Where Are They Now? — Traci (Hall) and Jim Blair
Hello, friends! We are looking forward to seeing you this summer at the reunion.
Jim and I were married shortly after he returned from serving a mission in Montana, and we have lived in the Provo area ever since. Many PHS graduates have returned to Provo to raise their families, or they come back to Provo to visit their parents, and it's fun to continue our friendships as adults.
We have four daughters ages 9 to 16. Our oldest daughter is a Timpview Thunderbird (sophomore). Timpview seems to be (surprisingly) not that different from our great years at Provo High: yes they do have Seminary, she's studied Julius Caesar and To Kill a Mockingbird, they have a very cool school newspaper (but our Provonian editors are still my favorite), and a few weeks ago she went to Morp! As a side-line to raising our daughters, Jim runs a foreign language education business called Power-glide. Our girls spend a fair amount of time with music and running, and me too but I'm just on the back-up team.
Some of my favorite memories from PHS years, which have a life-long influence:
Jim and I were married shortly after he returned from serving a mission in Montana, and we have lived in the Provo area ever since. Many PHS graduates have returned to Provo to raise their families, or they come back to Provo to visit their parents, and it's fun to continue our friendships as adults.
We have four daughters ages 9 to 16. Our oldest daughter is a Timpview Thunderbird (sophomore). Timpview seems to be (surprisingly) not that different from our great years at Provo High: yes they do have Seminary, she's studied Julius Caesar and To Kill a Mockingbird, they have a very cool school newspaper (but our Provonian editors are still my favorite), and a few weeks ago she went to Morp! As a side-line to raising our daughters, Jim runs a foreign language education business called Power-glide. Our girls spend a fair amount of time with music and running, and me too but I'm just on the back-up team.
Some of my favorite memories from PHS years, which have a life-long influence:
- Senior Dinner Dance with Jim, and the music in the program: Erin Robison singing Summertime and Bob Spencer playing his saxophone
- Studying The Hero's Journey with Miss Nelson (how else could we understand Harry Potter?)
- The day we finished the AP Biology exam and Miss Cooper let us eat doughnuts out on the lawn and watch the tennis matches
- Mr. Danner and Mr. Twitchell patiently helping with so many math questions. They must have explained the same things a million times (a good example for my future parenting)
- Elliot Spencer's article in the Provonian about helicopter-lifting out the snow when it gets old and blackened from car pollution
- Making home movies
- Good, loyal friends
- Dan Knight in the Mr. Provo High competition doing a duet of "You Don't Bring me Flowers" with a ventriloquist doll.
- The honk-a-thon to Timpview for the football game. I heard that Coach Henderson told the team he had never seen so much school spirit. And of course we won.
- The "Pride is Back" assembly with a medicine ball rolling down the auditorium aisle after Patrick Lindsay as Indiana Jones.
- Everyone reading the Provonian when Timpview's b-ball team was introduced.
- Mr. Mathews yelling in the microphone at assemblies.
Comments
You have a most delightful family. It has been a pleasure to be in your home. There is a wonderful spirit of harmony and love. You make a charming couple. It has been fun to remember time spent together. Traci, I have a book from first grade, a personalized Christmas story my mother got me. You are in it as one of my best friends. We were little then! You're still worth having as a best friend.
Brandon