After North I graduated from General College, Uof M. Then went to Brown Insitute of Broadcasting and Electronics. Graduated in 1965 in Electronics. Then got drafted, however, as luck would have it, I passed a USAF examine in electronics, and trained in Aircraft Radio Repairman school at Kessler AFB, Beloxi, MS. Then I was sent to student leader school, and became a Red Rope,"your worst night mare" and marched people  around, Bay Rope, and BMT instructor. Then spent six years in the USAF Res. working on C119 and C130 aircraft.

Joined NSP co. as a battery systems expert, and maintained/ tested large battery systems in substations and power plants, and nuclear plants. Retired in 1999 after 33 years as a superviser/ specialist. Hobbies include target shooting, astronomy,lake cabin, and collecting old cars. Presently, a 1949 DeSoto convertible, vary rare today.

Both my wife and I retired 9 years ago and moved to our lake property about 20 miles south of Ely on the edge of the boundary waters.  We love it here but sometimes call it the work farm because we've been building our house and taming our property most of the time since retiring.
     We've traveled quite a bit around the US and Canada, also two trips to Central America and three trips to Europe.   We also enjoy fishing and cross county skiing.
     One of the most embarrasing moments in my life was when I spontaneously laughed when I saw a Polar classmate  for the first in many years  at a football game in Osseo.  I laughed because I had been talking with a friend about memories of her not more than two minutes before, but I was too embarrased to explain this to her at the time.  I appologize now and want her to know I'm not the complete jerk she probably thinks I am and hope to see her at the reunion.
    P.S.  If anyone has a viable copy of the 59, 60 or 61 copy or the NHS choir record I'd sure like to get a tape or CD or whatever of them.  Mine were trashed long ago.

 It's hard to believe it's been 50 years. Inside I feel like I'm 16, but I bet a lot of you feel that way too.  Where did the time go?  I think we grew up in the best of times when life was more innocent.  I married my high school sweetheart, Roger Kieley, a North Side boy who graduated from Benilde in 1960 and has kept me laughing for the past 48 years.  I have been blessed with a great life and family.  Our three sons and their families give us much enjoyment.  Life is good and I consider myself to be on bonus years.  Snow has lost its appeal so it is off to Palm Desert for winter months where we lounge around the pool and when we work up the energy, go golfing.  I just finished publishing a cook book of my favorite "allstar recipes" for family and friends.  I've been thinking about it for quite a while as I have always loved cooking and baking.  Traveling, volunteering and socializing with our friends keeps me busy. Roger and I look forward to more years enjoying everything we've been fortunate to have and love.  It's been fun reading all your bios and seeing the paths people have taken.  Wishing you all good health and many blessings.

After I finished college at the University of Minnesota I moved to New York and began performing.  I started at the Metropolitan Opera Studio, and the Mini Met.  I received a grant to perform in Rhode Island where I created a program called “A Look into opera” for kids.  I was the administrator for the program and performed in it.  I coordinated the singers and we traveled to schools where we inspired children of all ages about opera.

I also performed 27 operatic roles in opera companies up and down the east coast.  I sang in recitals in Minneapolis as well.  I continued to perform operas and concerts until I joined Columbia Artists Management Inc. and became a manager and inspirational guide for young artists.

I currently serve as a personal coach/consultant and liaison to CAMI.  I have written numerous articles about singers, management, and promoting yourself without management.  I have conducted master classes for singers for many years, including classes at Manhattan School for Singers, Mannes College of Music Intermezzo and the Hartt School of Music.  I have served as a judge for the Washington Wagner Society and have been on the advisory board for the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition for singers.

I offer power auditions; radiant audition techniques, the singers body with Bill Connington, coaching, fireside chats about management and placematting – to prepare singers with time management and high level creativity.

What a wonderful life that started at good old "North Side High".

Went into the Navy after graduation, had a wonderful time in Cuba during the Cuba Missile Crisis.

