Jim Price:  

During my high school days, I never quite understood when my parents would say, ¿Where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday when I was _______.¿ I was young, so immature, and anxious to get on with my life. Then, it seem to me time was dragging by painfully slow. Now it's my turn to say, Where did the years go? It seems like only yesterday when I was walking the halls at Columbus High and as I compose my story for the last 50 years, it's ironic that it takes only a few paragraphs. Most of you will not remember me. I was one of the geeks that did not participate in any of the school extracurricular activities and, most of the time, any of the academic activities either. My main interest was hanging out with my friends and working at WRBL-TV after school and on weekends. I did manage to graduate in 1960 but was not allowed to ¿walk¿ with the class due to being one credit short which I made up during the summer of 1960. After completing my needed summer credit, I joined the Air Force to see the world and after training was station at Turner A.F.B., 80 miles from home, in Albany, Georgia until my enlistment was up in 1964. In 1961, I married my childhood sweetheart (a Jordan High graduate) and we rented a small apartment in Albany. When I was discharge from the service, I enrolled in electronics school for two years while working as a studio engineer at WALB-TV in Albany. I continued to work at the T.V. Station until 1969 when I moved to Atlanta and begin working as a Field Service Engineer for Electrodyne, a manufacture of coronary car...Expand for more