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Edward Von Bergen

After Big Foot, I went to Carthage College in Kenosha and majored in geography. During the next six or seven years I worked for the Regional Transportation Authority and a trucking company. I was transferred to New York, but hated my new boss, so in a fit of youthful pique I quit and became a New York City cab driver. That was a really great experience, but one I was happy to have for only a year and a half rather than as a career.

My girlfriend, Julie, became my wife while we were in Manhattan. Since she worked in the travel business, we would frequently get low cost travel opportunities. Mostly we went to France where we learned the language and made a handful of friends. We returned to Chicago from New York in the early 1980s, where we bought a business and started a family.

I owned a printing and mailing business for about ten years. Then, for the next five years, a printing and mailing business owned me. It was an unusual emotion to find myself jealous of my employees who quit. That was something I just couldn’t do. Eventually, I sold it….not very successfully.

During the 1990s Julie & I raised one boy & one girl. We lived for a time at Lake Geneva Aire Estates, that airstrip community west of Lake Geneva. I had been deathly afraid of flying so I became a pilot to face down that fear. I would frequently fly down to Meigs Field in Chicago, which is just a magnificent trip down Chicago’s lakefront. I’ve landed Cessna Skyhawk perhaps a hundred times at Chicago’s Midway airport. Midway is a complete beehive of activity where they still mix up inexperienced private pilots with commercial traffic…..one reason why I really, really prefer to fly out of O’Hare when we travel. During this time I also completely failed at racing sailboats out of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club. I did that for at least twenty years against some of the best sailors in the nation. I remember once getting lapped, which is an incredibly laughable performance. Although my rankings were poor, I enjoyed the sport because it was good exercise, beautiful, very exciting and it gets you outdoors in (usually) beautiful weather.

Today Julie & I are looking forward to our 30th wedding anniversary. We’re the proud parents of two Millennials who are our good friends and are eager to see us when the opportunity arises. No grandkids are in our foreseeable future. We have a small condo in Chicago’s Loop and a house in Lake Geneva. I work as a salesman for a prototype making company in Lake Zurich that helps large billion dollar companies develop new products. I’m an avid trap & skeet shooter and have shot (and cooked) at least several hundred pheasants. I’ve started to become a little more physically fit through a recently renewed interest in running, swimming and biking.

Looking forward to seeing you all & catching up with old friends.

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