Louis Rowberry:  

CLASS OF 1975
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Lynnwood, WA
City UniversityClass of 1986
Bellevue, WA
Seattle, WA

Louis's Story

Well lets see, MY story, well here goes: After Meadowdale, I attended Ron Bailie school of broadcasting graduating in 1977, receiving my First Phone license ( First class FCC radio License) with the intent of becoming a radio announcer, attended Bates Technical school in Tacoma in their advanced radio studies, during that time I was sending airchecks and my qualification to different radio stations in the country and working in the lumber industry and going to school towards my BA in communications, not getting any offers in the radio biz, so around spring 1978, I applied to work at the Boeing company figuring I better get some work to hold me until the radio jobs came around, they sent me to school to learn to work on airplanes, during this time still wanting to go in the radio biz, I had a lot of paperwork going to different radio stations and so forth, BUT then in June of 1978 I received about four radio offers, one was in New York City ( At WCBS) upstate New York Plattsburgh (WIRY), and one in California, AND KIRO in Seattle, KiIRO was looking for a board operator when they still played records before they went all news and interviewed for that job, then Boeing called me to start work in July of 1978, at that point I had to...Expand for more
make a quick decision, go to work at Boeing, or KIRO Radio, WELL I chose Boeing, it paid a little bit better then KIRO at the time, so I went to Boeing, It was only going to be a summer job for me as my intent was to go back to school at the end of 1978, WELL it was a VERY LONG summer, I stayed at Boeing for 33 1/2 years working in both the hourly and management ranks while I was there, retiring in 2011, still young to enjoy my life, I'm married to a beautiful woman who is my soul mate and guiding light in my life who was very instrumental in my retiring at a very young age, my wife and I built two homes in the Philippines one of which my wife and I are in the process of installing a swimming pool, we live in the Philippines six months out of the year, we have two daughters, one is a quality assurance inspector in the computer industry in Bellevue, and the other works in Marysville. My closing thoughts, life is VERY short sometimes and it gets shorter as time rolls by and it sure doesn't seem like it will be 40 YEARS since school next year (2015 ) it seems like just yesterday however a LOT of water has run under the bridge since then for me so enjoy life, have fun and kick back and maybe I might show up for the 40th next year
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