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Ginny Compton Burger

I graduated from Dickinson College with a B.S. in Biology in 1964. Ten days later I left Wallingford for 2 years service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a fishing barrio in the Philippines.

I thank all of you who allowed me to use 'Around the World' as our yearbook theme. It inspired a life-long passion. I traveled around the world on the way home - Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Nepal, India, Egypt and then got homesick when I arrived in Switzerland. Two weeks after I got home, I married my college best friend, biking and canoeing partner, Steve, moved to Seattle, WA, and completed an M.S. in Botany. In 1969 we trekked in the Himalyas in India and West Pakistan and explored the coral reefs of Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and the south seas islands. In 1970 we spent a month hiking in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and adopted Heather. In 1971 we spent the summer helping an archeologist friend excavate stone tool cultures in the Thelon Game Sanctuary, NW Territories. Craig, and then Cliff's arrival slowed our wanderlust and we enjoyed many years of bacpacking in the Cascades, biking, canoeing and sea kayaking. Cliff enrolled in a college in Denmark in 1994 so we took our bikes to Denmark, fell in love with biking there and have returned several times to bike Norway, France, Holland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After retirement, we trekked to the basecamp of Mt. Everest, Nepal, to the base of Kanchenjunga, Nepal and along the Singalila Ridge between India and Nepal. Two years ago we went to Transylvania, Romania to spend time with Hungarians and learn about the struggles of the Unitarian churches under 40 years of Communism. Last year we spent a month in Peru including a 7 day Salkantay trek to Macchu Pichu.

In between our wanderings and enjoying our children, I taught high school biology and chemistry, and worked 9 years as a school counselor. I love to garden, read about the world's religions, swim and play folk harp.

What next? I'm looking forward to traveling to our high school reunion and seeing all of you again. I'm really enjoying reading your biographies on line.

And to those of you who are working on the reunion committee, thanks very much!

And..memories - 6th grade - do you remember Mrs. Campbell and her black and white dress that formed a bulls eye on her back?

And 7th grade - our English teacher, Mrs. Siedel who we girls swore wore a different outfit every day of the year.

Dancing with Teen Kline to "I wish I were the Queen of France" at the Old Mill Talent show -We had more fun than talent.

Ninth grade math class with Miss Williams "I'm two-thirds married. I'm ready and the preacher's ready" - who told us that if we finished our assignments ahead of time in the spring, we could listen to the baseball game on the radio.

Tenth grade - Mr. Mac lifting his sports coat over his shoulders and doing the dance of the bumblebee - I thought all my biology professors would be as inspiring as he was - not quite true.

Public speaking in Mr. Jackson's English class...later I thought that was the most useful thing I learned in high school.

Working on the school newspaper - I wrote the fashion column. I hope none of you read it - because I was the least fashion conscious kid in class.

Senior year and the yearbook - I had looked through yearbooks from a lot of high school with color photos, and fancy pages and was very excited about what our yearbook would look like but then Mr. Canamuccio taught me the realities of budget. And reading a novel behind my math book in trig class - the whites of Mr. Canamuccio's eyes turned red when he caught me!

Accompanying the school choir lead by Miss Hauck....Joyce Steinberg was the other pianist and she was brilliant at it. Senior year Bob Loudin played the organ and I played the piano for the Christmas concert - the sound was amazing. And then, we sang "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" and "He's Gone, He's Gone Away" for the spring concert and Miss Hauck wept as she conducted. A decade later my Mother told me why. My favorite choir song -"Far Away Places with Stange Sounding Names"

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