Worked for Control Data for 25 years in various management positions (they would not let me do technical work so they made me a manager), still look back as time with a great company and wonderful times. Owned my own consultant company for 20 years after graduating from Control Data in 1988.

Married the love of my life (Karen Muck) in 1966, had 2 sons (Bill, Jim and now 7 grandkids). We have a cabin up north (Outing, Mn). Karen and I spend one winter in Florida and the next winter in Phoenix.
 
Grandkids are the ones that keep us young.

Time has slowed us down a bit, we do "Grandma and Grandpa" things now, as that TV show said "What a wonderful life". Who knew what was ahead of us in 1961.

Lee passed away in February of 2012.  He will be missed.

How wonderful it was to be young and in high school. 
We had the opportunity to experience  insecurities, activities, great friendships and a time that opened our eyes to so many opportunities to come.

A lot has happened to each of us since then. For me, receiving my Bachelor of Science Degree in Language Arts Education from the University of Minnesota, where along the way, I was homecoming queen, pom pom girl and cheerleader was important.

Ken and I were married in 1965 and moved to Arizona and Indiana where I taught High School and airmen remedial reading during Viet Nam's service time. While Ken was at graduate school in Boston following his service committment, I served as editor of USM Today magazine, then we were off to New York, the Phillipines(where I went to graduate school at the University of the Phillipines)and Indonesia, where I had a joint venture finishing school with my friend Martha Tilaar and taught in the Malaysian language.

After nine years away, we moved back to Minnesota and I taught in a Post Secondary school, modeled and had a weekly fashion column for Skyway Newspaper, interviewing the likes of Liz Claiborne, Scavulo, Carol Channing, Sophia Loren, Catherine Deneauv, and wrote a textbook on personal development, which lasted two publishings.

In addition to working full time in my own business since 1981, to supply models for the likes of Target, General Mills, 3M etc and actors for films like Mighty Ducks, Dick Tracy, Fargo, Grumpy Old Men,etc.and the latest, the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man",I have had the priviledge of serving on a number of Boards.

Big Brothers, WAMSO, Calhoun Beach Club, U of M Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory board, Northwestern University in Evanston, as Parent's Council President, Exofficio on the U of M Foundation Board and U of M Medical Foundation Board, the Eastcliff Board(U president's residence),All University Honors Committee, founding member of the Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle in the College of Education and Human Development and lastly, as National President of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's 60,000 members.

As a Team Leader for the U of M's TCF Stadium, I was responsible for raising funds for its completion and Saving Gopher Sports fundraising when gymnastics and golf were facing elemination.

I currently serve Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary and work on their major fundraising projects.

I am thankful for the opportunities that life has provided to me and the experiences that have enriched my time since high school, as well as my family.

              Hello North High Alumni…It has been such a long time since I have had the pleasure to see any of my classmates of 1961, so when I met with a few of the very special women that I was friends with it made me realize how fortunate I am to have had such wonderful people in my life. Then seeing even more of my classmates at the planning sessions, was well what can I say!

Some of you may remember me as Kitty, given the name by Lola Turner (Palmer) after I believe I had one of those “bad perms” Anyone else remember those home perms?…OMGJ  Well anyway enough of that.

After high school I married Joe Mitchell and we had two beautiful children. Unfortunately we were way too young to get married and after seven years we went our own way.  Late in life we became very good friends and Joe passed in 2003 .  I have four wonderful grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.   

In 1984 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona and went to college and became a Chemical Dependency Counselor.  I started the first support group for women who had been involved in prostitution in a county jail anywhere in the United States. I worked in a domestic violence shelter and Catholic Charities of Phoenix until I retired in 2007. During my time working with Catholic Charities I developed transitional homes for women who were homeless and being used in prostitution.  I also wrote Diversion programs for the City of Phoenix Prosecutor’s office for women prostituting and men who were soliciting, as an education program and an alternative to jail.  I created Outreach programs and worked closely with Health and Human Services in DC in their Rescue and Restore campaign to identify those who have been domestically trafficked in the US.  I was invited to the White House for the signing of the Re-Authorization Act of the Human Trafficking Bill in 2006. (What an honor it was to meet the President.)

