Tim Donovan:
CLASS OF 1967
College High SchoolClass of 1967
Greeley, CO
Tim's Story
After graduation I went to the University of Colorado where I saw some of you from the class of '67, but I didn't last long...was still trying to find myself.
Joined the Army and became a green beret medical specialist from 1968 to 1971. After my discharge I returned to Greeley and stayed with Mike and Connie Applegate for a while and attended UNC. Even though I hated math (no offense, Mr. Schweers) I signed up as a math major. It didn't make a dit of bifference so I switched to Accounting. Well, that was a mistake, too, so I switched to Business. Well, that, too, was not a goal I wanted to pursue so I dropped out altogether as a junior. That was 1974
That year I was hired by the Weld County Ambulance Service and became one of the first paramedics in Weld County. Sort of a(n) historical figure! The things I saw! I always wear my seatbelt now.
After seven years of that I left and, while going through the North Colorado Law Enforcement Academy, got a part-time job as a security officer at Aims Community College. It was going to be only until I figured out where I was going in life and until something better came along. Twenty-four years later I retired. That was May, 2007.
During all this I got married three times and divorced twice. The third time has been the charm and my wife, Cindy, and I have been married since 1993. No children, but we do have a Welsh Corgi named Bailey, and a cat that we call many unprintable things.
On February 2, 2008, I attended the memorial service for Janet (Shoemaker) Sorensen and was reaquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Longwell, our English teacher. He said he had an extra 1966 College High Annual that he would give me...all of mine had been thrown out by one of my several evil stepfathers. When I went to his house to pick it up I was impressed by the amount of genealogical material they have on each of their families! I was also impressed with the story of Mr. Longwell's service in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He was on a destroyer escort and was at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. I apologized again for the time when Steve Nofsiger and I TP'd his ...Expand for more
house. He caught us and was gracious enough not to turn us in to the authorities.
Now, my wife, who was helping her father run his insurance agency, told me after I retired that she needed help and I was the one who was going to help her. I did the only respectable thing a man can do...I put my foot down and said..."yes, dear." I went from not particularly liking insurance agents to being one.
My greatest hobby is genealogy...I figure that since I'm going to be meeting all these people some day it might help to know something about them...make it easier to break the ice. I thought I was just a third generation American, but have discovered that I have ancestors that fought in the Civil War and the Revolutionary War. None of them were generals, or even officers. And in between wars they were all coal miners, farmers, steel mill workers, and railroad men...and probably a couple of horse thieves. Salt of the earth types. Not one a King or a Prince or a President or a movie star. Now, my wife, on the other hand is the eleventh great granddaughter of John Alden...the guy that Miles Standish had deliver his marriage proposal to Priscilla Mullins and she said "Why don't you speak for yourself, John". Turns out Cindy's also related to several poets such as Emily Dickinson, inventor Eli Whitney, a couple of presidents and both Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
I'm continuing the "salt of the earth, common man" persona...I don't attract everyone's attention when I enter a room. I would have made a tremendous secret agent, on one would have remembered seeing me anywhere. At least I don't have a problem with the papparazi. In my line of work back at Aims College I had occasion to speak to a woman over the telephone several times. We finally met in person once and she actually said "you sounded so much sexier over the phone!" Reminded me of a poster I had during college days...Snow White is standing at the open door to her cottage and there's this extremely homely dwarf on the porch with a boquet of flowers...the title of the poster is "Blind Date".
What a long, strange trip it's been!
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