George E. "Scott" Dodd II:  

Life I married Nina Kendrick (North high, class of '68) in 1975. Our son Michael, was born in 1980. After graduating from Law School at Gonzaga University in 2005, he currently works as a Labor Relations Assistant for the Pacific Maritime Association headquartered in San Francisco. He was promoted to Personnel Administrator in 2011. My wife, has been in the Title and Escrow business for over 30 years, and continues to work in that field today. She is currently the Vice-President/Escrow Manager for the Stewart Title Corp. in the State of Oregon. I played guitar, organ and bass in various rock bands around the Phoenix area during my high school years until early 70's after graduating from West Phoenix High School in 1967. Last played in the cellar at the old "JD's" nightclub on Scottsdale Road. I also gave guitar lessons for several years both during and after high school. I owned and rode motorcycles from age 14 off and on throughout my life until age 46. I purchased my first car (a 1937 Plymouth) when I was also 14. My second car was a 1948 Chevy Coupe when I was a 15 year old sophomore. When I drove the Chevy, it frequently would not go into reverse when I needed it to, and I needed additional person-power to push it backward out of any parking space that I had pulled in to when it would act up. I wonder if GaryFlindt, Phil Polich, Rich Buchmann, Dan Dierken or any one of a number of other folks remember having to push that car backward out of parking places to get it going? Anyway, I wish I still owned either or both of those cars today. I drove race cars semi-professionally for 11 years starting in the late 60's. I have recently gotten back into racing and have built a drag race car that has a fiberglass replica of a 1923 Model T Ford body. I am now building a supercharged, fuel injected, methanol burning Chevrolet motor for it that will power it to over 200 MPH in approximately 7.0 seconds in the 1/4 mile. I worked as a mechanic from the late 60's until 1972, when I became employed as a firefighter for the Phoenix Fire Department. I was a Certified Paramedic for 11 (I became the 16th person in the State of Ariz. to obtain paramedic certification after the Paramedic Law was enacted by the legislature in 1974) of the 23 years that I was employed there. I promoted through the ranks and retired as a Deputy Chief in 1995, when I accepted appointment as the Fire Chief of the City of Lake Oswego, Oregon Fire Department (a Portland suburb)in 1995. I graduated from Phoenix College with an Associate Degree in Fire Science in 1975, graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. in Industrial Management from ASU in 1983, and earned a Master's Degree in Public Adminisration from ASU in 1994. I also graduated from ASU's two year Certified Public Manager Program from the ASU Advanced Public Executive's Program (APEP)in 1992. I retired from Lake Oswego in 2001, and worked parttime as a Project Analyst/Associate Consultant for an emergency services consulting firm in Wilsonville, Oregon. I formed my own emergency managment consulting business in 2003, George Dodd Consulting, L.L.C., specializing in providing emergency management consulting services for fire departments across the country. I am still married and still reside in Lake Oswego, Oregon and I would greatly welcome hearing from any of my old schoolmates. Unfortunately, I missed the 2006 combined reunion in October due to back surgery, but am eagerly looking forward to attending the next one. In October of 1996, my 10th intervertebral disk ruptured spontaneously, paralyzing me from that point on down. I have been confined to a wheelchair ever since. School I attended Franklin Elementary School at 17th ave. & Mcdowell, K-6 in Phoenix, AZ. I attended Kenilworth grade school (also in Phoenix) for seventh and eighth grades. I attended and graduated from West Phoenix High School, 1963 - 1967. I attended Phoenix (Community) College sporadically from 1967 - 1982, and graduated with an Associate in Fire Science from there in 1975. I attended ASU from 1980 until 198...Expand for more