Tim Butzon:  

Life (last edit 2010-01-03) Graduated Druid Hills High (Atlanta, GA) 1970, went to Ga Southern College where I was an ATO (Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity) and an ADPi Big Brother (first group of big brothers they ever had at Ga So). I also met some of the "girls of my dreams" at Southern, none of which would have me for very long LOL. I changed my major my senior year to Education so I was rewarded a 2nd senior year to get my Ed courses. Graduated Spring 1975. Started teaching Woodworking "shop," Architectural and Technical Drafting and coaching at Duluth High (Duluth, GA) in the Fall of '75. Coached varsity and b-team football for 9 years, head baseball coach 9 years, asst baseball 2 years, head wrestling coach 2 years. Starting in 1987, after I was out of coaching, I got involved with the choral program helping with sets and props for their shows. When our first full time theater/drama program came along I helped with sets and props for her program too. Those years working with the Theater and Choral programs led to many, many wonderful memories and countless trips. I was fortunate to travel with those programs to NYC (many times and now a place I dearly love to visit), Disney World (many trips to see Mickey), a cruise to the Bahamas, and several (6 maybe?) trips across the ¿big pond¿ to Great Brittan, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and lil ol Liechtenstein. I retired June 2004 having taught 29 years, yes all my 29 years were at DHS. I had the sick leave to get my 30th year without having to go, so I said let me outta here and retired. That was June 2004. I¿ve got a very active high school class since our reunion in 2000 when I became a ¿found¿ alum again. Not too long after that reunion several of us decided we had too much fun together to wait another 5 or 10 yrs for another reunion. So we began to meet at a local watering hole fairly often. That turned into a regular monthly get together for anyone available on that night each month. We¿re still doing that. We also decided we needed to have some sort of summer party. So in the summer of 2002, the year most of us turned 50 (shudder) we had a class 50th birthday bash. Each summer since then we¿ve had an anniversary party of that party. This summer was the "7th Anniversary of the DHHS Class of 1970's 50th Birthday Bash." On the 5 year marks we have "official reunions" as well. We do have fun. I've got a video post or two on my you tube site. You can search you tube for mitnoztub. We have a class blog. It frequently needs updating and probably does now. It¿s address is dhhs1970 (dot) blogspot (dot) com Let's see what else? As a personal side note, I quit drinking June 15, 1987. It got to be too much. Also, on Valentines Day 1991 I had my first smoke free day in what I think was 18 years of that bad habit. I try to do some traveling. I don't get on the road as much as I'd like, and haven't been to some of the places I thought I would have by now, like back to Europe, or back to NYC, or to places in the US I haven¿t seen yet. But those trips will come. I do get to FL fairly often. I have a good friend with a condo near Flagler Beach who lets me go down when I can and its available. She's great and I appreciate that so much, especially on a retired teacher's meager income. So I get there fairly often. Spring Bikeweek and Biketoberfest in Daytona are two times I try for each year too. Yeah I ride a little. I have also done some traveling to see ex-Duluth performing students as they pursue their acting/performing dreams. (Lauren, Phong, Spencer and Omar you guys are awesome! I'll see ya one of these days Grant) That¿s taken me to FL, NC, PA, Indy and Maine. Ma...Expand for more