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Jim Allison

Let's see if I can remember this far back. ;)

I completed a BS in Biology from Tufts and then worked in Boston at St Elizabeth Hospital for a year as a dialysis technician. Then I went to Suffolk University for a summer and got certified to teach math and science. I taught for a year in Manchester, Ma and a year in Amesbury Ma. That was the hardest work I have ever done. Teachers don't get enough respect!

After deciding that teaching was not for me, I lived in Seabrook, NH and worked for several local newspapers as a photojournalist and selling advertising. Then I opened a small photography studio in Newburyport and ran that for about 5 years. After getting married in 1985, I though that a job with benefits and health insurance might be better for raising a family (and I was getting bored with the photography business) so I took a job at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary doing media and video production. There I got interested in computing while using Macintosh computers for graphic design and video production.

I found that I was quite interested in programming and database work, so I took a job in computer support at Clark University in Worcester, MA. At Clark I was able to take free classes in the evenings and I got an MBA with a concentration in Information Technology. I also taught desktop publishing in the continuing education division at Clark. That was a busy time. Now I work at Williams College in Williamstown, MA as a project manager in the administrative computing area. There's always something new to learn, so I am pretty content with my work which involves database analysis and programming and working with end users to implement various administrative data systems.

Now I am living in Bennington, VT and I enjoy a scenic commute over the boarder into Williamstown every morning. Williams College is a beautiful old institution with lots of traditions and enough endowment to make it's employees comfortable. My daughter Caitlin is studying Graphic Design at RIT in Rochester, NY and my son Chris is busy with SATs, sports, drama, and mail from selective colleges. He will be a senior next fall. My wife Sue has a true heart for service and she has been working in the food services programs for the local schools.

For the past ten years or so I have been doing a lot of running and playing tennis, and I sometimes think back to the lovely days at BHS, taking classes, doing sports and generally having a pretty good time. I am particularly grateful to Art Mcmannis who really gave me a life long love of running and tennis and to an English teacher named Mcaully who taught me how to write. I am sure that there were other important ones but those two stick in my mind as favorites. I feel a little guilty for having missed all of the reunions so far, but perhaps I will be able to get to the next one.

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