Gary Borcherding

East Whittier, California

Back in 1967

Back in 1967 . . .
Gary

Gary attended Fullerton J.C. from 1963-1965 while working for Sav-On Drugs, where he is presently floor manager. While in college he was Student Body President. He was married to Pat in 1962.

Future plans include obtaining a BA degree from Cal State and joing merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as a stockbroker.

Gary saw all the members of the A Cappella choir when they toured Southern California. he extends a big “Hi” to everyone and wishes God’s blessings to the class. He is anxiously looking forward to the first reunion.

 

In 2010

Danville, New Jersey

I joined most of you at CTC in the Fall of 1961. Higher education at CTC lasted all of one semester for me...and that was just the beginning of my cramming four years of college into eight. Yep, five different colleges...two times of dropping out...finally limped across the BA finish line in '69 (I've used that story many times to offer some comfort and hope to parents whose kids have fallen behind in the college treadmill by a semester or two).

There were a number of very significant things that happened during those years. I married Pat, a woman who loved JesusGary & Jan and really lived out her faith. God called her home in 1968 two years after she had a car accident...which seemed to be the trigger for multiple sclerosis...which eventually led to her death. That Fall (1968) I spent a semester of college on board Chapman College's World Campus Afloat. A month into the semester, the Lord had wooed me and convinced me to take my relationship with Him much more seriously. The process of getting to know Him better and letting Him be the change agent in my life has gone on to this day...and I hope will continue until the last breath is drawn.

Also on that semester at sea, Jan Kiburz became a good friend and on March 26, 1970, we were married. We're pretty excited to be celebrating the 40th anniversary in a couple months.

After escaping Cal State University Fullerton with that elusive BA in 1969, education continued at Talbot Seminary in C