Occupation: Retired

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I retired in 2010 after 33 years of working at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke.   Had many roles over the years including Director of Career Services, counselor, and teaching Psychology.

Now living on ten mostly wooded acres with my wife Sandy (dentist for 33 years - now retired) and our German Shepherd Silver.  Still try to run or bike every day, but at a slower pace these days.  Ran my first marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, in 1977.

Occupation: Curiosity

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I am again a local, living in Vienna.

Life is good !

Occupation: Retired

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My life after YHS is a tale of two careers, one military as a nuclear submarine officer and one as a civilian in the commercial nuclear utility industry.

My life changed dramatically after graduation as I entered the US Naval Academy (Annapolis) as a plebe (freshman). As I tell folks when they ask how it was there I tell them, “It’s a great place to be from, but a really tough place to be.”

I met my future wife (Pamela) on a blind date at the US Military Academy (West Point) of all places during an exchange weekend there my junior year. She was a junior majoring in elementary education at Wagner College on Long Island, NY. I only played football my plebe year. I played baseball (3rd base) for all four years at Navy and was elected the team captain my senior year. Highlights were exhibition games with Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers and Baltimore Orioles. I graduated (with merit) with a BS degree in Operations Analysis and was commissioned an Ensign USN during June Week 1972.

Following commissioning I began my nuclear training at the S1C prototype in Ballston Spa NY. and the submarine officer basic course in New London CT. Over the next 22 years, and during the Cold War, I was involved in the supervision, operation, and maintenance of five (primarily) nuclear attack submarines (SSN). My shore duty assignments included the S3G nuclear prototype training unit (NPTU) and nuclear and tactical submarine fleet inspection team tours. In 1988 I assumed Command of the USS Trepang (SSN-674). In the seafaring world this remains the pinnacle of achievement. As the recruiting slogan goes “Join the Navy and see the world”. Well I have, although some of it was through a periscope. I retired from the Navy in 1994.

After retirement, I worked in the commercial nuclear utility industry. Commensurate with this career change I earned my professional engineer’s (PE) license in the mechanical discipline. My civilian career included supervisory positions at two commercial nuclear facilities in North Carolina and as plant manager at Browns Ferry nuclear plant in AL. I graduated from Duke University’s MBA program in 2004.

In 2008, I began work at Westinghouse Nuclear in Pittsburg PA as an executive primarily responsible for development of the start-up test program for the AP-1000 advanced passive nuclear reactor. I retired from the commercial nuclear field in 2013.

They say the toughest job in the Navy is that of a Navy wife. My wife Pamela is the greatest and I am fortunate to have been married to her now for almost 45 years. Although she often reminds me that I was deployed, in a foreign port overseas or on duty for almost half of my time in the Navy. Along the way I was home long enough to have had three beautiful daughters, Kim, Wendy and Megan. They favor their mother in that regard. We now have seven grandchildren (six boys and a girl). Throughout our marriage we have moved more times than I can count.

I enjoy touring Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields as well as attending Carolina Hurricanes hockey, Duke and NC State basketball, Carolina Panthers football and Navy/Duke/NC State and Durham Bulls AAA baseball games. We both enjoy spending time with our family and friends at our beach house on the Outer Banks (OBX) NC and at the South Jersey shore in Stone Harbor, NJ.

I look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones. I particularly wanted to establish social contacts with YHS classmates who may live in the NC triangle region.

Occupation: Retired Educator

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I went to Michigan State University and never left Michigan.  A lifelong educator, I worked at an Outdoor Education Center with Elementary School kids; taught adults how to use computers when they used 5 1/4 inch disk drives; then became an administrator at the community college in Lansing, working in quality management and continuous improvement.  

Married for 40 years, no kids so we can spend our beagles' college fund on travel.  Retired just means no one pays me for all the committees and boards I volunteer for.  Enjoying life in Charlotte, MI on our 75 acres farm.

Occupation: Landscape Architect

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Hello to all!  It was fun to read the profiles.

