How strange it is to read the names of all the wonderful people who were in Group 23.

I taught French and Arithmetic/Math at the school in Karloken.  Don't look too hard, but Karloken is up-country from Harper; it usually took over an hour with the money-bus, in good weather, to get down and back over the week-end.

The "Bauernhaus" was where I lived - I called it that because it was snow white and I had painted blue peasant patterns around the windows. 

After returning home to Mill Valley, I also returned to teaching at Vallecito Jr. High in San Rafael.  I taught Spanish, German, French, Algebra, Remedial Math, and Mechanical Drawing (wrote my own scope & sequence).  The latter course developed into a two year course, and those students who wished to continue were allowed to skip the first year Mechanical Drawing in High School.  The same privilege was granted to my Algebra students ---- guess I was and am still pretty proud of them.

Before being layed off due to declining enrollment and school closures, we had sold our house and moved to Sebastopol, near Santa Rosa.  I worked a number of years as a programmer specializing in DBase, and when the company filed for Chapter 11, I found a job as a full time bookkeeper and translator, working for a golf architect.  After eight years, I felt it was time to retire, and we have now lived at Panorama City in Lacey, Washington, since 1996 - a wonderful, open space community, with green belts around every house, lifelong care, a C&R of 150 beds, and a resident population of about 900 souls, where the rule is: "Don't complain, volunteer instead!" (Sorry, I just made this up).

Anybody that feels like visiting and getting to know the area, is most welcome. My e-mail is Mdlnynkrs@aol.com  - call first!.