9/8/2005 Honorary Graduates of CASHS Class of 1986
Between our freshman and senior years, many classmates shared the CASHS experience with us. However, for a variety of reasons, some of these classmates were not there with us when we gradua
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9/6/2005 Welcome to the CASHS Class of 1986 Web Site!
The CASHS Class of 1986 web site offers an excellent opportunity for old friends to reconnect!
In the upper right half of the page, you will see: “First Visit Here? Click to Register” Cli
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After graduation, I started taking classes at Shippensburg U. during the summer of '86. I took as many classes as I could for about 2 years since it was tuition-free (my mother worked there and dependents didn't have to pay tuition). Then I transferred to Penn State to major in Agricultural Engineering. I wanted to design agricultural and/or construction machinery. Unfortunately, I graduated at a time when companies were laying off engineers rather than hiring (spring of '91).
After working at two less than wonderful jobs in C-burg while living with my parents, I decided to go back to school. I went back to Penn State in winter of '93 to work on a Masters degree in Agricultural Engineering. This time, I focused on wood and cold-formed steel structures, an area that I thought would enhance machinery design if I wanted to go that way but also something that would be another area to work.
This time, I actually left school early to take a job in cold-formed steel design that was offered to me. I ended up working on my thesis after work was over each day. It wasn't fun, but I had a job and my own place! Grad school was good for another reason as well, since that's where I met Maura. (I'm living proof that there really is someone for everyone. Maura's first words to me were: "Do you like Jethro Tull and Monty Python?")
After getting married and living in an apartment for awhile, we bought our first (and last) house, a brick Victorian built in 1904. We're slowly making improvements. One and a half years after living here, my initial-sake was born (Julian Dante). Needless to say, fatherhood has been very enlightening.
As for other fun things, I'm still a music nut who is always on the lookout for music with unusual instruments (anyone for Frippertronics, serpent, or single string steel cello?). A related hobby is audio restoration of music made under less than optimal conditions (I think you know what I mean).
PS You may recall that graduating seniors got to state what their post-graduation plans were in the school paper. Unfortunately, this stopped in '85. Even more frustrating was that I had planned what I would write. For the record here it is: "Design and build a stereo system capable of surpassing The Who's in-concert sound level record of 120 dB at 50 yards or join Greenpeace." (Ah, to be young again.)
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