Let's see I graduated with
you guys, went to work for the Dept. of Commerce, Maritime Admins. in
the (can't remember dept. lol) In charge of setting up conference rooms
and entering info dead ships. On one of my conference room setups, I
needed more extension cords for a conference starting in 10 mins. went
sprinting thru the halls ( when I could still run) and ran smack into
President Ford, talk about embarrassed and scared at the same time, can
laugh about it now but was scary being surrounded by secret service.
In 1975 I married my now ex-husband. In 1976 I left Commerce and had my first child in March of 1977. She is now 35 and has two daughters and lives in N.C.
In 1980 we moved to Bowie, Maryland. In 1981 I had my son Steve, who is now 30 and living in Burke, Va.
We traveled up and down the east coast on our vacations.
I went to work for the school system when Steve went to kindergarten. Started as PTA president, then worked in Kindergarten. Once the Preschool was added I worked with Special Needs. children for about 14 yrs.
In 1998 I lost my mom. In 1999 was divorced, after 24 yrs. of marriage. In 2001 I had a heart attack and moved to Canada with a friend to recoop, worse decission of my life.
In 2001 I spent 3 days trying to contact my children after 9/11. I moved back to the States to Richmond, Va. where I currently live. I work at Lowe's Home Improvement and love my job most days.
So that is my life, not very exciting but not sure I could handle to much excitement, after 2 heart attacks, complete knee replacement and breast cancer.
In 1975 I married my now ex-husband. In 1976 I left Commerce and had my first child in March of 1977. She is now 35 and has two daughters and lives in N.C.
In 1980 we moved to Bowie, Maryland. In 1981 I had my son Steve, who is now 30 and living in Burke, Va.
We traveled up and down the east coast on our vacations.
I went to work for the school system when Steve went to kindergarten. Started as PTA president, then worked in Kindergarten. Once the Preschool was added I worked with Special Needs. children for about 14 yrs.
In 1998 I lost my mom. In 1999 was divorced, after 24 yrs. of marriage. In 2001 I had a heart attack and moved to Canada with a friend to recoop, worse decission of my life.
In 2001 I spent 3 days trying to contact my children after 9/11. I moved back to the States to Richmond, Va. where I currently live. I work at Lowe's Home Improvement and love my job most days.
So that is my life, not very exciting but not sure I could handle to much excitement, after 2 heart attacks, complete knee replacement and breast cancer.
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Bio For Debbie Carlock Kinniman
Here's my bio: I do not have
any great “travel the world” stories; I have not made any significant
contributions towards mankind; I have not discovered riches beyond my
wildest imagination; and I certainly never wrote anything more important
than a letter. I married my husband, Hank, in September 1973—ten
months after we met. We celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary in
September. Our first daughter, Katie, was born in 1977 and our second
daughter, Marcy, was born in 1980. I started working for the Federal
Government two weeks after we graduated from Suitland High School. I
worked for the Department of Defense for about five years and then
resigned after Katie was born. Three years after Marcy was born, I went
to work at the Census Bureau. I was lucky to get into the upward
mobility program. This program ultimately changed my life—it allowed me
to attend The American University during work hours, while getting a
full-time salary. I retired as the Chief of the Special Surveys Branch
in July 2011, after 35 years of Federal Service. Hank and I moved to
Calvert County in 2005; both of our daughters and their husbands reside
there, too. Katie lives six miles east of us and Marcy lives six miles
south of us. We have three grandchildren—Gabriel is nearly four years
old, Gianna is two years old, and Charlie was born last year. We are
lucky because we get to see them often. Hank and I both enjoy
retirement very much. We stay busy with our family, activities, and
hobbies. We like to travel and have taken some really wonderful
vacations and look forward to taking many more. We are an ordinary
couple, living ordinary lives, but we have been extraordinarily blessed.
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Bio
for Debra Caudell Gambrell.
