Gary Hartmann:
CLASS OF 1973
Savanna High SchoolClass of 1973
Anaheim, CA
California State UniversityClass of 1977
Fullerton, CA
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Hi everyone! I'm now living in Tacoma, WA, about 50 miles from Seattle. You may wonder how I ended up in the evergreen state. Well, after High School I earned a BA in Biology at CSU Fullerton. As this did not really lead to a career, I next studied X-ray at Cypress College. It is there that I met my wife, Debbie. I moved to Las Vegas in 1988 to study nuclear medicine at UNLV, receiving a BS degree in 1991. From there I went to graduate school at the University of Washington, and earned my MS degree in 1994. We liked Washington so much that we decided to stay here.
I have now been married for 41 years, which seems uncommon nowadays. I have one child, my son Matthew, who is 37. He earned his Master's degree in...Expand for more
Education from Hawaii Pacific University last year, and is currently working as a Special Education Teacher.
I was forced to retire after working as a radiologic technologist for 40 years, specializing in CAT scan. I had a heart attack in August 2020. I subsequently had a heart transplant that October and spent 3 months in the hospital. My recovery was complicated, and took nearly two years. I have literally bounced back from the brink of death!
I discovered some years ago that I am not the only '73 alumnus in Washington state! Liz [Verduzco] Crouch lives a few hours away and we have gotten together with her and her husband numerous times. I look forward to hearing from other members of the Savanna class of 1973.
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