The Heilmann Fam: Carl, Edith, David and John

The four Heilmanns all have a UC connection.

Carl Heilmann

Carl Henry Heilmann graduated from the Business Administration College in 1958 with a BBA degree. For 10 years he was in the retail baking business with his father (he can still make a great looking birthday or wedding cake). He came back to UC in 1969, this time as an employee. He met Edith in Procter Hall (she was the librarian and he was a programmer) and they married in April, 1970. Their wedding reception was at the Faculty Club. He has worked at the university for more than 30 years. He worked part-time at UC for the last 6-7 years and fully retired in early 2006.
Email Address: cheilmann@fuse.net

Note: each year we send a Christmas card-picture and letter. Here's the year we were the "American Gothic" fam.

Edith Heilmann

Edith Duffy Heilmann (who was born in Brooklyn and traveled the world with her Mom and her Dad Col. James Duffy, US Army, ret., and her sister Mary) received her undergraduate degree in 1965 from Ohio State in education. She received her graduate degree in 1968 from UC in history and has continued to take courses at the College of Education. After David and John reached school age, Edith returned to work as an elementary school teacher at St. Williams School in Price Hill. She taught the fifth grade there for almost 20 years. She left St. Williams to become a computer teacher and currently works part-time at St. Al's on the Ohio.

Over the years, Edith has moved from electric typewriters to memory typewriters to the basic Apple PC and eventually to our Dell Pentium-4 PC. She never wants to stop learning and is busy taking classes and developing Web pages. She developed lots of information about Harry Potter with a team of her school kids, and also developed her own site to help students with their assignments -- type mrsheilmann.com in the address bar and you will be redirected to her site. She's very competitive, and I have a hard time getting on the computer when she's at home (and I'm sure that she believes that her Web site is much better than mine.) Note that our son Dave set us up with a wireless network a few Christmases ago, and Edith now surfs the Web from the laptop while sitting in the recliner in our family room (you've come a long way baby.) 
Email Address:  eheilmann@fuse.net

David Heilmann

David Joseph Heilmann graduated from the College of Business Administration in 1995 with majors in Information Systems and Finance. He's a west side kid who graduated from Elder High School. Many people from the West don't even like to cross the Western Hills Viaduct but Dave did more than that. After a summer internship in 1994, he was offered a job with GE Capital in their management-training (IMLP) program. This involved five different work assignments over a two and a half year period at different locations including: the GE Capital Corporate Tax Office and later the Corporate Technology Office, both in Stamford Connecticut, the Harvest Insurance Company in Orlando Florida and a GE-owned reinsurance firm in Munich, Germany. Upon completion of the program, he took a permanent job in Richmond Virginia at another GE-owned insurance company to support their marketing efforts.

In the meantime, his friends from school started the local Up4Sale Internet auction company, which was subsequently acquired by eBay. Dave came back to Cincinnati in 1998 and  joined this group of friends to work for eBay. He now works for SparkPeople, a fairly new Web-based business started by Chris Downie, one of the original Up4Sale founders. Dave bought a house on Kreis Ln. in Price Hill and married Angela Newberry in July 2000. Angie also graduated from UC and taught junior high at the Fairfield school district, and we are very happy to include her in the fam. Angie recently finished her course work for a graduate degree and Dave recently earned his MBA for Xavier (we try to not hold that against him.) Angie now stays at home and takes care of their little boy Luke Henry. And they have now moved to the East-side of Cincinnati with a nice fenced yard that both Luke and Sebastian (the little schnauzer) enjoy. A new baby girl is scheduled to show up around May 2006.
Email address:  dave@sparkpeople.com  

John Heilmann

John Joseph Heilmann  finished his graduate work in the Communication Disorders Program in the College of Allied Health Sciences in 2000. He's also a west-sider who graduated from Elder. John lived at the Sigma Nu fraternity house on Clifton Ave. as an undergraduate student and moved to his brother’s house a short time after graduation. John gave (sang) the graduation speech for his college, the first year of its existence. John was "evicted" from Dave's house when Dave and Angie got married (John was the best man). He then lived  in Clifton, not far from work.

After earning his graduate degree, he landed his first “real “ job at Children’s Hospital-Cincinnati as a speech therapist. This was John’s first choice and he really liked working with the kids. He always had his eye on a PHD and left Cincinnati to take the plunge. He finished his course work at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and passed his "comps" last fall. He is now wrapping up his dissertation and is interviewing for a faculty job.  But it surely didn't seem like all work and no play. When he calls home there's not a lot of talk about school. Instead, it's about his kayaking, camping, fishing (trout, bass, ice, walleye, and more), the golf league, community garden, making homebrew and on and on.

The fam has traveled to Wisconsin the last two summers to vacation with John at a cabin on Lake Redstone. It's a great place to fish and enjoy the outdoors. However, there was no fishing trip in 2005. Instead, we attended John's wedding when he married Beth Simon who he met in Wisconsin (his brother Dave was the best man.) Beth is also a therapist and works at the University's speech lab. We had two boys for a number of years. Now we also have two girls, Beth and Angie. We couldn't be happier to have them join the fam.
Email address: jjheilmann@wisc.edu

Luke Heilmann (the next generation)

On April 9, 2003, our first grandchild Luke Henry Heilmann entered our lives. He lives with his mom and dad on the east side of town (no, not the west side, the east side!) I'm just kidding about the east-west thing -- I love their location and the yard. With all the "computer-types" involved, this child must have his own Web site. You can see him growing up at: http://lukeheilmann.com/    (and maybe someday Luke will also have a UC Connection.)

Dave and Angie	Luke Henry	John and Beth

2-19-06