- Louie Grashot [last updated October, 2010] [E-mail address updated May, 2011]
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Life has certainly had it's ups and downs. After graduation, I attended the University of Southern Mississippi for one year and returned to Memphis to finish at Memphis Sate. My love for clothes never died and I spent some 26 years in men's clothing with Julius Lewis, Oak Hall, and James Davis. Following these years, I entered sales in the promotinal products and printing business and coninued until recently. I have four wonderful children and two grands that I am most proud of. Last year I re-connected with Diane Reed Frankowski (classs of '68) and we are now living in Holday, Florida as happy and content as two people could possibly be. Diane is a God-send and living in Florida with her is a dream come true. While I do have many good memories of Memphis and good friends, I am glad to finally be away from the many problems that now exist in my hometown, and frankly, don't miss it one bit. As an added advanage, my closest friend since first grade at East, Ronnie Hall, is just across the bay from us in Tampa. Diane and I will marry in the near future and continue to live this fullfilling life that we both now have. My best to all you former mustangs! "Mustang chant; everybody yell.......mustang chant.............yell, yell, yell (yell like hell)"
- Drew Haid
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Ronnie Hall [last updated May, 2005]
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Greetings fellow Mustang alumni! Now living in sunny Florida with my current, most recent and final wife Jody, a CPA with PriceWaterhouse. Have 3 children Mike (33), Mallory (15) & Travis (14). Since graduation have lived many lives, traveled extensively and finally settled on a career in finacial services where I have held senior management positions and consulting roles for several of the world's largest investment firms. I know it's boring but how else can someone who sleep through so many classes at old EHS make a living? Took up long-distance running about 6 years ago and ran the Boston Marathon last year. Plan on runnig two more marathons this year, raising money for St. Jude Hospital. Wishing everyone good health and happiness. Would love to hear from you, so drop me an email. Ron
- Ronnie Handwerker [updated July, 2023]
Deceased. An obituary is available. Click here to read the obituary.
Prior to his death, Ronnie Handwerker was a participant with our alumni page. The following was his last posting with us.
[posted July, 2000]
After completeting Four (4) years in the Navy I came home and went to work for Uncle Sam. Retired in 1997.Married a wouderful lady 32 years ago (still on honey moon) have (2)children, one each. Six (6) grandchildren. I am a voice engineer for Harrah's intertainment Corp. office on Cherry Rd.
- Diana Harris
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Marilynn Harrison
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Glynda Hix [updated March, 2020]
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
Prior to her death, Glynda Hix was a participant with our alumni page. The following is her last posting with us.
[posted January, 2005]
I love East High! Graduated from Memphis State in '72; married Ron Klinger (Catholic High '65) in 1970. I worked at Baptist Hospital in social work til we began our family. Have 4 kids: Sarah, age 28, special ed /gifted ed teacher, married & lives in Olive Branch, MS, has daughter Isabella, 2 yrs and son due in May 05; Richard, age 25, lives in Auburn, AL, civil engineer; Rachel, age 22, lives with us; Andrew, age 16, extraordinary high school student at present. Husband Ron took job with cotton firm and was sent to New York cotton exchange, so we lived in NJ from 78 to 96. Loved it, snow and all those Yankees. I raised the young 'uns, did volunteer work, etc. Rachel is autistic, went to school at Eden in Princeton, NJ, so I got involved in spec ed causes. Also opened & ran a real estate advertising agency in NJ for 10 yrs. When hubby got offer to return to home office in Montgomery, AL in 96, there was 6 ft of snow so we took the offer. You need to be young to shovel snow. We built home in suburb called Prattville. Quite the culture shock. In AL, I began a new career as a newspaper reporter and now am Development Director for local ARC (Assn for Retarded Citizens) where our daughter attends. Life has certainly turned out not-boring for me. I think I learned everything I needed at EHS and the rest of life has been spent refining those things. Owe a lot to Ms. Margaret Said, don't we all? My mother still lives on Reese St & we visit often. I stay in touch with EHS '67 friends, Margie Rodgers (we married brothers), Carol Wade Redden, Gayle Kemp Pike, and Lucy Davidson.
- Bonnie Jackson [last updated September, 1999]
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It was by accident that I discovered this website which was a nice surprise. After graduating from East High, I attended David Lipscomb College in Nashville for two years. In the summer of '69 I began working at Memphis State. I then met my husband, B. C. Crawford, who was an English teacher at Harding Academy, and we married in December of 1970. We have lived in Lenoir, NC since 1984. Lenoir is in the western part of the state in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains - a beautiful area! I'm working as a secretary for the Presbyterian Layman, an independent news organization which covers events of the national Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). B. C. is teaching in the public schools here. We have no children except for a 16-year-old cat named Mary who is still in good health. I get back to Memphis two or three times a year to see family and friends.It's so interesting to read about former classmates, and I hope more will write about what they have been doing. It's hard to believe it has been 32 years!! I would love to hear from any of you again.
