Have run into a few BHS alumni on Face Book and MySpace :-) Just working and living life in the sun!

After graduating from Marietta College I worked as an accountant at Marathon Oil. After receiving my second degree from Findlay College, I spent one year in Miami, FL before settling in Dallas, TX. I have remarried with 3 children; one a Texas A&M graduate, another still in college and one in elementary school. My wife is Brazilian and an architect. I am a business advisor and investor.

I graduated from Cleveland State University in 2002 with a BA in Information Systems and later
earned my Windows 2003 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification. I am a Network
Engineer for a local area hospital. My husband, Dane, and I live in Medina, OH with my step-son,
Mitchell and our German Shepherd, Kyra.

I graduated Malone College in 2003 with a nursing degree. I'm currently living in Montana with my wife Mandy and 3 year old step-daughter Kiara.

I am currently living in San Diego with my husband, Marc, who is a Navy Officer (so we move a lot!). I am a pharmacist at UCSD Medical Center and would love info if anyone has any on footage of our HS musicals.

John is selling real estate and Barb is a social worker with Summit County Children Services.

Matt  is graduating from OSU June 9

I had 3 wonderful teachers at Johnson School when I was in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. My wife Alice and I took Miss Coda (Mrs. Newt Rains) and Miss Sarah Gallagher to lunch on May 23,2000. Miss Gallagher is 90 years old and is in a nursing home in Cleveland and Miss Coda lives alone in Akron. My 4th grad teacher, Miss Dorothy Chilcoat passed away in Sun City, AZ this past November. regards, Al Kauslick

I am a member of the class of 1962. I am now living in Poplar Bluff Missouri where I teach American History at the high school. I taught and coached at Cleveland East High School for many years before moving to Missouri.

I had a great time growing up in Barberton and being involved in athletics. Some of the great coaches/teachers I had were : Joe Faust-wrestling, Tom Phillips-football and Jack Lengyel-track.

 Let me capture short history since graduating from BHS in 1969: Enlisted in military USAF in Sept '69 Officer training school in Aug 79 (commissioned in Nov '79) Presently attending Naval War College(Newport, RI) as a Lt Colonel in USAF (graduation scheduled for Jun'01). Recently notified of selection for promotion to COLONEL in USAF next year. Oldest son, John IV, attending U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in NYC will graduate Jun '01 (Marine engineer). He is a 4yr letterman in soccer ...and the team is 15-2 headed into playoffs and hopefully the NCAAs.

Chuck Dunbar, class of '68 is currently a Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He has lived in Southern California for the last 21 years. A single parent of a 24 year old son and nineteen year old daughter, he returns to Barberton each year around Christmas for his yearly fix of chicken, and "Tonyo's" Pizza.

HI, I'M RALPH MAGNO GRADUATED IN 1968 FROM BHS. NOW LIVING NEAR NAPLES ITALY. FOUND ABOUT THE SITE FROM JAN STOCKER. I RETIRED FROM THE AIR FORCE IN 1991 AND WORKING WITH SATELLITE THINGS WITH THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY EVER SINCE. JUST THOUGHT I WOULD DROP YOU A LINE.

We're 6 hours ahead of Barberton here in Italy.

I lived in Barberton from 1960 through 1966, third grade through eighth. Attended Oakdale, then U.L. Light. My father was the Westinghouse inspector at Babcock and Wilcox. (He turns 88 in June and is doing well.)

We lived first on Paige and then on Tuscarawas.

We moved to Pittsburgh in 1966. I've been here ever since, except for two trimesters at Pitt's Johnstown campus. I practice family law:

www.angstrom.net/~normac/index.html

Last summer, I was back in Barberton for the first time since 1968. Lake Anna is still beautiful, even with the sidewalks.

Would love to hear from old classmates or neighbors.

Just incase anyone wondered what ever happened to Kandi Williams, born Aug 6th,1968..Attended Johnson Elementary, then U.L.Light.......She left all her friends and beloved Barberton, while in the 7th grade...The rumor was that she was moving to ALASKA with her mother. All her friends thought she was crazy!....Well, she DID move to Alaska, where she has been ever since. She attended the rest of her school years in Alaska. Nowadays, she couldn't even dream of coming back to ole' Barberton, for Anchorage has been her home for 20 years now...But she still recalls and talks about the good ole days as if they were yesterday. The warm summer nights spent down at Lake Anna, the 4th of July fireworks, and the bands they use to have under the pavilion on the weekends. She has a little 9 year old boy that she plans on bringing home to BARBERTON SOON...In hopes to show him all the places she use to go as a young girl herself and show him the Barberton Magic spirit, she knows, still remains in her hometown...

I taught at BHS for the first semester of 1976-77. I taught sophomore English and Communications. I replaced Mr. Fleming while he wrote his book (I could hear the relief when students entered the room and saw me instead of "Wild Bill"!) However, it was my first year out of college, I had graduated four years before from BHS, and I felt like a child given way too much responsibility. I was a terrible teacher! I was clueless. But even so, I think the students knew I liked them. I have gone on to a tremendous and fulfilling career in the Cleveland Public Schools. I think I'm a really good teacher now, and my students still know I like them. Some things never change.
I'd like to apologize to anyone I may have damaged by not teaching them what they needed to know to go on to the next level, but if it hadn't been for that first year at Barberton, I wouldn't have learned what I needed to know to go on to the next level.

Walter Ludwig is retired from the pharmaceutical industry and living in Signal Mountain, TN. He is at

ludwigw@bellsouth.net

Class of 81

I am currently living in Clyde, Ohio with my husband Tim. Clyde is about 20 miles South of Sandusky. I am a Registered Nurse. Tammie (Dobbins) Ferguson Class of 1981

Becky (Quirk) Harvey, Class of '66 is living in Oklahoma City where she moved in 1976 with her husband Ken Harvey (now deceased) and 5 children. She is an RN Director of Baptist Home Care, (yes she used to be Catholic) enjoys playing with her 8 grandchildren and loves Oklahoma. She will never move back to Ohio.

Ronald Stoll, I went to Memorial Elementary & Portage Jr. High School before I moved to Florida, I now live in Spring Hill Florida. I have been married for 28 years have 3 children and 5 grandchildren with one more on the way.

Joined the Army in October, 1975. Served 3 years in Germany, came back to Barberton, attended Akron University for 7 years. Have 3 degrees from Akron U. Work full time as a civilian for the Department of the Army, Army Reserve. I am also the Public Affairs Chief for the Army Reserve in Ohio. I am still a Soldier in the Army Reserve, 31 years of military service. I deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2004. I wrote weekly editorials for the Barberton Herald while in Iraq. I reside in Groveport, Ohio, with my wife, Kay.