Subject: Bio: Wayne Peplow
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:32:24 EDT
From: Wayne Peplow
To: ALL

Classmates,

I've been reading all these letters and have been reluctant to respond until inspired by Don Heytman's letter. So here goes.

I was fortunate to be accepted into a co-op course with Caterpillar/Bradley after high school since I had not planned on college or anything else at the time. Shortly after high school I joined the West Peoria Volunteer Fire Department. I was drafted after a 4 year training course with Cat and 4 months after marrying Jane. With a 2 year degree I was accepted into Artillery OCS at Fort Sill, OK and was commissioned in August of 1967. We spent 2 years at Fort Campbell, KY. where our red headed daughter Julie was born.

We returned to West Peoria, Caterpillar and the fire department and then Douglas was born. We moved to Dunlap in 1973 and Andrew was born. I joined the Dunlap Fire Department and have been the Chief for over 20 years. I retired from Cat in '99 after many years as a maintenance foreman. I now work part time as a fire investigator for Engineering and Fire Investigations. My wife is a retired RN and works part time at Hoerr's nursery. She also has a business making and selling hats and has a web site at www.classicwoolens.com. We have a grandson (5) and a red headed granddaughter (1) in Salt Lake City and two grandsons (2 & 3) in Oak Ridge, TN. Our youngest, a graduate student at Texas A&M, gets married at the end of this month.

I look forward to seeing all of you.

Wayne