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Richard Evans

Here’s my quick summary after 1958:

I graduated from Columbia with an AB in pre-engineering (Math & Physics). I felt unfit to begin working so enrolled at CU (Boulder) and got an Electrial Engineering degree in 2 years. Met my wife Mary in Summer of 1964 while working for Public Service Co of Colo in Boulder. Was engaged in Dec of 1964 and married in Apr 1965 right after finishing Officer Training School before 28 years in the USAF. Most of my USAF career was in Missile development. My initial assignments was in SAC as a Launch Control Officer in Montana, also while there I was an AFIT student and earned a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering; then I was transferred to Systems Command and became a MMIII Guidance system Project engineer in So Calif; this led to becoming a project manager leading development of Peacekeeper ICBM guidance system at MIT in Mass; then I was a PhD Student for 2 years at Univ of Texas at Austin where I received a PhD in Aerospace Engineering; then I was selected Dep Director of the Seiler Researh Lab at USAF Academy; I was selected Site Activation Commander responsible for building a new GLCM base in Comiso Sicily; I returned to the Pentagon as Director of Deployment for GLCM in Navy's Joint Cruise Missile Project Office; then I moved back to So Cal as Deputy Director of Advanced Strategic Missile Systems; and finally retired as the last Director of the Minuteman Program Office. After Retirement from the USAF I worked for The Analytic Science Corp (TASC) as a systems engineer in Northern VA just outside Wash DC supporting the Intelligence Community for 10 years. I moved to Denver when my wife, Mary, was transferred to the intelligence gathering complex at Buckley AFB. I continued to work with TASC who had been purchased by Northrop Corp while still supporting the same customer. I continued supporting the same customer while changing employers twice for an other 7 years until I retired in 2012.

Mary, my wife of 50 years, was born in Hungary and escaped with her parents after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Both her parent lived into their 90s. They were sponsored to the US by her uncle who had left Hungary several years earlier and settled in Denver. Mary and I have 2 children, Richard and Christine, one living south of us in Thorton and the other north of us in Berthoud. We are blessed with 5 Grandkids ranging in age from 3 to 16. Both of my parents. Larry & Geri are still alive at 94 and 91.

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