BARB BARTHOLOMEW RICHMOND

​My husband and I hav been married for 57 years and have lived in the same house for 53 years. We have two sons and their wives, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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I enjoy reading the newspaper (at least the comics) with my morning coffee, and doing Sudoku, the crossword puzzle and find/circle the word later in the day. I also enjoy reading, doing jigsaw puzzles and fishing.

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JUDITH BOLYARD

​Hi Everyone
After graduation, I lived in Ellensburg, Portland, Eugene, Klickitat, the Dalles, and Olympia. I ran Earth Magic, a gorgeous mineral and gemstone business in Olympia:
wholesale/retail until the 2001 earthquake changed my life. I was injured in 2003, moved to Thailand in 2008 for many reasons – where I have been living since.
Endangered animals and archaeology have always been interests of the heart for me, so I am definitely in my element now. I have tiger and elephant friends – and one lady rhino friend – can’t take the
farm kid out – I have always gotten along well with mammals. I have been teaching Science & English here in almost every capacity since I moved here: publishing books for ESL, homeroom teacher, instructor for police and monks, public and private schools, and the Ministry of Education judge and contributor. Now I’m teaching 42 students in 22 classes in my home classroom. I
love my students and I love my classroom. It’s the coolest classroom ever and has everything I would want to teach with. My students are the coolest ever – bright and advanced.
 

Life is a journey – we never know what’s going to happen next. I was planning a big trip July/August – Japan, Mexico, Home, but was injured badly. My medical people told me NO FLYING until I’m well again, so sadly, I won’t be joining many of you for our 60th class reunion. Has it really been that long????? What happened?????

Thank you everyone for being part of my childhood experiences and growing up times – I appreciate you all so much. So, party without me this time – I’ll try to catch you when I can.
Big hugz to everyone
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LORETTA BUCHMANN KELLEY

​Life has certainly taken me on quite a journey. Today I live in Ephrata, Washington, where I work at the Grant County Historical Museum. It’s a job I truly enjoy because I get to help preserve the stories and history of our community. I guess you could say I’ve become part of keeping history alive—including our own!

My greatest blessing has been my family. I’m the proud parent of five children, eleven grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Our family gatherings are wonderfully noisy, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Of course, I’m also kept busy by my four dogs, who seem to think they’re in charge of the household—and they’re probably right. Every January I escape the winter by traveling to Mexico. It’s something I look forward to every year, and it gives me a chance to relax, enjoy the sunshine, and recharge. Most recently, I bought a camper, and that’s opened up a whole new adventure. I’ve been enjoying traveling, seeing new places, and discovering that the journey is often just as much fun as the destination.

When we graduated, none of us could have imagined where life would lead. We’ve celebrated joys, faced challenges, and made memories that have shaped who we are today. Yet here we are, together again, sharing stories and reconnecting after six decades. I hope everyone enjoys this reunion. May we treasure the memories we’ve made, celebrate the lives we’ve lived, and look forward to making a few more memories together at our 60th.

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CHARLES "CARY" DAVIS

​MLHS March 1964 until graduation. After graduating from high school, I went to Big Bend Community Collegefor one year. I was waiting to become 18 1/2 years old so that I could join the Army and go to officer school. I joined the Army May 21, 1967. Once in the Army, I was accepted to officer school and did pre-officer school training, but they had put a hiatus on Officer Candidate School, and I went to New Jersey and went to Microwave Radio Repair school. The school in Fort Monmouth was like being in college. There was no KP, marching or standing guard. We played poker and other card games at night and on the weekends. We’d ski at West Point, have fun in New York City or hang out in Redbank, New Jersey. Weekends were so great and many memorable times. About 6 months into training, I got pneumonia and did not finish the Radar Repair School. I ended up being sent to San Antonio, Texas to be trained as a combat medic, the most dangerous job in the Vietnam war. Officer’s school was reopened and I applied immediately. In late August we were finishing our training (which was so much fun but that’s another story) and two things happened. I was accepted into Artillery Officer’s Candidate School in Oklahoma and got orders for Frankfurt Germany as a Medic. I chose Germany for the remaining 19 months of service. I had a wonderful time in Germany and spent my last six months on a ski patrol as a medic and got a lifetime membership to National Ski Patrol. It was in Garmisch Partenkirchen which is absolutely beautiful and home to the tallest mountain in Germany. In Germany I also trained as an emergency room medic and a laboratory technician. I used those skills to help me pay for college. On my last day in the Army, I found out that I could never have been sent toVietnam because I was the sole surviving male in my family.

