It will be great to catch up after 40 years and still have great memories
from those days!
Can you believe it - I got the nickname "Troll" my sophomore year
at Lebo while playing basketball at 5'6" tall and it followed me to
college with some good friends still calling me that today? I went to THE
Ohio State University (I saw Paul Criswells's bio
from Mt. Lebo who was my first roommate at Stradley
Hall OSU - can't wait to see you man), but admittedly most of my best friends
are OSU Buckeye cronies living in Ohio. I graduated with a BS in
Microbiology and then worked for the EPA, then got into sales and became
President for a high tech water treatment equipment company in Cincinnati for
14 years.
Never satisfied, I went to work for another high tech start-up out of San
Diego for 4 years as VP Business Development and then went full circle to now
work for Calgon Carbon Corporation, a great company
headquartered in Pittsburgh, as International Sales Manager, to promote a new
advanced water treatment system everywhere outside of North
America. I actually live in Cincinnati (don't even go there - I am still a
dyed-in-the-wool Steelers, Pirates, and Penguins fan). I am married for
the second time, have 2 boys from my first marriage, and then got remarried to
a beautiful Brazilian sweetheart and adopted her 2 children to make it 3 sons
and a daughter with my youngest just graduating from college in May (thank
God).
I continue to travel this awesome and wonderful planet (logged over 200,000
air miles last year) and have visited 72 countries over my career and counting
(only 124 more to go to see them all according to Wiki Answers official country
list J), making friends everywhere I go. I'm active and in great health
and when I'm not jet setting: still break 90 on the golf course, occasionally
break 12 beers in one sitting at the bar (after a big sale or good party -
ouch), go to at least 2 OSU football games/tailgates a year (never missed a
Michigan game), and normally get in for one game a year for the Steelers,
Pirates, and Penguins in 'don ton Pgh'. Last, I
still get this question at least once a month from my lovely wife of 12 years:
"aren't you getting too old for this sh*t by
now?" One would think so but the answer is still "guess
not".
So…..I still have a long bucket list and THE Mt. Lebo HS 40 th reunion will make it
one less. We had a great graduating class with a long list of
accomplishments and life is too short - may as well try to get it all in while
we can.
C ya' there - Troll