Jo-anne Tuttle

Moved to Tasmania upon finishing at GCC to study law, and 10 years later (aprox) I am still here enjoying the weather, the food and the scenery. I have well and truely aclimatised and am finding how warm summer days of 20 degees quite hot!
 
Finished my degree in 2000 and after doing the compulsory 6 month legal prac course I started working at Crisp Hudson and Mann in Burnie in 2001. Three and a half years later I am still in Burnie, now working for Mcgrath & Co and enjoying work very much. I specialise in litigation - criminal, personal injury and commercial and still enjoy attending court more than sitting in my office!
 
I am getting married in March to Paul McGrath (of McGrath & Co) and will inherit a ready made family as Paul has two children (7 and 4.5) from a previous marriage who live with us week about. My focus at the moment is my honeymoon where we are heading off for international waters (France) for a month - I am so looking forward to it.
 
Jo Tuttle (bigdodo23@hotmail.com or jo@mcglaw.com.au )

Libby Kennedy (formerly Apps)

Mine and Rich's wedding - My bridesmaids were my little sis, Renee (red hair)and Julie Sullivan who you should remember from primary school. (Jools is far from the geeky little girl that everyone teased in primary school) Our best man was my brother Rolly and the groomsmen were Joe Dal Molin (from the state high - Meg Shaw will know him well) and another mate Leon. Our flower girl was how Rich and I met at her Christening 9 years ago! I met Rich a month after we graduated.

Wow ten years has certainly crept up fast! It will be great to see everyone again to catch up on what you have all been up to. Well unlike Beck, Ray & a few others that I know who have ventured overseas... I stayed in good ole Far North Queensland and have been living in Cairns for the past 9 years.

After Year 12, I got a secretarial job (I knew that sec studies would get me somewhere! Thanks Mrs Casella!) with an Engineering co in Innisfail. Worked there for a year and it was not long after I started there that I met a Cairns boy (who was originally from Tully)and the next year moved to Cairns to be with Rich, and if you can guess the rest is history!
It was in Cairns that I continued in a number of admin jobs, one of them working with a state wide fundraising organisation where I got to climb the ladder from being in admin to gaining a position in event coordination specialising in weddings.
I now have a weekday position as a 'Wedding Coordinator' for a local business in Cairns called Chocolate Sensations. On weekends (apart from spending quality time with my hubby) I work after hours in a PR role for Delfin, Forest Gardens. So I'm pretty much flat out most of the time and don't get out much unless it's work related! It's all good (so I keep telling myself after a 13 hour day!)

Apart from working 7 days a week, I do get to spend some time at home. Rich & I built a house in Forest Gardens about 5 years ago and now we are about to sell up and build another house in the same estate later this year. We have been together for 9 years and finally got married in June 04 and that's where I gained the name of Kennedy. Oh yes... also I dropped my full name of Belivia cause when I moved to Cairns, noone could say or spell my name right so I ended up just using my nick name in the end to avoid having to pronounce 'Belivia' at least three times in the one sentence! So now its Libby Kennedy (and no not like neighbours....I wish I looked like Kym Valentine!)

Well ten years has been pretty full on for me. I've had to grow up in a hurry about 4 years ago when I took on custody of my little sister, Theresa. My parents had a really nasty divorce and I stepped in and brought Reese up to Cairns with me and put her through school to give her a better life. I have no regrets with giving up my freedom for the past 4 years as now Reese successfully graduated, turned out sane and is now working for DFS Galleria. So I'm thinking that I must have done something right! Especially since she is still living with me at home....trying to get her to move out!!!!

I remember being at Saint Mary's College (Reese's school) a couple of years ago for god knows what... and I hear her friends calling out to me 'Libby, Libby, Libby' then I hear someone say 'Belivia' and I thought HOLY CRAP someone from Innisfail was calling me. Sure enough up walks Miss Hill (aka Accounting teacher and Melrose Place addict). Found out she had moved to Cairns along with a few former teachers from GCC. I can tell you that it certainly felt weird to see an ex teacher after many years. But it felt a hell of a lot weirder when she asked to hang out and catch up after hours.....it didn't happen all the same!

I don't have any little gremlins yet, just Rich, Reese and two persian cats that rule the house.

So after a long winded comment...thats everything to know about me. Anyway I'm up to catching up with those who are in Cairns or anyone else who wants to engage in a long winded email! You can best get me on email: bkennedy@cairns.net.au or try my hotmail account: libby_richard@hotmail.com

Take Care!
Libby
 

Rosie Nucifora

I Am now a second year paramedic working in Cairns station getting flogged with study, work, overtime and then more study.  Every day holds more exciting adventures than the previous, and I'm learning heaps, how to be a physcologist, mother, doctor, nazi, cop and very patient.  Should have gotten into this career years and years ago, for once I love going to work every day.  The people I work with are some of the most awesome people I've ever met, and not just workmates, but family.  I worked for the last 9 months out at Smithfield station, but got sick of all the roadies on the ranges and transfered back into Cairns station, where the workload triples but so does your experience.  Christmas day was a pearler! I rescuscitated a 18 month old girl in front of her mother and 20 family members out at the northern beaches just before the family christmas lunch that day.  Unfortunately we still had to transport the little baby to hospital for observation, but to hear her giggling as we arrived at the hospital, made her mother's 2004 Christmas unforgetable.  And for me too, probably one of the most happiest jobs I've ever done.  It only takes one good job to make up for the 12 others that don't end so good.

