Doug Browning:
CLASS OF 1986
Klein High SchoolClass of 1986
Klein, TX
Doug's Story
Life
Doug Browning was born the son of a poor sharecropper. Wait, thatÂs a different story. Actually, he was born on October 25, 1968 in the Champaign/Urbana area of Illinois. His childhood was filled with music (band and piano), sports (football, baseball and soccer) as well as many happy memories of holidays spent in Illinois with his extended family. These all transpired while Doug and his family traversed the Midwest from Illinois eastward to New Jersey and abruptly moving at age ten to Houston Texas which has remained his home for the past 25 years.
Doug graduated from Klein High School in 1986 and attended the University of Houston. He was in the college marching band as well as the Pep band for the basketball team, the Cougar Brass. After a great tour of France as member of the band, and a desire to branch out a bit, he began a career as a rugby player. After two years of playing a high impact contact sport spawning a couple of concussions (or maybe just because he always heard the beat of a different drum) he decided to postpone any further college education and serve his country by enlisting in the Army in 1990.
The reality of the situation was that as a young man, Doug was unsure of his future goals in life and wanted to do something constructive and useful. As a result, he ended up as a Korean Interpreter for the US Army. One memorable result of his language skills was a trip to a Champaign, Illinois Korean restaurant where he displayed his language skills to the obvious astonishment of his relatives. After four years in service, with 15 months in Korea, Doug decided against a career in the Army and returned to finish his education. After graduat...Expand for more
ing with a Management Information Systems degree, Doug went to work for Compaq Computer Corp. as a test engineer. As a younginÂ, Doug was fascinated by all things electronic. This interest, combined with an almost fiendish delight in taking said electronic things apart, was clearly an asset in this early work.
It was during this time that, while working as a volunteer for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, he met the woman he was to fall in love with. As usual, it happened when he wasnÂt looking for it. After playing coy for some time, he went out with a fun loving and attractive woman by the name of Chelsey and was smitten with her. Their first date started with dinner at Pappadeaux Willowbrook and ended with the first movie they saw, The Matrix. She has taken care of and nurtured him since then, even babying him after he had surgery to repair his thrice broken nose (only once did a break occur during a rugby game)! They both enjoy going to the movies, hanging out with their animals (mostly doggies and horsies), and strongly believe that tubing down Texas rivers is a not-to-be-overlooked pleasure that most folks from out of state just donÂt ÂgetÂ. To shorten up a long story, our hero now finds himself fathering a gregarious and energetic thirteen year old named Jordan, with whom he attends Boy Scout functions, camping trips and acts as a general chauffeur. He is also continually being pushed around by the many four legged creatures whose home he seems to live in, including three dogs, two horses, and a guinea pig (and a partridge in a pear treeÂ
) In essence, he has become a model for the kind of country and western songs that he used to make fun of.
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