Rebecca Walker Clarke

After seventh and eighth grade at Waterford, I went to Timpview Highschool. I graduated from BYU with a degree in Psychology, then served a mission to Guatemala. I married Sam Clarke in 1996, then returned to BYU and got a masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. I worked for a little while with court ordered adolescents. This is starting to sound like a boring intro to a boring speaker.

But wait. There’s more! Now I teach honors writing at BYU and edit for the nursing faculty: A happier fit for me while my kids are little. We have four children: Eliza (12), Emme (9), Owen (3), and Christian (6 months). I’m sad I missed seeing you all. I think it’s because my oldest daughter just started junior high, the age I went to Waterford, that I’ve been thinking a lot about Waterford and all of you lately.

Teri Johnson Andrach

I left Waterford after 8th grade, and graduated from Orem High. I got a BS in Elementary Education from BYU, and after working in the financial aid department at BYU for a month, got a job as Computer Lab Manager at...Waterford. In 1996, I starting teaching Class III (Waterford terminology!) and have been there ever since.

I have three boys: AJ (18), Talakai (15), and my step-son Zach (10). They all attend Waterford; AJ and Talakai have been at Waterford since they were in the Nursery Three's Class, and AJ is now starting his senior year. My husband, Robert, and I got married shortly after midnight on January 1, 2007. We're still honeymooning!

Not only have I gone to Parent Teacher Conferences for my own children with Mark Bromley and Steve Manning, but I have also taught one of Steve's daughters, Hal Johnston's son, and Benj Heuston's oldest daughter. I will have his son, Dustin, in my class this year.

I'm sorry I missed seeing everyone at the reunion, but hope to "catch up" through this blog.

Teri Johnson Andrach

Byron Ames

Greg, Great to see you and so many others last night. Though the event is over, in case someone wants to look at blog photos later, and since I told you I would, here is the first of 4 photos I'm sending. By the way, my wife's name is Tera and my twin boys are Sage and Aspen and they are almost 5 yrs old. I'll call you first when my hearing goes... my wife claims it already has.

Matt & Emily Reynolds

I went to Orem High School for 11th and 12th grade. During that time I joined a band with Micah Tovey ("The Wingnuts"). I went to BYU for a year and a half and then served a mission in Seoul, Korea. I then continued at BYU and finished in Chemical Engineering. There is a rumor that if you graduate from the "Y" without getting married, your tuition is refunded. It is not true! (Or I missed the application deadline, which I have been known to do.) I started working at Fairchild Semiconductor in West Jordan and still work there as a process engineer.

A few years later, my sister set me up with Emily Sudweeks who was in her Illustration and Design program at BYU and we were married in 2001. Emily did illustration for a while, but eventually the kids caught up with us and she put that on hold. Lately she has been interested in doing writing.

We now have four children and live in "Historic Sandy".

John Sorenson

Hard to believe how long it has been!

Well, as you know, after many wonderful years at Waterford, I too decided to make the jump back to public school…which was difficult. I graduated a Tiger from Orem High. I then went on to serve a mission to Frankfurt Germany, where I had other fellow Waterfordians in the same mission…Clark Barrett, John Welch(?)…do you remember them? It was a great two years. I came home, went to school in Construction Management, met my wife, graduated, started having kids and started my own Company. 12 years ago I joined the ranks at BYU in Planning and Construction and have been there since, watching the campus transform each day. I’ve been married to my bride now for 15 years and I have 5 beautiful kids, 3 girls, 2 boys, and we just finished building a home in American Fork and live there. Life is great. Stacy and her Husband and her kids were just out from North Carolina, she has 6 kids, and Julie, my twinner, has 6 kids as well and she is living in Holladay. We still do a lot together, and nothing has changed there (as you can see from the pic she posted)!

Julie (Sorenson) Thomas

My brother John and I left Waterford in the 8th grade to go to Canyon View Jr. high and then on to graduate from Orem High. I ran track and cross country for Orem and also went to the University of Utah and ran for them. I still love to run, mostly for sanity's sake but I do love competing in marathons and other shorter races. In fact I run by Nancy Heuston's house all the time. I married Scott Thomas who was the older brother of my really good friend. He is also the brother John never had and after seeing them together, it is probably best that John was the only boy. John and I are real close as are our children; we do a lot together as families.

Scott and I have 6 kids; Taylor (girl, 15), Zach (boy, 13), Nathan (boy, 10), Kate (girl, 8), Joey (boy, 4), and Izzy (girl, 2). I am a "stay-at-home mom" which is an oxymoron considering my children see more of the back of the headrest in the car than they do of my actual face...

Benjamin Heuston

I graduated as one of the stalwart 5 in the first graduating class from the Sandy campus and then headed off to Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia. After 2 years I served a mission in Duesseldorf, Germany and then returned to finish up a double major in Biology and English, pre-med. During those last 2 years I met and courted my wife Heather who hails from Bristol, Connecticut, home of ESPN.

After graduation we moved back to Utah, living first in Sandy and now in Draper. The Waterford tradition continues to run strong - I work at the Waterford Institute which builds educational software for children, and I send my kids to the Waterford School in Sandy. This past year I had the reality-warping experience of going to a parent teacher conference for my eldest daughter, meeting first with Mark Bromley and then with Steve Manning.

This past year I finished up a Psych PhD from BYU where I worked with Hal Miller, Bruce Brown (father of Robert Brown) and Mikle South. It's a small world.

I have 5 children - Sage (12), Indigo (11), Dustin (8), Corwin (8), and Garrison (5), one dog - Darwin (2), and two cats - Kasparov (5) and Atticus (5). Overall, I can't believe it's been 20 years already and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone!