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Waukegan, Illinois: 1956 Debbie's mother revealed her math geek tendencies in this clipping. Not only was she a member of her high school's Slide Rule Club, she was the program chairman, whatever that means. No wonder this woman went on to meet her husband in a college math class and produce two computer programmers. |
Connersville, Indiana: 1972 Tom's grandmother, Laurena Burkart, was active in local politics for many years in Connersville. Here's a vintage advertisement from one of her reelection campaigns. |
St. Paul, Minnesota: 1980 After giving up her modeling career in grade school, Debbie turned her sights toward an acting career. In her senior year of high school, she was cast as Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." It was this role that led to Debbie's Kevin Bacon number of 2. After playing the lead role in her favorite play, she figured it would all be downhill from there, so she gave up her thespian dreams and turned to computer programming instead. She came out of retirement briefly to act in a Star Wars fan film in 2005. |
St. Paul, Minnesota: 1984 Debbie's father was featured in a several full-page advertisements for 3M. One version showed several different 3M employees and a second version focused on him alone. |
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Englewood, Ohio: 1986 Tom and Ken were also on Northmont High School's gymnastics team. |
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