 

In May of 1970 I returned to Moses Lake and that fall was back at Big Bend Community College while working at the Porterhouse Restaurant, our family restaurant, and a local doctor as a lab tech. In 1971 I went to Eastern Washington State College in Cheney. In the summer of 1972, I came back home and was working in our restaurant. My sister had moved to Las Vegas in March and was a poker dealer at the Aladdin Casino. She and I had run a poker game out of the Porterhouse Restaurant during the wintertime on Saturday nights. We’d also had games at home and I played a tremendous amount of poker in the Army. It was always a lucrative kind of a side hustle for me, so to speak. My sister invited me to come down to Vegas and visit that August. I came down and looked around and of course it was wonderful place after turning 21. I had been here many times with my uncle, who was the General Manager for several card rooms in Gardena, California. He and his wife had brought me to Vegas when I was younger for golf and shows. So, I was very familiar with it. But my sister, of course, was a poker dealer, and that was the interesting part of it. One day during my five day stay, when my sister got off work, she said, “come on, let's go downtown.” I had never spent much time downtown. I had only basically toured it once, I think. So off we went and ended up Golden Nugget Casino. As we walked in the door, I saw this huge poker room. There were about 12 tables, seven or eight of them were being actively used that afternoon in the summer, which was very impressive. I’d never seen anything like that before in my life. My sister’s card room only had 4 tables. When we walked closer to the poker room, she waved at an older fellow that was walking around dressed nicely in a suit. He came over and says, “Hi, Linda.” And she says “Hi. Mr. Boyd, I'd like to introduce you to my brother, Cary. I found out later the man was Bill Boyd, a world-famous poker player, along with owning the poker room. He said, “Nice to meet you Cary, how are you doing? Are you enjoying your trip? And I said, oh, yeah, very much. He said “That’s great, I'd like to hire you.” And I said, “What?” He said, “I'd like to hire you. You could learn to be a dealer, which would be a good job while you’re going to college.” This was the middle of August. And I had spent a really cold winter in Spokane, drug myself to the classes in knee deep snow. I couldn't use my car or my motorcycle and bottom line was I’d had it with the winters in Cheney. Mr. Boyd asked me when I could start to work and I said “Labor Day” which was three weeks away. And on Labor Day, I came back and by that time I'd done my research and knew that I could go to University of Las Vegas, Nevada after a year of residency and of course use my military pay toward school also. So, I ended up moving in with my sister in Las Vegas and that was the beginning of 54 years so far in Las Vegas and hoping for a few more. I spent a year playing poker for a living while going to school. 5 years and no degree. After realizing I didn’t want to be in the casino business, I got into sales and was selling office equipment. Then I got offered a job as a stock broker for a Swiss Firm and living in Cannes, France. I jumped at it and spent two years there and then in Monte Carlo for 4 months. When I returned to Las Vegas I got my stock broker’s license and worked in finance doing stock offering for startup companies. In the late 80s I was offered a job as the national sales manager with a company setting up microwave television station around the country. I got married in 1991 for the second time. While I worked as the national sales manager, we lived in Florida, Texas, Alabama and four different times in California. In 1996 the President of the company died and the company closed. My next venture was working with Oracle and Sun Microsystems helping finance the start up companies they were promoting. In 2003 during the online poker craze, I opened a company called Omni Media and Entertainment, Inc. and started the American Poker Player Magazine and The American Poker Player Championships tournaments at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino. In 2006 we started a TV show called “The Final Table Challenge”. Major casinos from around the country would send players to play in a $150,000 single table tournament. It was set to premier in December and we were actively selling advertising until the midterm elections changed everything. The US made internet gambling illegal by adding it to the Port Security Bill. Billions of dollars in advertising, that I was hoping to take advantage of, was gone overnight. In 6 months, my company was out of business. I retired so to speak in that I’d work as a consultant to companies selling different products or services and take a year off here and there. In 1995 my wife and I ended up buying a home on the Los Prados Country Club here in Las Vegas and that has been our home ever since. We've had a great time playing golf here and all over on some of the greatest courses including: Pebble Beach, Spanish Bay, Torrey Pines, TPC Scottsdale, Myrtle Beach, all over Florida, Maui Hawaii and 30 or so courses in Nevada and Southern Utah. In 2017 I wrote a book on golf called “The Bogey Golfer Handbook”. We’ve given away over 40,000 electronic copies. I’m just about to publish my book about life and times with the mob, murders, drugs, sex and a little rock and roll of Vegas in the 70s and early 80s.
Who would have ever guess we’d all live this long (though many have not) when back in our youth, people in their 70s were considered ancient!

