Classes from the 1980s

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Rebecca (Brandmire) Kranich and Jeffrey ’80 celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in June, 2005. Daughter Jennifer is getting married this summer, son Paul recently graduated from CU-Irvine, son David is a Jr. at Valparaiso, and son Jonathan will graduate from Seattle Lutheran HS.

Mike Matlock is a fifth grade teacher at Fairsite Elementary School in Galt, Calif. and Vice Chairman of San Joaquin South Section of the North Coast Officials Association.

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Cindy (Morris) Champlin writes, “Duck when you pray, you never know how God is going to answer.”

Dale Fabricius often thinks of his friends from CU and how they are doing in their walk with Christ. He and his wife, Gail ’81, are approaching their 20th wedding anniversary and write, “God bless you friends.”

Tim Messick shares family news: Alaina is getting married in Charlotte this summer, Thomas has returned home after serving in Iraq, Mitch is a student at Virginia Military Institute, Kaitlin and Kristina are students at Providence Day, and Zhanna and Alexander are students at Lansdown. Kristina, Alexander, and Zhanna were adopted in 2000 while the family was teaching missionaries at Hong Kong International School.

Elizabeth (Richmond) Sedore and her husband, Jim, were recently accepted as project missionaries with the Covenant denomination and plan to move to Mongolia in the spring of 2008.

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Rev. Kelly Bedard and his wife, Julie (Schwarz) ’81 are living in Houma, La. where they survived hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Kelly is Sr. Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church and Julie is Director of Grace’s Early Childhood Center, as well as the organist and choir director.

Trina (Vahsholtz) D’Amico has worked for Intel Corporation for 21 years. She currently serves as an organizational development specialist and management coach. She is married and has a 22 year-old stepson.

Tim Newkirk continues to enjoy life in the Paso Robles wine country with his wife Cindy (Steinbeck) ’83. Cindy continues to develop their ag-tourism adventure The WineYard at Steinbeck Vineyards where she offers a vineyard educational excursion. Their son, Ryan, will marry this summer and their daughter Stacy is a freshman at CU-RF.

Thomas Pfeifer writes that “God is good and merciful.”

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Janice Edwards is currently working at McAfee in Beaverton testing and breaking enterprise software.

Esther Etuk and her husband are blessed with ten grandchildren, seven boys and three girls.

Olaf Nordling plans on retiring from the Navy, leaving a Academic News Radiology practice in the military. He will transition to private practice in San Diego, Calif.

Richard Wildhirt is the organist at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Federal Way, Wash. He has produced two Bach CDs in the last two years.

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Jeff Bricco currently lives in Jonesboro, Ark. with his wife and three children. He is a manager for a Columbia Forest Product’s plywood plant.

Tamara (Tracy) Henry has been married to Judson for 20 years. They live in Poulsbo, Wash. where they homeschool their five children.

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Mitchell Morgan writes that his son, Michael, “is serving his second tour of duty in Iraq with the US Marine Corps (1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, India Company, 2nd Platoon); during his first tour in November 2004, he received a commendation for Meritorious Action in Combat during the battle of Fallujah.”

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Roger Howard writes that, “our quartet ‘Doulos’ is finishing up recording its debut CD. Proceeds will benefit the debt reduction of Trinity Lutheran Church & School in Toledo, Ohio and free up budget funds for our mission start.” To order a CD visit www.trinityvikings.org and click on music.

Curtis Tanke enjoys a “busy” life in Eugene with his wife, Kristine (Linneman) ’85. They have three children who “excel in academics and athletics at Christian schools.” They would love to hear from old friends — e-mail them at jnktanke@aol.com.

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Corinn (Hill) and Rev. Steve Bielenberg ’84 live in Minn. where Steve is the Pastor at Redeemer Lutheran Church. They have two sons, Henry and David, and encourage friends to “stop in for a visit.”

Rev. Timothy Brandt writes that he and his wife, Kim, enjoyed watching nephew Josh Brandt play baseball in his senior year at CU and prepare for his wedding in Sandpoint, Idaho.

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Ruth (Kunert) Gray and her husband, Cedric, keep busy with their three children Rachel, Marcus, and Jacob. Ruth is the music teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Portland, Ore. and teaches private piano and flute lessons from her home in Vancouver, Wash.

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Deborah (Dey) Chinn completed her Master of Arts in teaching from Concordia this May.