Morris Windhorst:
CLASS OF 1979
Seymour High SchoolClass of 1979
Seymour, IN
Indiana University - Purdue UniversityClass of 1988
Indianapolis, IN
Morris's Story
Life
After 3 years of Active Duty as a Military Paratrooping Paralegal, I returned to Indiana. I married a college sweetheart while I was on Active duty at Fort Bragg. We were married 8 years with no children.
I returned to finish my degree in business from Indiana University while working for the Department of Defense Procurement division. After graduation, I worked for a not for profit that assisted corporations identify and develop minority owned businesses to enable the corporations to make more purchases from the minority businesses.
From there I joined a quasi-state organization to assist all small business in receiving government contracts as well as contracts with major corporations that were defense contractors. While with this organization, I developed a commercial marketing program and also developed an statewide entrepreneurial program that is still in use today throughout the state.
In 1999, I left Indiana to develop program in Florida for a series of facilities that were intended to build businesses around NASA technologies that evolved from Kennedy Space Center.
After a year, I moved on to a community that was developing a similar facility to build business around technologies that were developed at the University of Florida. UF was the home of Gatorade. They were looking to develop more business opportunities similar to that as well as a diabetes drug that had added significantly to the economy there.
Because my mother was terminally ill, I wanted to return to Indiana. Muncie was developing a similar program based on technology business opportunities developed at Ball State University as well as opportunities that might evolve from ideas generated by others from within the community. The idea here is to help replace the loss of manufacturing jobs with high-tech corporations that provide high wage jobs for the unemployed left behind by the exodus of manufacters in Indiana.
Between my civilian and military careers, I have been able to see most of this country and many part of the world to include:
* 33 cities in Germany
* Paris for New Years
* Belgium
* Netherlands (Amsterdam. ( :)
* England
* Luxemburg
* Poland (to include krokwo, Berkenval, Auschwitz
* Korea (to include Puson, Soeul, Tague and the 38th parallel where Korean cousins 50 years later still stare each other down waiting to kill one another)
After 12 years of divorce, I'm still available. ( :
College
I had a varied college experience
I attend what was then Indiana Central University from 80-82. My concentration was business, but I ended up taking 18 1/2 hours that included voice lessons, choir, and swing choir, though I never participated in any of these in high school. I love...Expand for more
d the diversed of experiences at the small college, but it cost twice as much and only had half the name of IU.
82-83, I attended IU where I had the diversed of courses available in a 'so called' liberal arts university, but was locked in to the core courses of the college of business. I completed what was then referred to as A-Core and B-Core. I lost interest in education while there and found great interest in this sweet blonde with big brown eyes that later became my wife.
To finish paying for school, I joined the army which accounts for a three year break in my college education.
When we returned to Indiana, we settled in Indianapolis where I finished my degree in marketing in 1988.
Military
* Basic training from January to Marh 1984 at Fort Knox, Kentucky
* Paralegal Training from March to May 1984 at Fort Harrison, Indiana
* Airborne Training June 1984 at Fort Benning, Georgia
* Assigned to the 313th Military Intelligence Battalion, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina 1984-1987
* Joined the Army Reserve at Fort Harrison, Indiana 1997 in support of the active duty legal assistance office until 1996 with various major commands changing while our primary mission remained the same to provide legal assistance to Fort Harrison and all reserve units in Indiana deploying or having potential of deploying
* Attended Air Assaulst school in 1991 to learn to repel from helicopters. Very proud to were both the airborne and air assault badges. Neither were easy to achieve
* During about the same time, achieve additional training as an army court-reporter
* 96-97. Volunteered in support of Bosnia. Due to my designation as one of the few qualified Army Court-Reporters, I was lucky enough to remain in Kaiserslautern, Germany as the 21 Theater Army Command's Court Report reponsible for most military court-martials in southern Germany. During this time I was fortunate to travel most of Europe on weekends and long holidays, to include parts of Eastern Europe
* 1997- took promotion as Sergeant First Class as the acting First Sergeant for a newly formed Army Reserve unit that support South Korea's 8th Army during its three major exercises.
* 1999- moved to Florida where I contined to support operations in Germany, but directly aligned with the 3rd Armor Division that was first to be deployed to Afganistan.
* 2003 - Returned to Indiana due to my mother's terminal illness, where I was again the Non-Commission Officer in Charge of a unit whose operations primarily supported Germany and provided legal assistance to all Army Reserve units being or potentially being deployed in support of Afganistan and Iraq.
* February 2004, retired after 21 years in the same month that my mother passed.
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