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DOUG EARL

​Following graduation, I served a 2-year 4-month LDS mission in Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. When I returned from that I went to summer school at BYU and met Connie Jones my first week there. We were married less than two months later. I completed my undergraduate degree in 1971 and then received my law degree from the University of Utah. I passed the bar in 1974 and returned to Moses Lake to join my father’s law firm.

 

I have seven children, one of which we lost in 1980. In 1987 we moved to Lima, Peru to serve a 2 ½ year mission for the church and then returned to Moses Lake once again. In addition to my law practice, I began working as a Grant County Court Commissioner and Judge.

 

In 2008, I accepted a call to serve in Peru once again, this time for the Perpetual Education fund for the Church. We spent 1 ½ years there helping about 1,800 Peruvians get a higher education. We then moved to Madrid, Spain for two years and I served as president of the missionary training center. This completed 8 ½ years of missions outside the United States in Spanish speaking countries.

 

After returning to the U.S., we split our time between Gilbert, Arizona and Moses Lake. When my mother fell and broke a hip a permanent return to Moses Lake pursued and we moved into the home I grew up in to take care of her.

 

We have had a very long bucket list concerning seeing the world and have managed to visit 49 states and 65 countries. We are thankful to have been able to do that before I received a Pancreatic Cancer diagnosis on December 29, 2025. I have had surgery and have been undergoing chemo. I hope to be able to be at the reunion to see my childhood friends.

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PHIL ENG

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Growing up
I was born in July 1948 in Colfax WA and moved to Moses Lake in 1951 when dad opened ElmersRestaurant. Grade School was at Knolls Vista and Garden Heights. Chief Moses was my junior high (now
middle school). I remember that the first year at MLHS was an especially fun time as we got to know all of the kids from “the other school” (Frontier). Through junior and senior high, my biggest activity was with band. Lots of great memories from those days. I spent a lot of weekends working at Elmers. It probably kept me out of trouble, but I missed out on a lot of fun stuff since I worked virtually every weekend. Living in ML was the typical small rural town experience – and I left town with a pretty limited view of the world. Folks didn’t travel, so I didn’t travel either. By the time I left for the University of Washington in 1966, I’d only left the state 3 times – and all 3 were trips to California to see relatives. Never traveled to Canada. Never further east than Spokane. And only once
to Seattle before starting college. My favorite class in high school was Mr. Breymeyer’s chemistry class. And since my good friend George Jones was going into Chemical Engineering, I wanted to do that too. So, I started at UW in Chemical Engineering. Unfortunately, the aptitude wasn’t there and I flunked out after 4 quarters with a 1.69 GPA. Switched to Business and found that that was a lot easier. I was in ROTC during my 4 years at the U. That resulted in 28 years of service in the Army Reserves. Most of my time serving with a transportation unit at Fort Lawton, Seattle. It was actually a fun break from my normal work routine of finance and banking. I retired from the Army Reserve in 1999 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Employment
My banking career started in 1971 with Peoples Bank in Seattle. I owe that to Harry Masto. He got me a part time job with the bank while I was still at the U. After graduating and joining the Peoples full-time, my first assignment after completing the management training program was back in Moses Lake. Back in ML, I started in consumer lending before moving on to farm lending. My favorite saying when they threw me into ag lending was “Even though I grew up in Moses Lake, I don’t know the difference between a Heifer and a Hereford!” I really needed the help of experts like Howard Copenhaver and Duane Ragsdale to become a proficient ag lender. After that 3-year stint in Moses Lake, I went back to the Seattle area and held management assignments in credit card processing, mortgage lending and dealer banking. In between those specialized assignments I always returned to commercial lending and/or retail management. My last 5 years in banking were with US Bank as a District Manager in the Tacoma market. Overall, I spent 44 years in banking, where I worked for 3 banks: Peoples, Pacific First Federal and US Bank. I left US Bank in 1999 to work for Evergreen Business Capital. A couple of our classmates, Steve Strong and Jim McDonald, played key roles in my work life. Evergreen Business Capital started out as Evergreen Community Development Association. The small business lending company was a non-profit that was founded by Steve Strong and his law partners. In 1985, Jim McDonald, who was also with Evergreen, recruited me to be on their board. That led to a career change in 1999 when I left banking to work for Evergreen as its President for the last 15 years of my work life. I retired in 2014. 