When I graduated from high school, I really
didn't know what I wanted to do "career" wise. The one thing that I
knew was that I wanted to get married and have a family someday. Shortly
after high school I went to PGCC for a
short while and worked at J.C Penney part time. Then a wonderful,crazy
guy named Norm Gambrell walked into my life and has been with me every
since. I would have never guessed back in high school that we ever get
together. Well, December 14, 1972 Norm and I were married and are still
together today. Norm enlisted in the Navy in March of 1974. I became a
"Navy Wife". Being a Navy wife had its challenges. Deployments were
really hard... but homecomings were awesome.We moved alot and I met alot
of wonderful people over the years in our travels. In the Military
community, we were like a big family.I was a stay at home Mom. I took
care of children whose parents were in the Military. This helped other
families and helped provide some extra income for my family. Norm was
stationed at different bases on the east coast and Great Lakes.He made a
number of deployments overseas.During Norm's Military service, God
blessed us with 4 beautiful daughters. Norm was only able to be home for
the birth of our last daughter Emily. Thank goodness He was on Shore
Duty in Mayport Florida. December of 1990, Norm was discharged from the
Navy. That was a hard time for all of us.. We packed up and moved to
Florida. I opened up a Licensed Family Daycare Home. My daughters grew
up and all 4 of them graduated from High School. My daughter Tina later
went on to college and received her A.S.Degree in Surgical Technology.
My other three daughters Becky, Amy and Emily got married and had
children. Norm and I have 10 wonderful grandchildren and 1
great-granddaughter.Our oldest grandson Alex graduates June 8 2012.
Pretty cool that its 40 years after his grandparents!!!I am so proud of
all of them!!! Norm and I have recently moved to Maine. Another new
adventure,I am going to enjoy the journey
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This bio is going to include both me and Tony! (Lois Gillispie Collins and Tony Collins)
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I attended PGCC after graduating from SSH. I worked on campus while I was at PGC . During a bowling class in spring of 1973, I got reacquainted with Jim Muir, a friend of a long-time friend of mine. We dated for over a year and I was pregnant with our daughter Nancy by the time we graduated in May 1974. We parted ways by graduation, but that was not the end of our story. I worked in the Financial Aid Office at PGCC for 2 years after gradution. I was stll attending First Baptist Church in Suitland and met my now ex-husband (Chuck) there. We were married in December 1975. He was discharged from the Army in May 1976 and we moved to his hometown, Osage City, KS. Talk about culture shock! This was small town USA! I went back to college that fall at Emporia State University in Emporia,KS and Chuck went back to work with the Santa Fe Railroad. We moved to Emporia and bought our first house in May 1977. I graduated with a BS in Elementary Education but never taught school. We became foster parents August 1980 and had 54 children through our home over the next 10 years. The longest one was our oldest son, Randy, now 42. Randy came to us as a failure to thrive baby when he was 16 months old. Randy has several mental illnesses that have required hospitalizations, counseling and medications. Life continues to be a struggle for him. He has 2 children with his ex-wife, Jaxon 15 and Zoie 13. He also has 2 children with his former girlfriend, Aiden 7 and Charles 5. We moved to an even smaller town, Perry, KS, population 700 including the area farmers in January 1984. We bought an old house and reworked it from top to bottom. We applied to adopt another child as soon as Randy's adoption was finalized. Our youngest son Bobby,now 38, came to us at 7 weeks old. Bobby joined the Army Reserve during his junior year in high school. He did basic training that summer and trained as a field medic after high school graduation. He now owns his own business that keeps him pretty busy. He has taken several trips to the Phillipines and recently to Thailand. He has already booked another trip to Thailand in February 2023 with a couple of friends going with him this time. We continued to do foster care and moved to our 'big house in the little woods' outside Perry in 1989. Chuck took a buyout from the railroad and started driving a truck for JB Hunt a couple months later. We were divorced in 2005. He drove for them until he was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. He died later that fall. I lived in the same apartment in Topeka, KS for 8 years after my divorce. I started working for Blue Cross Blue Shield of KS in 2002 and retired on disability in 2015. I moved to Lawrence, KS, in 2017 and have been in the same apartment for 5 years. Back to our daughter, Nancy. She is the mother of our 25 year old granddaughter, Kelda. Nancy had been looking for her father off and on since Kelda was born. In March 2007, Nancy was on her lunch break at work and typed Jim's name in on her computer and all of his information came up. All of us met that summer for Kelda's 10th birthday. Jim and I have been discussing marriage since then. Having both been married and divorced, we want to get it right this time. Nothing has been decided yet. Check back for updates. Jim will be accompanying me to the reunion and also the Friday night event. I look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones at our 50-year class reunion.
