Gary Knight:  

I was probably best known at Stuart for having been a football player (which is certainly true as the Associated Press voted me 1st team All State) but that omits my membership in the choir, in 3 honor societies, and as freshman class treasurer. I went to the Naval Academy where I badly hurt my shoulder playing 150 lb football, so I concentrated on being a lacrosse goalie and singing in the Catholic Choir. However, I was not an engineer, so while always having done well at math, applying it to engineering was my come uppance. I taught sailing after graduation to new plebes and then went to Navy flight school. I was about half-way to my Wings of Gold when God take a hand and I suffered a major auto accident that cost me my leg and my career. I returned to McLean to live with my folks until I could walk again, then moved in with classmate Ron Brown in a party apartment. I got a job on Capitol Hill and spent 26 years in the Washington milieu as a lobbyist for 3 trade associations, a congressional relations specialist with 3 administrations, and entered p...Expand for more