Bob Kewley:  

Life July 2018 Update to the Dec 07 post Today I Modified the posting and added a few pictures. Still happy, healthy and active. VFMA then West Point graduating in 1961. 21+ years as Army officer took us to Fort Sill, Fort Bliss, Los Angeles, Korea, back to Sill and Bliss, Colorado Springs, San Rafael CA, Vietnam, Stanford Univ, back to West Point as a Mechanical Engineering Prof, Germany and back to West Point. Retired from the active Army in 1982 and moved to El Paso, TX, and in 2010 made another move to the mountains of New Mexico. Married Lona, a Calif girl, 55 years ago. Raised in San Diego and a USC grad, she's been able to engineer a great marriage, a close-knit family and a teaching career surviving 15+ moves in response to Army orders and my second career. She retired in 2002 after 27 years in education, the last 6 years as Elementary School Principal in El Paso, TX. We have two sons and a daughter, all married. After my Army career I worked as a Systems Engineer at Raytheon Co, for 23 years. Worked advanced air defense missile systems projects in the high desert of West Texas (El Paso). Retired for good in 2005 Travel less now, but what we do keeps us in touch our 3 kids and 9 grandkids in VA, MI and NY. Both sons, and two grandsons followed me to West Point Son Rob, an '88 grad, is now a COL with safe returns from 2 tours in Iraq. He has 2 daughters and is now a tenured professor heading the Systems Engineering Department at West Point, NY. He has completed 30 years of commissioned service and will be retired as a Brigadier General in early September 2018. Rob's Daughters have now graduated college (Delaware and Loyola Marymount) and entered the work force. Son Rick is an '89 West Point grad. After 5 years service in Army he decided to pursue an automotive career with GM in Detroit area. Says he's had the best job in GM, licensed to drive at 160 mph, and does -- on tracks in MI and Germany. A few years back, Rick and family went to China for a three year assignment where they lived in Shanghai. The kids (2 girls & 2 boys) went to international schools while Rick was the GM interface for the Chinese company building GM cars. Now with 23 years at GM, he is one of their Executive Engineers and again living in Michigan. Two kids have completed college. His third kid had a heck of a run as a HS quarterback, and just began his college education at West Point a month after his brother graduated with the class of 2017. So there are now five Kewleys who have chosen West Point to hone their leadership skills. -- We are very proud of their choices and achievements. Our daughter Dorene is also an engineer by trade. SMU and Duke provided degrees in Mechanical Engineering. She has a son and two young daughters, and Vienna, VA is where they make their home. She's active in design work that will enable computer systems to maximize internet capabilities in futuristic scenarios. Her kids' activities, on and off the athletic field, makes for an extremely busy lifestyle with hardly any downtime. Retirement allows me to play golf for fun. -- I have now won a few events, and have shot my age at least once every year since I turned 70. -- About six years ago we sold our El Paso home and became full time residents in Alto, NM (a two-course mountain community near Ruidoso). It's a great place to live and play. Living at 7500 feet elevation, the breeze is our air conditioning, the mountains touch a clear blue sky, and at night the darkness reveals stars you've never seen before. We have deer, elk, wild horses and turkeys, other birds, chipmunks, raccoons, foxes, an occasional mo...Expand for more