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Casey, Maeve, Cayden, Kellen, Conor, Brayden, Tiana, Colin, Maura & Corin. Ages you ask? One 7 year old, 2 five year olds, 2 four year olds, one 3 year old, two 2 year olds, one 9 month old and last but not least one five month old. Well this is getting long and I am sure boring so I will not go into my job history throughout the years except to say that I now work for The District of Columbia Government as a Tax Auditor/Examiner for DOES. These days when not working I love to go fishing and crabbing on the Bay with mostly my boys, son in laws and grandchildren. :-) Thanks for listning / reading, hopefully it wasn't to boring because it sure hasn't been for me. I have been very lucky and blessed throughout my years with the exception of loosing both of my parents within 10 months of each other this past year. But then again I was very lucky to have had them as Mom & Dad for my first 57 years of life as they both made it into their 80's. Thanks again to all of you that have worked so hard to have put this 40th reunion together.
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Bio For Carol Davis Kirkland
Ok, Bio, here goes. When I
graduated from Suitland, my first job was at Naval Intelligence in
Suitland by the Census Bureau doing of all things, key punch/data entry.
I excelled in typing and keypunch at school, but not much else, well
maybe skipping school. I was there for 6 years and loved it. I enjoyed
learning how things worked in the background. That means like the old
telephone system – plug one in this hole and then it will transfer over
to this column.
I also worked with a lot of Navy guys – whoo hoo, jackpot - :). I was lucky enough to date some after high school and before getting married. That was a great 5 years at least.
That is where I met my husband Tim who was handsome, charming, and funny and liked to dance as much as I did. We were married in 1977 and I have two beautiful children from that marriage. My son Timmy is an Electrician, who is the happy go lucky type, is 33 and he and his wife Dawn, who is a teacher, gave me my 1st grandson, Ryder, on December 29, 2011. My daughter Janiece is the brains in the family and is 28 and works as a Contract Specialist at Patuxent Naval Station. She has earned a Bachelors Degree in Business and Masters Degree in Acquisition. I am so very proud of all of her accomplishments. She gave me my first grandchild, Camryn who just turned 6 and whom I absolutely adore.
When my husband left the Navy we had one year to “use” a military move. So we moved to Mobile, Alabama in September, 1979, his home town. Hurricane Frederic hit 9-12-1979. I was devastated to move to a town that had just been destroyed, leveled by a hurricane. Of course I felt terrible for the people of the area as well; it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. I left my comfortable home in Waldorf, my family and friends to come to a disaster, and where I knew no one. I cried from the time I got off the plane until we were able to detour here and there to get to my mother-in-law’s house. Us, and my barely 1 year old son lived with my husband’s mother, whom I barely knew, for 6 months. Everything we had was in storage in Biloxi, MS until we could find a home. Did I mention I didn’t know anyone? After getting our own place and getting a job – finally - I figured out Mobile was a pretty cool place to live in. His family and I get along fantastic to this day. I still visit them when I am in that area or for special occasions and vice versa. Made lots of new friends and loved to make Mardi Gras floats that were included in what was called the “Joe Cain” parades, “the people’s parade”, in Mobile. Our group was the “Mystic Order of the Moon Pies”. I even cleaned up pretty well to attend a few Mardi Gras Balls on top of it. Happy times they were.
I say I have been happily divorced since 1992, and have never remarried, or really wanted to. My kids and I moved to Waldorf, MD in 1992. My “ex” moved back to Mobile, so my kids and I were on our own. I did date after my divorce, even some online dating which was a blast, but was also raising my two kids by myself. So they were my top priority. I’ve always been very independent and always trying to be happy go lucky in life. Not that it always works, but I try. And I still have a few guys that I see and enjoy time with. Come on, you didn’t expect anything else, did you?
I started working in the legal field as a legal secretary in 1979 in Alabama. I learned just about every type of law there was. It was very interesting work and so much to learn and always something new around the corner. And I liked to learn, at least after high school. When we moved back here in 1988 I again found work in the legal field and another new type of law, criminal and personal injury mainly. That was right up my alley. This “bad girl” had a lot of her old friends as clients – :) – not a good thing, but hey it kept the business afloat too.
I got the cream of the crop job when I was hired as the 3rd legal assistant to a Chief Federal Judge at the United States Federal Court of Appeals in DC in 1998. It was surely different from anything I had learned in my other jobs. Learning new things interested me and I caught on. A lot of it was patent law which could be very boring compared to what I had done in the past. I was a “floater” which meant I filled in for other secretaries when they were out. With that position I was able to learn faster and really get to know all of the Judges and personnel in the Court. And they also learned there was a new girl in the court/hallways and she was definitely more “out there/wilder” than the others. I knew that even though they were Federal Judges, they were also human beings. I knew when to be official and when I could be real with them too. With that personality, teehee, I was able to move up to a Judicial Assistant to “my own” Federal Judge and 1st position. Loved it!
