Steven Owens:  

To all who read these ramblings Greetings! I'm not sure if more than a few former TriValley alumni would even remember me. After all it's not like I was an academic prodigy or an athletic standout. I actually think I did a great job of flying under the radar during the years I spent at TV. Leaving after my freshman year in 69 though proved to be perhaps the best thing for me. Not that I didn't enjoy TV or my peers, but moving to New Mexico really opened my eyes and provided me with a broader "weltanschauung" than would have resulted had I remained in Sullivan County. And it isn't that I made the most out of the new opportunity at every turn, but we are, after all, only human and part of the human experience is in the mistakes that we at times make. As far as my years at West Mesa. moving from a small school with a class of about 70 to the largest class in the state of over 500 was more than a bit daunting but it certainly helped vault me into something more than I was or would have been. My parents and three of my sibs still live in the Albuquerque area so I get to visit there on a semi-regular basis. As a matter of fact I will be there the first weekend of 2010 for a brief visit. So from my TV days and 40+ years on now and I can report, for those interested, that I retired after 28 years of active duty in the Air Force that started in the Vietnam era and ran through the Gulf conflict. I was fortunate to spend 9 years in Europe, a year in Korea and visited many other places outside the continental US , both exotic and not-so-exotic. For the bad, I've been married twice, divorced o...Expand for more