Stats based on Class of ‘51 biographies printed in THROUGH THE YEARS
81% of graduating class contributed biographies
82% attended college/university
95% married
15% widowed
18% divorced
We had an average of 2.8 kids (a total of 230). Two people had 8 children
We have a total of 220 grandchildren.
Most grandkids is 12; two people have 10 and two have 9
One person has a great grandchild
40% of us served in the military
Personal interests, activities and hobbies
26 listed Travel
18 listed sports (includes a variety of sports, e.g. skiing, swimming, tennis, etc)
15 listed reading
14 listed golf
14 listed gardening
12 listed music
11 listed sailing/boating
11 listed activities that can be classified as volunteer work
10 listed crafts (includes knitting, sewing, quilting etc.)
8 listed hiking
6 listed fishing
6 listed woodworking (includes furniture building & restoring)
6 listed RV/camping
4 painting
Jobs our classmates held:
(I did a little consolidation based on occupations people noted for themselves. The numbers after the job descriptions are frequency counts.)
Accounting 2
Administrative assistant 2
Art 1
Business 1
Carpentry 1
Clothing industry 1
Computer information systems 1
Construction 4
Consulting 2
Corporate manager 2
Data processing 1
Editor/Author 1
Electronics 1
Engineering 9
Finance1
Food service 1
Homemaking 30
Insurance 3
Job shopper 1
Law enforcement 3
Lawyer 2
Librarian 1
Medicine 1
Newspapers 1
Nursing 5
Office work/management 4
Pharmacy 1
Real estate 1
Retail 1
Recreation supervisor 1
Rancher 1
Sales coordinator/office management 1
Secretary 4
Securities 1
Social work 2
Teaching/principal 14
Travel 2
Truck driver 1
United States Air Force pilots 2
University professor 2
X-ray technician 1
Seventeen were self-employed, seventy-one were employed. The sum of self-employed plus employed is greater than the number of biographies because during the 50 years since graduating from MHS some people had multiple careers. The multiple careers include those who pursued homemaking in addition to other careers.
Fifty-six people report that they are retired or have retired from one profession and entered another.
Degrees
44 bachelor (This may be an underestimate. It was not always easy to tell if people graduated college once started.)
10 masters
4 RNs
1 LPN
1 LLB
3 PhDs
1 MD
Compiled by Pete Kaiser