Terry and I are still renting a house in bayview heights, with the intention to buy it half way through the year.  The owner knows we want to buy and is giving us first option when he decides to sell in July.  With all the stuff we've accumulated over the last 2 years, we have to stay in a place as large as this to store it all.  I have a motorbike too, which, surprise surprise, causes much contraversy within the family.  I just lie and say it's Terry's bike.  Oh, and the two dogs really love the backyard, it's like a park it's that big.

Ray Grasso

As alluded to by Beck I am kicking it over in London. Ten years hey...um let's see...graduated uni in Brisbane at the end of '99. Worked on the Gold Coast for a year and a half. Then moved to California where I lived and worked for two and a half years. After that moved off to London for more of the same. Have been here now for almost a year. So after 10 years things are good and my sanity seems to be holding okay. It'll be cool to hear The Low Down from everyone.

Ray Grasso.

Alyce Haack

Am I the first and only eager person who wants all the goss on what every one has been up to??? After a few beers with Christine Capponi a few weeks back we have sorted out everything everyone has been up to.

I am living in Cairns and working casually as a hotel duty manager in a small hotel. I would rather not say where as we genarally rent the rooms out on an hourly basis - wink wink...

Not sure what my next plan of attack is - still single, no kids that I know of and most of my free time is taken up looking after Karmel and Becky and Theo (Becky's baby) who has CF.

Can't wait to catch up with everyone - And if this party is a doozy Christine and I have made back up plans if anyone wants to join us. Can't wait to catch up

- Alyce Haack

alyce28red@yahoo.com.au

Beck Lee (yes, I've dropped the 'y'..)

Me & Ray on my 26th Birthday

Well, in the past 10 years I think that alot has changed - but yet stayed the same (I promise that's the only cliche' I'll use here).. I think I've grown.. not really in height, but I like to be referred to as Beck now, not Becky (so childish).. and my eyesight is a lot worse.. but otherwise, I'm still the funlovin, sarcastic, shortass, chinky-lookin bundle of joy that you used to know..

After school, I moved to Sydney to study Mechanical Engineering and after 5 years of studying, partying (and a lot of drinking) passed with a B. Eng. (Mech) Dip. Eng. Prac - (Don't let the letters fool you - I don't really like being an Engineer).. So after that worked for a 2 years as a Project Engineer at a factory that made P.E.T. softdrink bottles, then a year at Aristocrat as a Design Engineer designing parts for poker machines..

In 2003 I decided to see more of the world and moved to London.. I started working as a Planning Engineer to fund my travel addiction.. In the past 2 years, I've managed to visit most of the countries in Europe in little weekend trips or weeks off between working.. I'm still in London (and Ray moved here a year ago too), riding out the dreary winter.. I plan to be here until October, then head to Canada to take 6 months off, go snow boarding every day, and work at a pub at night.. well that's the plan anyway...

No husband or kids yet, I'm in my second serious relationship since leaving school (and Cameron) behind.. A nice sydney boy who shares a love for fun and travel.. No plans for marriage yet - we're too busy planning what country we're going to conquer next!!..

Some of my memories from school (Primary as well as College):

- Playing with Alyce (who lived around the corner) and running away from her stinky "Sigma's"
- Teaching Nadia karate in Grade 2
- Riding to school with Karin and Penny on my pink bicycle (with spokey dokes & a black stack hat)
- Mrs Bufi chain smoking in the classroom in Grade 4
- Getting the ruler for talking in church
- "Going Out" with Damien in Grade 7 (we never even kissed!)
- Ramona whacking her head while jumping down the stairs from Room 5 in Grade 8
- Dubby being able to recite all the words to "Ice Ice Baby"
- Organising Mark to meet Rebecca behind the bus shed to form the beginning of a beatuiful relationship (& marriage and 2 kids!)
- The water fights at the drink taps (and those damn see-through white blouses we had to wear!)
- Jo's 8 kilogram colletion of key rings
- Working on the checkout at On Tai's with Jo & Alyssa and yelling "Boy upstairs please" into the intercom to Glen, Matt and Steven Van
- Going to the corner store to stock up on redskins, frogs, frosty fruits and softdrink before heading to netball training - where we'd run around for a bit and then gossip alot
- Having "study sessions" with Jo and Ray and consuming 4 litres of coke and lots of pringles
- Driving around with Lisa in her blue Ford Falcon station wagon
- Walking around town and going for a frozen Coke / Chips with Gravy with Sal, Alyssa, Jo, Becka and the other kids who's parents worked in town
- Aaron's campaign for the multi-purpose court
- Glen, Ray and Chris's band - Featherstone (and being able to hear Chris practice his drums from my house!)
- Not being able to show my Year 12 video compilation at our graduation assembly because it showed Ray and a few others giving the camera the finger..