- Glenn Kiersky
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Jeff Kloville
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Bobby Lawson
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Kip Lichterman
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Jack Logan [last updated December, 1997]
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Jack attended Auburn University two years then transfered to the University of Tennennessee in Knoxville. He earned a degree in architechure. Presently Jack lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He's married and has one child. Messages to Jack will be relayed by his brother, Chris Logan (71), at
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- Eric Pike
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Patti Preston
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Bob Ranson [last updated April, 2009]
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Update...April 2, 2009. Now have four grandchildren. Vicki (my wife)is still putting up with me and we are hanging on by our fingernails with this sour economy. So far all of our family is well. One minister in Chicago. One social worker in Memphis (one Grandchild) One missionary in Nicaragua. One Restaurant manager at Hugheys (one grandchild) and one in St.Louis. (Two grandchildren..twins) St. Louis is soon to move to Memphis and her husband will work for the West Clinic. God had blessed us with each and every one. I am still with Signature Kitchens and my wife is a dedicated nurse. I am sorry, I am not on facebook for those that have requested me to be their friend. My E mail address is [below]
- Lee Richardson [last updated February, 2014]
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I am living close to midtown in memphis, not too far away from the old school. I still do landscaping work. I would very much like to find a copy of the dvd or slideshow that I had from the last reunion so I can copy it. Someone broke the copy I had. Please send a message to my email or call 901 314 3696 Thanks and I hope to hear from you all.
- Yvonne Richerson
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Richard Rosebrough [posted October 19, 2015]
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Ray Sanders
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Bob Scates
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Susan Schwaiger [last updated October, 2016]
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- Brenda Skeen
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Reported deceased
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- Steven Solomon [last updated May, 2012]
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Realtor w/Sowell & Company Realtors since 1990. Also, Travel Agent w/CruiseOne-William Criss & Associates Travel since 2010. Have always been in Memphis,Tn.
- Bobby Stewart [last update August, 2016]
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I have truly been blessed with a great life. Being an East graduate is one of those many blessings.
at the present time I am with Graphic Systems , Inc.
married to my wife Martha for 32 years. We have 2 adult children, both were adopted
Martha works in the business office for St. Agnes Academy/St. Dominic School.
I am able to volunteer for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, as well as Region 1 Health. Currently serving on the advisory board for my college fraternity. I have stayed in touch with classmates Rusty Kroell, Bill Edall, Dick Wallace, Bob Ranson, and Phil Towne.
Looking forward to our 50th reunion next year
- Kay Strong [last updated May, 2007]
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After graduation I attended Roanoke College, meeting and later marrying my husband
of 34 years, John Black! I transferred to U.T. Knoxville in 1970 and graduated with a degree in Graphic Design. Those were the days when you worked with rubber cement, India ink, rapidiograph pens, T-squares, and triangles, to produce a printed page (who could have envisioned something like Photoshop back then). After working for Holiday Inns in the advertising department I did freelance design for a variety of companies, allowing me time to be a full time mom for our son, Andy (now 29 and a teacher at Westminster School in Memphis).
In 1990 I decided to go for my fifteen minutes of fame and started my own business- marketing a line of jewelry and ladies accessories through the wholesale gift markets. It has been an interesting ride, trying to catch the latest trends while accumulating a customer base of Cracker Barrel, Federated Department Stores, and Walt Disney World. In 2003 we decided to scale down to a few items (linen towels, tee shirts, baby onesies with funny sayings--) that we outsource—allowing us less employee headaches . I took a couple of years off getting my mother moved from her home of 61 years on Century Street (Hurricane Elvis toppled one of her beautiful great oaks onto her house and car). into Town Village, a wonderful retirement community where she lived until her death in 2005.
I have been working as an interior designer at Norwalk Furniture since July 2005. It has been great fun and allowed me to reconnect with some of my East High school alumni.
Stop by and say hello if you are out that way—6515 Poplar between Massey and Kirby.
- Rickey Taylor [last updated November, 2016]
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I doubt many of you remember me since I transferred to East in the Tenth Grade and graduated in 1967.
Here’s an attempt at a thumbnail of the past 50 years or so.
