Ken Churchill

Took a lot of business classes at DVC then started my first when I was 23, a solar energy company called Daystar Energy Systems.

In 1986, my wife Susan and I started ACC Environmental Consultants and ended up selling it to our 30 employees and moved to a small ranch in Sonoma County in 2000.

In Sonoma, we planted a Pinot Noir vineyard and produced our own wine called Churchill Cellars. Never got very big, but that was the plan. It was just the 2 of us and we had a lot of fun and got to drink a lot of very good wine.

We traveled to Todos Santos Mexico, a desert oasis on the Pacific Ocean in Baja Sur in 2019 to visit a friend who lives there and ended loving it so much we bought a home, sold the Sonoma property and moved here as our primary residence.

We spend our summers at our other home, a stone farmhouse built during the George Washington administration (1796) in the mid Hudson River Valley. We travel between the properties in an RV with our two Gordon Setters Cody and Ruby so we can take care of our granddaughters during the summer.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the 50th reunion. I hope it is as good as the 40th turned out to be.

We were asked to bring a urine sample to our biology class and I told a friend, and this is embarrassing so I'm not going to use his real name, so let's just call him Jerry Amason.

I told Jerry a story I had heard about how someone had brought apple juice instead of a urine sample to their school and when the teacher told the student there was something wrong with the sample he said "I'll run it through again" and drank the sample in front of the entire class.

We'll, I guess Jerry thought this was a great idea so he brought his apple juice sample to his class and ran it through again by drinking it in front of the class. Everyone laughed hysterically, including Jerry who laughed so hard he threw up.