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As some of you may remember I graduated a year early (’77) and started at UMR in Electrical Engineering. In hindsight I would have done it differently and stayed at Berkeley for my senior year. (But that’s another story.) I graduated in Dec. 1981 and in Jan. 1982 drove with my mom out to San Diego, CA in my ’72 Volkswagen Bug with everything I owned in the back seat.
I worked for three different companies in San Diego over the next 10 years, dated and married my wife Robin (a native San Diegan), and made many wonderful friends. Robin had just finished her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and had to attend additional classes in order to get a California teaching credential. She attended San Diego State and ended up getting her Master’s in Educational Administration.
In 1991 I found out the office in which I was working was going to be closed. Several close friends of mine had taken a job with a company in Boulder, CO, so I was able to get a job at the same company. In Feb. 1992 I drove my station wagon to Boulder, CO while Robin stayed behind to finish teaching till Spring Break and to sell the house. What a ‘sweetie’!
After six weeks in Boulder and while Robin was still in San Diego the parent company of the company I had joined asked if I wanted to move to Huntsville, Alabama. You can imagine Robin’s surprise when I told her. But we both flew to Huntsville for the interview trip and by the end of April we had moved to Huntsville, AL. Colorado was nice and the mountains were pretty, but from Boulder looking due east it was as flat as a pancake (like Kansas but a mile higher), had very few trees, and the real estate was expensive.
So for the last 15 years we have lived in the town of Hartselle (pop. 12,000), which is thirty miles southwest of Huntsville in an area I call the “deep South”. We’ve learned all kinds of new words and phrases: reckon’, fixin’, yonder, and “all ya’ll” which is the plural of ya’ll. And people down here don’t press buttons; they mash ‘em. You don’t have your picture taken; you have it made. We didn’t have windows in our first house; we had winders.(IF YOU ARE READING THIS ON THE HOMEPAGE, CLICK ONTO TOM'S NAME FOR THE REST OF THE STORY.)And a very common grammatical phrase is “might could”. Instead of “we might be able to go cow tippin’ tonight” one would say “we might could go cow tippin’ tonight.” And of course the accent took us awhile to get used to as well. But after 15 years we don’t have any desire to move. We love it here.
We have two daughters known as “grits” (Girls Raised In The South). har-har. Katie is 13 years old and is in the 7th grade. She has taken gymnastics for several years and just recently took up tennis and has made the Hartselle Junior High Tennis team. Woo-Hoo! (Steve Cox, I don’t think I ever said thank you for putting up with your inferior partner for all those doubles games. I did enjoy it. Thanks. )
Allie is 10 and in 4th grade. Her love is horses and she takes riding lessons once a week. She keeps asking if we will buy her a horse.
After three years of teaching 5th grade and 11 years as Assistant Principal at one of the local elementary schools, Robin became the Principal this past summer. She loves it.
Even though I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering I have been in computer programming since my first job out of college. It’s hard to believe that I have been working for 25 years. Gosh we’re getting old! Now I’m an engineering manager at Mentor Graphics Corporation, but they still let me do some programming as long as I don’t get in the way.
I just wanted to say I have enjoyed reading all the bio’s that have been posted so far and look forward to seeing more postings. I enjoyed seeing many of you at the 20 year reunion (1998) and hopefully will be able to attend the 30 year.
My Favorite High School Memories are being on the Tennis Team with Coach Poelker and Physics Class with Mrs Davis.
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