Just before Graduation I got a 1-A draft card. I put on my best suit and manners and pled it down to a Student Deferment. Later I won the first Draft Lottery with # 347. I now feel some guilt for not fighting in my generation’s war, but not at the time.
I went to Southwestern for 2 years, then Memphis State for 2.5 years, changing majors at least a couple of times before graduating and marrying Susan Turner (Central, ’67).
Got an NSF Psychobiology Fellowship to Florida State University in ’72 where after a few years in science, I discovered that I would have made a much better Historian.
We traveled around the country in our VW camper for a time, ending up in Memphis, where I went to work for FedEx. After 26 short years and a variety of assignments, I took a buy-out in 2003.
Afterwards, I worked at various retirement jobs and have been retired for the last six years and love it.
We have two children, Nate (31) and Anne-Elise (28), both married.
In December I’m planning on welcoming my first grandchild into the world.
Rick (Rickey) Taylor
- Karen Trusler
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Karen died in a home accident in 1971. If anyone has a copy of the obituary and would like to supply a copy, we would like to post it on The East High Alumni Page.
- Gary Wachter [last updated January, 1999]
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I live in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. My wife is Lynne and I have 2 wonderful children: Edward 10 and his sister Jenny 4.
- Richard Allen Wallace [last updated March, 2013]
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Graduated from Washington University and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Worked for IRS for 31 years and retired six years ago. Still see Rusty and Patty.
- Clark Webb [updated July, 2015]
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Deceased. An obituary is available. Click here to read the obituary.
Prior to his death, Clark Webb was a participant with our alumni page. The following was his last posting with us.
[posted August, 2006]
Greetings fellow Mustangs!!! Lots of fun reading everyone's bios. . . After East High, I attended Southwestern (now called Rhodes College) off and on for a number of years. My freshman year I volunteered to work with the Sanitation Strike, marching with the workers in Downtown Memphis on several occassions. Of course that led to the events surrounding the King Assassination. And ever since that time I have been involoved in working on peace and justice issues. After working as an aide at Tennessee Psychiatric Hospital in 1974 I moved to Washington DC, where I worked in low-income neighborhoods, organizing food cooperatives. Also I pursued my interest in yoga and meditation, volunteering to teach classes at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In 1976 I moved with my wife to Johnson City TN for her job transfer, and graduated from East Tennessee State (Go Buccaneers!) in 1978, managing the local food coop, and teaching meditation classes in my spare time at ETSU. Shortly thereafter we moved to Blacksburg VA, home of Virginia Tech, (Go Hokies!)and have lived here ever since. From 1979-81 I was the director of a non-profit housing organization, Project Home Repair. Started by the YMCA at Virgina Tech, we repaired the homes of elderly and low-income families in Appalachia, using charitable donations, some federal funds, and volunteer labor. Since 1982 I have been in the Health Food business in one capacity or another, owning two stores, and working as a manufacturer's sales representative, traveling in three states, selling to other health food businesses. Beginning in 1987 I have visited most of the countries in Central America (Nicaragua is my favorite!)under the auspices of Witness for Peace, an interfaith, human rights advocacy group that reports to the American public the effects of our government's foreign policy in Latin America. This year I visited Venezuela and next year (2007) I will be traveling back to Venezuela and it's next door neighbor, Colombia. We have a daughter, Elizabeth, who lives and works in Manhattan on the Lower East Side. Over the years I have enjoyed keeping up with Gay Daly and Denton Marks, visiting them when my travels took me to their homes. Attended Mrs. Marks 90th Birthday party in Memphis, July '06. Wasn't she about the greatest teacher anyone ever had? Looking forward to being at the reunion, May '07!
- Jeff Weinman
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
Prior to his death, Jeff Weinman was a participant with our alumni page. The following is his last posting with us.
[posted April, 2000]
Wouldn't miss the chance to be a part of this incredible link to my past. After K thru 12 at East, I obtained a B.B.A. in '71 from Memphis State. For the past 28 years, I have pursued a career with the federal government including agencies, i.e., Federal Housing Administration, Corps of Engineers, and currently the Federal Highway Administration. I reside in Carson City, NV (approximately 25 miles south of Reno and 20 miles east of Lake Tahoe) with my very spoiled English Springer, Cosmo. My wife Lynne Ann passed away September 24, 1998, after a long battle with cancer.
Kudos to the East High Alumni Page! It certainly brings back happy times and memories.
