William Hallam:  

Life It's April 2022, and it has been three years since I updated my profile. I'm not sure why I am even updating this because I am not sure anyone even reads these profiles. Since the last time I updated this, we have been unable to travel due to the pandemic, but recently, we finally began to travel again. We just returned from four days in San Diego last week where we celebrated our 50th anniversary. Last month, we traveled to Boise, Idaho to see my brother and in July we are going to Hawaii for ten days. We also have another cruise scheduled for the West Coast in November. As I have stated previously, we love cruising, ocean liner, as well as river cruising. As previously reported here, I left Sylmar after graduation to join the Navy. After "boot camp," I attended electrician school and ended up on a naval destroyer. Took two cruises to the South Pacific, including the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, and of course, Vietnam. After being discharged in 1966, I moved to San Jose and went to work for IBM where I worked for 40 years, retiring in November 2006. Started in the warehouse at IBM and eventually had a series of different jobs including product scheduler, product analyst, product planner and finally a service planner before retiring. Worked 12 years at the San Jose IBM plantsite before moving to Tucson in 1978. We also spent a year working at the Kingston, New York plantsite before returning to Tucson. I attended San Jose State College and dropped out in my senior year to move to Arizona, which is my only regret not obtaining my degree after coming so close to graduation. I do not believe that it hurt my career opportunities that I didn't graduate, but who knows? Got married in 1972, celebrated 50 years marriage to the same woman this year (2022). I have...Expand for more