An Update for John and Trudy

In an earlier post, there's a very attractive photo of John Krege and his high school sweetheart, now his wife, Trudy Andringa Krege. Trudy has sent along an update of what they've been doing since our Graduation Night--and it's all good.

John and I left Northeast, going in two different directions. I went to UF to graduate from the School of Nursing and he went to SPJC for two years before coming to UF and graduating in Pre-Med. Our parents thought they could keep us apart, but that was impossible. We married in our junior year and had our first baby as seniors.

We then moved to Atlanta where John went to Med School at Emory University. I worked in nursing until our second child was born. John then joined the Air Force in his senior year. We moved to San Antonio, TX, and Lackland Air Force Base where John did his internship and orthopedic surgery residency. We had our third child there. We had a lot of fun traveling and enjoying three years in Weisbaden, Germany, where John was stationed. We lived in England where John completed a hip replacement fellowship.

After two more years in the Air Force back at Lackland, where John was on the orthopedic staff, we moved to Greensboro, NC, where John and I still live after thirty years. He retired from private practice a couple of years ago, and from the AF reserve many years ago, after completing his twenty years.

We enjoy our community as volunteers and church members. Our hobbies include tennis, reading, and traveling. John is an avid photographer and is now digitalizing our "three million" slides onto computer and discs. This is a lifetime project. Our latest trip was with Habitat International to Jordan where we helped build a cement block house addition and also toured for several days.

Now here's the update about their children: Daughter Kathy and her family live in Greenville, SC. She and her husband are realtors and the parents of John and Trudy's three oldest grandchildren. Drew and Elaine are a senior and a junior at the Naval Academy. Megan will attend Clemson next year. Their son John is an endocrinologist with Eli Lily in Carmel, IN. He and his wife Mary Dawn have two children, Catherine and Ben, who are 12 and 14. Son Jim and wife Monica live in Greensboro with two daughters, Meredith and Jordan, ages 9 and 5. Jim is a medical device salesman.