Carl Lindberg:  

OCT 10 Update: Another sad note, earlier this week my sister's husband Warren died of cancer. While there are many joys associated with becoming a senior citizen, one "downer" is the not so occasional deaths of old friends, classmates, and work colleagues. Most die of "natural causes" rather than accidents, but the number at least for me, has been increasing. For those of you still out there, Greetings and wishes for health and happiness! AUG 2016 updates: FIRST, I'm sad to report that my brother-in-law, was killed in a crash as his airplane landed at an airport earlier this month.. He will be missed. SECOND, Garrel and I attended an "All Class" reunion of her Bothell HS (WA) We had a great time when we attended several years ago and again had more of the same more of the same. This kind of reunion gives you opportunities to catch up with HS friends that were in different classes ahead or behind you. THIRD: One of Garrel's HS classmates and her husband hosted a get together at the Mariners-Yankees BB game this week.Wow the last time that I saw the Yankees play was in 1955 when my Dad was stationed at Mitchell Field on Long Island. He took me to a Yankees game and a a Brooklyn Dodgers game. Good Times, Good Friends,I wish some of the same to all my Classmate Friends/Classmates! WOW!!! I finally, bought a digitized 1962 Tartan Yearbook. Since I was only at Highlands HS for my Sophomore year (Dad was stationed at McClellan AFB), I had the 1960 Tartan, but unfortunately it did not post our names with our class photos, so over the years, I still recognized faces, but had no clue to names!!! Now I can connect names with faces again---I wish that I had this yearbook earlier and then I could have joined in the 50th Reunion with some focus on re-connecting with some you from the Class of '62 that I now remember (by name! LOL!!!). Greetings, especially to those of you that I crossed paths with over the years (What have you been up to???). I would really like to hear from you and learn how your journey through life is going. I often think about many of people that I had the pleasure of meeting over the years. As a USAF "Brat", I got to experience life in many regions of the US and Canada. And later in the USAF myself, I had the opportunity to visit the Far East (mainly Japan), as I was stationed at the PACOM Elint Center, Fuchu AS,Japan. Then I was stationed at Offutt AFB (on the Intelligence Staff in the underground SAC HQ) near Omaha, NB. I left the USAF after one tour and went on to graduate studies, got married, started a family and a career in city planning. I attended my 50th high school reunion at my first of four high schools, which was Armijo High School in Fairfield, CA. I helped the reunion committee find over half of the original 48 missing classmates. I also did some calculations, a full 119 out of 372 of my freshman classmates did not stay around for graduation. I believe that like me, their USAF Dad was transferred before graduation. I enjoyed reconnection with those that did make the reunion, and have resumed searching for several of my lost friends from that era. For those that I found, it has been a great reunion. And sad to report that one old friend drove up to see me in Washington before he died of cancer a year later. Time is short, don't put off re-connecting, it is worth the effort. After the service, I enjoyed several careers; city planning (Missouri, Ohio, Oregon & Washington); industrial engineering, & training/coaching within the Boeing Company; consulting (Planning & Development, Org. & Leadership Dev.), and; finally college teaching (had opportunities to teach in Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, and around Seattle) with a local private University, where I was also involved as a faculty development coach. I have two sons and we stay connected; Eric (Kings Point 1994) is an international logistics marketing executive and lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay Area; and, Kristofer, after "driving" a tug boat earning money for grad school, he completed his MA at NYU and is working with a maritime industry firm in Seattle. I'm very proud of these "kids" and sometimes am challenged to keep tract of them as they fly off to far reaches of the world where ever their jobs take them, Eric just came back from a strategy meeting in Europe and Kris was up in the Aleutians Islands helping to salvage an oil drilling platform that ran aground. My wife, Garrel (a retired Social Studies high school teacher) and I have been enjoying travel. In2017, my wife and I took a Holland America cruise up to Alaska, and earlier in 2016, that travel included my first cruise as we took a Holland American ship up to visit Glacier national Park and several cities in Southern Alaska. We were so lucky to have great weather for most of this trip. We like traveling almost anywhere, whether it is Europe, or over the Cascade Mountains to our vacation home on the East side of the Cascade Mtns. After completing this vacation home, we planted a number of fruit trees (various apple, cherry varieties and one Red Globe peach tree) in a "hobby" orchard. We enjoy hosting cider pressing weekends and making making pies,jams, etc. from the fruits and berries in our garden ---and I hope to spend more time fishing (bass, trout, salmon & walleyes mostly) and rock hounding (gold prospecting anyone??--a great way to use my Geography/Geology co...Expand for more