Today in Mill Creek, Washington. . .
Flash News Item: Mill Creek, WA, this date.
Two former Alexandrians met up for the first time in over 50 years for coffee today and spent time discussing Alex and what's happened to "Do you remember?".
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| Terry and Karl at today's luncheon |
Karl Tegland and Terry Lang both live in the Everett, WA area about 1 mile from each other and until Stan Rolfsrud and Tom Obert pointed in the right direction, Karl and Terry did not know they lived that close to each other. They even shop at the same grocery store!
Karl has lived in the Seattle area since 1969 and has a law office in Mill Creek which is about 20 miles north of Alexandria. He is married to the former Sue Gorham and they live just north of Mill Creek in an area known as Silver Lake. Terry, who retired from the US Navy in 1993, settled in Everett because family lived in the Puget Sound area. Terry is married to the former Rita Robinson and their home is about one mile west of the Teglands.
Through email, Karl and Terry were able to get together for the first time in over 50 years and are now planning more mini-reunions. And, if there are any former Alexandrians who live in the Seattle/Everett area, let them know.
Terry last visited Alexandria in 2007 for one night and before that, he was in town with a Navy Polaris missile in the summer of 1967. He was going from one show in Kentucky to another show in Mitchell, SD and decided Alex was a convenient stop! He was listening to KXRA and heard MR. Aga over the air waves early in the morning, so he stopped at the radio station and spent some time with Mr. Aga and his radio audience. Terry remembers going up to Central to talk to Mr. Frank who had been his 9th Grade Science teacher and was the one who got him interested in photography (Terry spent 30 years as a US Navy photographer and now has his own photo business and teaches photography at community colleges) with a Kodak Brownie and his dark room at the school.
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Footnotes from Karl Tegland:
Karl has lived in the Seattle area since 1969 and has a law office in Mill Creek which is about 20 miles north of Alexandria. He is married to the former Sue Gorham and they live just north of Mill Creek in an area known as Silver Lake. Terry, who retired from the US Navy in 1993, settled in Everett because family lived in the Puget Sound area. Terry is married to the former Rita Robinson and their home is about one mile west of the Teglands.
Through email, Karl and Terry were able to get together for the first time in over 50 years and are now planning more mini-reunions. And, if there are any former Alexandrians who live in the Seattle/Everett area, let them know.
Terry last visited Alexandria in 2007 for one night and before that, he was in town with a Navy Polaris missile in the summer of 1967. He was going from one show in Kentucky to another show in Mitchell, SD and decided Alex was a convenient stop! He was listening to KXRA and heard MR. Aga over the air waves early in the morning, so he stopped at the radio station and spent some time with Mr. Aga and his radio audience. Terry remembers going up to Central to talk to Mr. Frank who had been his 9th Grade Science teacher and was the one who got him interested in photography (Terry spent 30 years as a US Navy photographer and now has his own photo business and teaches photography at community colleges) with a Kodak Brownie and his dark room at the school.
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Footnotes from Karl Tegland:
- Karl arrived for the lunch with a little Nikon point-and-shoot camera -- proud that he had figured out how to use it. Terry arrived with a pro-level camara system about the size of the Space Shuttle.We quickly decided that the pro should take the photo!
- So I understand, Larry pulls up behind KXRA early in the morning pulling a Polaris Missle with a official Navy truck. Good thing Jerry Ven Kempen was out of town. He would have showed up within 4 minutes, to sell tickets for kids to climb on the Missle!!
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