ISU CLASS OF 1981 WEBPAGE

Mery Christmas from the Sundberg's
2004 was another exciting year of transition and exploration. Kristin's now an office manager for an Ames podiatrist. Tim is enjoying life as a graphics artist for an Ames printing company. Kari has graduated from Valpo and will be moving to Norflok, VA. where finace' Eric Farley is stationed as a Navy construction engineer. Stay tuned for the wedding plans. Lora has graduated from ISU and will be working in Chicago for an architectural firm's magazine. Molly spent the spring semester in South Carolina and the fall semester at ISU pursing that biology related profession. Deb is still saving the world from dental caries and Paul is still doing his thing with the National Pork Board. We expect 2004 for us is going to be another year of great adventure. We all hope tha you are well and 2005 will be a wonderful year for you. May God fill your Christmas season with love and peace.

Paul and Debbie Sundberg

Hi and Happy Holidays to everyone,
All well here. Haven't made that million..but looks like I never will so have decided to abandon the idea. How about all of you? Seriously, still practicing, mostly alone. Family is all well. Oldest is a jr at KSU, youngest is graduating from HS this spring and plans to go to U of NE in the fall. Both still wrestling. Not sure what we will do with ourselves when that is all over.
Hope you all had many warm times with family and friends over the holidays and enjoy a great 2005.
Jeri Sill Welchert.

Happy New Year! As usuaul I am a little late in getting a holiday note typed up. All is well at the Johnson household and I hope all is well with everyone of you.
2004 was another busy year for us. The highlight was we had our second child, Paul, get married in August. Paul married his college sweetheart in Silver Bay, MN on August 14. We had a grand time and really enjoyed the north shore of Lake Superior. Paul and his wife Libby live in Hopkins,MN (suburb of Minneapolis) and he works for a medical supply company called McKesson. Our oldest daughter, Emily and her husband Joe currently are in Philadelphia, where she works in promotions for General Mills and Joe is a high school lieterature teacher. General Mills is planning to transfer them back to the Twin Cities this summer. Mark, child number 3, is a sophomore at Marquette and Beth, the baby, is a senior in high school and contemplating Marquette or St. Benedict's in Minnesota as her top 2 college choices.
Molly and I continue to slave away to pay for all the college and wedding bills. (We found kids get really expensive just before they head out the door for the last time.) Molly is still doing all the office nursing for an orthopod in Oshkosh that does a ton of hip and knee replacements as his ticket to wealth and fame. Our mixed practice continues to be more and more small animal. That has been ok with me and my partner as we get older plus we realize what you small animal people have known for a couple of decades, that you can make alot more income with Fluffy the canine than you can with Bossie the bovine.
In 2004 I finished my 4 year term on the Wisconsin VMA executive board, which I enjoyed very much. It was great to meet alot of colleagues from around the state. At the state convention in Madison in October it was great to run into several classmates and we talked up getting together as a class at possibly the North American Vet Conference in Orlando in 2006. Sounds good to me and hopefully with alot of advance notice we can get a good turn out.
I wish all of you the best for 2005!
Phil Johnson

As usual I am late getting a letter sent. All is well in Wilton Iowa. My practice continues to be too busy; but that is better than the alternative.
The family is doing great. We were supposed to go skiing today but everyone backed out on me because it was minus 7 when we got up this AM. It will make for a more relaxing day this way. My oldest son “Ryan” is a sophomore and keeps busy trying to juggle basketball, tae kwon do, girls and classwork. My youngest son “Tyler” plays basketball, tae kwon do and video games. If I had a nickel for every hour he spends on video games I could retire early. They just received their temporary black belts a week ago and now will test for 1st degree black belt in about 6 months.
I continue to enjoy work and keep finding new things to learn. I try to get out west skiing twice a year, go to western states vet mting- usually see Clay Johnson when there – participate in tae kwon do with the boys, and spend the rest of the time trying to stay out of trouble.
Hope everyone has a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year
Wayne Budding

Well Wayne, don't feel bad about being late, I am writing this after i have added yours to the site.
BECAUSE NOTHING EVER SEEMS TO CHANGE. I am still at the same place since 1983, Jill is at the same place she has worked since 1982. Charlie will graduate from UW-Madison this year and will be going to China for a 2 month externship. Ashly is in he second yer of college in Milwaukee and loves it. Alex will graduate from high school this summer and will go to the university on Minnesota next year, pursuing a dental degree. I am still doing my bear research, and have branched out a bit, doing a project on fishers, otters and bobcats. But all those are from carcasses so no work with live critters in that branch. I will be going to Glacier National Park to help with and learn about a wolverine study. Hope to get my hands on one of those beasties while there.
Hope you all have a good Christmas and Happy New Year.
chris and Jill Katz

