Richard Petzold:  

Life Hello all, Been a long time for all but a few of you and my life as have most has taken many twists and turns. The ultimate low point being when I had some medical issues back in '02 but those are behind me for now. Prior to that there were the usual achieved goals, shattered dreams, laughter and tears, happiness and despair, friendships made and lost, making out a will so those left behind can be guided through sorting the remnants of a now spent existence. You know, it's called life. I've been lucky enough to have had 32 mostly wonderful years with the same partner. We were neither blessed nor cursed (depending upon how you look at it) with any children. Raising our parents has proven a full time job. We seem to run in diametrically opposed cycles, she doing well when I'm not and vice versa. The ultimate counterbalance. We have places in Seattle and Vancouver B.C. and like to spend time at both. Vancouver being so different, more European they tell me. Wouldn't know first hand as I've never been to the continent. It's now near 36 years since my last official trip as a student down the hallways of good old MHS. That place, time and all of you still live on in my mind, just as you were. You are all still young and anxious with the anticipation of starting out on your own. No extra weight or wrinkles, a full head of hair, a spring in the step. None of the baggage that comes along with aging and living. In some ways that time seems like some surreal dream or even a movie that I watched. Did it really ever happen and where did the years go? The home of the Chiefs has been usurped by some strange new building and there is a stray cow for a mascot these days. I had a chance to get one last walk through the original building with Mark Gilbert who was work...Expand for more