John Craig:  

Life Since graduation in 1966, I was married in 1968 to Jan Kennedy of '66 WHS class; served in Vietnam one year (68-69) and had a chance to return in 1997; had three children (one girl and two boys - 1972 to 1978); became a orthotist-prosthetist in 1974 and 1976; moved to Dallas, Texas, where I became a partner in a business which was sold in 1991; semi-retired in 2000 to do international humanitarian work; went back to work in late August of 2002 in Abilene, Texas; and "adopted" military family grandchildren in 2004 - seven. In 1989 I was a co-founder of a Latin American medical rehabilitation organization which helped to deliver continuing education for medical rehabilitation professionals and users regarding prosthetic and orthotic services. That organization has morphed into Uniendo Fronteras which continues to have biennial conferences in different countries in Latin America. I have visited about thirty-six countries in Asia, the Americas, Europe, Africa, as well as India doing international consulting for USAID, working on an international study for ISPO while serving as an executive board member of this group then headquartered in Denmark on the Jaipur Limb which was developed in India, participating in international consensus and educational conferences, participating in establishing national prosthetic and orthotic rehabilitation policies, organizing or participating in mission projects, and speaking at various conferences and universities. In 2010 I started a prosthetics and orthotics office in Brownwood, Texas. I served as program chair for international medical rehabilitation meetings in Cancun, Mexico, in February 2007 and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in January of 2009. I also guest lectured on prosthetics and orthotic topics at several universities and in various medical rehabilitation meetings in the US and abroad. Our youngest son and his wife now have a girl(6) and a boy (16 mos). She teaches at TCU in FW, Texas. I now work about 16-20 hours per week. I continue to be involved in international humanitarian work serving on the board of Limbs International (El Paso) and visited Quito, Ecuador in October of 2014. In June of 2016 I participated as a speaker and workshop instructor at Uni...Expand for more