Sandra (Sandi) Hultman:
CLASS OF 1975
Coon Rapids High SchoolClass of 1975
Coon rapids, MN
Roosevelt Junior High SchoolClass of 1972
Blaine, MN
Roosevelt Junior High SchoolClass of 1972
Blaine, MN
University Avenue Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Blaine, MN
Hawthorne SchoolClass of 1965
Minneapolis, MN
Sandra (Sandi)'s Story
LAST UPDATE: W., 5/20/2009
Be sure to look up my husband, Arvid (Skip) Hultman, CRHS Class of 1974. He's got a few photos up of us and fam!
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1st MARRIAGE WAS A BUST
I married Bob Harwell (CRHS 1973) in 1977, but it turned out to be a huge mistake and I spent about 7 years and a truckload of money getting divorced. By the end of all of that, Bob and I were rumored to have the fattest divorce file in Anoka County. Bob seemed to like a lot of drama and I never understood why he created all that he did. It's a long and messy story.
2nd MARRIAGE IS WHERE
I SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
I married Arvid "Skip" Hultman, Jr. (CRHS 1974) in 2003, after 20 years of being with him. I was a real coward to try marriage again, after that first disaster. Skip was ready to marry me from about our first year or two together! I'm lucky he waited for me to get more brave. We have a great life together and are absolutely each other's best friend.
MY DAUGHTER, JANESSA
Bob and I had one child together, Janessa Rae (Harwell) Keller. She was born in 1981 and will be 28 in Feb. 2009. Despite all we went through, she's a warm, loving, open, expressive, curious, interesting, sparkly, fabulous girl (can't tell I love her, can you?!). Because my life went the way it did, I never got the opportunity to have another child.
JANESSA GOT MARRIED & THEN
GAVE ME TWIN GRANDDAUGHTERS!
Janessa married Nate Keller 11/18/06, and blessed us with twin granddaughters, Chloe and Brynn, in mid-July 2007. It was a little scary for a time, because the babies delivered 6 weeks early, but they are healthy, happy, adorable babies now. I babysit them every Monday afternoon, and every other time they will let me! It is such a bright spot in our lives.
I'M STILL LIVING IN COON RAPIDS
I'm in the same house I've been in since 1978, just off East River Road, south of the Hwy. 610 bridge. Skip started remodeling us in Aug. 1998, so now that it's May 2009 I'm pretty tired of being under construction. I don't like my environment to ever be in chaos much, so this is sure testing my limits! :)
CONTACT ME ON FACEBOOK
You need an account, but it's free. I'll be happy to "Friend" you so you can see my stuff and we can be in touch.
OTHER WAYS TO REACH US
OUTSIDE OF CLASSMATES
Classmates won't allow us to enter direct e-mail addresses on their site. Workarounds, if you understand a clue:
- SkipHultman (CLUE: Use that name as shown, then for the last part think of the most popular free e-mail service that starts with "H" to complete the address.)
- SandiHultman (CLUE: Use that name as shown, then for the last part think of the most common cable broadband provider that starts with "C" to complete the address).
I'VE CAUGHT UP WITH SOME OF YOU
On Facebook as of today, 5-20-2009, I am "Friends" with some old CRHS classmates: Al Boyce, Roland Kepulis, Kevin Quast, and Paul Stenson. Larry Leerssen has come and gone on FB. I'm still in touch with Denise (Pearson) Rosendahl (not on FB) and Kim Sandvig.
I'd sure like to hear from Patty (Doherty) Glendenning, Tammy Smith, and Mark Udvig to name a few. It would be nice to catch up.
Hope that life is treating all of you very well, and to hear from any of you!
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SCHOOL YEARS DETAILS
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I wasn't one of the popular kids. I also wasn't part of the jocks, brainiacs, band members or geeks. I was just kind of an ordinary student, slipping quietly in and out of my classes and not causing any trouble or drawing any attention to myself.
I was the President of CREST in my senior year ... "Coon Rapids Efficient Secretaries of Tomorrow." Participating in that group brought me the one and only trophy I've ever earned. I competed with 7 regions and won 1st Place in a typing competition. These days, I say that my tombsone will say, "She typed really fast and worried to much." My last typing test clocked in at 103 words per minute with one mistake. That's still pretty fast these days.
