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Tracy Mulligan

I arrived from overseas at BCC in November of the junior year. That first day I was seated behind Roy Smith in Mrs. Tubbs algebra class, a location with far reaching implications. In home room I was alphabetically seated by Hanneke Muys and recall her smile and manner that warmed the room every morning. A few days later, Mr. Appleton announcing that President Kennedy had been shot and Ruth Sexton quietly crying. In senior year, Rick Smead and I labored through Mrs. Day’s English class. I little realized the foundation she bludgeoned into me enabled me to ace English at the University of Maryland, keeping me eligible to continue on the school’s wrestling team, a sport I first began at BCC

At a party at Roy Smith’s house, I met Margaret in 1966. After a couple of years, I dropped being on the wrestling team- to concentrate on my studies as I explained to the Coach- and, full truth be told, to concentrate on Margaret. We married while I was still in school. Subsequently we had three children. The oldest has Downs Syndrome and lives with us; the middle (our favorite and only daughter) has three children of her own, while the youngest will be married next year.

After completing different engineering degrees at Maryland, Rick and I both started at Washington Gas Light in the same office dealing with underground piping. We both went to GW, mostly on the company’s dime. Rick got a law degree and left to help ensure the country had gas and oil. I got an MBA in organization development and stayed to help ensure that the natural gas piping system in the DC area worked safely. Over the next 35 years, I had about 15 different jobs including managing the company’s construction program and emergency response operations as well as a stint on the corporate strategic planning staff. No matter the level of job, I was also a first responder on gas leaks, fires and gas explosions for over 25 years, something that takes an emotional toll.

After retiring in 2004, I built two seven bedroom houses on land we owned one lot back from the ocean in Bethany Beach Delaware; ran for election and served on Town Council; studied stock trading; continued to take numerous classes in acting and movement at local acting conservatories; attended Shakespeare plays and occasionally performed on stage. Margaret and I took trips to Italy, Spain, England,Ireland, and New Zealand. France and others are still on the list. I also continued doing sprint triathlons that I began in 1990 and have been blessed to do some with my son, his friends, a niece and our future daughter in law.

Before and after retiring, I’ve been incredibility blessed with our extended family. The senior was my Grandfather who passed on at age 104- the oldest living graduate in the history of West Point. Margaret and I, and later our children, traveled with him up and down the East Coast visiting family and his West Point classmates who included Eisenhower and Bradley. These days, I see my father, age 98, several times per week, taking him to the gym, or the stockbrokers or lectures. At the other end of the age spectrum are 9, 7, and 4 year old grandchildren whom we see at least once a week and for summer weeks at the beach. In between are nieces, siblings, cousins- typically we see some one or more of them weekly – a rotating cast of characters in different stages of education, transitions, and partners. Our transition continues, building on what BCC provided- the means by which I was introduced to my wife, (who still surprises me), an appreciation of sports and fitness, and a solid academic base. Thank you BCC.

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