Julie Chistian:  

After I graduated High School I worked at Clark Gas Station in Houghton until I married Michael Machowski in August 1977. I moved to Huntsville, AL then and was an Army wife for a year, in 1979 we then moved to Minneapolis, MN. On September 11, 1980 we had a son (Nathaniel Michael) born in St. Lewis Park, MN. In 1980 we moved to Loveland, CO, (I was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time) where my second son (Daniel Leo) was born. We moved to Wheatridge, CO from Loveland and then to Federal Heights, CO after buying a home. I divorced Mike in August 1986 and married John Christian in April 1987, and lived in Denver, then moved Federal Heights, CO in 1989 where we bought a house, I went back to school at Parks College and graduated in 1995 with an Associates degree in Accounting and in 1996 I graduated from Parks College with an Associates degree in Business Management. I had a GPA of 3.89 which was not too bad for someone who was raising two teenage boys, working on starting up as company and taking care of a household. My husband and I built a company from the ground up, in the Air Freight business that expanded up to over 900 customers both domestic and international. This started in Denver and expanded to Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Portland and points beyond including Detroit, MI and Milwaukee, WI. We moved to Muskegon, MI in May 2000 where we have lived ever since. We manage a Modular Home Community with over 2000 people living in it. My son's still live in Federal Heights, CO and in Westminster, CO. Nathan got married to Elizabeth Crandal in September 2005 and has since joined the Army in September 2008. Daniel got an Associates degree in Auto Mechanics from Westwood College in 2002. And is working in a auto body shop. In 2005 I became a grandma to a beautiful girl named Kirsten Elizabeth Machowski. Kirsten is in the picture with me in the "now" photo. In 10 years, I hope to be running my own business. I'm going to achieve that I hope 5 years from now. My oldest friend from school days would have to be, Michel Machowski, he asked me if I wanted a ride home one day walking up Quincy Hill, I ended up marrying him. My accomplishments would be that I got an Associates Degree in 1995 in Accounting and an Associates degree in Business Management in 1996, at the same time I helped start up a business, and raise two teenagers. All of that and get a 3.89 GPA. Bet no one in my class would ever think I would ever do that.......goes to show how well people really knew me back then. I think that would surprise everyone in the Class of '76 that I was and am a very smart person if they only have gotten to know me, no one really wanted to know the real me and I kept to myself because of it. Everyone just saw me as the lunch ticket girl, or the weird girl that kept to herself, wanted to join the hockey team,(which the school would not let me)or join the Auto Mechanics class,(again the school would not let me), and I believe I was the only person in the school who wore her father¿s Dress Navy Whites to school! I think the wildest thing I did in school was wearing my father¿s Dress...Expand for more