Dan Summerall:  

Life Let me bring you up to date on what has happened to us since I left Tech in 1972. Patti and I were married before I graduated (we married in 70). We are still very happily married and have two girls, Jennifer-31 and Sarah-28. While still at Tech, you might remember that we had the draft lottery on TV. I was fortunate enough to be #3 in the lottery and joined the Navy after graduation. Who would have thought that 26 years later that I would be retiring after a very exciting and rewarding career in the Navy? I went off to Pensacola, FL for flight training and began flying carrier-based aircraft (C-2 cargo and E-2 airborne early warning). After Pensacola, we went to Corpus Christi where I went through advanced training for multi-engine aircraft. While there, we found out that Patti was pregnant. We went from there to Norfolk, VA for training in the aircraft I was to eventually fly. While we were in Norfolk, VA for training, Patti blessed us with Jennifer. She had her in the Navy’s oldest hospital in Portsmouth, VA. After delivery, she was in the glassed in porch of the hospital. It was a lovely place! Patti and I first went overseas to Naples, Italy and spent 2 ½ years there before coming back to the US. We had a wonderful time in Europe and got to see a lot of beautiful places. We came back to the US and were stationed in San Diego, CA for most of the next 18 years. I was an instructor in San Diego for the E-2 which was very similar to what I flew overseas. After that, I went to a squadron and did a cruise on the USS Constellation for just about 7 months. That was very difficult being away from Patti, Jenni and Sarah who joined us soon after we got to San Diego. We spent the next 1-½ years Monterey, CA where I went to the Navy’s postgraduate school. Following that, we returned to San Diego and our home which we had rented out while we were gone and I joined the same squadron that I was in before we went to Monterey (I already had t...Expand for more