Vicky Estes:
CLASS OF 1961
Milford High SchoolClass of 1961
Milford, OH
Buckeye Union High SchoolClass of 1997
Buckeye, AZ
Vicky's Story
I taught high school English and directed the drama program at Buckeye Union High School in a small town 40 miles west of Phoenix from 1969 through 1997 when I retired because I had health problems and had stopped smiling so much. I currently substitute teach at my old school because I love the vitality and creativity of high school kids.
I have one son who is in the computer field; he has two daughters who are my joy.
I love to crochet and watch the "judge" shows on TV and love the Phoenix Suns. I can be found during hot summer days in Phoenix cocooning in my air conditioned cave.
My older brother Jim (did not graduate) died two years ago 2 days before my oldest sister Barbara (she graduated in 1958 or 1959) died in England. Milford High School grads may also remember my sister Shirley (1960) who lives in Mesa.
I returned from a 3-week visit to Milford recently to find a letter announcing our upcoming reunion!! My timing has always been rotten. What would surprise my classmates? Not much, I guess. I've always been a bookworm and loved school. My son (only child) is mostly math oriented, though.
(computer nut).
I would like to know what happened to Mrs. Judy Roberts, Velma Heiserman, Mrs. Wurst, PE teacher Jake, and Mrs. Dickens. I have always regretted not ever telling them how much they meant to me. Having retired as a high school teacher, I know how much it me...Expand for more
ans to me when my ex-students tell me how they're doing and what good, if anything, they remember from being in my class.
Wildest thing I ever did in school? Oh, I was so OBEDIENT! I never did anything wild. Maybe daring to tell Mr. Roeckers I thought his punishment assignment was unfair.
My first crush? Charlie Kuhn. Whatever happened to Charlie? How would I like to be remembered? I'd like Kathy Ward to think I deserved an A on that history biography I did of Teddy Roosevelt after all. Whatever happened to Kathy?
To be truly happy, I would like my peripheral neuropathy to go away; I'd be having "discussions" with my son and granddaughters, especially literary and philosophical and theological ones.
Life's biggest surprise has been learning that age doesn't bring wisdom, and there is very little that can be counted on to be "true."
One do-over? I'd wish that I had been wise enough not to have married without first understanding what I really valued and what he truly valued, and considering whether we could ever be happy together. But I would not "do-over" my son.
My weirdest job was keeping the books one summer for a corporate farm near Buckeye and working for a young smart-aleck woman who thought she was better than me because her family owned the business. And numbers!! I HATE numbers!
I have lived in Buckeye since 1969 and have not moved since I left Milford.
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