Kristina Speer Cooper

Even though I graduated from a different school my heart is with LVHS. Both my parents, my siblings, aunts , uncles and cousins and even my grandmother are all LVHS alumns.
I started Kindergarten with many of you and even attended some of your birthdays when we were babies. My parents grew up with some of your parents and remained close throughout their lives.
My best memories involve many of you. I am the luckiest girl in the world to have remained close friends with both Cec Goldfarb Lehrer And Kristine Vandermark Powell. Through the years we have shared our lives and talked to each other practically daily. So many of you were close friends at Crestwood and JC Fremont. Jill assures me I am still part of the class! I am not sharing any specific memories from our childhoods for fear my children and grandchildren are not really prepared to know just how much fun we all had in the "old Las Vegas"
My parents are no longer alive and can't "ground me" but Jill, some of our shenanigans will remain secrets! This class really knew how to have fun! Hense, the reason my parents shipped me off to a boring prep school. You all are simply the best and so special. Thank-you for allowing me to celebrate with you.

I attended UNR and graduated from UNLV.

I Did graduate school in Women's Studies at San Jose State and Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University. My profession is in mental health and after retiring from Santa Clara County Mental Health I still have my private psychotherapy practice in Palo Alto. i lived in Palo Alto for for 35 years.
My husband Allen is a physician retired after 38 years from Stanford Medicine where he did research and was Division Chief of Gastrroenterology and Hepatology. We now live in San Francisco. Our main activity is sailing. We spent sabbaticals in the past and 3 years ago spent a year living onboard our boat and sailing in Mexico. We plan to sail to the Gulf Islands in Canada this coming spring. Living in San Francisco is way more fun than Palo Alto and we take advantage of all the museums, opera etc. offered in the City.