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Mike Joffe

Immediately after graduating high school, I moved with my family to Southern California. I returned to Arkansas each fall to attend the University, to California each summer to work. I met my first wife in Fayetteville and our daughter Tacy was born a year before my graduation. After I graduated from the U. of A. in 1966 with a degree in Marketing, we moved to Shreveport where I worked in retailing for a year. In 1969 our son, Pat, was born.
While at the University of Arkansas I had become interested in what at that time was called “data processing.” In 1968 we moved to Tulsa where I got a job with Amoco Petroleum processing seismic data. I continued working as a computer analyst with Amoco and other oil and gas companies. I also worked as the IT manager for manufacturing companies until retiring in 2003.
I was divorced in 1981 and in 1987 married my kids’ high school English teacher. Funny that with all of the trouble that I gave my English teachers, I finally married one. I have learned more about the language, literature and other arts from Connie since our marriage than in all the years before our marriage. Connie has a son, Brent, from her first marriage so that makes us parents of three children. Our daughter, Tacy, a Physics Professor at the University of Arkansas, has two daughters, Lela and Abi, and a husband who is teaching the next generation of journalists at U. of A. Our son, Pat, is a Quality Control Manager in Tulsa with a son, Alex, and our son, Brent, works in construction in the Lake of the Ozarks area.
We built a retirement home in Fairplay, Colorado, in the infamous Southpark area, in the early 90’s. In late 2004 I was given the ultimatum: “I will not spend another August in Oklahoma.” In the spring of 2005 we put the Tulsa house on the market; it sold in one week, and by June we were living fulltime in Southpark, Colorado, at 10,000 feet elevation. We live 20 miles south of Breckenridge so we ski in the winter, hike our many local mountain trails in the summer, and spend time at our local recreation center so that we are able to ski and hike.
We enjoy watching the wildlife pass by the house throughout the year. The animals include elk, moose, deer, fox, coyotes, ermine, snowshoe hares, an occasional bear, lots of small grey squirrels, three kinds of chipmunks, and many varieties of birds that come for seed and water. It’s a fine life with interesting travels and friends. We find that we prefer snow to the heat of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone.

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