Richard Curtiss:  

Life I am Dick Curtiss of the class of '58, West High School. My parents, Richard E. & Rosabelle Curtiss were also graduates of West High School (1938). I resided at 265 S. Burgess Ave. on the Hilltop. My neighborhood friends were Ed Fredendall '59, Al Daft '59, Gary Smith '58, John Stetler '56 & Dan Scoles '56. I will also always remember Susie Davis '60 as a special girl-next-door. I stumbled around at OSU trying to find a direction & after graduation became an elementary teacher in Southwestern City Schools. In 1965 I went to Atlanta to become a guidance counselor, in the NDEA program at Atlanta University & it was a wonderful experience. In another wonderful experience I met Brenda Kay Newman from Maryville Tenn who became my wife on Aug 21, '66. As of this writing we have been married 41 years. In 1966 I returned to Southwestern City Schools as a guidance counselor. I became a counselor at Westland High School just west of Columbus in 1970 & retired in 1993. Brenda & I have lived in Lincoln Village North for 35 years. It has been a great place to raise a family. We have a son Danny, Westland High School '88; he & his wife Ginger & sons Drew (5)and Dean[2] live nearby - Dan is an office manager for a trucking company. Our daugher is Christina Shore, Westland '85, she & her husband Troy also have one son Curtiss M. Shore (8). They live nearby as well. We are blessed to have a great extended family with 3 terrific grandsons. My daughter's career path must have been written from some sort of novel, as the name on the doorplate of my guidance office at WHS for nearly 25 years, now bears the name: CHRISTINA SHORE-my daughter. Since retirement I worked 5 years at Tolles Technical Center (Plain City), Hilliard Davison, Hillard Darby & Gahanna Lincoln High Schools. I would not trade these people & experiences for anything - as well as all my time at Westland. My only curre...Expand for more