 

Family and Retirement
Judy and I have been married for 43 happy years! We have 2 kids and 2 grandchildren. Alison is an RN in Puyallup, working at Good Samaritan Hospital. Jeff is married to Joie and they have 2 children, ages 3 and 4. He is the US Navy, currently serving in the Middle East on the USS Oscar Austin (a destroyer) based in Rota, Spain. Over the years, we have lived in Renton, Bonney Lake, and Seattle. In 2013 we moved to Lakewood to be closer to our friends as we prepared for my retirement. We attend church at Little Church on the Prairie and we are fortunate to have a home at Tacoma Country and Golf Club. One of my favorite sayings now is “for the first time in our married life, our home, our church, our golf club and my Rotary club are all in the same community”. Although Lakewood has a population of over 60,000 residents, we feel that we are a part of a much smaller community because of our affiliation with our church, the Rotary Club, and the golf club. I like to say that retirement is the best job ever and that our new full-time job is just staying alive to maximize our Social Security Annuity. Travel has been one of our favorite pastimes. I am very busy doing work for our church and community organizations. Our favorite pastimes include golf, travel and RVing. My time with golf goes back to ML, where dad was a member of the golf club. My one and only high  school sport was being on the golf team. And golf is one of the reasons we now spend the winters down in Indio, CA (Palm Springs area) to get out of the Pacific Northwest rain. We got into RVing because of our dog, Oreo. It was the easiest way to get her to California and back. Although she is gone now, we still enjoy RVing and have used that as a tool for visiting as many national parks as we can. So that’s it. A quick look into what I’ve been doing for the last 70+ years.

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CHEP GAUNTT

After graduation in 1966 I attended Big Bend for 2 years then graduated from EWU in 1970. I married Kay Kirby in 1969 and still married after 57 years. We have 2 children Drex is 54 , lives in Kennewick with his wife Kris.  Drex farms in Burbank Wa. Jana 50 years old lives in Albuquerque NM with her husband Derek She is an engineer for Intel. We have 3 grandchildren. Kay and I are Arizona residents and maintain our summer home in Kennewick. I worked for some different corporations until 1984. At that time I started farming full time. We stepped back 4 years ago and Drex took over the farm.
Kay likes to sew and still takes care of the accounting for our business interests. I have too many hobbies, I fly and maintain a couple of airplanes, ride motorcycles and work on old Chevy pickups.  Every day is fun, I get to decide which one I get to do. Kay and I like to travel. We have driven or flown to most states. We’ve made many trips to Europe. We really enjoy Christmas in Europe.
We were Red Cross volunteers for about 5 years, besides local programs  we went to Houston Texas after hurricane Rita and worked for 2 weeks. We have been on 3 mission trips through South Hills Baptist Church in Kennewick. We went to Honduras, Turkey and Kenya. We are reasonably healthy. We plan to keep doing what we enjoy and plan to keep traveling as long as we can.
“You can either rust out or you can burn out.”  I plan to burn out!!

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RAEDELL SCHWAB (BOOKER)

​We have not done much since the last reunion. I signed up for and planned to attend the 50th reunion, but I fell and busted up my shoulder the night of the big event, so I just go to go to Chico's before we had to start driving back to North Caoluna to start the process of getting it repaired.

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Parks and I have been married now for 58.5 years. We have 3 children, 2 boys and a girl, 6 grandchildren, 1 step grand and 4 great grands. The youngest grand is 7. The others are in their 30's. It is hard to believe they are getting near as old as me. When the youngest grand daughter asks me how old I am, I tell her I have seen 40 years (up from 29 years). She doesn't believe me. My kids are in their 50's.

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We haven't done much travling due to Covid and wars and such, but there are a couple of trips we would like to take before we get unable to travel. One of our grandsons lives and works in Naples, Italy and we would like to go see him and his wife. They have extended ther stay another 3 years. One of our grand daughtees is  veterinarian taking care of horses. The other ones all have done pretty well for themselves.

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I follow a lot of classmates on Facebook and is so good to see how well most of them are doing. But I am really sorry when I hear or see that one has passed away. I know we will all go, but it is still very sad.

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We will be driving to Moses Lake again this year. I am looking forward to seeing everyone again, hopefully not for the last time.

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JEFF SKEESICK and TERRY TRASK SKEESICK

​60 Years of Memories
58 Years married to an MLHS Classmate. Go Chiefs!
Two Children. 5 Grandchildren (many wonderful memories)
50+ years of work, Jeff-Medical Insurance/Terry Banking
RETIREMENT (yippee)
Lots of traveling (US and International)
Jeff continues to golf and I continue to do as little as possible (waiting for Great grandchildren).
We have been blessed with family, friends and health (mostly).
We are proud to be members of the MLHS Class 66 and treasure our memories.
Thank you Classmates for the last 60 years, and hopefully more to come! Go CHIEFS!!