Category: Biographies: Shipmate updates
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Nancy Mair #32
After Oceanics I returned to Edina, Minnesota to finish high school. I married Jim Jones (#44) in 1976. We moved to rural Wisconsin near Elmwood and built a log home on 40 acres. Our daughter Adrienne was born at home In 1979 . Soon after, we moved to northern Wisconsin in the Glidden area and…
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Susan Nelson (aka Sue 22 & Clean Sue) #22
After Oceanics I went to college and graduated with a degree in Occupational Therapy. I worked primarily with children ages birth to five in special education. I met my husband Jim through work, as he was a special education teacher. We married in 1983 and lived in the Como Park neighborhood of St. Paul for…
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Barry North #8
Since my time aboard Statsraad Lehmkuhl, I’ve lived in several places, including Boston, Long Island and New York City, Denver, and for the last 24 years Seattle, Washington. I worked as an environmental consultant and corporate health and safety manager. I continue to serve as a nutrition coach/consultant. My husband Dinh is from Vietnam. Over…
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Steve Paulus (Rufus) #86
After the Statsraad trip, I went to New York University for a year, then took a year off to work for Oceanics on board the Yankee Clipper. I ran the ship’s store and helped the administration. I then returned to NYU before transferring to the University of Minnesota for two years where I got a…
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Marlie Smucker #45
I was born and raised in the small culturally Germanic town of Bird-in-Hand, PA in the heart of Lancaster County’s Amish Country. Both sets of grandparents were raised Old Order Amish, as were my parents until they came of age – no electricity, no cars, plain dress, simple lifestyle, 8th-grade education, conscientious objectors of war,…
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Jim Soja #10
Greetings to all Statsraad sailors! What a fantastic journey with beautiful and exciting memories endlessly jogging my mind to this day. For me, it was a pivotal time as I was stimulated to follow the teaching path on a more continuous and consistent basis and my appetite for travel multipliedexponentially. So what to do? The…
Statsraad Lehmkuhl Oceanics 1972-73 