Wallace Weir:  

Life I have had a very diverse life since leaving Central. While at the U of M, I met and married my wife (now married for over 43 years). We had 2 girls before finishing school and a son several years later. The kids have provided us with 5 grand-kids to date with another arriving in November (06). My wife was a school teacher for much of her career, until she tired of getting recertified in a new state when I was transferred. We now live on Elk Lake near Traverse City. Through school, I worked in a motorcycle shop, two high tech companies as an engineer, and raced motorcycles professionally for extra money (I pretty good -- even beating Bart Markel, another CHS grad who was national motorcycle champion for several years, the one time I raced him. After buying the place on the lake from my Mother and my aunt, we moved up here when we graduated. We refurbished a small summer resort and lived on it for a year. Then Honda offered me a position as field business consultant which resulted in two times living in southern California, and a progression to National Parts Manager. We tired of SoCal so I resigned and went to work as Continuing Education Director at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City (home again). I did pretty well, made the college a lot of money, and was elected president of the College Council -- and then the experiment in making money on corporate training and professional seminars was cancelled (they figured I could land on my feet when they hired me over 120 other, much more qualified candidates) and after allowing me to teach for a while, let me go. I had an interesting, but poorly paid 4 years in Traverse City (where the view of the bay is worth half the pay) as a vocational education teacher (computer programming), Quality Control Manager of a minority parts manufacturer supplying GM and Ford, maintenance supervisor for a United Technologies plant, an office supply owner, and a contract computer programmer. I got ba...Expand for more