Not much new here. We are doing a lot more horse work than anything else now so am going to the AAEP in Denver next week. Still have 2 grandkids and Muriel and I are still working at the same jobs. Looking forward to reading the Christimas letters. Looked for Craig Van Balen at the AAEP last year but didn't see him there. Hope to run into him this year. Dan McDermott

I am currently at the University of Illinois Vet School and just started a new job last week. I moved from working on a Salmonella research project to working in the diagnostic lab as a microbiologist. I will be working with cases coming through the clinics and necropsy here at the college as well as cases sent from veterinarians across the state. My new job will offer quite a bit more diversity than the research project and I am looking forward to that!
My kids are growing up! My oldest son Eric (14) is a freshman in high school this year. He has discovered the joys of football and can't wait until next season. He still plays hockey (as a goale), is in the band at school and is active in scouts.
My younger son Mitchell (10) is a fifth grader. He is following in his brother's footsteps and is also a hockey goalie, plays a coronet in band, and is in his last year of cub scouts.
Duane continues as an engineer at Caterpillar designing the big trucks. We took a vacation to northern Wisconsin last summer and had fun fishing and hiking.
Have a great Christmas!
Pat Hoien-Dalen

12/18/04
Hello class of 81,
Lots new here in Cleveland, you should come and visit. We have actually moved into our new hospital. No it's not done yet, but we are working around the mess. They are in the process of gutting the old building so it can be torn down. Lots of finishing touches need to be completed in the new building, like a front door! (we currently have a temporary side door, which will become a window when we're done.). Our first day (last Monday) we had no phones, no computers, no water to some areas, it was interesting. We still can't print any labels. BUT the building is beautiful and huge! We sometimes still ask someone to move out of the way just for old time's sake. I feel like I'm doing relief work, except I know the whole staff.
Cody is in 10th grade, his second year of high school. He is doing wonderfully behaviorally, but his class work still needs work. He is now taller then his Dad (his feet have been bigger for a year). And in spite of then medication he's on, he has really slimmed down. He want's to go to college, but refuses to do homework, boy is he in for a rude awakening!!!! He wants to be a computer programmer, they have a good technical program in this area that he can start next year.
Jesse is in 7th grade, and is as bright as ever. If possible tho she is more scattered and has begun to behave in some ways like a teenager. I see lots of arguments in our futures! She continues to play the flute and is still in a flute choir. Shae is also in a group called Power of the Pen. She wants to be a part-time Veterinarian and a full time actress, boy reality is going to be harsh for both my kids! She has been involved this year in a Broadway Review, and will do this again next semester.
I plan to do an Alaskan cruise for my 50th with my sister and a good friend, while the kids are with their Dad this summer. I'll let you know if it actually comes to pass. I did go on a Mexican cruise with my entire family (not my parents as my dad doesn't travel any more), my Aunt and Uncle footed the whole bill for her 80th birthday. It was an amazing experience to see all my cousins again, and meet my nieces (cousins once removed?) as adults. We all got along and a great time together. I went to AVMA in Philidelphia, and oddly enough got to see one of my friends from California who was visiting her mother there.
Look forward to reading all your letters.
Jeanne Friedman

Deep Observations on Life – some quotations …
1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather-- peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming, like all the passengers in his car."
--Author Unknown
2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."
--Author Unknown
3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
--Drew Carey
4) "The problem with the designated driver program is that it's not a desirable job. But, if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
--Jeff Foxworthy
5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
--Dave Barry
6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and the day before they leave
you, they should have to find you a temp."
--Bob Ettinger
7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.’ "
--Paula Poundstone
8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh-h-h-h-h-h."
--Conan O'Brien
9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner."
--Lynda Montgomery
10) "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go West.'"
--Richard Jeni
11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
--Johnny Carson
12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
--Paul Rodriguez
13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law."
--Jerry Seinfeld
14) "Remember how in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What’s the logic in that? What … Do tall people burn slower?"
--Warren Hutcherson
15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
--Oscar Wilde
16) "Suppose you were an idiot. And, suppose you were a member of Congress. But … I repeat myself."
--Mark Twain
17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan."
--A. Whitney Brown
18) "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
--Billy Crystal
19) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
--Dave Barry
20) Do you know why they call it "PMS" Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
--Unknown, presumed deceased

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