Kris (Teena Sprinkle) Rine ~ Kris dropped the Teena about 40 years ago, but family and old friends still call her Teena.
Email Kris.   Phone: 509-554-2737

Spouse: Dale Rine, husband of 17 plus years
Children: 3, Nanette, Suzanne, and Michael, and 9 grandkids
Home: April thru October in Basin City, WA and Nov. thru March in Casa Grande AZ

After MIHS I went to BYU and majored in Drama, only went 2 years at BYU.   Then I got married, had one baby girl, Nanette, and started working for United Airlines for several years.  Quit United and moved to Edmonds and had another baby girl, Suzanne.  Then we moved to Richland, WA.  for only 2 years,and we had our son Michael.   Then we bought a alfalfa hay farm near Basin City where my children went to the North Franklin Schools and Connell WA High School.  As a farm wife I started driving school bus for N. Franklin School Dist.  Routes were long way out in farmland, but I had weekends and holidays and summers off; so it was a good part time job that lasted 26 years.  I retired in Sept. 2004; but I still substitute all the time when I am at our Basin City home.  But now the best part of my life is now visiting grandkids, which I have 9; and living our winters in AZ.  I am back to my first love and college major, acting.  I am in a comedy play every year for the last 5 years and I LOVE IT.  I have been the Treasurer of the Fiesta Grande Drama Club for 4 years, and I just got a major part in our new comedy, to be performed in March;  Hey, all that memorizing it taxing at my age, but well worth it.  I do have pictures on my  Facebook page. 

Fond memories are of our ski bus trips to Stevens Pass.  Skiing with Nancy McFarland and other gals.  Best time was when the ski bus left us about 10 plus miles from the top.  When the bus stopped to put on chains, 6 of us got off the bus and went into the woods shaking snowdown off the trees onto each other.  I can remember someone saying, "We better get back to the bus, they might leave us."  We all laughed, until we came out of the woods and the bus was gone, leaving us stranded.  BUT, we were resourceful girls and hitched a ride with a single gentleman who was nice enough to give 6 giggling, teenage girls a ride in his jeep wagoneer; good thing seatbelts weren't required back then.  His Jeep overheated halfway to the top;  but we made it to the top evenually; just as a rescue vehicle was going down.  Needless to say the 6 of us had to clean the bus when it got back to MI; and no one was ever allowed off the bus again during chain up.  Lots of other good times, too.  My favorite summer activity was staying at my Grandma's on Lake Samammish.  We had our speed boat there and I water skiied my summers away; and I got pretty good, too.   I use to love to ski on one ski and go by the dock and spray everyone.    Best of Wishes to all my Classmates of 1962.

 

updated 1/3/12