Well, guess I'd better quit reading all these emails and join in. 
Its Martha Fritz, now Martha Araki, sending you all an email from sunny, hot Castaic (a suburb of LA) - just past Magic Mountain for anyone who has been down here recently. All this talk about high school age kids - some of us are slow slow starters, as I've got a 2 year old girl. Never thought I'd be joining the Mom ranks, but here I am, with a 2 year old. Amazing how much fun and misery they are - all at the same time! Kim DeFeo, I gotta hand it to you for showing up at the 20th 8 weeks after birthing a kid - I don't recall if I was even out of pajamas at 8 weeks... I've been in touch with Kim Moa (when she gets around to answering my emails - hint hint) and Chris Nordby, who is now cruising Canada with the new wife. Ok, Chris now you've got to get busy and have a kid too!! I had been in touch with Linda Stream, but don't know if her email address I have still works so I haven't chatted with her
recently. Also Denise Randall Miller (thanks for sending me info about this group!) keeps in touch, and will supposedly send us all an email once Bob Miller (her hubby -class of 75) gets around to hooking up her home email (maybe this will help get him off the couch!!). 

Gee! a 25 year synopsis - well lets see - was at Wazzu with Kimmers Moa, Molly Kopecky (what ever happened to her?), Jeff Johnson (where did he go?) and Kathy Oebser. Did the usual - fell in love with the wrong guy and finally extracted myself from that relationship too many years later. Didn't finish college (ran outta cash), started working as a secretary (always could type fast) and transferred from Seattle to LA with Rainier Bank on some venture or another they were doing (that was 1985). Met my then future husband (Wendell) in the
wholesale produce market, where the person I was working for had another business. That business went under and ended up working for his attorneys - bankruptcy guys. Got "demoted" into the paralegal department (more responsibility, less money) and have been paralegaling on bankruptcy cases since 1986. Wendell and I moved to Hawaii for a few years so he could try out his own business (gourmet produce store) - that was 1988-1994. Got married in Vegas in 1992. Moved back to LA in 1994 and went back to work for the old law firm doing bankruptcy paralegal work. Saw quite a few of you at the 20th. 

Birthed the kid in July 1999, and started working out of the house doing paralegal work (thank goodness for the internet and high speed digital lines!) so I could stay home and see the development of the baby blob to kidlet. We bought a house (finally!) in Nov 2000 in Castaic, as we had been all crammed together in a 1 bedroom apt (which worked up until the time the kid started walking). So now the 3 of us are here in the 'burbs and there are many a day I feel like (but don't look like) June Cleaver (but thankfully no Beaver!). Ha ha!! Elementary and junior high school are just down the street - and we're in a totally new development so everything is really nice and clean. It is hot up here though...central air is an absolute necessity. That's about it. Nothing much more to report, other than I didn't win the $141 million lotto in California on Saturday (boo hoo - some one did get it but they bought that ticket in San Jose)!! Ah well...just have to keep on trying. 25th reunion sounds cool - is there a date yet? I see dates in August tossed around - are you still aiming for that or something later in the year? If you want to do the race track (Emerald Downs) and we do it far enough down the road, my little sister can help us get reservations as she knows people (some of you may remember she was working the catering at our last reunion). If we go to the track you can count on Wendell, Jamie and me being there as my husband (and my daughter) love to play the ponies. Well, someone's gotta feed them! We've fed the So Cal horses, so now its time to feed the Washington ones! Everyone sounds like they are doing well, considering all the little loops (or "oopies" as Jamie would say) that life has tossed at us. Thanks to Dink for setting up this group (now I gotta go dig out the old annual to see who everyone was - 2 years of sleep deprivation has erased certain brain cells...) Looking forward to hearing/seeing you all soon!

 Martha (Fritz) Araki