- Jeff Weintraub [last updated March, 2006] [E-mail address updated January, 2016]
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I've been married 27 years to Melody, with 3 great kids: Betsy (25—in 2d year at UM Law School), Cole (23—just graduated from UM), and Joe (21—UM junior, currently exchange student in Germany). I'm a management-side employment lawyer (www.weintraubstock.com). My youngest sister Nina passed away in '99 (cancer), leaving her husband Mark Heffington and 2 boys. My sister Jody is a teacher in Memphis and is married to John Sosh. I still love to play basketball (but only in "very very very old man" leagues). Two years ago, Steve Hutchinson, Mike Bayer, and I reunited the Bounders, our high school band. We've been practicing ever since, with 2 new members. Maybe...one day...we will play a gig........
- David Widdicombe [posted December, 2005]
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- Cheryl Williams [posted April 10, 2021]
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Mary Wolbrecht ('67)
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Deceased. An obituary is available.
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- Jack Wright [last updated February, 2003]
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Upon graduation from East, I attended (then) Christian Brother College, majoring in English Literature, until I married and moved to Knoxville, TN, in 1970. From '70 to '74 I made my living as a leatherworker/hippie, selling my wares at craft shows all over the Southeastern US. In '74 I moved to Tupelo, MS, and took a "temporary" job at a major Civil Engineering firm. This job lasted almost 10 years until Marriage One dissolved and I moved to Orlando, FL, with Wife Two. In 1992, I quit engineering and went to cooking school. I worked in restaurants, bars and clubs of varying repute, and did home improvement work on the side. In 2002, Marriage Two having dissolved, Wife Three and I moved to a small tract of land near Mountain Home, AR.
Currently, I make mountain dulcimers, folk banjos and fiddles and other folk instruments, as well as writing freelance monographs for the shooting sports. I am still involved in competitive shooting and serve as Range Manager at my gun club.
I have two (biological) sons and one granddaughter, now 4 months old. My eldest son lives in Memphis, and is employed by FedEx. My youngest son lives in Orlando with his family.
There are many of you still in my heart, and I would hope you know who you are. Please contact me at 
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Forty five years! Where did the time go? I blinked and they were gone... and, although my life has resembled a soap opera at times, I'm happy to report that all's well that ends well. I am a happy lady!
I still live in Destin, and have owned Magnolia House now for 22 years. It has been a very busy life since I last posted on here; ten grandchildren... I've written 100 songs for the piano, released nine CD's, written five inspirational books, published five novels.... Still have the non-profit charity that began many years ago... have spent time in the mornings feeding the homeless in Destin, and giving to many who have cancer, have been abused, or are suffering with life's struggles. I've had fun growing in many different directions... and at 64 feel healthy and strong. I hope I can say that in ten years!! I have seen some of you throughout the years and am thankful for that. I know you have lived a full life like I have... and have had your ups and downs. I hope we never stop growing and learning... I think I enjoy now most of all the writing.. and being with my grandchildren. The laugher heals many wounds and restores my hope in mankind.
carefree
UNTIL March 5, 1969. “Greetings, you are hereby ordered to report for induction into the armed
forces of the United States……….” Life became less carefree as I was drafted and learned the life
skill of firing big cannons. In July of 1969 I received orders for Vietnam, went through the training,
had the shots, and went home to Memphis for 25 days. THEN, the US started a pullback, so my
orders were changed to Germany. Because of high test scores (surprise!), they moved me out of
artillery and into missiles in Germany (I was the guy who pushed the launch button ….. scared
yet?). So life again became relatively carefree. Upon discharge, I thought about work until I
realized that the government would pay me to go to college, so off to Memphis State I went. I
graduated in 1974 with honors with a BBA in marketing…. But I still had GI Bill entitlement left. So
I went to graduate school at MSU where I received an MS degree in marketing. Along the way, I
met Cindy McIntyre (Bartlett 1969) and we got married. Where everyone else had kids, we had
cats. I worked for a short period of time as a product manager for Frito-Lay and then along came the college teaching opportunity (I’ll bet you’re scared now). I taught one year at Pittsburg (KS) State University and two years at Northern Illinois University. Then I enrolled in the PhD program at Michigan State University. I graduated with a major in marketing and minors in economics, international business, and statistics. I then went to work at Eastern Michigan University. I am currently a professor of marketing and interim department head at EMU. Over these 22 years at EMU, I’ve been fortunate to visit countries all over the world; I’ve lived in New Zealand for a year (over two visits) where I learned to drive on the left side of the road. I’ve taught at the University of Michigan. I’m vice president of Sports Research Institute (
. And wouldn’t a reunion be a great thing??? By the way, I still like to laugh; I still drive fast; and I still have lots of hair!
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