Forrest Koder:  

Never accomplished much in high school....did the minimum to get by. After a year at Southeastern, quit college and went to work in the oil patch for almost a year. Decided I did not want to do that for the rest of my life so to LSU I went and entered the College of Design and majored in Landscape Architecture, a five year program. This is where I learned dedication to something you really wanted as it took 160 semester hours to graduate. Graduated in 1976 with a BLA and married a Cajun Cutie that winter, and have been married for almost 43 years now. It took a stint in the oil field to get me to realize you can use your head or your muscles and the head was a lot easier. and safer...something I never realized in high school. We have been blessed over the years with two beautiful daughters and I retired at 62 and Rita retired at 59. Now we travel and when home walk out the front yard to the South Holston River and fish for rainbow and brown trout while kayaking. Life is good!. The picture is my granddaughter, Miriam or...Expand for more