Doug Pierce
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
303-886-7570

Biography

Life is good in Colorado where we have lived since 1969. We have 2 adult married children who live away from Colorado and 3 grandsons who give us great pleasure. My wife, Dee, is retired from teaching 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. After college, we lived in California for 5 years before landing permanently in Denver. After an initial career with NCR Corp. for 7years, I resigned rather than take a move to Detroit, and have enjoyed my independent practice of residential real estate brokerage since 1972. I have served as a Director, Officer and President of Metro Brokers Inc., a network of 2000 Colorado independent real estate brokers.

I have completed my lifetime goal to climb to the summit of all 54 of the 14,000'+ mountain peaks in Colorado, and I also enjoy hiking, snow shoeing/skiing, domestic/foreign travel, bicycling, reading, our 3 grandsons, and our Shizhu dog. I am a member of the Colorado Mountain Club and a Conservation Committee volunteer. I am still vigorous and energetic and enjoy my work and consequently have no plans for retiring.

I attended the 25th class reunion in Penfield in 1985. At that time I learned that there were at least 6 members of our class residing in the Denver area including Cathy Shull, Jack Bishop, Joe Hays, Nancy Kretchman, Doug Kenyon and Yours Truly.

I wish all class members long life and happiness.

Some updates in 2023:

The Pierces are still living in the Denver area and are healthy and active. Doug still provides consultation and assistance in residential real estate. We are disciplined to do a 2-3 mile daily walk with our recently adopted dog, which keeps us breathing at a mile high in winter weather. We enjoyed a Viking Danube River cruise in Oct 2022 from Budapest, HU to Regensburg GER and highly recommend Viking. We continued to Provence, FR after the cruise to celebrate our birthdays. We will go to Australia and New Zealand this year to complete a bucket list X.

Two of our 3 grandsons graduated last year from Bates College and the USNA at Annapolis and the third graduates high school this year. Connected with Jack Bishop and Joe Hays for lunch recently and reminisced. I send my condolences to the families of those members who have passed and I encourage all of you who read this to keep-on and be grateful for the good times.

Doug

Editor's Note: Doug put together mini-reunion on September 30, 2019 of the classmates living in Colorado. The group picture is below.

L to R: Doug Pierce, Nancy Kretchman Golden, Bill Riker, Joe Hayes, Beth Richards Soltero, Jack Bishop, Cathy Shull McCalmon.

Photo: Mt. Yale, one of Colorado's 14,000 feet plus beauties

Photo: View from Mt. Yale's summit

Photo: Bavarian Castle on the Rhine.