David Guldin:
CLASS OF 1965
Lakeland High SchoolClass of 1965
Lagrange, IN
David's Story
Life
Lakeland High School, 1965
B.A. Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan 1970
M.A. Eastern Micigan University, 1982
I taught 30 years with Adrian Public Schools in music and elementary ed. I retired in February, 2000.
I worked for Goodwill Industries as a job coach for disabled citizens, retiring officially in December of 2009, following a serious shoulder injury on the job in July of that year. I worked with students in our job training programs and youth presently in the legal system. It was both rewarding and challenging at times. I had bariatric weight loss surgery in October of 2010 and am doing well. I have lost about 115 pounds with more to be lost in the future, I hope, like maybe 75-85 more.
My wife, Ann (Von Olnhausen), and I will celebrate our 43rd anniversary on August 2, 2012. We have no children except for our cat, Button. He is a very beautiful steel grey feline with personality.
We've lived in Adrian for our entire married life. Ann is a retired florist and I am a retired computer junkey who floats between the local Starbucks and various restaurants with wifi. We still help out at the flower shop on special holidays--Ann designs and I deliver.
We both sing in a local community chorus, and I sing in the Toledo Choral Society and a church choir and a Barbershop group in Hillsdale, Michigan. We love to usher for our local Croswell Opera House and Adrian Symphony Orchestra. We get to see the performances for free, a very good deal.
We are both members of Civitan International, a service club which promotes activities for the disabled. I do the newsletter for the club and we are both on the board, Ann as membership vp ...Expand for more
and me as president-elect.
Much of our social life revolves around Civitan, friends, and family. We aren't the party animals we used to be but we still manage to keep pretty busy.
We love to go to the Shipshe Flea Market, visit family, and manage to spend time at various resort hoels, mostly on Civitan business. We plan to visit my commanding officer from Navy days, Robert M. Elder, in Pennsylvania in August, where he lives the retired life after many years in the Navy and as an Episcopal Priest. We got to visit him at many of his duty stations, such as Besthesda Naval Hospital (head chaplain), in Bermuda, in Virginia, in Maine, and almost in Hawaii. We also visited him after his retirement when he was ministering in Flowers Cove, Newfoundland. He is a great guy and really getting up in years now.
Most of our families still live in LaGrange County, with some in Az and Illinois. We both lost our fathers (1997 and 1998). My 17 year old nephew was killed in 1999, a tragedy I wish on no one. Ann and I have both lost our "baby" brothers: James VonOlnhause, 2/2011, and Kent Guldin (my 17 year old nephew's father), 4/2012. All are sorely missed and will never be forgotten but we believe are living with the Lord and we'll be rejoining them in God's own time..
I attended all of the reunions and was very sad that we never had a 30th or beyond. Would love to see the reunions started up again. Happily, my Lima High School class has gotten together several times thanks to the hospitality of Becky (Sherman) Pueschel & family. I've posted our picture on my profile from Labor Day weekend 2011.
Wishing all the best.....Dave and Ann (Von Olnhausen) Guldin
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