Don Carroll:  

I am retired now, living in Seattle with my partner Marcus (yep - gay as hell) and having a pretty good time. I am planning to attend the 50th reunion next year (2011) in Atwood. After a couple years at Emporia St Teacher's Coll, spent 4 years in the Air Force, learning how to fix radios (yippee!). Finished school at Long Beach State in California (economics - never used the degree). I worked at TRW Space Systems while going to school, fixing computer boards. (that training I did use!) Dad died the summer I graduated, so I spent the next year living with Mom and working in the bay area. When she was doing better, I took off for Boston to become a computer customer service engineer for Honeywell. I worked in San Francisco for a few years, sowed my wild oats, fell in love, moved away to the country, and settled down. Well, nothing great lasts for ever. We moved back to the bay (south bay this time), I went to work for Hewlett-Packard. Moved from there to Boise Idaho (yeah - talk about the place for a gay couple to set up housekeeping!!). Well, again, nothing great ever lasts -- my first lover died after 10 years -- just after I got my second bachelor's degree - this one in Math -- my ticket to the engineering ranks in HP. So for the next several years I stumbled around the HP R & D Lab in Boise. Somehow I got the reputation as the go-to guy when engineers and artists couldn't understand each other. I spent the last 18 years or so as the Font Guru for HP -- working with Monotype, Agfa, Bitstream, Bigelow & Holmes, etc. Lots of fun, lots of travel to foreign cities, lots of staying out late... We finished up by moving to Sea...Expand for more