Carl Davidson:
CLASS OF 1965
Flowing Wells High SchoolClass of 1965
Tucson, AZ
Amphitheater Middle SchoolClass of 1965
Tucson, AZ
Amphitheater High SchoolClass of 1965
Tucson, AZ
Olalla Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Olalla, WA
Carl's Story
Life
I live in Washington State and I spend a lot of time in the Philippines, where I am right now as I write this.
I was married for 16 years and I have 5 grown children from that marriage. Then I was single for nearly 20 years while I raised my children and ran a portrait photography business. (Eventually each one of my 5 children moved in with me one by one after my divorce in 1986.)
Do you remember my mother, Sylvia? I posted on this Web site a picture of her with me from my high school days. Mama lived with me for the last couple of years of her life. She had been fairly healthy, but died quickly one night at my home in Tacoma in 1994.
I have 4 grandchildren.
My favorite activities are Bible Study, Family Meals, Quacking Like a Duck (to entertain small children in any language), History, Photography (especially photography of small children right after the aforementioned "Quacking Like a Duck"), Computer Graphics (Photoshop), Travel, Tropical Beaches, and
Genealogy (Family history includes episodes with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, John D. Rockefeller in Richford, New York (the "D" stands for Davison) and one William "Billy" Gates, in 1888 on a ship in Puget Sound. "Billy" Gates was the engineer onboard the ill fated ship "Leif Erickson". My great grandfather and a few others drowned when the "Leif Erickson" caught fire and sank in transit from Seattle.
My least favorite activities are discussing money with my kids, sigmoidoscopy (flexible or rigid), angiograms, and waiting in line in third world government offices (only to be told "take this receipt and wait in that other line over there so they can stamp it for you before you wait in this line again to let us know that you are done with that line so we can have you sit over there until we call your name after about an hour or whenever we get back from coffee so we can issue your document").
I'm retired now. I like to travel. I visited Spain and then went annually to the Dominican Republic for 3 years. I learned to speak Spanish during my 50's. I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I enjoy meeting new...Expand for more
people in various parts of the world. I feel welcome anywhere in the world when I go to the meetings at the local Kingdom Halls, which are located in almost every country in the world.
I finally got married again in 2004. My cute young wife and I divide our time between the Philippines and the Pacific Northwest. We have three babies, the last one was born after I turned sixty. I have always loved children. ( I made my living as a baby photographer/family photographer.) Having babies at my age is not as difficult to handle as it might seem. We have a large extended family. Filipinos love children, and we have lots of help.
Do you like history? Here's a couple of things you might enjoy looking up online. They both have to do with the part of the world I'm in right now.
1) The Philippine-American war.
You knew that Commodore Dewey quickly sank the Spanish fleet in Manila in the Spanish American war. The Americans had told the Philippine general that they wanted to help the Philippines gain independence from Spain. But did you know that the Americans decided to keep the Philippines as a colony after the Spanish surrendered and then the Filipinos fought the Americans? That 200,000 (or possibly 3 times that) Filipinos, mostly civilians, were killed during their years of fighting the Americans for independence?
Search for Philippine American War on the Web, try Wikipedia.org
2) Manhattan (New York City) (alias New Amsterdam) was traded (in the Treaty of Breda, 1677)by the Dutch to the British for a little island named Run.
Pronounced "Roon", now called Pulau Run, it's two miles long and a half mile wide in the Banda Isands in what is now Indonesia. Run was one of the original "Spice Islands" that all of Europe was excited about during the age of exploration and was actually the first British colony. A couple of small islands there were the only source of nutmeg in the entire world. I am now almost directly 800 miles north of "Run" but it's in Indonesia and I'm in the Philippines.
Check out the article on the Web in: Wikipedia.org
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