Stephen Smith:  

Life To Whom it may Interest: Graduated in '53 with a d-- in English. Remember Miss Burris? TWC for a few years, hitch-hiked around the SW for a while--twice to Little Rock for a date! Tried to break into pro baseball with no success. Joined Army in late '58. Shipped out to Germany (Kitzingen) where I played in a band and then on the post baseball team. Met wife (Birthe Johannesen) on leave in Copenhagen, had two kids in next four years (in Grand Rapids, Michigan). Son Erick is computer whiz (Chicago) making twice what I ever made. Daughter Keli is a bank branch manager. Mystery where they got their smarts. Despite having a hip replaced as well as both knees, I played softball (slo-pitch) until my upper 70's. Thank you, coaches K.C. Brown and Red Harris. Professional: Programmed mainframe computers for fifteen years, then got a job in a library to be near my first love--after baseball and music--books. Retired in 2000, and moved from Michigan to Palominas in southeast Arizona three miles from Mexico with...Expand for more