(Last year I attended the 40th class reunion for the class of 1961 and I took some pictures of some of my classmates.  I had them posted on the shs alumnae website and was added to the list of members.  I have been reading all of the correspondence circulating in this web  group and have enjoyed all of the comments and the links provided for the history of Sheridan.  I recognize some of the names from some of the earlier graduates and some of the  later ones, too.   Putting a face to them is kind of hard sometimes.  I thought that I would post some of my life after SHS and maybe get a visitor or maybe a reply from some old buddies and classmates.)

I was born and grew up in Sheridan.

I graduated from SHS in the class of '61, the first upside down year since 1881 and the last before 6009.  But getting there was kind of difficult.  I was on the honor roll almost every six weeks since the first grade until the summer after my junior year.  I was in a car wreck on the 4th of July 1960 on the way to Lake DeSmet.  Larry Kersley and Connie Carmine both died that day and I was unconscious with a fractured skull and a brain injury.  I woke up on August 15th and the last thing I could remember was summer vacation starting in May.  It took years to get some of my memory back and the rest will never come back, specifically most of the day of July 4th.

After graduation, I worked at the sugar factory for two years, during which time I married Beth Kimble.  I joined the Navy in October 1963 and went to San Diego to boot

camp.  I got out of boot camp in January 1964 and was stationed at the amphibious base in Coronado, California for six months before ET school.  I attended two weeks of combat training with the Marines in Camp Pendleton, during which time my 21st birthday came and went.  I August 1964 I transferred to ET School in Illinois.

I attended Electronics Technician school in Great Lakes. Ill for 9 months while my wife stayed in Sheridan with our son to finish high school.  I spent the rest of my navy enlistment aboard the USS Dewey (DLG-14) in Norfolk Virginia.  I had another son in Norfolk and left the service in 1967 to return to Sheridan and get on with my life outside the military.  I couldn't get into the fall semester at Sheridan because I missed enrollment deadline.  I entered college in January 1968 to become an Electrical Engineer.  In June of 1972, I graduated from the University of Wyoming as an Electronics Engineer. I went to work for the federal government in Department of Defense.

I accepted a position in Norco, California with Fleet Missile Systems Analysis and Evaluation Group (FMSAEG) in Norco, California.  Norco is a lot

like Sheridan, or at least it was when I moved here, before Interstate 15 went through the middle of town.

Twenty-five years later (1997) I retired from the Naval Warfare Assessment Division, the  same outfit I went to work for, but with their fifth name

change. Today, May 9, 2002, their name is Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division.  From 1984 until my retirement, I was a TOMAHAWK Land

Attack Missile (TLAM) flight analyst.  We did analysis on test firings of the TOMAHAWK Missile and submitted reports on the findings to Washington, D.C.  During my tenure, I went to Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Sicily, Crete, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Jamaica, and a few lesser places.