James N. Dearien II Jim Dearien II

Purchased a townhome in Highlands Ranch CO in Aug 2018 and our youngest daughter bore us our first grandchild, a boy, 11-16-18. My wife has taken on the task of caregiver and I go back and forth between there and Dallas.

Retired from Delta APR 2017
Planning a partial move to the Highlands Ranch area of Denver as of Aug 2018. Not sure how much we'll be there or in Dallas, but looking forward to having somewhere to go when it's so hot in Texas during the summer
So far I've not even thought about going back to work, and hopefully it will stay that way.

Fly for Delta , moved base from LAX to ATL as of Sept 08, B-767-400 Capt. Mostly living in Dallas but have a condo in Atlanta Midtown.

9-7-16
Less than 8 months to go on this amazing 46 year journey which started at the Prep School. Looking forward to staying put in one place for a while.
Still planning on making Dallas our retirement home, but Denver may be part of the future. Jessie, our oldest, just turned 30 and is successfully moving onward and upward at iProspect in Ft Worth. Jaclyn got married to Sean last summer(JUL 2015) and went the political route. She worked on the Cory Gardner state rep run, then as an aid in the Colorado state House for the chairperson of the Ways and Means, then on Joe Coors unsuccessful campaign, Colorado Assoc of Realtors and now with a rural electric company. Look for her in Colorado politics in the years to come.
If you get through Dallas, give me a shout, we've got 3 empty rooms upstairs as long as we stay in the family home. Or take a look at the Costa Rica pictures. It's for sale or you can contact my wife for "special good deal for doolies" if you just want to rent.

Went to Gunnison to play Western State in basketball. On Fri night we won something like 124-95,lost on sat night 65-63. A few weeks later they came to the prep school and we won 125-97.....same teams, very different games:):)

Just before Hell Week, during finals week, the next door neighbor was making too much noise. My roommate, Gary Paczosa got so mad he did a karate kick on the wall. It was so good, it put a hole in the wall. During Hell Week, we got harassed by Rich Gugat (a Capt then) and when he saw the hole and heard the story, he had to leave the room because none of us could keep from laughing. I still keep up with Gary after all these years, and occasionally run in to Gugat when I visit the zoo. By the way, Rich is #3 all time winning Tennis coach for Div. 1 schools.....just goes to show what longevity does for you!
http://goairforcefalcons.cstv.com/sports/m-tennis/mtt/gugat_rich00.html

Retired from Delta effective 5-1-17 and am still looking for one :)

Life goals have changed from If the minimum wasn't good enough it wouldn't be the minimum( survival) to Set low goals and achieve them (I'm getting more done now than ever before) to Do less today than I did yesterday and carry it forward(sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I just get a lot done, but I keep trying to do less)

Went to Coach Gugat's funeral. I was very glad that I was able to see and talk to him a few months earlier. Great memories!

Got to have lunch with Mickey Clemons summer of 2018 and hope to run across other former classmates in the Colorado area.