After high school graduation, I attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Then after 2 years, I was looking for more adventure, so I joined the Army Reserve where I served in the artillery and then Army Security, and after 6 years, came out as a 1^st Sergeant. During this time I was also working in Real Estate and Insurance. In 1964, I married Claire A. Jensen of Stevens Point and we had 2 children, Erik, now 41 and Kerry, now 38. I started my own insurance agency and for those who live in the area it is known as HNI Insurance in New Berlin, WI.�

Always looking for new adventures, I sold the business in 1978 and moved to Florida. I was an avid sailor and thought that the Wisconsin summers just didn’t offer enough sailing time. In 1982, I was divorced and subsequently married Kathy Coogan, my current wife of 25 years. In Fort Lauderdale, I also ran my own businesses, including an international yacht brokerage firm, which gave me the opportunity to combine my love of sailing with my work. Kathy and I bought a 47 foot sailboat and lived aboard for 10 years while we worked and hoped to someday do some long distance cruising. I did do an ocean crossing in 1991 when I took off with friends on their 46 foot schooner and sailed to the Azores. We had a wonderful trip except for the tropical storm that came up before the weather agency could even warn us about it. I spent some wonderful time in Bermuda, the Azores, Portugal, Spain, France and England.

In 1996, Kathy and I decided to cut our land ties for a year to sail to Maine, where we had honeymooned. After sailing up the coast from Fort Lauderdale and spending time cruising the Maine coast, we decided that the hustle, bustle and crime of South Florida was no longer where we wanted to be. So we took the boat back to Fort Lauderdale where we made a 5-year plan to move to Maine. Luckily it only took us 3 years and we now live in a beautiful 17-acre spot at the head of Penobscot Bay where we watch eagles, deer, seals, fox and much more.

Kerry lives in Milwaukee with her husband, Matt Peller and our 2 granddaughters, Noa, 5 and Finley, 3, and Erik lives in Orlando, Florida.

Kathy is Vice President for a company called, Training & Development Corporation and I am involved in real estate broker – definitely not yet retired.

I am a widow for the past six years.  I have three girls plus a stepson and a stepdaughter plus six grandchildren.  On loans to travel, I had gone on six cruises, and I am going to Germany and Italy for two weeks in April and May of this year.

I belong to two Red Hat groups and enjoy all the things we do with them. I am looking forward to the reunion.

Fifty years of life certanily not without strife 
Two kids by twenty 
career in modeling to make money but acting was my passion not modeling the latest fashion
Eight musical comdies throught the years
Yoga, Tennis, Skiing, Figure skating were the cures 
A divorce by my 38th 
but soon after, found a new mate
I was now the stepmother of four
not an easy chore 
A new career as sales manager filled my days 
But working for others was not my way 
Starting your own buisness can be a fret
But twenty years and retired with no regret 
I golf, play tennis, and volunteer as a model for fun
In the winter, I travel to find the sun
When I look back at all I have done
I can only wonder what marvelous things to come
As a cancer survior you learn to enbrace each sunrise

Ed Howe

Ed Howe initiated the Aurora Health Care system in 1984, when, as President of St. Luke's Medical Center in Milwaukee, he accomplished the first major affiliation between competing hospitals in southeastern Wisconsin. He founded Aurora based on a single idea: there is a better way to deliver health care. Largely through a series of affiliations, mergers and acquisitions, Aurora has become Wisconsin’s leading health care system and largest private employer, and has become a nationally recognized leader in efforts to improve the quality of health care. Aurora has sites in more than 90 communities throughout eastern Wisconsin, including 13 hospitals, more than 100 clinics and over 130 community pharmacies. More than 3,400 physicians are affiliated with Aurora Health Care, including more than 700 who make up Aurora Medical Group.

Ed Howe retired as CEO of Aurora in early 2007, after 33 years of service.  During his tenure at Aurora he served on a number of boards and committees, including the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Competitive Wisconsin, and Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a healthcare supply chain solutions company.   He was also actively involved on the boards of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin, United Way of Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin Manufacturers, the Wisconsin Hospital Association (past Chair), and Premier, a national health care alliance of more than 240 health care systems. He was ranked number 23 in Modern Healthcare’s 100 most influential people in healthcare.

Ed received his MBA from the University of Chicago and earned a BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.   Prior to coming to Milwaukee, Ed served in various administrative capacities at The Ohio State University Hospitals in Columbus, Ohio and served as its Director from 1972-1974.