Amy Barnes Frey:  

For those of you who do not remember, I am the tall one (6'2") who was the swimmer and always smelled like chlorine. Since leaving Fariview, I received two BA degrees from Ripon College. One in Biology (Marine and Pre-Med) and one in Anthropology. I also received a minor in German. After during my last year of school and after receiving invitations to join several different medical schools, I decided that I really did not want to be in debt until I was 35 and decided to enter the MS program in Telecommunications from the Engineering School at CU-Boulder. I always wanted to be a Vetrinarian when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a great idea. As it turns out, they were wrong. I am now an engineer who has decent grammar and spelling most of the time. I also became a corporate executive which is not something that was in the first life script. During my tenure at CU I did an internship with Harris Corporation and helped to design the infra-red wireless communications system that was to be tested on the "Challenger" Shuttle Mission. I got to know all of the individuals on that unfortunate flight personally and I took the explosion and their ultimate sacrifice for science and exploration very deeply. After graduation with my MS degree, I headed off to AEtna Life & Casualty to work in the telecom department. I worked on projects such as performing 1500 field office retrofits and moves. I also worked on the first LAN installations, first PC installations (whew I am dating myself) and two other projects that I am quite proud of. AEtna was the first company to use cellular technology for data transmission so that our claims adjusters no longer had to find a telephone booth to call into the Home Office to give quotes for auto claims. I also worked on the project to develop the first Castropy Teams in the US so that we would have a cellular modem, telephone, laptop, printer and stack of checks in kits that could be flown in to meet our agents at any catastropy that occurs. The first trial by fire was Hurricane Andrew. People were so amazed that an adjuster could show up at was once their house and have a check for food and living expenses 10 minutes later. While on the east coast with AEtna, I also became both a Staff Instructor and a Master Scuba Diver Trainer with PADI. Over the years I have certified over 2500 students in scuba diving. I have over 5,000 logged hours underwater without any pagers, cell phones or la...Expand for more