Wayne Harlow:
CLASS OF 1970
George Washington High SchoolClass of 1970
Alexandria, VA
George Washington High SchoolClass of 1971
Alexandria, VA
Wayne's Story
Well I would have been in the 11 grade but a really bad thing happened to me. I was living with my grand mother she had legal custody of me and we did not where my parents where living. Then she died in 1970 and when the 1971 school year started the people in the office of GW found out that I was living alone in her house. I had permission from my family to live there until I finished school. Well the school and the Alexandria Board told me that I had to have a legal living guardian in Alexandria to go to school. So I did not finish. I did get my GED later.
Well this really pissed me off and I became very rebellious so I left Virginia and hitched hiked around the country for a few years until I got tired of that.
I taught my self how to work on cars and got a job at the VW dealer that was on rout 1 close to Crystal City. (Do you remember the one?) From there I worked at the one in Springfield and the one in Tyson¿s Corner. And then I worked at an Audi dealer as a shop foreman. Then one day I was offered a job with Volkswagen of America, Inc. in their Audi car division as a product field technical engineer.
Then in 1989 I was transferred to ...Expand for more
New Hampshire to take a job as a District Service Manager for the New England area. I was there for eleven years. I was married when I moved there and had a daughter. My wife died from cancer 10 months after we moved there. So with no family living close and with a seven year old daughter and a job where I traveled a lot, I still managed to raise my daughter alone, and she turned out great.
Just as she was finishing high school I got transferred to a new job. Volkswagen bought out Bentley Motors, and in 2000 I moved to South East Florida to a town called Coconut Creek just south of Boca Raton. My job with Bentley Motors there was as an After Sales Manager my territory covered from Chicago to the Caribbean.
Then in 2003 I found out that I was dying from a liver disease and needed to have a liver transplant. I got it in 2004 one day before my birthday. Since then my health has been good and my company in their infinity wisdom decided to put me on disability retirement. I hate not working and have been trying to find another job, but I guess at age 55 no one wants to hire you even if you have more than 30 years of experience and good health.
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