Barbara Kaufman:  

Life Hello past friends! I have lived in Gresham for the past 23 years or so (in the same house for 21 years, pretty rare these days). Wow, time flies when you are having fun. I have three children, a son, Julian, who is 20 and attending college at University of Oregon, a daughter, Madeline 18 (who has beautiful red hair) and is hoping to go to Oregon State, and another son, Gabriel, who is 13. I started my family later than most but I think it keeps me young. My kids are heavy into sports and that means I am too. My husband is from Portland originally. I met him through Dave Calhoun--they were roommates for a few years! Our life revolves around our children's activities. My mother still lives in Estacada but is fighting cancer now. It is hard since she was so strong for so many years. I travel to Estacada frequently because of that. I enjoy gardening like my mother does and appreciate that being passed on to me. I thoroughly enjoyed our 30th (GULP!) reunion and wished we had a couple more hours to chat. The class of 1974 is a great group of people. It was nice to connect with everyone again. I look forward to the 35th reunion--hopefully I can attend. I had a health scare in spring of 2007 with an early stage breast cancer. I was lucky to have found it through a routine mammogram. I had surgery and radiation treatment for six weeks. I was lucky to have found it early as this avoided chemotherapy. It does make you reassess your life and priorities. I look forward to living a long life. Contact me anytime if you want to cha...Expand for more