Earlene Olive:  

I still live in San Jose. I am a divorced mother with two adult children. I would of loved to come to the reunion but I didn't know who to call. I found out Steve was handling all of the reunion. I wouyld love to come to any other events that are happening. After high school I went to West Valley for a year. After that I learned how to be a keypunch operator and landed a job at Nasa Ames at Moffett Field. Stayed there until I got married and had two children. Got divorced in 1985. Been busy since then taking care of my children. My daughter Heather was born on Feb. 18, 1977. Heather was two months early, and after she was born the doctors told me she had Down's, and had a bad heart. She went under open heart surgery in Feb. of the folling year to repair three holes in her heart. The doctor didn't expect her to live but she surprised them and is now 31 years old. It hasn't been easy caring for a special needs child but I did. My son Eric who is 29 also has proplems now as he was told he has a cancerous brain turmor in 2006. He has radiation treatments and is currently on alot of medication. So for the last 31 years almost 32 this is what I have done with my life. It hasn't been easy. Also I wanted to tell all the guys that was in my father's scout troop 363, Robert Dingey scoutmaster that he passed away on May 1999 of skin cancer. He always talked about his scouts with great fondness. Especially Bruce Aby and another scout that I finally found after 35 years. I guess that is all I have to say for now. Peace Earlene Update to my story. My son Eric had brain surgery in May of this year. He was in the operating room for seven and half hours. The doctor's removed 85% of the tumor. He came through the surgery perfect. He has gone through six courses of cemo with no side effects. We got the results back of the last MRI done la...Expand for more