (Pat, Patty) Peterson