Thanks for this site to help us contact our old MHS friends...and thanks to my cousin and friends who urged me to register and enjoy it!
We WERE blessed to live in our Bear Lake Valley, weren't we? I loved my Lincoln School, Jr. High, and MHS YEARS. My interests were more toward music and secretarial science, and I am grateful to Mr. Baker and Mrs. Michaelson for some wonderful teaching and training.
After graduation, I left Montpelier with the thoughts of becoming a nurse like my grandmother and mother before me. I worked in Salt Lake City at the Deseret Medical Center with three doctors and discovered I liked the secretarial part of that job. Working with people was nice. So, I was off to BYU (1954-1955) to study secretarial science courses. Then on to Santa Monica, California, to work for RCA, Missile and Surface Radar Division. Thinking I was just there for the summer, I changed my mind and I stayed for the next four years. I loved the people I worked with, sang with, socialized with...and I loved the weather. I took some fun night classes at Santa Monica Junior College in tailoring. Another of my loves was sewing...suits, formals, wedding dresses, and warm-weather clothing for work. Most of my Utah clothing was winter-oriented. I thank my Aunt Amy Grimes and Alice Rich for teaching me to love the sewing machine!
At RCA, I met former Navy man, Raymond Uharriet, and married him. We have four children who have learned to love Montpelier and all their Bear Lake relatives from Bloomington to Nounan and Georgetown. With RCA, we moved around to several Air Force bases with the Atlas Missile and AVQ-10 weather radar for airlines. I worked at Vandenberg AFB (California) and Warren AFB (Cheyenne, Wyoming) until our first son was born. We moved around from coast to coast for several years. The year my mother passed away, we decided to quit that busy employment and we moved back to Montpelier for a year or so. My California husband loved it...wished he had gone to school with me...and loved the entire valley/family atmosphere. After a time, I asked him if he shouldn't get "a real job" and we drove to Salt Lake City, he applied at Sperry Univac that afternoon, was hired and went to work for them the following Monday. He eventually worked as an engineer for the Air Force at Hill AF Base and retired from there.
He loved Logan, got a Master's Degree there in Electrical Engineering. I was back in the snow to live!
I have continued to be involved in music...organ, piano, accompanying and singing. I am always grateful to my teachers, friends and relatives for making it so much fun. Winnie Mae Wright and Joan Michaelson are my two high school singing friends who have provided fun, even singing into our 70s.
Also I still use my shorthand skills. My family teases me because I write my Christmas gift list in shorthand and they can't read it.
I have enjoyed reading many of your profiles!