George Tamas:
CLASS OF 1961
Loyola High SchoolClass of 1961
Los angeles, CA
University of California - Letters & ScienceClass of 1965
Los angeles, CA
Saint Agnes SchoolClass of 1957
Los angeles, CA
George's Story
My life story, short version.
Born in Lithuania during WWII. A brother and a sister died. Lived in a displaced persons camp in Augsburg, Germany till I was 7. Came to the US as a refugee in 1950, to Amarillo, TX. Family relocated to Los Angeles, CA in 1954.
Had 4 unbelievably happy years at St. Agnes school. Great classmates, nuns, and priests. Will always remember them fondly.
Went to Loyola High School, and am still in awe of the quality of education we got there, as well as the quality of my classmates and teachers. Greeks, geeks, and athletics were my world. Well, OK, so were the girls from Immaculate Heart and Conaty.
UCLA next. Big, brilliant, but impersonal. I was a commuter, too poor to live on campus. But I got a great education, resulting in a BA in Mathematics and a Teaching Credential.
Taught Math and Computer Programming for 7 years, first at Lincoln High School, then at Los Alamitos High School, and summers at Cypress College. LOVED teaching and my fabulous students. I could have ended up as Mr. Chips or the leader of the Dead Poet Society, but something new and exciting beckoned.
Computers. I left teaching to start my first software company with 3 of my students, Tamas & Associates, Inc. Built it up over 11 years, then sold it and built my dream home in Montecito, CA, where I still live. Then built 2 other companies and am now on my 4th, Governet.
Governet is the culmination of my life work. We're building a "worldwide curriculum database and network" (Curricunet). We have 150 colleges and universities on our network today, in 12 states and 2 provinces of Canada. We are revolutionizing how colleges will work in the future. Our vision is to be "EDU-Google", holding all the course outlines and programs/degrees of every college/university in the world.
A few comments about my personal life and other interest. I was married right out of UCLA to a wonderful, brilliant woman. But I was too young, too self-centered, and too stupid (like so many of us, learning too late) to make that marriage last. A divorce followed (no kids). And I dove into my work and my writing for a couple of years. I wrote two books of poetry, including "The Geo Letters," which is like my autobiography told in poems/love letters to and abou...Expand for more
t places on Earth that have been my friends/lovers. I was adrift, and seeking to find out who I was, and what was important to me. In spite of growing success in my business, I was really lost.
And then I found myself, oddly enough (or maybe not), when I found my soulmate and now wife of 30 years, Mardee. We fell in lust. Then we became madly in love. She got pregnant. We became best friends. We got married. In that order. Yes, it happens. Isn't life strange and wonderful?
She's like an angel that was sent to save me, give me purpose outside myself. And our children...how could I have known in my years adrift that they were what I had been secretly craving and needing to become a man at last? A father. My real destiny. My greatest accomplishment. My pride.
Brooke, was the first, and the little fetus that changed the entire course of my life. Sprite, dancer, irrepressible, babbling Brooke. A true empath, embodied emotional and spiritual presence.
Then Christopher. World class athlete (God, if I only could have been 6'6" too, maybe I too...no way). First team All American in volleyball in college. US National Volleyball Team. Professional volleyball player. Leader. Principled human being.
And finally, Troy. Our emerging brainiac. Early admission to MIT, and now about to start his senior year, after finishing the summer in Japan, working as an engineering intern. I vaguely remember I was considered smart, but Troy is on a totally different chart. My idol.
And so here I am, summarizing inadequately for those of you still curious about "what ever happened to George?" Well the story is still not finished, but you should know that all of you have been a huge part of it. I should really get down on my knees (and I do, but not in church, rather in my beloved garden, that acre that I shaped with my own hands and my own sweat) to thank each and every one of you for what you have meant to me.
In the end, I see my closing chapter as one where I will write myself into nothingness. Leaving colorful wisps and traces of myself...and all of you. That will be enough heaven for me. And I'm taking all of you with me.
So stay tuned, Classmates. More to come. Perhaps you'll even see it in actual writings. If not, you should feel it in any event.
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