Jo Foti:  

Life I was born in the small lumber town of McNary, AZ in the White Mountains where my maternal Grandparents lived. When I was two months old we went back to Globe, Az. I attended kindergarten at Hill Street School. Grades 1 through 6, I attended East Globe. My junior high and high school were both at the Globe High School and I attended ASU for one year. After ASU, I went to work at Fort Huachuca in the EWD dept and transferred to the Finance office after a few months. After 2 years there, I married and we moved to New York City, Staten Island, where I lived for 4 years. Both of my sons were born there. In 1963, I moved from New York City to Omaha, Nebraska where I had my first computer/programming job -- programming the old IBM 1410 in a language called autocoder which was a machine language code with macros for I/O. I stayed there only two years. It was too cold for my AZ blood and I missed home terribly; so I moved back to Arizona where I worked for the Arizona Highway Department, programming Univac systems for 4 years; I then spent 9 years at Sperry Flight Systems in the Systems Programming area. After that, I returned to the Highway department -- at this time it was now called ADOT (Az Dept of Transportation) where I managed the System Programming Area. My last 22 years were with Pinnaclewest/APS in various positions within Information Technology. I retired at the end of 2002. After retirement comes later!!!! Vince and I now own a home in ...Expand for more