[Sr-Jr-Soph] Data as of 1997

Classmate’s Name

Ilkenhons, Jerry L.

Contact – Phone

(800) 764-5717

Maiden Name

Ilkenhons

Cell

(907) 835-5717

Nickname

FAX

(907) 835-4875

DOB

DOD

E-Mail Address

Address

PO Box 607 Valdez, AL 99686

Military Service - Branch

US Navy

Highest Rank

Years of Service

1962 – 1966

Employment History - Listed from Current to Oldest

Marriage History - Listed from Current to Oldest

Company

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company

Current

Married

Position

Soon to be Retired

Spouses Names

Sandy ‘Griffin’

Years of Job

7 years

Date of Marriage

Divorce/Death

Children

Son

DOB

DOD

Grandchildren

DOB

DOD

DOB

DOD

Education – High School

Lincoln Northeast

Years

1959 - 1962

Graduated

Yes

College / Tech School

University of Nebraska

Years

1 year

Degree-Major

College / Tech School

DeAnea Jr College

Years

1 year

Degree-Major

College / Tech School

West Valley Jr College

Years

1 semester

Degree-Major

Life Highlights –

What you have told us about yourself these past 40 years

1972 – Jerry and Sandra Lee have one boy, Scott (17 months). Jerry joined the US Navy for four years, had six months electronics school, attended the University of Nebraska for one year (1967) while working for KUON-TV, attended DeAnea Jr College for one year and West Valley Jr College in California for one semester. He traveled throughout the Orient-Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Guam, Okinawa, and Australia with the US Navy and has traveled to Puerto Rico and parts of Canada with his company. He enjoys salmon fishing, hiking, trout fishing, duck hunting and going to Radier football games. He builds and flies R/C aircraft, builds custom video systems for friends, makes transfers of cassette, 8 track or reel-to-reel tapes for his friends and also repairs their stereo systems.

1982 – Jerry and his wife Sandra have 1 son, Scott (11). Jerry served in the Navy as an electronics television tech. And upon returning to Nebraska, went to work for KUON-TV. When the Nebraska weather got to him, he returned to the west coast to work in video manufacturing, and went to work for ITT Mackay Marine doing repair on navigation and communication equipment on large tankers and cargo ships. Jerry holds an FC radio and telephone license with Radar Endorsement and is a graduate of San Francisco College of Electronics. Jerry and Sandra enjoy sailing, white water rafting, hiking, and camping, and he also builds model railroad equipment.

1987 –

1997 – Here my wife and I sit in a motor home in front of our house in Valdez, Alaska. We are waiting for our house sale to close and then we are leaving Alaska to move on to our 46-foot sailboat in Guaymas, Mexico. I tell you this because I wanted to let you know that I really wanted to make the celebration this time. However, due to the plans we have made for our future we are not going to make a trip to Nebraska this year. I thought it would be appropriate to send a short overview of what has happened since graduation. October 1962 I flew to San Diego to attend US Navy basic training and Electronic Schooling. I was stationed on the U.S.S. Coral Sea for three years and three months. Spent two tours in Viet Nam (1965 & 1966) I left the Navy in October 1966. Worked for KUON-TV as a Dubbing Engineer for Great Plains Television Library in Lincoln and attended UNL for two semesters (1966 – 1967). The summer of 1967 I left Nebraska to join the throng of young ‘flower children’ in San Francisco. I met my wife in 1968 and we were married 6 weeks later. Sandy Griffin-Ilkenhons is third generation Californian. We celebrated 29 years together and have one son who is with us in Alaska. He is married, no children. He served in the US Navy as an Operations Specialist. He plans on finishing college next year as a computer programmer/engineer. We have been in Alaska 17 years working in the Telecommunications industry. For the last 7 years I have worked for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company keeping 20% of the nations oil flowing. Recently I was given the opportunity to take an ‘early out’ package as the company is ‘downsizing’. We decided to take the package and ‘go sailing’. We recently purchased a 46-foot steel center cockpit ketch built in Holland. The previous owners sailed her for 15 years all through the Caribbean, South America, Africa, Spain, and Mexico. We have sold all of our furniture, our house, and land and plan on moving aboard the vessel this year. The objective is to sail around the world. We want to be stationed on the Equator and the Dateline for the 2000 year celebration. The name of the vessel is “Windseeker II”.

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