I also worked with a lot of Navy guys – whoo hoo, jackpot - :). I was lucky enough to date some after high school and before getting married. That was a great 5 years at least.
That is where I met my husband Tim who was handsome, charming, and funny and liked to dance as much as I did. We were married in 1977 and I have two beautiful children from that marriage. My son Timmy is an Electrician, who is the happy go lucky type, is 33 and he and his wife Dawn, who is a teacher, gave me my 1st grandson, Ryder, on December 29, 2011. My daughter Janiece is the brains in the family and is 28 and works as a Contract Specialist at Patuxent Naval Station. She has earned a Bachelors Degree in Business and Masters Degree in Acquisition. I am so very proud of all of her accomplishments. She gave me my first grandchild, Camryn who just turned 6 and whom I absolutely adore.
When my husband left the Navy we had one year to “use” a military move. So we moved to Mobile, Alabama in September, 1979, his home town. Hurricane Frederic hit 9-12-1979. I was devastated to move to a town that had just been destroyed, leveled by a hurricane. Of course I felt terrible for the people of the area as well; it was the worst thing I’ve ever seen with my own eyes. I left my comfortable home in Waldorf, my family and friends to come to a disaster, and where I knew no one. I cried from the time I got off the plane until we were able to detour here and there to get to my mother-in-law’s house. Us, and my barely 1 year old son lived with my husband’s mother, whom I barely knew, for 6 months. Everything we had was in storage in Biloxi, MS until we could find a home. Did I mention I didn’t know anyone? After getting our own place and getting a job – finally - I figured out Mobile was a pretty cool place to live in. His family and I get along fantastic to this day. I still visit them when I am in that area or for special occasions and vice versa. Made lots of new friends and loved to make Mardi Gras floats that were included in what was called the “Joe Cain” parades, “the people’s parade”, in Mobile. Our group was the “Mystic Order of the Moon Pies”. I even cleaned up pretty well to attend a few Mardi Gras Balls on top of it. Happy times they were.
I say I have been happily divorced since 1992, and have never remarried, or really wanted to. My kids and I moved to Waldorf, MD in 1992. My “ex” moved back to Mobile, so my kids and I were on our own. I did date after my divorce, even some online dating which was a blast, but was also raising my two kids by myself. So they were my top priority. I’ve always been very independent and always trying to be happy go lucky in life. Not that it always works, but I try. And I still have a few guys that I see and enjoy time with. Come on, you didn’t expect anything else, did you?
I started working in the legal field as a legal secretary in 1979 in Alabama. I learned just about every type of law there was. It was very interesting work and so much to learn and always something new around the corner. And I liked to learn, at least after high school. When we moved back here in 1988 I again found work in the legal field and another new type of law, criminal and personal injury mainly. That was right up my alley. This “bad girl” had a lot of her old friends as clients – :) – not a good thing, but hey it kept the business afloat too.
I got the cream of the crop job when I was hired as the 3rd legal assistant to a Chief Federal Judge at the United States Federal Court of Appeals in DC in 1998. It was surely different from anything I had learned in my other jobs. Learning new things interested me and I caught on. A lot of it was patent law which could be very boring compared to what I had done in the past. I was a “floater” which meant I filled in for other secretaries when they were out. With that position I was able to learn faster and really get to know all of the Judges and personnel in the Court. And they also learned there was a new girl in the court/hallways and she was definitely more “out there/wilder” than the others. I knew that even though they were Federal Judges, they were also human beings. I knew when to be official and when I could be real with them too. With that personality, teehee, I was able to move up to a Judicial Assistant to “my own” Federal Judge and 1st position. Loved it!
I was diagnosed with COPD in
2004 after being hospitalized for lack of oxygen. Yes my smoking had
caught up to me, big time. I tried to go back to work, but my Judge and
I both decided it was going to be a while before I was 100% better and
able to fulfill the needs and stress of my position. Along with lack of
oxygen comes many other medical problems, some not mentionable – :)
(well at least I can laugh at that part). Panic, anxiety, depression I
found also came with this. Yucko. I have a lot of good days, but bad
ones sneak their ugly head in there. I have a great relationship with
everyone from the Court, and still see two of the Judges and a few of
the girls I worked with at lunches or special gatherings. There is
still a special place in my heart for that place and the great people I
worked with.
