Beverly Wilcox (Collins)
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July 30, 2010 |
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Residing In: |
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Marshalltown, CO USA |
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Spouse/Partner: |
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Dennis Collins |
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Occupation: |
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Retired from R&D |
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Children: |
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Tim, Springfield VA, born 1965
Brad, Milan MI, born 1968
Beth, Colorado Springs CO, born 1970 |
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Hi Classmates. I volunteered to make the class website and it's been fun reconnecting with everyone. Thanks to JoAnn Butcher for also being an admin with me. "Our class has entered the technical age!!"
I have loved reading about your families, work, hobbies, and play the past 5 decades and receiving your emails about reconnecting with high school friends! What an amazing bunch we are - the things we've done and accomplished,the experiences we've had, our triumphs as well as tragedies we've come through, the beautiful children, grandchildren and even great grandchildren we have. As I was uploading the individual senior pictures, I kept thinking, "Everyone is so good looking!"
So what have I been up to the last 50 years? Greatest accomplishment - 3 great kids and 8 grandchildren I love dearly, and 3 great spouses of my kids. I worked in the crazy pizza business for Tom Monaghan/Domino's Pizza and recently wrote a how-to eBook for making pizzeria style (NY) pizza at home: "Secrets From Inside the Pizzeria" with an accompanying how-to video that also stars my niece Deb. Does anyone really want to make pizza at home? They must! About 7,000 copies have been sold. Several classmates have become proficient pizzamakers - JoAnn Butcher, Marcia Ziel, Bev Post to name a few.
The pizza book has led to meeting wonderful and interesting people like "Famous Dave," founder of the BBQ restaurant chain, who I worked with to help market his BBQ ribs DVD - the ribs that won him title of "Best Ribs in America" at the Kansas City Royal, and David Kay, an Executive Producer for the "The Late Show," who said, "If you're ever in NY, I invite you to be my special guests," Lee Butler-Saussy who read the pizza book and opened up a very successful pizza restaurant in Thomasville GA, and Sal Cenicola who owns Sal's Neighborhood Pizzeria on Saint Simon's Island - the best Italian food I've ever known!
My daughter writes a Disney World guide (have you ever seen the ad: "Ex-Disney Employee Talks"? - that's us). I'm her editor, so we make one or two trips to Disney World every year for research and pixie dust.
If I had the money and time, I'd love to travel the world, and had some opportunity to do that while I worked in the International Division for Domino's Pizza.
Also I worked a few years in R&D for a small meat company in Iowa creating delicious entrees for restaurants ... I always did love to cook. And I was a Boston Market manager too, where I got the bug to have a restaurant out of my system.
I was caretaker many years for my 99-year-old mother, who left the planet in October, 2008 - so this has been a big change in my life. I'm active in our local Lions club, D.A.R., and write the newsletter for the Iowa Barbeque Society. |
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Mine is a 50th reunion story. I was seeing Jan Harvey (Thake) for the first time in 50 years and recognized her instantly. "You look WUNderful!" I told her. She touched at her face and mumbled, "I didn't know if the Botox had taken effect yet." Thankfully, she didn't have a camera to record the stunned look on my face before I recovered and started laughing. It was a Kodak (or Botox) moment. |
"Princess Haley" at Disney World. Photo taken by PhotoPass photographer and graphics added by my daughter. A party of 34 family, friends, and cub scouts did a 9-day Disney World at the start of the Christmas season.
Haley and me, Disney World 2009
Grandson Patrick works Room Service at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.
My niece Deb (sister Barb's daughter) was chosen to be one of three singers in the American Idol Experience show at Disney World.
Butterhead: Baby Brad tries to run away after getting caught playing in the butter.
Grandson Christopher was an "acorn" in a school play. I made his acorn shirt and Grandpa made his acorn hat from a gourd. Cute, huh?
Andrew would like a wife.
Bev and "Famous Dave" do a pizza throwdown in Hayward Wisconsin.
My grandson Andrew gets an autograph from Homer Hickam. The movie "October Sky," is the story of Hickam's life growing up as a coal miner kid who became a NASA scientist. It's one of my favorites. He was guest speaker at a Colorado rocket hobbyist group.
Colton bunny, 1 year old.
Grandson Christopher's Cub Scout white water rafting adventure.
Son Tim and wife Donna show his and her matching plates (her grandmother's and his grandmother's plates were the same pattern).
Grandson Tom after soccer game.
Son Tim with wife Donna, children Tom & Ryan.
Grandson Ryan playing Little League ball.
Grandson Ryan.
Niece Deb, Sister Barb, Son Tim
Husband Denny barbequing ribs Dave Anderson style.
Niece Deb and me with owner Sal at Sal's Neighborhood Pizzeria on St. Simon's Island GA. Sal Cenicola was a boxer contemporary of Sylvestor Stallone. This place has the best Italian food ever.
Bev's Pepperoni Pizza.
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