Ralph Allas:  

Life My friends and family know me as JR. I began grade school at McClellan Elementary in Chicago. Before starting 3rd grade, we moved to Romeoville, IL, where I attended Ridgeview Elememtary (now Irene King) for 3rd-5th grade. We moved to Lake Como, WI, where I attended Como Elementary School for 5th-6th grade. I made many friends during my two years at Denison Jr High, but my family moved to Joliet, IL a month before the end of my Freshman year at Badger HS. I Attended JTHS East for 2 years before it closed and I was sent to JTHS Central. After graduating, I obtained my AAS in Electronics Engineering Technology at JJC in 1986. I got married 7/6/91 to Amanda. We haven't decided to have kids yet. I'm now an Electrical Technician for Panduit Corporation at their Terminal Division in New Lenox, IL and we live in Crest Hill. I am still an avid motorcyclist, and love to travel on my bike. Even though my world, as a child, was filled with an incredible array of extremely gifted bullies, idiots and morons who had nothing better to do with their time than pick on those different than them, I enjoyed living in Lake Como, and occasionally return to see how things have changed. I welcome contacts from old schoolmates. Especially those who have also realized that we're all the same inside. We just look and act different. I've noticed that the bullies only pick on the skinny, whimpy kids, like I was in school. I'm now 6ft tall, 215 lbs. It's been some time since I've been bullied. Too bad I didn't know then that the bullies are only ins...Expand for more