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Ken Barna

Profile Updated: June 8, 2022
Residing In:
Northville,, MI USA
Spouse/Partner - wedding date:
Pat 8-8-04
Children:
(from previous marriage)
Nicole
Natalie
Current Occupation:
Semi-retired Landscape Designer
Did you graduate in January or June?

January '59

Grandchildren:

Dillon
Jonas

About My Career:

Was a teacher for thirty years at Berkley High School,
retired in 1995, then started carreer as a landscape designer and still at it.

Redford Memories:

I loved Redford. It was everything I thought high school should be. I was lucky to be one of the members of the football team and have very fond memories of my teammates and coaches.
Mr. White my 9th grade English teacher sang 'The Chritmas Song' to us during the season.
Was it 'Operation Green 'when everyone volunteered to clean up the school grounds?
Our prom at the Crystal Ballroom of the Masonic Temple and Bud Olmstead and I sharing a swig of whiskey.

Education after Redford:

Eastern Michigan University 1960-65
B.S. Secondary Education
Major: History Minor: Geography
Masters Program @ Eastern Michigan, but never got my degree
Oakland Comm. College 1986-95
Assc. Degree Landscape Design

Family/Travels/Events:

I love to travel and have visited 36 of the 50 states, have traveled to France, England, Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Russia, and Canada.
I've been married three times.
Belonged to the Detroit Curling Club for 25 years.
Lived in Michigan my entire life, except for a one-year sabbatical in Italy.

States/Countries:

Since graduation from Redford and Eastern I've lived in Berkley, Warren, Troy, Sterling Heights,Farmington, Plymouth, and now Farmington Hills. (but a Northville mailing address, go figure)

What grade school did you go to?

Hubert Elementary on Lamphere Street
(since closed)

Did you attend any of our 50th Reunion Weekend Events September 25 - 26 - 27, 2009?

I attended the Friday Night Reception at the Embassy Suites Hotel
I attended the Saturday Night Banquet at the Embassy Suites Hotel
I attended the Reception for Coach Waha

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to ken: that was a very nice comment/memory/recollection that you wrote about bud olmstead.

warm regards, mike reissing

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"Bud" Olmstead was a member of our championship football team of 1958.  One of my memories of Bud on the field, was the Cooley game, when he broke away around left end for a sixty plus yard run.  That set up our first touchdown of the game.

He was unselfish, and always put the team first.  On a social note, at our Senior Prom, while I was at the refreshment table, I heard someone say;  "Ken, come over here".  It was Bud standing in a corner.  When I went over to see what he wanted, he pulled out a flask of whiskey, and we both had a swig.  I never forgot that episode, and to me, it showed what a great classmate he was.

Bud always had a smile, and it was genuine.  A truly wonderful friend.

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