I was the baby in my family of 5 siblings. I sadly lost my loving mother in 2000 at the age of 82. She was such a sweetheart, fun, funny and always catching you off guard for a good laugh. (Sometimes when I’d call her and say, “Hi Mom, what are you doing – her reply – “as many as I can” – and then she’d giggle.) She never understood answering machines either, which some of her messages were a hoot because she thought she was actually talking to me. I only wish I had saved some of those messages to listen to now. My brother Jimmy, whom a lot of you knew from school, passed in 2002 at the age of 48 and that was really very tough. I lost my other brother Joe so unexpectedly in June of 2011, yes last year, at the age of 67. He was more than a brother to me, he was everything to me. Like a father, my rock, my backbone, my best friend. Every time we talked or saw each other, it made for a good smile or laugh. And I still haven’t come to grips with the loss of him so suddenly. I do have a message from him that I kept and that makes me happy. I thank God for my sister, my sister-in-law and my small but caring family, for the strength we have all given each other. And for the closeness we have had for so many years that make the hard times a bit easier. (And yes if you’re counting, there is one sibling – the oldest one as she’d say - who is not mentioned and I’ll leave it at that!)
As far as I’m concerned, life has been good to me. I’ve made it this far and am so thankful for what I have been given throughout my life. There are so many things I could be bitter for. Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m still pretty pissed off about a lot of it. But I chose many a year ago that it’s better to let those bitter things go and just be happy within myself the best I can. I can’t make everyone happy and vice versa. There comes a time when you just have to let go, which doesn’t make it any easier.
I like to play in my little townhouse yard and plant and hopefully grow as many pretty flowers as I can. I have great neighbors and some friends around me who make each day bright. I’m the “old lady on the end” that everyone calls when they have a problem that needs fixing. I bowled most of my life, used to snow ski and love water sports. I like to play the slots so I’ve been to Vegas a few times, Atlantic City and Dover, DE. As far as other traveling? My sister and I ventured to Grand Cayman in 2009 and we had a blast together, as we always do. Could use this last paragraph for a dating site I think. Hmmmm, may have to revisit that again – :).
It’s my Bio; I can’t fancy it or make it spectacular. It is what it is and I guess in the long run, it’s my life – so far. And yes I like to joke and laugh and have fun when I can. It’s what helps me get through the rest of my life :). Therefore I can’t cut this damn Bio down any. So I’m going to stop here and say, that’s all folks.
P.S. I’m not an English major so don’t laugh or criticize my use of it – :) – please I beg of you.
I was the baby in my family of 5 siblings. I sadly lost my loving mother in 2000 at the age of 82. She was such a sweetheart, fun, funny and always catching you off guard for a good laugh. (Sometimes when I’d call her and say, “Hi Mom, what are you doing – her reply – “as many as I can” – and then she’d giggle.) She never understood answering machines either, which some of her messages were a hoot because she thought she was actually talking to me. I only wish I had saved some of those messages to listen to now. My brother Jimmy, whom a lot of you knew from school, passed in 2002 at the age of 48 and that was really very tough. I lost my other brother Joe so unexpectedly in June of 2011, yes last year, at the age of 67. He was more than a brother to me, he was everything to me. Like a father, my rock, my backbone, my best friend. Every time we talked or saw each other, it made for a good smile or laugh. And I still haven’t come to grips with the loss of him so suddenly. I do have a message from him that I kept and that makes me happy. I thank God for my sister, my sister-in-law and my small but caring family, for the strength we have all given each other. And for the closeness we have had for so many years that make the hard times a bit easier. (And yes if you’re counting, there is one sibling – the oldest one as she’d say - who is not mentioned and I’ll leave it at that!)
As far as I’m concerned, life has been good to me. I’ve made it this far and am so thankful for what I have been given throughout my life. There are so many things I could be bitter for. Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m still pretty pissed off about a lot of it. But I chose many a year ago that it’s better to let those bitter things go and just be happy within myself the best I can. I can’t make everyone happy and vice versa. There comes a time when you just have to let go, which doesn’t make it any easier.
I like to play in my little townhouse yard and plant and hopefully grow as many pretty flowers as I can. I have great neighbors and some friends around me who make each day bright. I’m the “old lady on the end” that everyone calls when they have a problem that needs fixing. I bowled most of my life, used to snow ski and love water sports. I like to play the slots so I’ve been to Vegas a few times, Atlantic City and Dover, DE. As far as other traveling? My sister and I ventured to Grand Cayman in 2009 and we had a blast together, as we always do. Could use this last paragraph for a dating site I think. Hmmmm, may have to revisit that again – :).
