Marian Foerster:
CLASS OF 1969
Jamestown High SchoolClass of 1969
Jamestown, ND
Marian's Story
After graduating from JHS I attended UND staying in Squires Hall for two years earning my secretarial associates degree. On June 12, 1971 I married Lawrence Foerster whom I met at UND. This year we will spend our anniversary in Las Vegas visiting our daughter and son-in-law (Alice and Pete Teevens) and going to CoffeeFest.
I had a roommate at UND from Fordville, ND. She was from the smallest town of the four of us in the suite and I said "Fordville, where the heck is that?" Well, I found out... you see after we married we lived on the Foerster family farm for the summer and then moved the trailer to...where else but Fordville and lived there for 10 years while Lawrence worked as a mechanic for the John Deere dealer there. He had majored in Business Administration at UND but never used it.
He later got a job at Polar Communications as their shop mechanic and we moved to Park River where we now reside. We have five children. Tony will be 37 in July and is in Seattle area doing cement construction, Tim 35 is in the army and has been for 17 years. He is stationed at Fort Bliss in ElPaso, TX and has been to Iraq twice. He has a beautiful Texan wife and they have three puppies, no grand-children yet. Alice is 29 and an accountant in LasVegas, married to Pete Teevens, grandson of Dr. Teeven's from Grafton in case any of you knew him. Our youngest two are Mark 21 in Grand Forks trying to find out what he wants to do other than PRACS studies and working for PRACS. Our youngest a daughter, Marla at 19...Expand for more
, is moving on by getting jobs as a coffee barista in Grand Forks.
We homeschooled the last three children and Marla went as far as "homeschooling" her college by our creating a coffee shop here in Park River. We went all the way through remodeling the building to running the shop for three years only to find that despite the fact the she makes the best product around from roasting our own coffee to making the best drinks. She became a certified barista through the Specialty Coffee Assoc. at 16, something most people do not accomplish in only one try. She can also do latte art.
I had my own costume square dance jewelry business for many years while we were square dancing. When I got Lawrence to take square dance lessons he would never square dance in public. We ended up going to dances several times a week locally and attended several national and international conventions to dance and approach shops about our jewelry line. Too bad square dancing is dying out it was great fun and exercise.
I have since moved on to being a Stampin'Up! demonstrator for 11 years. I also took on the kid's Grand Forks Herald routes when Tim left for the service and Alice went on to UND. I now do 6 routes in town and am up at 3:30 every morning.
In 2001 I was in the Federal building in Fargo when 9-11 happened training for my other part-time job of being a USPS sub for a rural mail route out of Emerado for Arvilla and Gilby.
Sadly, the only classmate I have kept in touch with over the years is Connie Norheim.
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