John Mandeville:
CLASS OF 1967
Mclane High SchoolClass of 1967
Fresno, CA
California State University Class of 1972
Fresno, CA
Washington Junior High SchoolClass of 1964
Fresno, CA
Heaton Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Fresno, CA
John's Story
Life
Too much to tell. Joyce Challstrom Mandeville and I have now been married for over 53 years and have lived in New York, several parts of California, England for 6 1/2 years and in July 2000 moved back to the U.S. and have settled in Vermont, truly God's country.
Joyce now has 3 novels published and has a fourth with a new agent in New York. I worked as an executive at the New England Culinary Institute for 5 years and then joined the Vermont Small Business Development Center as the Area Business Advisor for their Northeastern Vermont office. In May 2007 I was recruited to become the new President and CEO for Northern Community Management Corporation, the largest property management firm in the State. I tried to retire in June 2021 but was recruited to be the Executive Director of the Central Vermont Council on Aging. Retirement lasted exactly one month.
We recently became grandparents for the first time when our daughter, Amy, gave birth to baby Madeleine in July 2006. Unfortunately, as they live in Pennsylvania we don't get to see them very often. However, Amy and her family are planning to move back to Vermont within the next 18 months if all goes according to plan. UPDATE! Amy and family moved to Burlington, VT in June 2008! My son-in-law is now a professor of astrophysics at St. Michael's College and Amy is working as a Certified Nurse Practitioner at a local private clinic. NEW UPDATE! Our son-in-law is now the Chief Scientist and Assistant Director for the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the family (including two grand children) moved to the Big Island in December 2018. Our son, Ben and his wife, Megan, now live in Charleston, SC where both of them work in management at two different very high end restaurants, one of which was rated by Conde Nast as one of the five best restaurants in the country.
School
Like every other male in the McLane Class of '67, I was madly in love with Joanie Hill, Linda Roberts and Carol Strumski. I had known Carol since elementary school and only lived a block away from her but she never saw me as anything other than dorky John. Joanie was never anything but perfectly nice to me and would happily talk to me on the phone for hours, but would never agree to a date. I don't think Linda even knew who I was! Ah well, all part of being a shy, not very athletic teenage male. And then I find out the last day of class my senior yea...Expand for more
r that a girl I had been admiring from afar, Denise Koch, was interested in me too! Found it out from her entry in my yearbook but could never get hold of her as I didn't have her phone number, I didn't know anyone that did, and she was not listed in the phone book! Very glad to have all that behind me.
I can't say that I found any teacher at McLane to be particularly inspiring but the ones I remember as being good teachers were Mr. Turnipseed, Mr. Barker, Mr. Mendes, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Grate. The worst were Mr. Chavez (what a pr___!) and a young, male math teacher whose name I cannot ever recall.
Would I do it all over again? Not a chance! I hated being a teenager and all the angst that went along with it! I do not look back on my high school years with any sort of fondness or nostalgia.
College
Ummmm, College. Well it was Fresno State. It never even occurred to me that I had choices other than Fresno State although my grades and SAT scores were certainly high enough to get me into many of the better colleges and universities around. I changed my major several times and in the end, was just anxious to graduate and get on with my life. I also have to admit that much of college is a haze caused by all that marijuana I used to smoke. Between the weed and all that rock-gut Red Mountain wine we all drank gallons of its a wonder that any of us actually survived and prospered.
Workplace
Spent 15 years in publishing/bookselling including 12 years in New York and 7 of those running my own consulting business.
Ultimately moved back to California and bought an interior decorating franchise which my wife and I ran for 4 years before I moved on to become an executive for Rug Doctor back in Fresno. Rug Doctor transferred me to England to run their European company in February 1994 and there I stayed until we moved back to the U.S. in July 2000 where we remain to this day. I worked for 5 years as the Associate Director of Admissions for the New England Culinary Institute considered by the industry to be one of the top three culinary arts schools in the U.S. and in November 2005 joined the Vermont Small Business Development Center as the Area Business Advisor for their Northeastern Vermont office. In May of 2007 I was recruited to become the new President and CEO of Northern Community Management Corporation, the largest property management firm in the State.
Military
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