Bill Jennings:  

Hi, I was hoping to see a lot of you at the 30th reunion this year, but I understand that there is not one planned. I've only been to one, I think it was the 10 year. I live in Bedford, VA and rarely get up north. The last 30 years have flown by. I got my BSME from Virginia Tech and worked in the defense and communications industries for 18 years. I started a design company (Stone Mountain Design, Inc.-SMD) in 1997 and then a OEM (Stone Mountain, Ltd.-SML) in 2002. In this latter company we designed, developed, manufactured and subsequently marketed a line of military and public safety communication devices. By 2006 I was ready for a break and sold SML to a Canadian firm. My entire workforce remained intact and they have a ten year lease on my manufacturing facility in nearby Huddleston, so I feel comfortable that the products and people are secure for the foreseeable future. As part of the deal, I am bound to a three year consulting contract with the new company to develop next generation products. I still have SMD and maintain offices in Huddleston, VA, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We continue to do product design as well as supply chain management, quality control, project management, new product industrialization, etc. for US and European companies doing business in the Far East. I live on a farm and over the years have raised Nubian milking goats, Black Angus, and of course dogs and cats, although I sold off the goats and cattle several...Expand for more