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My whole family moved to Fort Collins Colorado after I graduated from High School. There, I attended Colorado State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1978. I went to work for IBM in Boulder Colorado in June 1978 and worked in research and development on various commercial products until 1986. My job included a lot of travel around the US plus some work in France.
In 1986, I transferred to the IBM Federal Systems group (which moved into Boulder Colorado) and then spent the next 6 years working on a variety of Air Force and Army reconnaissance systems. I again got to travel a fair amount and worked in Germany periodically.
My fiance died after a very short illness in 1991 and I became guardian to her 2 children: Charles and Allison.
in 1992, I transferred to the IBM Federal Systems Headquarters group in Bethesda Maryland. I audited programs and taught engineering classes for company employees and military contractors for the next 3 years.
In early 1995, I transferred to Portsmouth England where I became the Laboratory Manager at an Air Traffic Control center that IBM was building for the British. The job was very stressful but living in England was wonderful. I lived in a tiny village (2000 people) but everything was in walking distance (3 pubs, grocery, butcher, post office, etc ). We had a church from 700 AD and several houses I walked by on the way to the pubs had been built in the early 1400's.
I returned to the US in July 1998 and retired in Colorado. Once I retired, I volunteered at various charities and traveled a lot. On one of my trips to Leavenworth for the 35th reunion in 2009, I saw Sharon Lukachick (Seaton) who reconnected me with my 9th grade (Patton Junior High) sweetheart, Teresa Statler (Mullens). Teresa was an Immigration Attorney in Portland, Oregon and the reason my family moved to Colorado. Teresa and I were supposed to go to College together but her father messed that up and we lost contact over the years.
Once reconnected, we started traveling together. Teresa and I got married on September 30, 2017 near Boulder Colorado with Sharon as our Matron of Honor and her husband, John a judge, our officiant. I then moved to Oregon and we bought a new house in Portland. After Teresa retired at the end of 2021, we started traveling up to 3-4 months a year and now enjoy being finally together after many years apart.
My son got married in 1999 to Ashley Williams and they now have 3 sons : Ian (2002), Phinneas (2004) and Angus (2006). They live in Cincinnati OH.
My daughter lives in the mountains of Colorado. She married in 2012 to Dan Wyks who had a son Kevin and Daughter Karin from a previous marriage.