I have received numerous awards for the work I have done. Just to name some: The Power of One Award from Senator John Mc Cain, one of the top ten women of Maricopa County and The City of Phoenix named May 1^st as Kathleen Mitchell Day. (No it is not a recognized holiday with anything closing or day off of work )

All this is great and good but the most important thing that has happened to me is the women and youth I have had the honor to work with and watch the change happening in their lives. I have been humbled and grateful by them letting me share their journey in recovery.

Life is certainly strange. If at graduation someone had  told me 50 years later my bio would read as follows I would never have believed it.   So here it is. After graduating from North I enrolled at the University of Minnesota and graduated with a BA degree in 1965. During that period I spent 1 year at Mankato State and played football. I got injured and returned to the U of M. After graduation I joined the Minnesota National Guard and at about the same time started work for Honeywell. Today, some 44 years later, I am no longer carrying a rifle or marching but I am still employed at Honeywell as a Marketing Manger in Honeywell’s Aerospace and Defense Advanced Technology organization. I really enjoy what I am doing and my goal (can you believe) is to set the record as the longest employed Honeyweller. I have about 10 more years to go to achieve that record.   I have travelled to most every state and many foreign countries and still find the job very rewarding.  My hobbies include: weightlifting and walks around the lakes. For the past 10 years I have been a volunteer at the Hennepin County Home School. (The old Glen Lake school for bad boys).  This is a very rewarding activity and makes one appreciate what one has in life.  I have been married for over 40 years to my great wife Betty, who I met on a blind date.  I have 2 wonderful children and 1 super grandson.  Hope to see most of you at our 50^th.  I still consider myself a “True Northsider” and proud to be a North High alumni.

Wow! Where did the time go? I couldn’t believe it when someone called me and asked for “Mary Alyce Kronzer” as I haven’t gone by that name for almost fifty years.  I dropped the “ Alyce” right after high school as nobody could remember it nor knew how to spell it.  I started working at Northwestern National Bank in August after we graduated, and I stayed in the banking profession for almost 20 years.

 I had to quit my banking career in the late 70s and take care of my remaining family, all of which passed away in the late 70’s and early 80s.  After a couple of marriages that didn’t work out, I found my wonderful husband and life-partner Jon, and convinced him to follow my dream of living in the North Woods.

We purchased our cabin on Poplar Lake, about half way up the Gunflint Trail in 1983.  We loved coming up to the peace and tranquility of our lake cabin and hated the drive back to the cities and hectic pace of life down there.  After about a year of this, Jon and I decided to move up north permanently.  I couldn’t believe we finally did it, and I felt I was in heaven the summer we moved up north.  We were babes in the woods, however, but soon learned to adapt to life without the usual conveniences.  Our first winter up north we lived without indoor plumbing and running water.  Well, we had running water, but Jon had to run down to the lake to get it. We learned to live on five gallons a day! Our cabin was right across the lake from the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness which gave us access to over 2 million acres of public land in which to play.

In 1994 we purchased a beautiful farm that overlooks Lake Superior, and about that time my husband wanted to get Norwegian Fjord Horses.  They are great for this area because of their hardiness.  We bred and showed Norwegian Fjords for about 13 years, and still have five Fjords and one mule, mostly used for trail riding in Superior National Forest, which abuts our farm.  Our farm consists of 47 acres with a spectacular view of Lake Superior. Those of you that might be into horses can see me and my friend riding in the Norwegian Fjord Breed Demo at the upcoming Minnesota Horse Expo at the end of April this year.

I am still employed part time at the law firm of Swanson & Heeren here in Grand Marais, as office administrator – I do everything but give legal advice. I envy those of you that have retired, but my job and our horses and lifestyle keeps me active and healthy. We have no children, by choice, but have a lot of four legged critters to keep us occupied. I am looking forward to seeing you in August.