Reunion 2000 Reunion Committee
(July 2000, from left to right - Peggy, Lynne, Becky
and Jim)
Thank You From the
Committee: The reunion committee had a lot of fun organizing both the 20th and the 30th reunions.
We hope that all of you who attended the Friday night bash and the 30th reunion enjoyed yourselves and thank you for making it a success.
We hope to see you again soon (don't be strangers!).
Help! - If you know where any of the "missing Hammonites" are, please let us know.
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Becky Cool
cool.rebecca@epa.gov
The biggest event in my life since the 20th reunion is my becoming
a mother in May of 1999 when I adopted my daughter Rosalia from
Russia. She is the light of my life! I am so glad I decided to take
the plunge into parenthood. She is the typical two year old, talking,
babbling and always on the move. Between Rosalia and our two
Australian Shepherds, there is never a dull moment in our house.
I have now been with EPA for 21 years and have managed to change jobs
often enough that it remains challenging and interesting. I have spent
most of my career in the Pesticide Program but am now a branch chief
in the Toxic Substances program dealing with the regulation of
industrial chemicals. As much of my work deals with international
harmonization, it has required travel to Mexico, Argentina, Japan and
Europe.
I cherish my years at Hammond and hope my daughter has a similar high
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Lynne
(Hamilton) Weir
lstcweir@aol.com
Obviously, since graduation from college, I haven’t ventured
very far from Hammond. I
think growing up as an Army brat had something to do with my desire to
stay put! I went to Longwood College for 2 years and then the Medical
College of Virginia for Physical Therapy (with Sally Jones). I’ve
worked as a therapist at Arlington and Fairfax Hospitals and came to
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital in 1979 and that’s where I’ve stayed.
In 1983 I found my niche in cardiac rehabilitation where I have been
able to incorporate my clinical skills with my interest in fitness as
the clinical coordinator of the program.
My love life varied little also! Steve and I married and we live in
Alexandria in the Rosemont area (If you remember the cannon we used to
pass in the bus on the way to games at GW High School, Rosemont is the
neighborhood to the right). Steve is an architect so our second house
is designed by him. We have two sons, Trevor (19) and Casey (17). We
just took Trev to Full Sail, an entertainment industry school in
Florida, where he’s enrolled in the digital media program and Casey
is a senior at TC Willliams.
Steve has been coaching crew at TC Williams for 25 years and is the
head girls’ coach. Casey is on the team and is a coxswain like his
dad was. We had a blast this summer taking 3 girls boats and 2 boys
boats to Canada for the Canadian National’s. Steve’s lightweight
varsity boat silvered, the heavyweight girls got a bronze and Casey’s
junior eight won gold! Yes, I’m sucked into crew, too, as a member
of the growing Alexandria Community Rowing (benefits the crew team)
and row in a quad with one other woman and 2 men. We compete also and
our best has been first place at the Head of the Schuylkill in the
mixed (up) masters quad event. And Steve rowed with us that
time! I think I’ve gone on enough! See many of you soon and
would love to hear from others |
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Lynne and the boys (Trevor, Lynne, Casey
and Steve)
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Peggy Marshall
hammond70@marshallhall.org
"Memories... light the corners of my mind..." Well, there
are some spiders in those corners! "How Recession Ruined my
Life" (by Henry Gibson a/k/a Mugsy)
If it wasn't for the recession, I would have become a computer
cartographer at NOAA with a pack of my Mary Wash geology/-geography
friends. But this was not to be. In 1974, I was a nanosecond too late
in getting my civil service rating. A hiring freeze killed my
application, so I sat on my bed for 9 months and watched most of the
pre-colorized "Turner Classics." I began to develop a
wiseguy "Mugsy" accent which didn't help me too much at job
interviews! Then, salvation! I got a job with my dentist as his
receptionist, and soon became his assistant - jumping at the
"mining for gold and silver" opportunities. You know that
little "catch" jar were all your sucked saliva goes? Well, I
left soon after I had to clean that out... I became an histology
technician for an animal pathologist. This means you cut up rats into
little cubes and make slides outta dem - "take dat, you dirty
rat!" I was grateful for NIH cutbacks to the laboratory - saved
by a layoff! Two weeks later, I answered an ad for a seismic data
analyst. This was training for the interpretation of seismic waveform
records for Teledyne Geotech in Alexandria. They monitored a worldwide
network of seismic stations for the (150 KT) Limited Test Ban Treaty.
That was over twenty years ago, and now, I do research supporting the
(1 KT) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. I work part-time for Maxwell
Technologies in Reston, and spend the rest of my hours at the Marshall
Hall Foundation, a non-profit to restore Marshall Hall on the Potomac
- http://www.marshallhall.org/
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(me with Doug Larson)
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James
Long
long.james@epa.gov
I started working in retail right out of high school, going to
college nights and weekends. This
college time did not get me out of the draft. I joined the Air Force and got into military
intelligence. When Vietnam ended I went back to retail
management while attending classes at American University in D.C.,
finally graduating with a B.A. in Economics. I started with
the Environmental Protection Agency in 1980 and have been there ever
since. Part of what I do now is to design and manage the web
sites in the division where I work. I married a woman I met at EPA in
1990 (now separated). We have two beautiful little girls.
I continue to enjoy racing sailboats on the Chesapeake Bay, something
I’ve been doing since 1976 as foredeck crew and general deck ape;
play a little golf (and my game shows it...); and, spending lots and
lots of time with the kids. And... of course, I’ve enjoyed helping
to organize the 20th and now the 30th reunions.
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