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Richard Birch

One memory of high school was after I graduated, I worked for the King County Road division and I worked with Mr. Terry, our English teacher.

After a brief career at The Boeing Company, I worked for URS a large consulting engineering firm for 26 years as Vice President of Administration and Human Resources for the Northwestern Region, covering Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and parts of California. In 1989 I left URS and bought into a smaller engineering firm with offices located up and down the West Coast, Hawaii and Guam. As a partner in the firm I oversaw the financial, administrative and operational aspects of the company traveling between offices up and down the coast and to Hawaii and Guam. After company tripled in size we sold to a larger engineering firm in 1995. I worked for them until retirement in 2003.

I married a Mercer Island girl in 1960, and we lived in Bellevue until 1975 when we moved to Mercer Island were we raised our two children. Both of our children graduated from Washington State University where our daughter played volleyball. In 2004 we bought 2 acres south of Stanwood and built a new home, we are enjoying the quite rural country life, although it is growing very fast.

We spend a lot of time watching our four granddaughters play sports. The oldest one is presently at Illinois State on a softball scholarship, the second oldest one will be a senior at Monroe High school and plays volleyball, she has several Division I schools interested in her, so she should receive a scholarship. The two younger ones 12 & 7 are also into sports although the 12 year old is also into horseback riding and has competed in several horse shows.

With the rest of our spare time we travel in our RV with a group of friends, play golf and spend time gardening.

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