Hi All,

Looking forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks.

Here is my rather prosaic vitae:

I spent the first three years after Kenyon on a Godforsaken mound in the Mojave Desert as a personnel officer at a USAF radar site.  We were supposed to prevent Soviet bombers from attacking via the west coast.  As you know by now, not a one got through.  No medals or citations for fighting the Battle of Southern California.  However, I was now somewhat marketable.

Nine+ years with General Motors in labor relations, personnel, and organization development.

Seduced from the warm loving arms of Mother Motors by a cowboys-and-indians trucking company, the late lamented Roadway Express.  Spent nineteen years there as (variously and usually simultaneously) corporate HR director, home office and data center facilities director, and director of most of the ancillary bullshit at the corporate office.  I retired when I finally realized that I had become one of the Old Farts I used to complain about when I was a Young Turk.  But what the hell – it put food on the table and three kids through college.

Two years as a golf course equipment mechanic until my body (and uncounted pairs of jeans knees) wore out.  So I sought employment where I could stay vertical.

The delight of my working career was the thirteen years I spent working at a hardware store, specializing in electrical and plumbing (Lord, how I still hate plumbing!).

Some of my spare time now is spent maintaining, usually remotely, computers (at last count, over sixteen) for family and friends and my wife Barbara’s law office.  Ah the law office.  How else could I be completely retired!?  I also renovate computers for charitable donation.

Barb and I live in Hudson, Ohio.  We have a summer home in Lakeside, Ohio on the Marblehead peninsula where we plan to hang out with Pete and Carole Sharp, Doug and Sarah (my sister) Armbrust, and Jack and Sue Wagner for the week after the reunion.  The address is 712 Oak Ave.  If you’re in the area, stop by and see if we are there; we’d love to see you!