Katy Purviance, Class of 1994
As you'll note in the 1994 yearbook, my goals included becoming
a tribal leader in Guam. While this goal was not met, I have become
the president over a small nation of war-waging hunter/gatherers in
South Africa. Funny the way these things work out, n'est pas?
- Katy: Where is she? Nobody really knows the
answer to this question. Since graduation, I have been to 29
states and will travel to my 30th in two days. Also since
graduation, I have lived in three time zones and have traveled
through four (again, the fifth will be entered in two days). I'm
like a wandering minstrel this way, bringing joy to all I meet.
So, from SCV, to rural New Hampshire, to all the rest of New
England, through Middle America three times, to the Northwest,
to Idaho (hint: where I am right now), and any hour
now I'm off to Alaska.
- And who are those people who claim to be related
to her? I am the oldest of seventeen children. Can you
guess why I have made my home away from home?
- What Katy learned in school today: You all
know about the SHS portion of my education. After
graduation (oh boy, we were never caught, were we?), I put
in two years at a rural little psychodrama of a private college
in southern New Hampshire where the men are men and the cows
are scared. Oh yeah, and I majored in advertising, because I'm
tricky that way. Then I wised up and transferred back west, to
Idaho (pronounced "Eyeyyyy-dahhh-hoe"), and, to top it off, I
changed my major too. Now I'm triple majoring in microbiology
AND molecular biology AND biochemistry, plus, I'm octuple
minoring in art, botany, chemistry, Russian, English, zoology,
biology, and entomology. I figure this should only take me another
ten years, but that's okay because I seem to have developed this
phobia of The Real World (cue haunting laughter).
- So where does Katy get money?: I don't.
Well, I had this horrid little job last month. As 95% of
you can relate, I'll make a little analogy: remember the
trash juice smell at Magic Mountain? Imagine that, but
humid and unending. Yes, that is what my job was like,
only worse. I shall now exercise my right not to divulge
exactly what my job was. And, as I have stated about fifteen
times above, I'm about to leave for Alaska. Here I shall
work 16 hours a day in a cannery near Juneau where I
will make a fortune. My largest goal right now is to come
out of the whole experience minus amputations.
- What does Katy do? I seem to have acquired
this obsession for photography. In fact, I have taken more
pictures in the past three years than I had in the eighteen
years prior. I also keep a journal (almost to page 3000) where
I document everything everyone I hate does and says so that
I can help the FBI uncover these horrible people someday. I
also enjoy typing up biographical updates for my high school
while relaxing by the beach, or something.
- Anti-Luddite Activities: My favorite Web sites are:
Send Katy a
note. She prefers lengthy dissertations describing comical misadventures. Make sure to spell out
all sound effects phonetically.
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