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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! Cool