Barbara Peterson Weiblen

Name:  Barbara Peterson Weiblen Nickname (that you know of!): Martial status:  married 40 years (all to the same guy) Spouse’s/Significant other’s name:  Bill Weiblen Email address:  Barbara@weiblen.com  or bweiblen@cryobank.com Home address:  111 Brigham St, unit 8D, Hudson, MA, 01749 Phone #:  978-567-8944 Cell phone #: Fax #: Your life since 1963:  I went off to Wartburg College to study Medical Technology and that’s where I met my husband Bill.  After our wedding in 1966, we ended up in the Minneapolis area for 13 years –I worked at the U of M in the pathology department full-time, while I did graduate work part-time (MS in Genetics) and we had 2 children (Laura and Charlie).  In 1980, we moved to Massachusetts, where we have been (pretty much) ever since.  I worked at the Naval Blood Research Laboratory (4+ years), the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory (6 years), and then Boston Biomedica (14 years).   Most of my work has been in lab management or project management –primarily in the areas of immunology and infectious disease, until my recent shift to the fertility area (see below). I went through my equestrian phase (owned a thoroughbred horse and showed in dressage and hunter classes) and my gardening (and cooking) phase.  Also an advocacy phase (for freedom for Namibia) –I actually traveled to southern Africa with a group of Lutheran church leaders.  My music phase has lasted a long time –I joined the Concord Band about 22 years ago and lead the flute section, sing in the church choir (with Bill), and started a flute choir group (10 musicians) –I direct and also play bass flute. Your life now:  Bill and I moved to a condominium townhouse 7 years ago –after the kids left home –to get away from the yard work.  Bill is working for Fidelity and I’m still working –but I refer to my current job as a segue to retirement.  I’m lab manager of the California Cryobank (a reproductive tissue bank –aka sperm bank).  This makes for some interesting dinner conversation –-lots more interesting than my husband’s job –he is a pension actuary.  And I am enjoying my two grandchildren.  I keep busy with church activities (choir and flutes and Bible study and committees) and music and dancing with my husband. What classmates have you kept in contact with? :  mostly just Gene and Kathy Hinrichs What classmates would you like to hear from? :  any who want to hear back from me Would/could you help find classmates? :   I would if I could. Any hobbies? :  I keep busy with music (band, choir, flute choir) and do some gardening (indoors at home in our condo and outdoors at church).  Bill and I love dancing –we go ballroom dancing just about every week and continue to take lessons to improve our technique and learn new steps.  (We look just like those people on TV.)  Waltz and west coast swing are my current favorites –we know how to do almost everything.  I also practice yoga a few times a week –it’s great for trying to stay limber.  I listen to lots and lots of audio books on my long commute –takes me about an hour to get into Cambridge every day. Favorite song of 1963 or earlier :  “Surfer Girl” by the Beach Boys