Michael Quan:  

Update August 23, 2014 - (notice the sparse, grey hair now!) After MHS I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate NY. Upon graduation from RPI, I got a job at Grumman Aerospace in Bethpage where I worked for a couple of years. Then Grumman sent me to southern California for a year to Rockwell International during the start up of the Space Shuttle program. To make a long story shorter, when Grumman recalled me back to NY, I quit and stayed in California. I went to work at Rockwell, which was later acquired by Boeing. I worked first on the Space Shuttle program for 28 years, then on the new GPSIIF global positioning satellite program for the last 12 years. I was fortunate to have traveled a lot on the job all over the U.S., Japan and Russia. In 1978 I married Suzanne Smith and we had 3 children, 2 boys and a girl. They have all graduated from college and have jobs. Steve is in Hong Kong working for a NYC mutual fund, Stephanie is married and in Dallas and Andrew is in San Francisco. Suzanne and I are both retired and are living in Brea, a small city in Orange County (the OC), Calif. We are t...Expand for more