Jeff West:
CLASS OF 1967
Westside High SchoolClass of 1967
Memphis, TN
Jeff's Story
Married. Wife is Karen. Two sons, Jeremy and Danny. One living in CA and the other in FL. Three grand children, two in CA (16 and 13) and 1 in FL (8). I have retired as a Commander from the US Navy after serving in the submarine service. My last billet was Commanding Officer of NR COMSUBRON16 DET108. I have also retired from the nuclear power industry finally as the assistant plant manager at the Watts Bar nuclear plant. I held an NRC senior operator license for the CE design plant and a senior operator certification for the Westinghouse 4 loop design. I formly retired in 2004, but hade been doing contract work for the nuclear industry. I have wrtten 6 or 7 technical reports for the Electric Power Research institute in opreations, engineering and maintenance. I finally retired at the end of 2015.
My hobbies are varied. I write songs and play guitar. I dabble some with the 5 string banjo and still enjoy playing percussion instuments like the cajon, bodhran...Expand for more
and bones. My wife and I do Renaissance Fairs and Steampunk fairs all over the US. I do all our leather work, and even learned how to make a turn style boot in 2013. I have made about a dozen pairs of boots since then. I studied how to make cowboy boots from a master boot maker in 2017. I made Karen her pair of pink cowboy boots. I have made 5 additional pairs and have three under construction. I also do chain maile. My wife taught me to sew and I now make all my costumes for Ren Fairs and Steampunk events. I made a kilt, doublet, boots, sporran and tam all from black leather with red trim.
Around the house I enjoy having my garden and the canning and cooking of things I grow. The house is on the Tennessee River and I enjoy kayaking when I get the chance. If I was to describe myself in one word it would be busy. There just are not enough hours in the day to get all the things I want to do done.
I know there is a lot more, but that is a different story.
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