Patrick Loeber:  

Hello all just to catch everyone up of what has happened since I have last seen everyone. After high school I enrolled in the University of Southern Colorado and pursued a degree in Psychology, I thought I wanted to help people with their problems. I enjoyed my time in College, several former Florence students were there when I was there including, Shawn Cruzen, Greg Conover, Mary Stephensen, Molly Cleaver, Kelly Morgan and others. I developed a few new friendships while at USC and have enjoyed keeping in touch with a few of those friends as well. After graduation from USC I went to work for the Colorado Department of Corrects at the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center after a year at DOC I wanted to use more of my psychology degree and went to work for St. Lukes Hospital in one of the locked psychiatric wards for about three years. Following that I continued working as a counselor for the Mental Health Corporation of Denver, Arapahoe County Mental Health Center, And Jefferson Center for Mental Health, during these years I had the opportunity to develop and implement numerous programs to assist mentally ill adults in becoming more independent. I eventually left Denver moving to Colorado Springs in the mid 1990's and became a program director for the American Cancer Society where I had the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most incredible and inspiring people I have ever met. I remained at the American Cancer Society for about 4 years, during which time I married my first wife and had my only child my son Andrew. I eventually began getting restless with counseling and wanted to explore other career options so I enrolled in the Cisco Computer Networking Academy and attained my Cisco Certification, unfortunately when I attained my Certification it was about the same time as the whole dot.com boom ended and most high tech employers in Colorado Springs were laying people off and had little interest in hiring someone with no experience. But as they say sometimes when you do not get what you wish for something else you never imagined comes along and turns out much better than you could have expected. That is exactly what happened to me, I began working for the Center for the Prevention of Domestic Violence as a training Coordinator and after about a very the grant funding that job ended. I then found the position that has kept me busy for the past 8 year...Expand for more