Kimberly Buchanan:
CLASS OF 1979
Northwest High SchoolClass of 1979
House springs, MO
Kimberly's Story
July 2008
I was to officially graduate from Northwest High School in 1979, but I finished my credits and graduated a year early in 1978. However, a month before school was out that year, my appendix ruptured and I had to have major surgery. I managed to graduate nonetheless. I guess I was lucky to survive ... high school, that is ;).
My plan then was to work for a year after I graduated from high school and go to college the following year. So much for plans ... an industrial accident at my full-time job in a bakery nearly caused me to lose my left hand. (Thankfully I didn't lose my hand and it still works fine even though it's a little scarred.)
Eventually a job at the health food store in Kirkwood helped me to recover my power over my health and lead to my leaving Missouri for the beautiful state of Oregon in 1983. I can hardly believe I have lived here for 25 years. I truly love it in Cascadia. It is a place like no other. My family has given up on asking me when I will move back. But I try to return to my Missouri stomping grounds as often as possible to visi...Expand for more
t my family and old friends, whom I do miss very much.
A few years after moving to Oregon, I finally went to the community college and studied art and journalism. Just before transferring to the university, another injury from a car accident postponed my secondary education indefinitely. I married, divorced and bought my own home. I currently work at the university bookstore in the art department and volunteer as a DJ on the campus radio station. Much of what I play on the radio is influenced by the great music I heard as a teenager on the St. Louis station, K-SHE 95, in the 70s (I loved DJ Rick Bayless). I also credit my influences to great musician friends I grew up with who played a lot of blues rock.
The worst, saddest day of my life was when my beautiful younger sister, Kris, took her own life on March 24, 1989 after suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety attacks. Her daughter, Karah, was just over two years old at the time. She is now a sweet and amazing young woman and lives with her dad in Missouri. I miss her and wish that Oregon wasn't so far away.
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