Mark Gibson:  

After graduating from high school, I kicked around at a couple different jobs, and hung around with Ken Le Francois (class of '71) and Bob Berger and Dan Kelly (both Class of '70). My first real job was when I started working in the railroad industry in 1974, for the Milwaukee Road in downtown Chicago Union Station. I met my wife Wendy on a blind date a few months later, she graduated from Cary Grove H.S. in 1973. She knew and went to school with Brent Basara's first wife. We dated for a little under 4 years and got married in 1978. We bought a house in Algonquin (Haegers Bend) 2 doors down from Ray Rout and lived there until 1981 when we moved to Bartlett, east of Elgin. We have three daughters Lauren, Megan and Erin. That's what happens when you dream about being surrounded by women when you are young. Lauren graduated from the University of Iowa and has been teaching Literature & English at West Aurora H.S. for the last five years. I guess I must have read one too many books to her when she was little. She is a good friend of Sean Harrington who played basketball for the University of Illinois a few years back, when they had a good team. Megan lives and works in Chicago and Erin is a senior in H.S. this year. I am still in the railroad industry and have worked also for the Soo Line, Wisconsin Central Ltd. and currently with the CN in the Business Development & Real Estate department in Homewood, IL. Wendy has worked in the banking / credit card business her whole career and currently is a manager in the Fraud department of the JP Mor...Expand for more