Donald Mullins:
CLASS OF 1968
Valley High SchoolClass of 1968
Valley station, KY
Western Kentucky University - Graduate SchoolClass of 1980
Bowling green, KY
Western Kentucky UniversityClass of 1974
Bowling green, KY
Hewitt-Trussville High SchoolClass of 1968
Trussville, AL
Donald's Story
Nicknames > DR and Donnie
I Grew up in Roebuck Plaza and went to Hewitt Trussville HS in Alabama until my daddy got transferred to Ky in 1964. Here I graduated in 1968 from Valley HS. Went in the service, came home and worked my way through college in Bowling Green at Western Ky University . Served an Industrial .maint apprenticeship in a union plant at night while working 2nd shift and going to college in the daytime
Got a Masters in Industrial technology , and a boat load of other industry related courses through the years as well as 27 welding certifications but I still most enjoy getting dirty and working with my hands.
A few things on my bucket list are to learn to cook , make wine and to own a place on Guntersville Lake in Alabama. I grew up fishing and camping up on Town Creek and I still love that lake.
I'm happily married to Marietta who is prettier ,smarter, and a whole lot nicer than me . She tells me this every day. Ha.
I'm a father, a step father, a grandpa, and I'm enjoying life. I am blessed with 3 sons and , 2 step sons that would make anyone proud, 5 granddaughters, and 3 grandsons .. Very proud of my family!!
I retired from the Army Reserve in 1995 and in the summer of 2003 , I retired from Industrial Maintenance Management and began working for an Engineering consulting company and teaching part time in the Manufacturing Technology Department at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg Ind. Sort of funny, I goofed off in high school and college and couldn't wait to get out. Now I teach it. I teach Electricians, HVAC Techs, robotics Techs, and Maintenance men for companies like Pillsbury, Lou. Water Company, Ford, GE, and about all of the chemical companies ...Expand for more
in the area as well as some adults that are retraining due to plant closings. Being with those people that lost their jobs humbles me. A couple of us instructors have been through that ourselves so we spend a lot of time on the phone with companies making sure our people get a good shot at being re-employed as soon as possible.
I hope to work for many more years because I sat around about 3 weeks after I retired in 2003 and went nuts!!!
Currently living on a mini-farm near Elizabethtown Ky and pursuing my life long hobbies of tracing my family's Confederate Civil War history, guitar, mandolin and banjo pickin, building grand baby toys ,Cowboy style fastdraw pistol shooting, black powder rifle shooting, and fixing rusty treasures . Stuff that takes both wood and metal to build. I like building the hard stuff, red hot steel and hammers ,old school style.
I'm a animal lover and I seem to come home some times with a new one in the front seat of the truck. Once I came home with 3 baby goats about 3 days old ,so small and fragile that I had to cover them with my coat to keep them warm while I drove home. I've raised chickens ,turkeys, rabbits, sheep, goats ,a calf that would get scared at night and jump the fence ,come up on the patio and would bellow until I came out and wrapped up in a blanket and slept on the glider until daylight with him sleeping next to the glider . Currently have pigmy goats that think they are dogs.
I'm a long time member of the Kentucky Crafts Guild, Masonic Lodge F&AM, Scottish Rite, Sigma Nu Fraternity, Sons of Confederate Veterans, , The American Legion and I'm a KY Colonel. Still Blonde, huh well now white and blonde, and even have some of it left. Ha!
Life is good!!
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