Thomas Marks:  

I have just a couple days left before my subscription runs out and I will be off this site. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I wish I didn't have to remind classmates from long ago who I was... but I was a quiet kid kept out of trouble. I wasn't a club joiner... I did play volleyball on and was the captain of the very first varsity team the school had. I had a lot of friends but as it goes over the years we have for the most part ... parted. Since LSC I have had what I consider a very lucky life. I married a few years after highschool and still married to the same girl. It was 46 years this past summer. We had a daughter who went to LSC setting records in track. And she played volleyball of course. She got a track scholarship to the University of Virginia. In my carreer doors always seemed to open and I was always getting good jobs. I worked as a chemist in an R&D lab developing floor polish resins as no wax flooring came into vogue (well this job pick was not so good... but it opened doors). I worked in the tire industry where I became an engineer designing extrusion equipment and had the pleasure of working with some of the worlds best engineers in the field. I spent time in Japan as part of my job and made friends there that will be friends for life. Quietly over the years I began to write because of my interest in the outdoors and the environment. I even edited and published a magazine in my spare time. I slowly became an environmental activist. Studied and trained in a program with Sea Grant, the Great Lakes Leadershop Instit...Expand for more