Greetings to all.

Since I won't be able to attend the reunion, I thought I'd provide a little history.

In 1968, I married Vivian Salazar. Needing a steady income, I spent 1968 through 1991 writing and designing computer software, becoming a Lead Analyst and Project Leader. I designed and wrote approximately eighteen major systems for the banking and insurance industry. Also during that time, my two daughters, Jessica and Corenna, came into the world. We all moved to California in early 1975. By the end of the year, the wife claimed independence, taking my daughters with her. Needing new roots, I moved to Portland, Oregon in late 1975. Another wife came and went. My daughters decided they wanted to move in with me, permanently, in 1981. I was a single parent from then on.

In 1990, while fly fishing for steelhead, I met a writer and artist, Violet Huntley. She rekindled my need for creative writing - a need first instilled by Mrs. Abeles (senior year creative writing). Kidnapped and dedicating my future to that need, I retired from computers, married my kidnapper and moved to the country - where we still live with: our cats Lucy, Ethel and Po, and our 84 adopted wild turkeys, now headed by Omar, the dominant tom and Winken, the dominant hen. Vi and I assumed each others' last names (hyphenated), and I am now legally, "John Philip Huntley-Franck". Vi and I have been happily married for 24 years.

After writing several novels, my interests expanded to "Bugtography" - photographing and documenting all the bugs and insects living on our property. I've since become an amateur contributor to entomology departments at Cornell U, Iowa State and Mississippi State. My Bugtography photos have appeared in numerous places/publications, most recent will be "The Field Guide to Insects of the Pacific Northwest", compiled by Dr. Merrill Peterson of Western Washington University, to be published by Seattle Audubon Society later this year. I've also worked on projects with other university professors, documenting life cycles of various insects, most detailed was the Lophocampa maculata moth.

For the past 4 years, I have also been conducting a study on wild Rio Grande Turkeys, documenting each bird in the flock, its interactions with other individuals in the flock and the overall flock dynamics. I eventually plan on publishing my findings, but I haven't yet decided if I want to publish as a scientific paper or turn it into a story, similar to "Watership Down", by Richard Adams.

For deeper insights into what my wife and I have been up to, you can visit our website at: http://www.whereartmeetstheheart.com/