Updates from SuEllen Hunter Mackey

Occupation : Teacher of course
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, teaching and the ILLINI

What has been going on: Graduated from Illinois State in December of 1990- BS in Elementary Education- Married in December of 1990- Started teaching at Macon Grade school in August 1991 (4th grade) John born Feb. 3rd of 1992. Divorced in 1995. Left Macon due to consolidation and of course better pay to teach in "Inner City Decatur". Have taught in Decatur since. Taught a college class for those entering education- like younger students much better! :) Continue to teach a night class at Webster Cantrell Hall (residential treatment facility). Love working with at risk kids/ or those who have major behavioral issues. I'm an on-call crisis supervisor for WCH also. Serve on board with Macon County Probation/advocate for juvenile offenders "Community Restorative Justice Board". LOVE teaching still! Teach 5th grade at Hope Academy, Decaturs only year round school/ brand new beautiful building.

Oh yeah- received Masters of Science in Sp. Education in Reading in 1999, Became National Board Certified in 2005. One fun thing is , I helped to put together a new reading series with a major textbook company- MacMillan McGraw Hill- made many trips to New York City at their expense.

Still live in Moweaqua, same place since married. John very involved in livestock/4-H imagine that. We love going to the Illini Football Games and of course we never miss a basketball game. Even hit many of the road games. Followed the team to St. Louis for the Final Four Game. Scalped for tickets and had a blast eventhough they lost.

John lives with his dad and will be a sophomore. He is involved in Football, Wrestling, and FFA. Loves to help my dad during the summer on the farm, and will get his drivers license in February. He is very tall 6'2" and doesn't show signs of stopping. Dr. Bilyeu's magic formula for calculating adult height of infants put John at 6'9". This could be possible his dad is 6'4" and he has an uncle that is 6' 11". Obviously he passed me a couple of years ago. Plans to attend Lakeland College and pursuing some type of Ag degree. Wants to transfer to U of I and finish out. I guess only time will tell. Grandpa told him he has to have a 4 year degree before he can come farm with/for him. So, thank heavens dad had a grandson.


Preparing to start back to school for administration certification. Don't want to be a principal now, but might consider doing it the last years before I retire. (That is a long TIME) Still love to go to school whether teaching or being the student.




Do you recognize Mrs. Rowe - our third grade teacher?

Updates from Lennie Moore

Where has the time gone, I can’t believe it has been twenty years. I guess we are all officially old now. I agree with many of you, it seems like just the other day we were all hanging out together on the playgrounds, in the hallways, at sports events or on the weekends . I can still remember many of the things we used to do. I still recall graduation when everyone had big dreams about all the things they were going to do in life and yet we all still wanted to keep in touch. I guess spending 12 years together in school had made us pretty close, unfortunately each of our lives get so busy we lose track of time. So I’m very much looking forward to seeing everyone again and catching up on what has been keeping everyone so busy. You can contact Lennie at LMoore@ameren.com.



What have I been doing since graduation? After high school I attended Richland Community College until 1991 and got my degree in architectural & construction design drafting. I worked for Macon County mapping department until 1993 when I took a job with an agricultural design firm doing CAD design work for them out of Villa Grove. Then in 1994 I started working for CIPS (Ameren now) out of Beardstown. I started there doing CAD work for them and worked my way up designing their sub-transmission lines for the west side of the state. Eventually in 2000 after learning on the job I was promoted to an Electrical Engineering position still out of the Beardstown office. I’m still there today.

My wife Mari and I have been happily married since 1993, I still can’t believe she has put up with me all these years. She works for the Air National Guard in Springfield. We have three boys, the oldest is Hayden and he is 11, the other two are twins which are 7 and their names are Brooks and Brennan. Between taking them to all their ballgames they keep us pretty busy, but we would not want it any other way. I have to say with my lovely wife and my three little buddies I’m very blessed and I hope everyone else has had the same blessing that I have. Once again I look forward to seeing everyone and catching back up. Contact Lennie at
8763 IL Rt 78
Virginia IL, 62691
Home phone 217-452-7831
Home email 7moore@casscomm

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Quick Update

Hey Everybody!

I am really excited to see everyone this weekend! It has been so much fun getting back in touch! There is an updated list on the website of those that are coming but I also wanted to share a few of those that are coming from the other classes - I don't have all the names but I have a few.... Mac and Tappi Davis McLeod, Jennifer Austin, Audra Manhart, Chris Sweeney, Chris Bright, Glen Hardeman, John Hrubecky, Debbie Markham Prater, Dawn Damery Morrell, Jill Cole Bailey, Lonnie Horton. I am sure there are others but these are the ones that I know of.

Oh and for the girls out there - I think most everyone is coming casual with a little flair! Nothing to Dressy - just comfortable!

Talk to you all soon! Have a great rest of your week!

Update from Michael Gregory

Twenty years… That’s scary. It seems like yesterday I was hanging out with all the guys. While we occasionally ventured out of town (Hayes, I still remember you getting me busted in Taylorville), we always seemed to hang out close to home. There are a lot of great memories there.

Just to get everyone up to date since graduation: After finishing Millikin in 91 I took a job in Danville Illinois at Hyster Company (Forklifts) which is now Nacco Materials Handling Group (I am still there… in the Parts Distribution Center). I started in March of 1992 as a pricing analyst and have held several jobs since then and now am the Manager of Warehouse Operations. I moved to Urbana in 92 and married Mendie Schmahl shortly after. Mendie is employed by Pepsi-Cola in Champaign. We had our daughter Madison in October 1996 and son Mason in Dec 2000. We lived in Ogden Illinois from July 1997until 2005 at which point we built a new home in St. Joseph. We are certainly blessed. While I cheer on the kids in there sports activities, I’m not yet a Spartan fan, but afraid I can’t hold out much longer…. That is kind of weird to me. Go Indians!! I still can’t believe Kneller threw all those interceptions against Arcola. Just kidding. Having a little flashback there. Look forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.


Michael Gregory
707 West Nottingham
St. Joseph, IL 61873
4mgregory@insightbb.com

Golf on Sunday after the Reunion

Phillip and Chad recently had a chance to golf together and had a great time sooo.... they thought it would be fun to golf on Sunday morning at a new course in South Shores if anyone was interested contact Chad at trkrmoo29@yahoo.com or Phillip at phillip.knecht@carestreamhealth.com - They will be making the arrangements for this one.

Thanks
Julie

Reunion is just around the corner!!

It is only a few short weeks until we all can get together! I can hardly wait! Reservations are starting to come in! If you haven't mailed yours yet - please be sure to send it in SOON! - we have to have numbers to the Beach House so they can be prepared for us! I have been making a list on the website of who I have received reservations from.

New feature on the website -
I know some of you would like to leave comments on our website so I tried to add a chat feature - check it out!

Gotta run for now!
See you all soon!
Julie

Updates from Chad Moody

20 years!!!! Geez, you guys are old...ha I moved back to Moweaqua last year. I was in the military for 11 years, it was a blast, but i am done playing GI Joe. I work in Taylorville now for MBM. I have 2 boys, Brett 15 and Brandon 10. I was blessed with the time i got to spend with Jerry Lee, Bj, and Cindy last summer on the boat. It is sad what happened to Jerry. BJ, Gillette and I ride motorcycles every chance we get. I hope everyone else is doing great. I wish everyone the best, Moo Contact Chad at trkrmoo29@yahoo.com


Chad with his parents and sister Kim