Then and now

Here's a first taste of what some of our classmates have been up to. This info comes from the class survey (which you still need to take, yes?). More to come!

JAESI (SANDBERG) MELESSA
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Most all of it. It was really a great time that I dont ever want to re-live. Well except for the time when Brad Plothow kissed me......

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Ive been married to Paul Melessa since 2001. Ive lived in South Carolina 2 years (loved), Virginia 4 years (hated), and now Nebraska current (like) where we will be for awhile. Paul is a Nuclear operator at a power plant and I stay at home, put my feet up and eat chocolates off my satin pillow all day. We have 3 kids- Leah 5, Asher 4, and Maya 2. With number 4 (and last) due in November. Im still lazy, grumpy, and mean. And wont ever change. :)

EMILY (CHADAZ) HARPER
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Good times with great people - enough said

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S. in Economics, Utah Jazz Dancer for 4 years, Denver Broncos Cheerleader for 2 years, currently a fitness instructor and office manager for McNeil Engineering

VALERIE NADINE (GRACIA) JENKINS
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Probably all of the soccer memories with my girls...especially that sad day at state.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) After High School, I completed my Associates of Science at Dixie. I then went to cosmetology school and became lisenced in cosmetology/barbering. I had my first little boy in 2006, my second in 2008, and my third in 2009. I currently stay home with my 3 kids while my husband completes his Doctor of Chiropractic degree. We will be in Dallas for a couple more years and we love it. But, we hope to be able to move closer to home when we're done here.


J. DEREK LARSON
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) All the many Band trips and great assemblies.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Served an LDS mission to El Salvador San Salvador West. Returned home and attended Dixie State College working towards a business degree. Met my wife Lisa Grady from Cedar City and got married in May of 2005. Shortly after, I changed my major to Elementary Education and graduated from Dixie State College in 2008. Started teaching 4th grade at Little Valley Elementary and have been there ever since. We bought our first house in my childhood neighborhood of Bloomington Hills in August of 2008. On August 6, 2009, we had our first child, a daughter, Lydia, and are loving being parents!

ELISE (HATT) ASHBY
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) I made best friends that I'm still really close with.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) After graduation I went to Dixie for a couple of years. I moved to Logan to attend Utah State. I graduated in 05 with a Bachelors of Sociology. I met my husband while attending school and moved to Provo as soon as I was finished. We were married Oct 05 and had our first little girl in January of 09. I'm able to stay home with her for the most part but I do work part time for Provo College as an admissions rep.


AMY (ROWLAND) BELL
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Well, before my glory days on the student body council....I was new in town my sophmore year and didn't really have any friends so I ate my lunch in the bathroom. The cleaning lady came in a bleached the toilets- it smelled so bad but I didn't want to wander the halls like and idiot so I stayed. The fumes gave me a nosebleed. That is my fondest memory...

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Married pretty much out of high school to Phillip Bell. Have four kids- two girls two boys. Live in St. George- life not to eventful..just doing mom stuff for a while. I am currently finishing my BS degree and applying to PA school this summer.

MICHELLE (MITCHELL) HEIDEMAN
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) i have to many. i loved high school. i was very lucky to have great friends and great memories. spring break was always a highlight as well as dances and football games. i loved it all

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) i moved to provo after school and met my husband about a year later. we have been married almost 8 years. i went to hair school and have done hair for about 6 years. we have 3 little boys gavin 5 easton 2 and ledger 3months old.

JAMIE (LYNN) DABO
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Cheering! Flying in the air was the best!!!

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Motherhood! Put my husband through school then started having babies! Now I just give my little family a happy place to be. Love it!!!

CANDICE (CALLAHAN) CHANDLER
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) I loved going to lunch with my best friends, Staci Stuver and Meagan Mathews

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I graduated from Dixie College then went on a mission to Paraguay. After I got home, I went to BYU, and then got married in 2006. My husband was deployed to Iraq a year after we were married and then we had our first baby in 2009 after he returned.

AMY (JOHNSON) ANDREW
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Probably Choir stuff, trips and Christmas time!

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Earned my Associate Degree from Dixie State in 2001 and my Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood Education from SUU in 2003. I taught kindergarten for a year before getting to stay home with my kids! Married my awesome hubby in 2002 and we have three kids, Tyler 5, Emily 2, Jason 3 months.


RENEE (CHUN) ALESNA
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Going to Wet n Wild with the class

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) College Grad, 3 kids, one on the way, stay at home mom who sells wholesale on ebay!

