Our reunion is only 10 days away and I have just located the website.  Actually I didn't know we had one until today and Maxie Hinshaw e-mailed it to me..

My reservations are in, and my husband and I will be staying with Lou Ellen Geiger in Burlington but as this is my first one, I'm hoping I will be able to recognize at least a few '57 classmates.  A bit of a recap on my fifty years follows.

After graduation I went to Denver, Colorado where my parents had moved and worked for Continental Airlines while taking courses  at the University of Colorado.  The following year I went in residence to Colorado State College in Greeley, CO.  Graduating four years later, I taught 5th Grade in Aurora, CO (a Denver suburb) for several years and then moved to Albuquerque, NM  where I taught 3rd grade for several more years.  During the  first couple of summers out of school I again worked for Continental Airlines and the following summers I returned to Greeley and pursued a masters in Guidance and Counseling.  All through my undergraduate years I was very involved with student government, Alpha Phi sorority, and the yearbook staff (with which I had developed an interest at GHS!)  At the end of my senior year, I was named "One of Ten Outstanding Senior Women".  I really attribute my self-confidence and interest in people and student government to all of the great welcoming and friendly experiences I had at GHS when I transferred in as a mid-year sophomore.

As an "Old Maid School Teacher" for a number of years, I began downhill skiing and eventually became a ski patrolman at Sandia Peak near Albuquerque.  While a member of a ski club there I met my future husband, Jim Hurt, an Air Force officer who was a test pilot.  He had been married and had two daughters.  We married in 1967; I adopted his daughters who were then 6 and 8 and he went to Viet Nam, came home from Viet Nam and we were assigned to Edwards AFB in California.  In November of 1970 my son, Jeffrey Wheeler Hurt was born.  The following April I was widowed as my husband did not survive a test flight in the F-111.  Returning to New Mexico where my former principal offered me a job whenever I wanted it,  and many civilian friends were located, I settled in.  The following year I received an assistantship in the Department of Special Education at the University of New Mexico and in 1973 received another masters.  In 1975 I met and married James Allen Dickey, a Californian, who was a Naval Aviator in the A-6 Intruder for 24 years.  He was assigned to Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Washington state and there we went.  This 30 year old bachelor gained a wife, 3 children, a basset hound, a cat and a house full of furniture.  That was 32 years ago.  We have lived in the far east, (Japan  for 3 1/2 years), and Europe, (Belgium for 4 plus years), and on the east coast in the Washington DC (Northern Virginia) area.  We relocated to Williamsburg, VA in 2003 and  are pleasantly relaxing, reading, learning the game of golf, and I am playing some bridge (which I learned in the Greensboro summers.) 

We have had no more children and now have Jeff and wife Tahra, granddog Gus and grandcat Stan in Austin, TX.  Also have daughter Kristi, son-in-law Ken and grandson Jonathan who is 13 in Topeka, KS.  Our oldest daughter Karen is a nurse in Indianapolis with our granddaughter Stephanie who is 21

I'm sure this is "TMI" as my husband often tells me, and I could go on… but have no more room on the page.  See you all soon.  Ann Dickey

-Ann Dickey