Tom Dougherty:
CLASS OF 1956
Mount Vernon High SchoolClass of 1956
Alexandria, VA
Tom's Story
Tom's schools include Mount Vernon High School. He later attended UCSB. I was known by my middle name, Watson, while I was in high school and I still use it when there are a lot of Toms around. I presently live in Santa Maria, California. I am a retired associate aerospace engineer and my last employer was the Department of Defense in Boston. Part of my job was to review certain engineering proposals and recommend the ones most favorable. I retired in November of 1998 for health reasons and drove out to Santa Maria where I joined my sister in looking after our mother until she died in May, 2007. I rented my apartment at 201 Carmen Lane, Apt 15, here in Santa Maria August 1st, 2000 and I have been here ever since.
I am a DWM, 6’ 2”, born May 12, 1938. Hobbies include photography, home computers, pistol shooting, target shooting, walking at least one mile every day, and muscle toning, travel, astronomy & college math since I tutor the last two subjects at a local junior colle...Expand for more
ge. I am also interested in developing my intuition.
I am a latecomer to digital photography having shot 35MM most of my life, and to this end I have digitized many of my color prints by scanning them with my HP Photosmart Plus Three-in-One into my Olympus Master 2 Program and then put them into files on my desk top.
I use an Olympus SP-570UZ with an electronic viewfinder which reminds me of an SLR, a more compact Nikon Coolpix L20, and a Pentax ZX-60 35mm SLR. One of the things I learned the hard way is that the 35MM takes 4"X6" prints and the digitals do best with 4"X5.333" prints if I am writing captions or names of people right on the prints. That way nothing is cut off.
I traveled recently with my daughter to Charleston, South Carolina September of 2012 after not seeing her for 64 months. We attended the Mount Vernon High Class of 57 reunion being held at a private home there near our hotel. I didn't see anyone from the Class of 56 as I had hoped but it was fun anyway.
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