It’s my Bio; I can’t fancy it or make it spectacular. It is what it is and I guess in the long run, it’s my life – so far. And yes I like to joke and laugh and have fun when I can. It’s what helps me get through the rest of my life :). Therefore I can’t cut this damn Bio down any. So I’m going to stop here and say, that’s all folks.
P.S. I’m not an English major so don’t laugh or criticize my use of it – :) – please I beg of you.
And finally............
My Greatest Accomplishments
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Bio
for LorRaine Duffy(June 2012)
Hi
everyone! I decided to attend the 40th actually after realizing we
were the survivors, through luck and circumstance. It will be interesting to
see how each of your journey’s are the same and different from mine. I left
Suitland literally right after graduation. (I saw a few of you at the 15th
reunion, but it’s all fuzzy now. Peggy Waters said it best…early onset…)
My
Air Force father was reassigned to Seoul, Korea (from Bolling AFB) so my family
moved. I cried during the entire 14-hour flight, after having spent my last
days in Md. with Chioini, Moranor, Thom and Faulkner. I thought life was over,
everyone was going to college or getting a real job and I got “stuck’ in a
foreign country. Turned out to be the Best. Thing. Ever! I worked as the
cashier at the Seoul Army base exchange for 2 years, while going to night classes
at the Korean University. I returned to the Univ of Md for my sophomore year,
but my dad was transferred again to New Mexico and off we went for my junior
year. I completed my bachelors at the Univ of New Mexico, and went on to the
Univ of Hawaii, Manoa for my masters and completed my PhD in organizational psychology
and technology at the Univ of Utah, thus finishing up my record for attending
20+ different schools in my lifetime. The only person I have managed to stay in
touch with is Stephany (Masten) Faulkner
After
my first job selling wigs at the Hecht Company on 14th St in DC, I
supported myself by: working as a waitress (3 different restaurants and a bar
which fired me the same night I started), hotel maid (Holiday Inn Albuquerque!!),
Safeway checker; smoke detector salesperson (before they became famous and
lucrative); research assistant at a library, dorm advisor at the university,
graduate teaching assistant; research assistant for Utah’s Dept of Alcohol and
Drugs (I rode around in a paddy wagon interviewing homeless men); as a Director
of Research for Utah Youth Corrections (where I was stalked by a juvenile delinquent
who escaped lock-up to try to find me—ahhh to be young again!—and he never
found me, whew!); as an Information Analyst for Medicare/Medicaid; as an adjunct
professor at Wright State University in Ohio; becoming a research scientist for
the Air Force in Dayton Ohio by 1987, and finally here I be, senior (because I
am THAT old) technology scientist at the Space and Naval Warfare Command,
Pacific in San Diego. By 1987, I had married (and later divorced) the guy (who
is still a good friend) who was a dorm advisor with me at the Univ of New
Mexico back in 1974-75. We re-met after not contacting each other for over a
decade. Crazy world, but we ended up with two of the greatest kids in the
universe (no, really!), both of whom paid their own way through college: a
daughter who graduated from the Univ of Hawaii in 2010 (and just finished
paying off her $20K school loan by herself!!)
and a son, who is graduating from UC Davis June 16th with a
double major, completing it in three years. Before you remark on how wonderful
we were as parents, be aware I haven’t cooked a home meal since 1999, I have no
cleaning skills to speak of, and my kids are nothing like me—they are MUCH MUCH
better and more organized. Thank God!!
For
the past 26 years, I’ve work for the Air Force and the Navy in the area of technology
innovation in command and control of troops and equipment. This works because
every technology I touch breaks (including every single one of the 9 cell
phones I’ve had), and I have to figure out how to make it work with
computerized systems (which I also break on a regular basis. No email system is safe from me!) Looking
forward to seeing you. Just don’t expect me to remember anyone’s name—you don’t
have to remember mine!
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Bio For Richard Dulin
Quit in the 12th & went to the Army, stayed for 22 years & finished H.S. in Germany. Received Honorary Suitland diploma in 2002. BA from Western Illinois,8 years as a Juvenile Corrections Officer, 2 years in Iraq as a civilan gunsmith for the military, now nearly 5 years with the Police Department. Custody of & raising 3 Grandkids, married 34 years...
