Rudolf (Rudi) Cochius:
CLASS OF 1975
Kinnelon High SchoolClass of 1975
Kinnelon, NJ
Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityClass of 1981
Rutherford, NJ
Rudolf (Rudi)'s Story
Life
After graduating from KHS in 1975 I spent 4 years in the US Air Force as a musician stationed in Montgomery, AL and Portsmouth, NH. I returned to NJ and finished my degree in hotel/restaurant mgt at FDU in Rutherford and graduated in 1981. For the remainder of that year I worked the grape harvest at a small winery in the Hudson Valley. In January 1982 I flew to Germany and worked in a winery for 3 months near my mom's home town. After that I attended a 1 year hotel/restaurant mgt school in Switzerland. I stayed in Switzerland for another 14 months to work at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. I then spent 1 month in a winery in Burgundy, France working the 1984 grape harvest. After almost 3 years in Europe I returned home in 85 and worked for Marriott and Hilton in Saddle Brook, Newark AP and Parsippany. In 1986 I got married. 87-89 my wife, Petra, and I ran a chocolate shop in Pompton Lks.
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9, after the chocolate shop was sold, we moved to Germany. A year later my parents sold the house in Riverdale and also moved to Germany. For the next 7 years we lived in Cologne. I worked in a couple of hotels, large and small and after deciding for a career change I worked at Pizza Hut. Petra continued her education to become a kindergarden teacher. In 96 we moved to Petra's home town of Kaiserslautern. She started working for the protestant church as a kindergarden teacher and I changed my career direction again and worked for 2 years as a self-employed wine salesman. After that I worked for about 6 months for the Aramark Catering Company and then returned to Pizza Hut for about a year and a half. I left Pizza Hut in 2000 and started working for a wholesale market serving the local hospitality industry as a customer relations mgr. After 7 years I'm still there and Petra is still working as a kindergarden teacher.
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