Alissa Miller Caithness

Gary (KHS'85)and I have been married for almost 16 years. We moved to Lynchburg in 1998. Jessica is in the 8th grade at Liberty Christian Academy. Krissy is in 5th grade.

I work at the elementary school across the street from my house. It is were Krissy attends school, and Jessica used to. I work in the guidance department and I run the In School Suspension classroom. Yes, I work with unacceptable child behavior all day every school day. And yes, there are children in ISS almost every day at the elementary level.

Krissy has autism. The rate of autism now is 1 child out of every 150 children. Odds are someone else in our graduating class has a child with autism. Krissy is a great, loving, smart and funny kid.

Jessica is a great kid, she's smart and caring. She loves to visit Virginia Beach. I'm wondering when the time will come when she asks, "Why did we ever move from Virginia Beach?"

In Spanish class I sat in gum. I stood up and tried to get it off. Of course the mess pulled and stretched everywhere. I provided amusement for the entire class, very embarrasing then, funny now.

It would be great to read the "notebooks" my friends and I passed between ourselves during school. I know it would show how boy crazy I was.

I remember going to the Ring Dance of the class of '90. There were more people there from our class than anyone else.

It didn't seem like it at the time, because we were all slacking, but I believe the most practical class I had at Kempsville High was Consumer Math.

A group of us went to dinner at the Harbor Club for prom. It was Amber Disharoon, Eric Svedberg, Aaron Sorenson, Michelle (?), Doug Borsch and me. We were so out of place, but had fun anyway. I'll never forget when the guys took off their jackets and the head waiter made them put them back on.