JESSICA (DEBENHAM) WILLE
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Lots of fond memories. I really enjoyed high school. A few of my favorites: Outdoors club trip to Moab, Havasupai sophomore and junior years, Panthera road trips.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Graduated from BYU in geography. Got married. Had 2 kids. Lived in San Antonio, TX the past 5 years. Other Pine View alum I've lived by here in San Antonio are Beth Leavitt, Crystal House, and Crystal Fawson. Just here spreading the pvhs "vibe."

AUSTIN MCDONALD
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Band! Was the best part of PVHS!

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I joined the Navy a year after HS. And have been serving ever since. Lived in the 4 corners of the USA and have been working on Submarines most of that time. Where I shoot torpedoes, track other boats in the deep blue sea, and work on computers.

ALISHA (BROADHEAD) NISCHAN
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Playing sports, going to the football and basketball games and then dancing the night away at the Stomps!

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Went to Dixie State after high school, then played Soccer at Yuba College in California in the fall of 2001. Graduated with AS at Dixie State in 2002. Went to Weber State 2002-2005. Married Jordan Nischan in March 2005. I graduated from Weber State in May 2005 with a Bachelor degree in Human Performance (aka Physical Education), minor in Health Promotion. I graduated with my Master degree in Secondary Teacher Education from University of Phoenix in May 2009. I currently live in Mesa, AZ and I am a stay at home mom. I have a 4 yr old daughter named Anya, and a 2 yr old son named Parker.


HEIDI (WOOD) JARDINE
(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Graduated with B.S. in Exercise Science and then a M.S. in Corporate Wellness in 2005. Got married in 2006. Moved to New York City in 2007. Work for a corporate health and wellness company in Rockefeller Center. Enjoying life with my husband.


ANNA (STEWART) PECTOL
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) RASKALS as a whole, and choir trips to SLC for Christmas performances on Temple Square. It was incredible doing RASKALS with such enthusiastic classmates, and choir, well choir was just fun! Poor Pine View will not be the same without Mr Lister.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Went to Dixie College for 2 years, married another PVHS alum- (Jeff Pectol '97), moved to Cedar City and started our family. We've got 3 1/2 kids now, and we wouldn't trade them for anything. They just grow too fast!


ASHLEY (BUTLER) LUNDQUIST
(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I changed my major close to a million times at DSC before I got brave enough to get my nursing degree. I work as a labor and delivery nurse at DRMC and love it. I married Eric Lundquist 8 years ago and we have three sons Hank, Abe and Charlie. I've really gotten into running and have completed 3 marathons.


EMILY (MORRIS) KRIMME
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Being a part of cross-country team winning state.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I graduated from BYU in Biology Teaching.I got married to a wonderful man from Indiana, Aaron. I taught 8th grade science until my daughter was born, then stayed at home. I now have 2 kids, girl (Kaitlyn,6) and boy (Matthew,4).I Live in Vancouver, WA. I've completed a marathon, a triathlon, many half-marathons and am doing a duathlon this year. I also teach piano and tutor A.P. biology.

MEGAN ROOK
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Performing at various half time events with the Pantheras.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Got married. Had a kid (boy) Got my cosmetology license. Currently working full time in Ft.Irwin as a Barber for all the army guys.

JEFF LINGWALL
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) I thought Grad Night was pretty fun. Does that count, since it was technically after high school? Choir and band trips, selling food for the German Club, various fun projects with RASKALS, football games, trying to fit in . . . ah . . . high school!

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I married Julia Oliphant, a beautiful girl from Missouri. We have three kids (one an adopted African American baby boy born in Detroit). I'm working on a PhD in Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and am starting law school at Yale next year during a break from the PhD. Life is great!

AMY (WILTROUT) LEGG
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Winning state range judging competition for FFA.

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) I moved to Nashville in 2005 had my daughter in 2006. Got married in 2009 and started college that fall. Had my son in 2010 and moved to Idaho in April of that year. Iwill graduate college this September.

BWAD PWOFO
(Q) What is your fondest HS memory?
(A) Well, there was camping on the roof of the school the night before graduation, and who could forget Jon Holz and Will Christensen's quasi-nude music video! Mostly, I remember yelling gibberish at some wanna-be G at Little Caesar's and foisting "Christmas Day" on the exec council during homecoming (and for months thereafter).

(Q) What have you been up to since HS?
(A) Married to Stefanie Doty (PVHS class of '01), and now live in luxurious Lehi, Utah, with Stef and our two girlies, Avery (2.5) and Abby (6 months). Mortgage, minivan, but no picket fence. Currently do marketing and PR for Utah Valley University. Also give unsolicited advice to the Utah Jazz and Utah State Legislature. Make stuff out of clay, down by the bay, and eat some hay (I just may).