Steve Schwartzkopf:  

Life Hello fellow Classmates, Gosh where do I begin? When I left Lincoln High I enrolled in Southeast Community College and obtained a degree in Industrial Plastics Technology. I accepted a job as a moldmaker, building plastic injection molds at EPKRO Plastics in Henderson, Nebraska a town of 900 Mennonites. After about 5 months in Mennonite infested Henderson, the Mennonites did not appreciate my loud music or my purple chopper that I parked in my living room each night. I moved 12 miles to McCool Junction, population 290 and (1) Bar and commuted to Henderson via gravel roads. After getting stuck in a snow drift for 5 hours, I vowed that would be the last winter I would spend in Nebraska. After only 1 year at EPKRO I left and moved to Tempe Arizona and accepted a general machinist position at Modern Industries, machining aircraft components. I worked at Modern for about 1 1/2 years, during which I bought a house in Scottsdale. I was offered a job at Allied Signal Aerospace as a Production Engineer/Methods Engineer and after 4 years I was promoted to a Manufacturing Engineer over the Research and Development department. After 3 years I was promoted to a Manufacturing Project Engineer and had manufacturing responsibility for the TFE1042 project, the engine for China's first fighter jet and the only a...Expand for more