Ed Belliston:  

First, PLEASE catch up with our Upland High School Class's 40th Reunion plans at the Facebook page: Combined UHS Class of 1976/1977/1975 Reunion. We need your input and please spread the word! Life is cherished each day and being on the green side of the grass is beautiful even when it's covered with snow, and I don't have much of a belief in things happening because of "coincidence.". In elementary school at Baldy View I was the one who checked out the recess equipment, and at Upland Junior High was on stage crew and was a teacher's assistant in Mr. Engle's "stretcher-shrinker" math class and the only one to dissect the frog's brain in Mr. Vogel's science class (Yeah, that was me and plenty of you noted it in my UJH yearbook). in High School I was the one who drove the tan colored van (1972 Ford Econoline F150). I was ready to graduate my Junior year and stayed around for my Senior year because of a very good female friend and I only took a couple of classes and worked full time for my Dad at his furniture stores. I've served for two years as a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Venezuela (learned to speak fluent Spanish built upon the foundation that many of my UJH and UHS teachers and Latino friends gave me), graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a BS in Business Admin. and MS in healthcare administration, had an extremely fast tracked and successful healthcare career with a short off-ramp for cancer. Have been an EMT. Survived 5 diagnoses of cancer, 2 stem cell transplants, and GVHD within a 3 1/2 year period. I am a cancer survivor who is in remission for almost 16 years n w (2016), and help pre and post transplant patients understand the process and outcomes of blood and marrow transplants (BMT). I've gone through the valley ...Expand for more