Gary Stretesky

1964 Graduated from CSU

1964 Started teaching Vocational Agriculture in secondary schools

1966 Married Lola Cooper, an English teacher

1967 The kidney stone Lola was diagnosed with turned out to be a very active baby boy, Paul Brent Stretesky, born in September.

1968 Began managing greenhouses. Grew up to 6 million carnations per year and more than doubled the size of the operation to more than 5 acres under cover by 1979.

1971 November 9th, Lola was planting tulips and on the 10th gave birth to a petite, beautiful baby girl - Gwenevere Dale Stretesky.

1991 Our son Paul graduated from CSU.
Gwenevere attended community college of Denver where she earned an Associate degree with an emphasis in Human Services.

1992 I earned a degree in Environmental Science and put it to work at the Shattuck Chemical superfund site in Denver.

1993 Lola earned her Masters degree in Information Science from Emporia State University by going on weekends. She has worked at the Auraria Library in Denver for 22 years. Paul also earned his Masters degree at CU in Denver.

1995 We are grandparents. Gwenevere and her husband Eric had a baby boy, Vitali Taranto born in Houston, Texas.

1997 Paul, now married to Christine Cachey, whom he met at the Attorney General’s Office in Denver, earned his PhD from Florida State University after spending a year writing his thesis in the Florida Keys.

1998 I started a ground water monitoring job on another majordeactivation project.

1999 Paul and his wife Chris, now living in Rochester, New York, where Paul is teaching, have a baby boy (Denver Stretesky). A good excuse for Lola and I to take a train ride to NY.

2000 We are now eagerly awaiting two “new millennium” babies. One in Houston - so we will be headed there in August. After two years at RIT, Paul and Chris moved to Fort Collins and he is teaching at CSU, so we won’t be going far to meet Mason Stretesky when he or she arrives in October.

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