James Standridge:
CLASS OF 1958
Central High SchoolClass of 1958
Knoxville, TN
Central Technical InstituteClass of 1961
Kansas city, MO
Inskip Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Knoxville, TN
James's Story
Life
I left K town in 59 and didn't go back except for visits. Married 53 years to Adelyn Garofalo (Utica, NY), we have two children, a boy and a girl. We have 5 grandchildren, 3 boys and 2 girls. I retired after 23 years from Motorola's Connected Home Solutions Division as a Project Manger traveling all over the country. We have lived in Lakeland Florida since 1981. I also went to Inskip. I still see my friend of probably 65+ years, James Watkin from Knoxville when he and his wife Barb come down to their time share in Fla. I'm jpsfla on yahoo. I was into Ham radio for years but sort of inactive now K4MED. Only retired for 1 1/2 years and went back to work for Verizon on the FiOS project.
Now we are great grand parents with 8lb 10oz 21 inch boy!!
Had both knees replaced, wow the amount of pain I put up with for...Expand for more
years is not there now. Verizon sold the Florida Fios system to Frontier effective 4/1/16 and that means me! Got to be nuts to be still working again for the last 3 years.ð my 185 bowling average has really suffered over the last rew years because of snapping my bicep bowling and the bad knees. :(. One year in on the knee replacement and hoping my bowling comes back again but what the heck, I am 75 after all just glad to be still bowling. :)
College
It was a very intense time, working afternoons and evenings parking cars and nights at KCMK-FM radio station while trying to stay awake in class. Of course in Electronics lab when your classmate tossed you a capacitor charged with 450 volts, it tended to wake you up. Luckily I was more serious about studying in College than high school but we did have some fun too.
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