David Hadley:  

CLASS OF 1970
Seattle, WA

David's Story

Life Life has been good. Still married to Karen after more than 37 years of being together, so obviously she is too busy to change. We have four children, (2 boys and 2 girls) and have two grandchildren from our oldest daughter Marci. I have been fortunate to have traveled alot, and worked overseas in Saudi Arabia from 1981 through 1985. We still live in Arizona where I have a bio-medical engineering business, and we are very active in our community. I became a Muslim in 1982 and since then made some pretty drastic lifestyle changes that have improved the family life considerably. Since 1986 I have been acting as a media spokesperson for the Phoenix area Muslims and am the director of a local Masjid. Who would have guessed! I look back on my years of high school with many fond memories, and some that I wish I could forget, but that period was an important part of growing up and I made some freindships that have lasted all these years. There are still many people who I haven't seen in many years that I would love to talk to again. It is nice to hear from old friends and learn how their lives have progressed. I wish all those that read this the very best in every way. School The best times for me were playing sports and going to the dances. I don't think I was a very good student despite the fact that I received a report card for my final year that was nearly all A's, (PE class, teachers assistant, Football, Health class, Home economics), it is a miracle I could read and write. Although I did have trouble with math once I went to college. I have a lot of fond memories of the wonderful girls at Sealth that helped me grow from a boy into a young man, and I wish I could say something nice to each one that put up with me. ( I owe quite a few apologies as well.) If I could do it all over again I would certainly try to be better in many ways. Less drinking and more studying would be my ...Expand for more
first priority. College After getting out of the Air Force in the Spring of 1974, I went to Devry Institute of Technology where I received my BS in Electonic Engineering Technology. I had been an electronic instructor in the Air Force prior to going to school, so I did pretty well, and ended up with a 3.83 gpa and was on the Deans Honor list every year. After getting my BS degree, I went to Arizona State University where I studied Microcomputer System Design in graduate school before being recruited to work in Saudi Arabia as the Chief of Bio Medical Engineering for a Saudi company in 1981. Upon getting the offer to work overseas, which I took after watching Indiana Jones in Raiders of the lost Ark, and realized how dull my life was, I left graduate school and went off to make some money. Later I attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design to gain more knowledge about hospital design, which I spend some time at currently. Military The Military did make a major change in my life. It provided the structure needed to correct many of the human flaws I developed as a result of little or no guidance growing up. In boot camp I was with a couple of Sealth classmates who I have not seen since. Mike Beaty was one of them, and I wish I knew where he was so I could say hello. We had fun and did well because we were in very good shape at the time. I ended up teaching electronics at the Air Force training facility in Illinois after about a year of working on Aircraft in different parts of the US and Germany. I later spent nearly six months in Thialand supporting the aircraft performing bombing raids into Viet Nam just before getting out of the Air Force in 1974. That was a very difficult experience for a young man to deal with. I was very glad to get out of the military, they asked me to stay in longer, but I was very much opposed to the war by then and was happy to resume a normal life.
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