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Karen
Marie
(Denby)
Kauffman |
1980 |
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1986 |
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The Kauffmans
Nicole, Karen & David - 2002 |
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| Husband: |
David A.
Kauffman (married 06/08/91) ... Karen met her husband while at
college at Bloomsburg. He has his own CPA practice. |
| Children: |
Nicole Diane
Kauffman (Born 05/08/96) ... She takes dance. She has been riding
horses since she has been 20 months old, and won high point at a
regional riding club last summer (2001). She is witty, smart, and loves life - a real
ham!
Per Karen, 12/04/02:
"Nicole is 6 1/2 going on
at least 12 or 13. It's really scary. She is very active in dance, horses,
soccer, and dress-up."
Per Karen, 3/18/04:
"Nicole starts
her morning by her loud Hilary Duff CD and is accompanied by her
singing. She informed me that she will be a 'tween' (official pre-teen)
this May. I am getting nervous, as you can imagine."
Per Karen, 3/02/06:
Nicole is very busy
with ballet and her dance class. "Dave and I are so proud of her.
She was one of few selected from her dance company from out of several
counties in Colorado to perform with The Moscow Ballet's production of
'The Nutcracker' in Ft. Collins, CO this past November at The Lincoln
Center. She performed in 'The Russian Dance' part of The Nutcracker. She
did awesome and made me cry. She got to meet a lot of the professional
dancers and had a potluck dinner with them and performed in two
performances. She was in awe with the entire experience and just loved
the stage! They provided interpreters to help instruct the kids."
"She takes 4 1/2 hours of dance a week with 2 1/2 hours of it devoted to
ballet. Her instructor was a professional dancer in New York and taught
in Los Angelos for several years before moving to CO. She had taken
Nicole under her wing and has private lessons every week with her
including her group lesson. Nicole was moved up this year with the 11-14
year olds and will be invited to go to the high school group practices
next year as well as continue in her present group and private lessons."
"She isn't interested in the horses, but does enjoy her lambs, bunnies,
and cats. She is active in 4-H and is currently treasurer for the year.
She won Colorado Reserve Grand Champion for model rocketry this year at
the Colorado State Fair!! Some kid in Loveland, CO won Champion for
rockets. She won Grand Champion Catch-A-Rabbit, Grand Champion crossbred
rabbit, Grand Champion Fashion Review, and Grand Champion Decorate Your
Duds out of the entire county!" |
| Pets: |
I have a
registered quarter horse named Seeking Zippo Pine ("Zip")
out of world champion bloodlines that I've owned since 1993, a filly named
Hershey who was born on 3/05/02, and Double Chocolate Chip
born right on their farm in May 2003. |
Education/
Achievements: |
Bloomsburg
University
ACLS/NALS
Certification (see below)
CEU's in ICU/OB nursing areas |
| Occupation: |
Registered
Nurse at East Morgan County Hospital in Brush, CO, working 3 days each
week. Karen is trauma
certified and am currently working in the ER. As of March 2004,
she was still working
in the ER, and was in the process of opening up a Special Care Unit
which was taking up a great deal of her time. |
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Kauffman Pictures, 2005
Vacation, Disney
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Kauffman Pictures, 2005
Vacation, Discovery Cove
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"These are pictures from
Discovery Cove in Florida from part of our trip. It is a park owned by
SeaWorld and allows a max of 2000 guests by reservation only per day.
Nicole and I loved this day the most from our entire trip!!! What a
blast! You can stay in each of the areas as long as you like and just
come and go as you please. We got a private 30 minute interaction with a
dolphin (our dolphin was named Coral). They provided a full or partial
wetsuit and a catered gormet meal. The areas included a stingray lagoon
for petting and feeding, a coral reef that even had black and white tip
reef sharks (of course enclosed in a separate plexi-glass portion of the
reef), a river swim area, a bird sanctuary that you can feed the birds
right on your arm when they fly on you (parrots and different exotic
birds) at free will, and of course the dolphin interaction. It was a
dream come true!!!" |
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Kauffman Pictures, 2000-2002
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David and Karen at a wedding in 2001 |
Nicole at a stock
show in 2002 |
David and Karen 2000 |
Nicole
Christmas 2001 |
Nicole
Soccer 2002 |
Nicole
Christmas 2001 |
Nicole
November 2001 |
Nicole
Halloween 2001 |
Karen and Nicole,
2001 |
David, Nicole, and Karen on Halloween 2002 |
Nicole,
Ballet 2002 |
Nicole |
Nicole
Halloween 2002 |
Karen and Zipper |
Karen's birthday 2002 |
Hershey
September 2002 |
Hershey
September 2002 |
Nicole playing dress-up |
The Denby Bunch (That's Karen, Nicole and David at the top, and Rick
Denby's three kids at the bottom!) |
Nicole's first day
of first grade, 2002 |
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Blue Sky Nirvana |
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These are photos of
one of the horse's Karen used to have, Blue Sky Nirvana ("Vana"), taken in September
2001 at her American Warmblood Society inspection. She is approved
at red preferred level and got branded with the AWS logo that day ... In 2002, they sold her to a
professional rider in California as a three-day event prospect. |
Hershey |
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Hershey was born
out of the Kauffman's Paint mare "Key to Reed" on 3/05/02.
"Key" was crossed with a performance champion out of Texas
named "Rich N Chocolately," who was out of world champion
"Zips Chocolate Chip." "Rich" is a TB/QH
cross, therefore "Hershey" is a TB/QH/Paint cross.
