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Benson High School , Class of 1974 Reaching Back and Catching Up

Benson High School , Class of 1974 Reaching Back and Catching Up. 40 th Reunion Saturday , July 26, 2014. Let's start with the family. Are you currently?:. Answered: 82 Skipped: 0. Let's start with the family. Are you currently?:. Answered: 82 Skipped: 0.

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Benson High School , Class of 1974 Reaching Back and Catching Up

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  1. Benson High School, Class of 1974 Reaching Back and Catching Up 40th Reunion Saturday, July 26,2014

  2. Let's start with the family. Are you currently?: • Answered: 82 Skipped: 0

  3. Let's start with the family. Are you currently?: • Answered: 82 Skipped: 0

  4. For those who said they were married:How many times have you been married? • Answered: 62 Skipped: 20

  5. For those who said they were married:How many times have you been married? • Answered: 62 Skipped: 20

  6. For those who said they are divorced or widowed:How many times have you been married? • Answered: 12 Skipped: 70

  7. For those who said they are divorced or widowed:How many times have you been married? • Answered: 12 Skipped: 70

  8. How old were you when you first married? Average age: 23.77 Youngest: 17 Oldest: 56

  9. For those who are married, how long haveyou been married to your current spouse? Average: 29.01 years Shortest: 2 years Longest: Two were at 39 years

  10. For those who are divorced or widowed,how long were you married? Average: 15.58 years Shortest: 2 years Longest: 30 years

  11. Do you have children? • Answered: 81 Skipped: 1

  12. Do you have children? • Answered: 81 Skipped: 1

  13. If you have children:How many children have you had, including step-children? • Answered: 65 Skipped: 17

  14. If you have children:How many children have you had, including step-children? • Answered: 65 Skipped: 17

  15. How old were you when your first child was born? Average age: 27.08 Youngest: 15 Oldest: Two at 39

  16. How old were you when your last child was born? Average age: 31.39 Youngest: Two at 23 Oldest: 46

  17. How many grandchildren do you have? Average: 2.5 Most: 15 30 said they had no grandchildren, out of the 63 who have children

  18. Did you go to college? • Answered: 81 Skipped: 1

  19. Did you go to college? • Answered: 81 Skipped: 1

  20. Where did you go to college? UNO: 20 UNL: 11 Metro Tech: 4 Iowa State: 2 Washington: 2 29 colleges or universities had 1

  21. For those who graduated from college:Do you have a postgraduate degree? • Answered: 72 Skipped: 10

  22. For those who graduated from college:Do you have a postgraduate degree? • Answered: 72 Skipped: 10

  23. For those who have a postgraduate degree:Do you have a doctorate? • Answered: 25 Skipped: 57

  24. For those who have a postgraduate degree:Do you have a doctorate? • Answered: 25 Skipped: 57 We have five lawyers and one doctorate in accounting education. (We also have one “all but dissertation” doctorate in art history.)

  25. Did you serve in the military? • Answered: 80 Skipped: 2

  26. Did you serve in the military? • Answered: 80 Skipped: 2 Highest rank: Major

  27. For those who served in the military:Which branch of service? • Answered: 10 Skipped: 72

  28. For those who served in the military:Which branch of service? • Answered: 10 Skipped: 72

  29. Did you follow the career path you envisioned when you were at Benson? • Answered: 79 Skipped: 3

  30. Did you follow the career path you envisioned when you were at Benson? • Answered: 79 Skipped: 3

  31. Are you happy in your career choice(whether you work inside the home or out)? • Answered: 80 Skipped: 2

  32. Are you happy in your career choice(whether you work inside the home or out)? • Answered: 80 Skipped: 2

  33. We have to ask: How would you characterize your financial situation? • Answered: 74 Skipped: 8

  34. We have to ask: How would you characterize your financial situation? • Answered: 74 Skipped: 8

  35. Counting the U.S., how many countries have you lived in? • Answered: 79 Skipped: 3

  36. Counting the U.S., how many countries have you lived in? • Answered: 79 Skipped: 3 Foreign countries mentioned: Japan: 2 Germany: 2 Mexico: 1 Scotland: 1 South Korea: 1 Spain: 1 England: 1 One classmate listed the “U.S.” Clearly, that person took World Geography at 7:35 a.m.

  37. Counting Nebraska, how many states have you lived in? • Answered: 78 Skipped: 4

  38. Counting Nebraska, how many states have you lived in? • Answered: 78 Skipped: 4

  39. Counting Nebraska, how many states have you lived in? We’ve lived in 37 states. Most popular: Illinois 13 California 12 Texas 11 Kansas 10

  40. How many miles away from Omaha do you now live? Farthest: 2,824 driving 2,040flying (Thanks for coming, Debbie!)

  41. Think back to your best Benson memory: aproud moment,a singular achievement or some other highlight. Did it involve? • Answered: 68 Skipped: 14

  42. Think back to your best Benson memory: a proud moment,a singular achievement or some other highlight. Did it involve? • Answered: 68 Skipped: 14

  43. Best Benson memory: A sampling of comments • Music department with Bob Edson and the gang. • I was in the “Babes in Arms” musical. • Wrestling team. • Stage crew and Studio Singers. • Getting caught skipping out of Jeans Club. • Interracial parties. • Theater program. • Receiving a scholarship. • Learned ground squirrels were better educated. • Dating my future husband. • Friends.

  44. We all had embarrassing moments in high school. Have you? • Answered: 62 Skipped: 20

  45. We all had embarrassing moments in high school. Have you? • Answered: 62 Skipped: 20

  46. Embarrassing moments: A sampling of comments • Fell down the stairs on my crutches going to homeroom in the balcony senior year and my skirt went up over my head. • Plan to outlive anyone who remembers the dumb things I did. • Dealing with being gay. • Speech class. • My biggest failures have been turned into my greatest assets. • I don’t have embarrassing moments from high school, but I have plenty from junior high!

  47. Time to 'fess up. Did you have a crush on anybody in high school? • Answered: 77 Skipped: 5

  48. Time to 'fess up. Did you have a crush on anybody in high school? • Answered: 77 Skipped: 5

  49. So you had a crush. Did he or she know that you were interested? • Answered: 65 Skipped: 17

  50. So you had a crush. Did he or she know that you were interested? • Answered: 65 Skipped: 17

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