Saturday, July 11, 2009

English Faculty 1966


How many of these Pike English teachers do you recognize from 1966 -- our freshman year in the new high school building? Give up? From L to R (seated) Charles Brooks, Roberta Mathers, Mary Ann Aldous, Chelta Chenoweth, Freda Dysert, Joanne Gundy, Kay Bobbitt; (standing) Tom Thornburg, Anne Pihlak, John Wells, Ann Godfrey, Betty Goodman.

What Have You Been Doing?

Rica (Callahan) Sell
I am a Chiropractor and have been practicing in the Huntington, Bluffton and Berne, Ind. area since 1986. I am married to Menno Schwartz and have two children. Lacy (32) and son-in-law Drew Emsweller live in Brownsburg, Ind. My son, Cory Sell (24), WILL graduate someday from Purdue.
We are active in the outreach ministries of our church and I teach "Attacking Anxiety and Depression" classes in my clinic. I enjoy traveling and making jewelry. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion.


Jeff Overdorf
Following high school graduation, I went to IU and earned a degree in English. After graduation, I backpacked around Europe for 18 months, then returned to the U.S. and got an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. I was recruited to New York, where I lived and worked from 1976 to 1989. After New York, I moved to London where I joined a consultancy partnership as a specialist in supply chain and distribution development for Eastern Europe. I cashed out of the partnership in 2000, and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, where I bought and sold some properties and joined the staff of Western International University (a sister school of the University of Phoenix) as Assistant Professor of International Business. I still reside in Arizona, although I still do some limited consulting work from a base in San Francisco.