Hershey was the first baby on the Kauffman's farm ... As of 2006, Karen
says that Hershey is being sold. |
Double Chocolate Chip
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Here are
some updated pictures of our newest edition to our horses. He is "Double
Chocolate Chip"- name pending for registration. We call him "Chip"
for short. He was born here on our farm in May 2003. These are pictures
at about 4 months of age. He is sired by Superior Champion "Rich N
Chocolatey", out of world champion, "Zips Chocolate Chip." I think
he will be a great performance horse for us. He is really cute. |
People
I would
Most like to see
again from HS: |
Kathy, Sally,
Kelly, Wendy, Darren, Chris, Leon, Randy, Jeff, Diane, etc. |
Favorite
HS
Memories: |
Enjoyed
playing all sports, going to pizza hut after basketball games and
spending time with my friends. |
| Most
Influential Teacher: |
Mr. Strickler |
Some
Exciting
Things I've
Done Since HS: |
Completed
ACLS (Advanced Critical Life-Saving) and NALS (Neonatal Life-Saving)
certifications.
Experienced many challenges in rural nursing in
general.
Competed in open amateur hunter/jumper horse shows.
Survived two tornados four miles
from our home 5/30/96.
Enjoyed water skiing at Lake Powell in Utah
twice since moving to Colorado.
Built a house in the middle of a
cornfield in 1993 without any trees, greens, shrubbery, flowers -
nothing! Built the house from scratch and now we have a lawn that we put
in, laid forms for sidewalks, built a three stall horse barn, built a
fence for our pasture with a round pen for the horses and slowly our
property is starting to look better. We also planted lots of trees (all
about 11 feet tall at present, but started at about 1-2 feet), shrubs
and flowers. If you live in Pennsylvania, enjoy the greenery, because
there's not much in Eastern Colorado. I've learned how much I had taken
that for granted.
Per Karen, April 2001, she says she really hates her senior
picture: "I hate that picture! I look like a total
goody-goody two shoes. I guess over the years I've rebelled, and
have changed my looks. I currently have a shaved head with both a
tongue and eyebrow earrings. I enjoy gothic music, and spend
most of my time meditating. .....................just kidding!" |
| Senior Memories
(Copied directly from the Senior Yearbook): |
| DC, KC, SF, KF, WC ... THANKS 4 BEING
THERE! ... Summer '82 ... Awesome 4-some ... Me/Joe and Moe ... Prom '85
... Diane's pink shirt ... 1/5/85 ... Cruisin' in VW/Omni ... Blowout!
... Giggin' at the Silo ... 1/9/81 ... Roxanne!! |
| Chris Mal Notes: |
Karen has Monopoly checks.
I vote for Karen as the person who sounds like she's living the coolest
life since graduation.
I also would like to thank Karen for being one of
the few people to write something interesting on her 10-year reunion
form. I was getting just a wee bit tired of "List some of
the exciting things you've done since graduation:" and getting the
typical response: "Got married, had kid." Although I'm sure
that was in fact very exciting, it is painfully obvious that Mrs. Strickler failed in her duties to turn some of you people into creative
writers. :o)
According to Karen's
Classmates.com
profile, certain types of music remind her of high school, like U2.
Karen now enjoys alternative music. She was introduced to grunge
by her husband in the early '90's, and actually saw Nirvana live
"before ol' Kurt blew himself away."
Karen says she is considering a belly-button ring. I vote for
"do it." Belly button rings are cool.
Karen went to Kindergarten with Marta Weitz and Todd Weikel.
On Page 139 of the senior yearbook is an action shot of Karen's shoulder.
I only know that because Karen wrote that on page 139 of my yearbook "How
do you like that Chris? It's an action shot of my shoulder!!! -
Karen."
Karen was named "Most Improved" on the
1985
Girls Softball Team.
In 2006 Karen, Dave and Nicole will be
traveling to Mexico with Dave's entire family for Dave's parents' 50th
wedding anniversary. They will be staying at Playa Del Carmen,near
Cozmel. |
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From the
February 1986
Penn Post
SENIOR
OF THE ISSUE
The female senior of the issue is Karen Denby.
Karen belongs to many clubs and participates in extra curricular
activities. She is presently in Y-teens, Girls Leader Corps, National
Honor Society, and Penn Alma, She is also the co-captain of the
cheerleading team. Along with these activities, Karen also plays field
hockey, softball and volleyball.
Karen�s favorite subject is Anatomy and Physiology. In
her spare time� Karen enjoys being with friends and listening to Sting.
Karen is planning to go to college after graduation,
and pursue a career in nursing.
-- Dan Hafetz |
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From the
June 1986
Penn Post
TOP
RANKING SENIORS
KAREN DENBY is a memoer of Y-teens,
Girls� Leader Corps, NHS and Penn Alma. Karen has played field hockey
since 9th grade. This year, Karen was co-captain of the cheerleading
squad, to which she has belonged since 9th grade. Karen plans to attend
Bloomsburg University where she will major in nursing. |
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1983 Mt. Penn
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1984 Varsity
Softball Team |
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1985 Varsity
Softball Team |
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1984 Varsity
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1985 Varsity
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1986 Varsity
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1984 JV
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1985
Cheerleaders |
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1986
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Everybody Shimmy!
1986 |
Cheerleading
Hottie
1986 |
Groin Pull
1986 |
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I'm going to go out on a limb and
guess this was taken during a loss.
1985 |
Karen,
tall socks
and a mouth piece
1986 |
Yearbook Staff
Editors
1986
Sports-Darren
Sports-Diane
Seniors-Lisa P.
Faculty-Cathy K.
Faculty-Thahn
Activities-Marta
Underclassmen-Karen |
Karen and
Mrs. Thomas,
Field Hockey
1985 |
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From 2nd Grade!!!
From left to right: Karen Denby, Lori Alison,
Wendy Crow, Mindy Snyder, Sally Ford,
Julie Kissinger (in back) and Renee Moyer. |
Number people who wish
they
were Karen living in Colorado
in a big home with horses and cats:
  
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