I got my BA majoring in geology and then a Masters in Landscape Architecture.  I started a Landscape Architecture design firm in 1985.  We are now an office of seven landscape architects and 2 support staff in Cambridge, MA.  We design parks, playgrounds, urban plazas, commerical landscapes, and landscapes for private residences.  

I married Jim Batchelor in 1972.  He's an architect and sometimes we work on projects together, which is always fun.  Jim and I have three children (2 boys and 1 girl) and five grandchildren (4 boys and 1 girl).  We've lived in Brookline since 1983 and before that we lived in Cambridge.

Over the years I've run into classmates from Yorktown and it's been great to see them.  I hope to make it to the reunion.  Thanks to all who have been putting this together.   

Occupation: retired professor

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Thank all of you who put together this amazing website and reunion.  I wish that I could be at the main event on Saturday, but my nephew is getting married that evening in Roanoke VA.  I am planning on going to the Happy Hour on Friday night, and I hope to see some of you there.

After high school, I attended Mary Washington College, which in today's lingo "wasn't a fit". After one year I applied to VCU, my parents cried!  Three amazing years later,  I recived my BFA in Painting & Printmaking.  My path was launched, and in 1974, I received my MFA in Painting/Art History from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison.  While working as a waitress (the typical internship for artists) in Madison,  I applied for university teaching jobs country wide.  After 60 rejections, I finally got  an interview at the California State University in San Diego.  I got the job and have been a California girl ever since.  Bought my first car next to the Tijuana border.   

 

In 1975,  I married John (Jay) Dohner, who I had met at the U of Wisconsin.  He was working as a chemical engineer,  in a small town called Palo Alto,  at a small (now called a start-up) pharmaceutical company called ALZA,  that made transdermal drug delivery devices.  I moved to Palo Alto and got a job at the local community college, Cañada College, teaching painting, drawing , design and,  in the end, digital painting.  In 1977,  we bought 4 acres of land behind Stanford Univ. and built (with our own hands), over 12 years, our house.  I taught, painted, exhibited and (we) backpacked all over the world for 14 years,  until we felt adult enough to have kids;  then we took them with us on our journeys.   In 2003,  we  all went to live for a year in Seville, Spain.  

 

After 30 years of working, Jay and I retired (sort of), both ALZA (stock)  and Cañada College (pension) have been good to us as we ride the "silicon valley wave".  We now have a large garden where we grow and process most of our food.  I have a great studio where I paint and have a nude model come every week for me to draw.  And we watch our kids, Emma, 25 ( a research chemist) and Adam, 29 (an electrical engineer), with amazement,  as they maneuver through this crazy fast paced area!

Occupation: Retired

Comment: Great website!  

Occupation: semiretired mechanic

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A lot of water under the bridge. After graduation I got my B.S. From Old Dominion and my M.S. And Ph.D. from University of Colorado. I put myself through school working as a mechanic. My wife Mary Ann and I  got married in 1978. We moved from Boulder to Charlottesville where Mary Ann got her MBA from The Darden School. After her graduation we moved again to Minneapolis and I taught across the river at Macalester College in St. Paul and Mary Ann went to work for Target.  Long story short after 6 years in the frozen north Mary Ann was offered a great position with Circuit City. As many of you know college teaching pays extremely well!  When MA got home from the interview I asked her what they were offering and she told me it was over twice what we were making together and we would be moving to a small beach community in North Carolina. Thus ended my career in academia. We've survived 14 moves in our newly 40 year marriage including a stint in Toronto. I've occupied my time with a small company in partnership with a good friend. We began doing frame off restorations of midyear Corvettes and when we tired of that we moved on to '65-'70 Shelbys. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Occupation: Defense Consultant

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Thank you - everyone putting this together. 
I write.  If you want to read me look on Facebook - my full name, James Atticus Bowden - or my blog Deo Vindice.  My wee story is pretty much there.  Thanks again for all y'all have done. 

Occupation: Retired