Edward Imhoff:  

I only attended QA for a year, Fall of 71 through Spring of 72. Others might remember me from Programs Related to St. Coletta School in Jefferson where we worked with Sr.M Sheila O.S.F. (Gone On to be with The Lord now these few years) While I was at QA I was freshman class president because nobody wanted the Job so it got handed to me. The Big accomplishment was that we raised 13 Bucks (or was it $9.75)at a bake sale. I played J V Football, Nowhere else would a skinny kid like I was have a chance to play organized Ball. After that last game, my freshman year, I never put on a football uniform again. I would miss that. I Graduated 1975 from Monona Grove. I joined the Army. I was invited to attend West Point...An Honor I declined. I became a Training NCO for The First Infantry Division. When My time was done I attended a Baptist College as a theology major. I worked on The Kill Floor at Oscar Mayer (Back when they had a Kill Floor, I worked On the Oil Fields in Oklahoma, I worked for years in Hospice Nursing, I've been a Baker, I write Novels, Last Christmas I was a Mall Santa in a shopping mall out in California. I was an odd kid. That's all you'll remember. If you even read this far. Different, Weird... There were only a couple of intrepid souls that were brave enough to call me friend. I'm not Weird guys, I am and was then a Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor. I had a sledding accident when I was eight, Feb, 1965. Brain Surgery was in it's toddler stage. I underwent a craniotomy. I lived. That was the good news. I Have from that day had dead gray matter. I was encouraged to ignore my disability. Nobody in those days knew anything about Rehab for a Brain Injury survivor anyway. It became my invisible Disability. I'm about 75% smarter than most of you, (Well Except for you Tom Anthony and of course Noei. (Remember when Noei sold his one book of raffle tickets and Fr. Heinrich drew his name out of the hat for the hundred dollar drawing, I can still hear him..."What Are The O...Expand for more