J. Walter Johnson:  

For Current information go to wwx. telcomdesign.cxx I was born in Pocatello, Idaho, and my family moved to Boise in 1940, where my dad worked over 30 years for Idaho Power. I started the first grade in Palmer school, and later went to North Junior High. We went to the First Methodist Church. I joined the Cub Scouts and later went to the World Boy Scout Jamboree in Irvine, California in 1953. While in the Boise Radio Amateur Club, I got a HAM license (W7GAS) and an FCC radio operators license when I was 14. At Boise High, I participated in the ROTC Drill Team, Stage Crew, Projectionist, Future Engineers, and Boys Choir. While at Boise High, I volunteered at KBOI-TV to learn something about this new technology called, television. After graduating in 1958, I attended the University of Idaho in Moscow and pledged the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Electrical Engineering was my major, since my dad had gotten me started with surplus stuff he brought home from Idaho Power. Between my freshman and sophomore year at the U of I, I invited my friend, Gurcharan Singh Gill to stay with me in Boise during the summer. We double-dated, and I eyed his date, Jacqueline Flake. We began to date, and she came to the U of I after graduating from Borah High in 1959. During my sophomore and junior years, I was chief engineer of the student radio station, KUOI, and head of the student photography lab, taking pictures for the Argonaut newspaper and year book. During my senior year, I was called up by the US Air force to go to Germany during the Berlin Crisis. Jacquie and I got married October 14, 1961 (our 50th Ann...Expand for more