My advanced schooling after graduation from high school was two and a half years at Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, and three years at Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas. (Both schools have undergone name changes after my departure.)    I graduated from Texas Tech 3 June 1963 with a B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering.   I was also commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Army that same day.  The week between Finals and Graduation, I worked on the Perrin Ranch, Hereford, Texas, where I could say that I had worked on a ranch.  My U. S. Army experience started at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, for Officers Basic and Technical School.  My permanent duty assignment was at Fort Carson, Colorado.  At Fort Carson I served as base liaison with the local Soap Box Derby and the Association of the U. S. Army.   While in the Army, I was awarded a trip to Germany as a courier officer. At the time of my release from active duty, I was Commanding Officer of the 75th Ordnance Company.                I interviewed with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft while on temporary duty at Fort Irwin, California.  Following my separation from the Army, I drove to E. Hartford, Connecticut, to start work.  I worked in Connecticut for five years when I had an opportunity to transfer to Florida, the Sunshine State.  (Connecticut winters did not bother me.  The Panhandle of Texas had colder winters and more snow, but the summers were very depressing—gray and brown skies all summer long.)   I worked in Florida for an additional thirty years retiring the end of July 2000.  I elected to stay in Florida since I had lived in Florida over half my life and my observation of Pampa at our 40th class reunion was that I knew very few in Pampa.       While in Florida, I married a Florida girl that had a son from a previous marriage.  We were married for 14 years when she decided that I was the worst man that she had ever known.  We were divorced in 1987 while the boy was in college.  My boy has since blessed me with three grandchildren.     At Pratt & Whitney-Connecticut, I worked on fuel cells and on the TF 30 engine used to power the F111, F14, and A7 aircraft.  I became a member of the “outhouse group” where I investigated engine malfunctions, performed engine inspections, and conducted flight tests.      My transfer to Florida was because our Florida facility had won the contract to test and develop the engine for the F15 and the growth version of the F14.  While in Florida, I also worked on the J58 engine that powers the SR71, industrial gas turbines for power generation and fuel pipeline pumping, and the F119 and F135 engines for the next generation of Air Force and Navy fighters.  My ability to determine the cause of engine malfunctions, inspect engines and recommend design changes, and to develop inspection techniques for installed engines has taken me to Norway, Japan, England, Korea, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.  At my retirement, I was known as very knowledgeable of the turbine on the F100 engine and taught many classes. My last nine months of employment was spent at San Antonio, Texas.  My last week of employment was spent in E. Hartford, Connecticut, sharing my knowledge with young engineers that were part of a major reorganization.        I continued my work with my church after graduation from high school.  My offices with my Florida church have been Deacon Chair, three terms as Chair of the Board of Elders, and two years as Congregational/Board Moderator.  I have been elected/appointed as a voting delegate to three General Assemblies of the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ in Charlotte, N. C., Portland, Oregon, and Fort Worth, Texas.  Currently my elected/volunteer positions are elder, building coordinator, delivering meals to the elderly, and driving residents from Christian Manor (A local church sponsored retirement facility) to a grocery store and Wal-Mart.