Conrad A. Lyle:  

Life After graduating in 1973 I went to work at Rohm & Haas in August of 73. Married a girl I met in my Junior year at Cape Fear (Carolyn Price) in January, 1974. We had 2 sons one in 75 and the other in 77. When Rohm & Haas sold to Monsanto I continued making polyester yarn with Monsanto. In 1978 when Monsanto sold part of the plant out I remained with Monsanto and the Roundup Herbicide plant was started up in ~1980. Monsanto announced the shut down of the Fayetteville plant in Sept 2001. The Roundup plant was shut down by the end of 2001 and it and most of the unused building were torn down by 2nd qtr. of 2003. The utilities plant remained running to supply neighboring plants. I remained there throughout and on 12/19/2003 DAK Americas purchased the plantsite and I along with 17 other hourly folks were hired by DAK to continue running the plant. I am still married to the same wonderful lady and we now have a dauthter-in-law and a grandaughter who, of course, is the "apple of our eye". Since I last posted the previous paragraph we now have a grandson by our oldest son. He is 4 yrs old now. He is all boy and quite full of vim and vigor. School I always liked school in my elementary years and was a good student, making good grades in everything except writing/penmanship. I really liked all my teachers in grades 1-6, especially, Mrs. Wood - 4th grade and Mrs. Maness - 5th grade. We moved from Fayetteville to Beaver Dam the summer before I went into the 7th grade. Beaver Dam was a great school. I'll admit I did not care much for my teacher there but she was OK. I went to Stedman for 8th & 9th grades. In the 8th grade it was still a senior high school but in the 9th it changed to a middle school (7th, 8th & 9th grades). I had mostly very good teachers there. Miss Hall was very strict but a very good teacher. I liked Mr. Royal- maybe because I liked Algebra so good. He seemed to make it so easy to understand. Mr. Barnes and Mrs Cromartie stand out in my memory favorably also. I think though I started liking school less and less the further up in grades that I got. At Cape Fear I really was not too happy with school. Too many people!! I just don't think making schools bigger makes them better. You lose that personal touch. My grades slacked somewhat in high school because of my attitude toward school. I drove a school bus for 2 years. I think that was the thing I enjoyed the most about high school except for the fact that I met my wife to-be in the 11th grade. I tried out for football but wimped out after one week of barning tobacco all day and going to practice at night. I had pretty good teachers in hi...Expand for more