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Martina "Tina Egeler" Heyden '79
I was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1961.
YEARS | GRADE | LOCATION |
1966 to 1967 | kindergarten | Battle Creek, Michigan |
1967 | kindergarten | Mannheim, Germany |
1968 to 1970 | 1st to 3rd | Mannheim, Germany |
1970 | 4th | Nurnburg, Germany |
1970 to 1973 | 4th to 6th | Worms, Germany |
1973 to 1974 | 7th | Mannheim, Germany |
1974 to 1977 | 8th to 10th | Augsburg, Germany |
1977 to 1978 | 11th | Hephzibah, Georgia |
1978 to 1979 | 12th | Mt. Pleasant, Michigan |
1979 to 1981 | ----- | Michigan |
1981 to 1983 | College | Blackburn, Carlinville, IL |
MY LIFE SINCE AUGSBURG
I met Tim in 1983 and we married 9 months later! He's retired from the Navy now. We've moved many, many times and are currently living in California. My parents, sister and her husband are here too. I travel, plan reunions, and hang out.
Note: That's a pic of me dismantling part of the Berlin Wall in 1990.
Augsburg Alumni Assoc History
I joined the Overseas Brats organization in 1986. I attended my first "gathering" in Melbourne, FL in 1993. I was excited! I learned many aspects of reunion organizing, finding people, writing newsletters. I wrote to television shows to get our story out: Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo, Jerry Springer and People magazine - all rejected. At that gathering I also discovered that there were many "brats" living in the Jacksonville area. We had 3 mini-gatherings on our own. That led to.......
The original Alumni website was created in '96 in AOL's hometown. The first of it's kind for Augsburg AHS. I upgraded to Freeservers in 1999 and this website was created (and is now ad-free!). A newsletter preceded the original site and gave me the idea to put it on the web. Reunions soon followed. 9 so far. I have enjoyed "working" for each one of you and hope to continue bringing valuable information to all of you for many years to come!