Greg Trook:  

Dear Classmates: It's been an interesting life so far I have to say... I'll try to give you a quick run down... My wife Deb and I are living in northeast Lincoln, just south of Nebraska Weslyan University. We have been here about 10 years now. We just celebrated our 30th anniversary last fall. We have 4 children, Nick 28, Bryan 25, Shanda 20, and Jayson 18. Deb has had a small home care business for the elderly for 17 years now, and also works part time at a Sorority across the street from out house. I am currently a Field Applications Engineer for Bosch/Telex here in Lincoln. I do 911 radio system and console designs, as well as work out technical problems for customers all over North America, and will also occasionally be working in Asia and the Middle East in the near future. We have lived in Omaha, Wichita, Kansas, and Dallas, Texas, but ended up back in Nebraska. (Found out it isn't so bad after all!) We have been back here about 20 years now. Over the years I have had a dual career, first with avionics and aircraft instrument maintenance for 10 years. Later I shifted to public safety two-way radio systems . In between there I had about two years working full time for myself. I took a 6 year part time business and tried to make it go full time. I did purchasing and reselling of government surplus electronics, scientific, and medical equipment. I purchased, tested, repaired, and resold, nationally and internationally. Later on I was reselling military aircraft parts and aircraft ground support equipment. Eventually the business failed due to insufficient sales volume. Some hard but valuable lessons learned. In the mid 80s we moved to Sterling, Nebraska to an 80 acre farm, way out in the middle of nowhere. At the time we considered it a "camp out" that never ended. We lived in an old farm house built in the 1860s, (with very little updating since it was built). It did have indoor plumbing, and electricity, which was nice. That is where our children spent their early years, and we all enjoyed it. It made them "tough"! We had a collection of animals that would rival a zoo. In the early 90s I accepted a job with the City of Lincoln radio shop, maintaining the 911 Center and county wide public safety radio system. I was forced to leave the 1860s Sterling house and move into Lincoln and back into the "20th century". We still miss the country. More recently, I worked and commuted to Omaha for the last two years before taking the present job with Bosch. As you can imagine commuting was time consuming and expensive. Besides that, NASCAR was starting to take an interest in me because of the driving skills I developed with my daily commutes on I-80. :^D I was on call for almost every 911 center within a 150 mile radius of Omaha. I had plenty of middle of the night calls. It was,...Expand for more