A Brief History

After high school:

One semester at Bradley
Nine years in the Navy (Long Beach & San Diego)
Two Ships, three tours in Vietnam,
Three years teaching radar theory (Vallejo Ca.)
Six years at Dept. of Defense (Oxnard, Ca.)
24 years with Federal Aviation Administration.

Along the way I got married in 1968 to Rosalie. We are still married. In fact it was 34 years this February! We have two children, a daughter, Kim and a son Marty, 32 and 31 respectively. We have four grand children, three girls and one boy ages 10 to 5. I managed to get my Bachelors degree from Western Illinois University when we moved back to Illinois in 1978. I got into management in the FAA in 1980 and started moving around, ending up in Chicago as the Manager of the Chicago Systems Management Office for the Great Lakes Region. I had about 200 folks (mostly Electronic technicians and engineers) who maintained the radars, computers, communications equipment, (basically all the electronic/electrical equipment) used by the Air Traffic Controllers and pilots in the National Airspace System.

I have also been doing leadership training off and on for past 12 years. I still do a leadership seminar occasionally and will probably increase that activity now that I'm retired from the FAA.

I retired on January 3rd and was fooling around on the internet when I found Lee Marshall and Tom Jones's names on the PHS web site. It was kind of serendipitous because a only few days before I ran across and photograph of Lee from around 1958 and I had been thinking of the old gang and wondering where they all were and what they were doing. It will be great to see everyone and fun to see who remembers what!