CHARLES CARROLL:
CLASS OF 1969
Alamo Heights High SchoolClass of 1969
San antonio, TX
Seoul American High SchoolClass of 1972
Seoul,
Kaiserslautern American High SchoolClass of 1969
Kaiserslautern,
Ramstein Junior High SchoolClass of 1969
Ramstein afb,
Wineteer Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
Wichita, KS
CHARLES's Story
All those survey questions don't allow for what I really like to do with my time. I practice and teach Shaolin Hung Gar Kung Fu and Chinese Lion Dance. No, no boxes to check for those activities. WBKungfu.com is where I call home.
I actually dropped out of Alamo Hts in April of '69. I never really felt like a part of it having just moved there from Germany in '67. I did make some great friends though I've not heard from or seen any of them in many many years. Debbie Munoz found me a couple of years ago on the net. But I remember Nan Rojas, Susan Yerkes, Alan Hardy, others with whom I've lost contact.
I joined the Army in '69 at the age of 17. I volunteered for Viet Nam but I was too young and they sent me to Korea. After that I spent time in New Jersey. After the Army it was just too hard to settle down. I had many opportunities that I just turned my back on and ended up hitch-hiking back and forth across the US from coast to coast to coast. I married a gal in Jersey who ran off with her smack dealer before the first year was gone.
Later, I married Gina Worthy, another AHHS alum, but between the drugs and alcohol and my inability to grow up, that marriage ended tragically with two daughters who now think I'm the devil.
I went to New Jersey with the drummer of my...Expand for more
band, supposedly to pick up a lead guitar player, but that fell through, the drummer's van got repossesed and I got stuck in New Brunswick in the winter, sleeping on roof-tops.
I got a job at Rutgers University and eventually got my BA in English and Communications from there. I went on to Rutgers Law School because my dad always wanted me to be a lawyer. What a mistake that was. I got a job as an associate lecturer with Rutgers through Cooperative Extension and found myself teaching low-income residents of Newark how to turn vacant city lots into community gardens.
At an annual Community Garden Conference in Seattle, I met my current and hopefully last wife, Barb Pacey, who was from Mequon, Wisconsin, a little town north of Milwaukee. Next I am selling insurance, working up the chairs in a masonic lodge, teaching Chinese Kungfu and going to Packer games at Lambeau.
Life's funny.
The latest news is that I graduated from high school last month! Texas wouldn't recognize my USAFI GED scores because there was no section on Texas history. Now I have a diploma from Wisconsin and the next week another one arrived from Washington DC!
Also my debut album COLD STEEL RAIL by Paint the Moon is available on all digital music platforms starting Black Friday, November 26th, 2021.
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