Larry Koch:  

I’m gonna do this “story” in stages, so bear with me. Graduated with all you great kiddos and spent 2 years at Nassau Community College getting all those pesky liberal arts classes out of the way. Then, with one suitcase in hand, I boarded an airplane to Phoenix and planned to spend 2 more years at ASU. Problem was, the university transferred all my 62 credits, but the college of engineering only accepted 11. So it took me another 3 1/2 years to graduate. By then, I was married for 6 months, had two cars and an apt full of stuff. I got my first real job with Granite Construction Co. in Washington, DC. Spent 5 years there building various first sections of the WMATA subway system. We cranked out our first kid (boy) in Fairfax, VA. I guess I made a name for myself at Granite, because they moved me to California to be part of the Helms project management team. I bought my first home in Shaver Lake, CA, which was about 30 miles downhill from the project site. The project was a pumped storage ...Expand for more