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Timothy O'Sullivan Perfect

50 YEARS IN 50 WORDS
(or less)
After high school, college,
After college, marriage,
After marriage, children,
After children, work,
After work, grandchildren,
After grandchildren, travel,
After travel, great grands,
After great grands, more travel,
After more travel, exhaustion,
After exhaustion (having fun is hard work)
(this is the extent of my actual experience), death,
After death, Judgment,
After Judgment, eternity
(smoking or non-smoking?)
After eternity, well, eternity.
(Romans 3:4)
Ta Da

(Okay, okay - I'll conform, but just a wee bit.)

I finally found him - "Mr. Perfect"! I had to kiss a lot of 'toads' first, but my quest was at last successful. I consider it the ultimate irony and supreme confirmation that God has a sense of humor, in that I - of all people - would wind up with the last name "Perfect". Mr. Perfect and I married on 1/1/88! I have three lovely, talented, educated daughters who serve the Lord in full or part time foreign missions and/or in local war zones, often referred to as 'high schools'. (3John 4) Between the two of us, Mr. Perfect & I have have at least three granddaughters, five grandsons, and three 'greats', all of whom are 'GT', of course.

I was employed as a systems analyst in the banking industry for several years, then ten years as a staff cost engineer for Bechtel Power Corporation during the 1970's, and retired from Gulf Coast Authority at the ripe old age of 50 years after 10 years of environmental testing/analysis oversight and compliance responsibilities. I have learned one thing during my retirement: I never get a day off!

Mr. Perfect and I love God & His only Son, Jesus Christ, our family, our church, our country, our friends (that includes you), laughing, and traveling - mostly in that order.

I'd like to thank the Academy - wait, no. Let me start that again. I'd like to thank Mr. Stutzman for teaching me chemistry and humility; Mr. Bridges for giving me an insatiable appetite for world history; the two teachers who taught me typing and shorthand - I never had the opportunity to be a secretary, but those two skills have served me immeasurably; Mr. Stuchbery for teaching me my right foot from my left, left, left, right, left; and lastly, but not 'leastly', Miss Agnes McKinley for teaching me how to read and write and speak properly - oh yeah - and how to be brief!

P.S. (You knew this was coming, right.) I've been considering our class motto, i.e., "Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear" and have (at least) two comments, as follows: first, what were we thinking? and second, the future wasn't all that shadowy was it? So - I count my blessings and go forth to meet the future - or at least what's left of it - with Sonshine in my soul :-)

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