Barry Malpas:
CLASS OF 1966
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High SchoolClass of 1966
Scotch plains, NJ
Highland Park High SchoolClass of 1965
Highland park, NJ
Barry's Story
Life has been getting much better.
I am recently remarried (2007). I have two great kids, daughter Kari, 37 and just married, living in Bridgewater, NJ, and son Dave, 31, living in Williams, AZ, near Flagstaff at 7000 feet for the mountain climbing.
I attended Rutgers studying Mathematics & Engineering (under grad) and Physics (grad). I took an early retirement in 1998 from AT&T Bell Labs after having worked in computers and as a business analyst and am now self employed as a web designer (that option not being available back in the '60s.)
Over the years I have been active as an amateur astronomer at AAI, at Union County College, and at UACNJ at Jenny Jump in north Jersey. I am now also teaching Astronomy at the local community college here in Flagstaff, AZ, for the fun of it (certainly not the money.)
I'm was living back in Fanwood after my, not so pleasant, divorce, but then moved to Williams, AZ in April of 2007.
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ions and ammusements have been astronomy (two observatories in NJ) and song writing (about 2 dozen songs so far since 2004) with guitar in several local NJ folk venues. I have continued these endeavors in AZ along with hiking, camping and enjoying the Grand Canyon area which is less than an hour's drive from Williams. I started a folk music venue in Flagstaff which is doing well... check out flagfolkproject.org.
My wife, Anne, and I just bought 36 acres north of Williams and plan to put up a small cabin there. It has a wild view. A few miles North is Red Butte and the Grand Canyon north rim, East are the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff (highest point in AZ at 12000+ feet.) And, South is Williams Mtn. which gives a clear line for cell reception. Of course, I will be building another observatory there because of the unparallelled dark skies. Needless to say it is well off the grid.
Anyone visiting the Grand Canyon?
Drop by.
Barry
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