Linda Hendrikson and Jeanine Johnson were in CREST with me and attended the multiple days regional competition at the Lemington Hotel in Minneapolis, along with other CREST members. I still have photos of us in our PJ's and Linda you in your hair curlers. I saw Linda at the 2000 reunion and she's still terrific. At the time she was managing the health insurance activities at Dr. Staub's office in the Unity Professional Bldg., but we didn't stay in touch for long afterward and I don't know what she's doing now. I bumped into Jeanine at Northtown Mall a lot of years ago and we're also not in touch.
I met my first boyfriend at the Sadie Hawkins dance in Oct. 1972, Barry Yarbrough (CRHS Class of 1973). My n...Expand for more
ext relationship was with Bob Ernst (CRHS Class of 1974), but I didn't start fumbling around with that one until after I graduated in 1975, and we never got on solid ground even though I was still enamoured with him for a few decades after that. (I did eventaully take him off the pedestal I'd put him on.) Barry married a gal named Dawn and I've totally lost track of him. Bob was out of my life since 1998, but called on W., 1/02/08 (we talked for over 4.5 hours!). He was also a good friend of my husband's and the two talked on the phone for a long time two days after Bob and I did (and they talked for 3.4 hours!). I think that friendship is probably rekindled at this point.
In between Barry and Bob, I was quite infatuated with Kevin Quast and Larry Leerssen. I'd hoped to see both of them at the last class reunion I attended (2000), but neither was there. I'd known and liked them both since about 7th grade, and that didn't change in high school.
Kevin was always so warm and friendly, and he had the most twinkly eyes and the brightest smile. I don't know that Kevin ever knew how much I liked him.
I actually went out on one date with Larry, and to this day would like to know why he never asked me out after that, because I had such a great time with him on the date we did have. We went to a party of his friends and hung out in the basement all night having what I interpreted to be the best conversation.
Mark Udvig was another good friend from my Class. We hung out together every now and then as buddies. I liked to listen to him play his guitar and he liked my poetry. I went to his wedding, the only one where I've ever seen a man sing to his bride; very cool. I hope you are doing well, Mark. You had a warm and very caring heart.
Vicki Severson, my best friend up until 10th grade passed away a number of years ago from an unknown heart defect. I still see her good friend, Denise (Pearson) Rosendahl. Denise explained that Vicky went for her usual bicycle ride after work to a park nearby where she lived with her husband, sat down on a swing, and keeled over and died right there. Very sad. I believe she was only in her 30's.
Patty (Doherty) Glendenning was another good friend, but I haven't seen her since her wedding to Craig Glendenning in 1993. She was first married to Dana Holscher, whom she had two children with.
I've lost track of long time school pal, Tammy Smith (and that's an impossible name to do a search on; too common), and most everyone else.
WORKPLACE
The Counselors at CRHS helped me get my very first fulltime job, when they recommended me for a position at St. Paul Title Insurance in Brooklyn Center, right across from Brookdale. That company was part of The St. Paul Companies, which still exists today, even though St. Paul Title Ins. went by the wayside years ago. I worked there for my first 5 years out of high school, until a client I had talked me into joining Midwest Mortgage, a new company. I worked there for 2 years, but the company couldn't weather that bad mortgage market and folded less than a year later, when I was out of a job.
After that, I didn't work for awhile, until my daughter was 8 or 9 months old and I was looking to get out of the house a bit. Unity Hospital was my second assignment with Kelly Temporaries, and my boss convinced me to come on board permanently in the Unity Hospital Public Realtions Dept. I stayed for 10 years, until my position was eliminated.
For the next 10 years, I operated an administrative assistance home-based business part-time, in tandem with a part-time job working for the owners of Rottlund Homes (Bud and David Rotter, Bud recently deceased), until my position there was eliminated.
I was a contractor exclusively at Medtronic, temping through Manpower for the 3 years that followed, during which time I also gave up my home business. I worked as an Administrative Assistant, primarily at the senior executive level. I was hired permanently at Medtronic in July 2003, where I currently work part-time in the new big Cardiac Rhythm Management complex in Mounds View (County Rd. J & 85th Ave.). I am part of the Device Mechanical Engineering group and remain a part-time (by choice) Administrative Assistant for the Device Technology Lab.
I am blessed to only have to work part-time. My scheduled hours are only 6 per day most days, and Tuesdays through Fridays. It's a good gig. I've never really been a ladder climber, and working has always been just a means to pay for the things I need and enjoy in life. Not everybody needs a big ol' career to feel like a worthwhile person. I prefer to live without the stress, significant responsibilities and distractions from my personal life, that most career-driven people endure.
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