MEMORY BOOK

(Compiled by Bob Miller)

Out of 36 respondents:

 

Marital Status 

 

28 are currently married, 2 are single, 5 are divorced, and one gave no response.

 

Spouses’ occupations 

 

Microsoft program director, attorney, purchase manager, nurse anesthetist, self employed sales rep, engineer, retired, electrical motor repair supervisor, ob clerk, annuities sales, school custodian, information technology, Office Max assistant manager, bookkeeper, buyer, supervising engineer at Ford, early childhood development, paramedic, project manager, contract negotiator, dental hygienist, gages and splines, business owner, housewife/volunteer, retired COO of Compuware, EDS programmer, steam installation and repair, video/communications.

 

How long married?

 

 

Number of children?

 

  

 Number of Grandchildren? 

 

 

 Please list the colleges and/or post-secondary institutions you’ve attended since high school.

·         American Travel School  
·         The Pacific Institute  
·         Schoolcraft  
·         SHRM  
·         Oakland University (3)  
·         Michigan Technological University  
·         Cuyahoga Community College  
·         Washtenaw Community College  
·         Cleary University  
·         Royal Oak School of Business  
·         Irene's Myomassology Institute  
·         Ricks College  
·         Specs Howard School of Broadcast   
·         Brigham Young University  
·         Cooley Law School  
·         Central Michigan University  
·         Macomb County Comm. College  
·         University of Nevada-Las Vegas 
·         US Army -- Electronic/computer training in air defense missile systems  
·         Lake Area Voc-Tech  
·         University of South Dakota  
·         Hampton University   
·         University of Phoenix   
·         Ferris State University   
·         University of Hardknocks (yuk, yuk!)  
·         California State University, San Bernardino  
                                                             
 

What is your current occupation?

 

 
Do you have any military experience?  Where were you stationed?  What was your rank?  Did you see active duty in Desert Storm/Shield or the current war in Iraq and/or Afghanistan?  If so, please describe your most eye-opening experience of these deployments.
 
·         10 years Navy Reserve, Intelligence Specialist attached to Atlantic Intelligence Command.  US Army Alabama & Texas Rank-Specialist E4  
·         US Air Force, 1975-1979, E-4 (Sergeant). TX, CO, MI. US Air Force, 2002-present, 0-3 (Captain). AL, TX. I have been to "The Sandbox" as an integral part of the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)as well as Landstuhl, Germany to stabilize trauma patients between the war zone and the US.   
·         Germany- Army –E4,  75-78 

 

 Are you involved in your community or with national organizations?  If so, please describe.

How far will you be traveling to attend the reunion?

 

 

What’s the most important thing you’ve learned about yourself in the past thirty years?

·         I can do and say whatever I want as long as it’s done tactfully. 

·         "If it's going to be, it's up to me"! 

·         Be more patient with myself and try to reach out and help as many people that I can. 

·         That my positive attitude has been a great asset and I’m a great Mom! 

·         To spend less time wanting and more time loving what you have. 

·         Life is ever changing and always a learning experience.  

·         That I have more self worth than I thought I did.  Or I do now more so than when I was in school. 

·         When someone I loved or cared about was going through a tough time in their lives, I was one of those people that didn’t always pick up the phone because…. like so many other people, I just didn’t know what to say. In losing my daughter’s to MD, and my brother to cancer, I have learned that the most important thing is to always be there for the people that you love, and care about. No matter how hard it is, that person needs to know that you love them and that you are there for them. I know first hand how important that it is to have that support system around you when you need them the most. I will never be that person who doesn’t pick up that phone again…even if for no other reason than just to tell them that “I care.”  

·         helping other people. 

·         I must form my own beliefs and values based on my own observations and life experience, not on what any so-called authority tells me. 

·         That I am who I am and I like myself as a person.  

·         Life will throw you many curves - I have learned that your character is formed by the way you handle each one.  Live every moment to the fullest.  
·         I measure my accomplishments by those I touch in a positive way. 

·         Be true to yourself and honest with others.  

·         WHO I REALLY AM is yet to be realized... in a spiritual/soulful sense.