John Hoell:  

Life as of 1/13/2010, After high school graduation, I attended the University of Missouri-St. Louis where I was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. Along with a lot of fun and partying, I wrote up and presented a grant statement requesting funds from the university to replace the electrical wiring in our(off-campus fraternity-owned) fraternity house. My plea was successful and the first time the university gave money to a social fraternity. I double majored in Business Administration and Fraternity :^). I was also working on a minor in Communication with an emphasis in Theatre. I successfully saved the theatre in Benton Hall from being turned into a bunch of Chemistry labs (at least for a while)when budget cuts threatened to close the entire theatre dept. I converted the theatre dept. to a student run club. We fixed up the theatre and held two plays in the first two years. I spoke with Blanche Touhill once about what I was doing and she was very excited. She said she always had an interest in the theater. I think I may have had some minor influence in the building of the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Who knows? I met my wife Laura at UMSL at a fraternity/ sorority mixer. She picked my name out of a hat. She even dropped here fiance for me and he had money. If you want more details about that, let me know. We were married in March '92. I transferred to Lindewood University (then College) to finish up my degree at night and work full-time. When I graduated I left Boatmen's Bank and was hired at McDonnell Douglas as a schedule analyst. Now it is Boeing and I'm still there. Last year, my family and I moved from Florissant to Madison, Alabama (near Huntsville). I took advantage of a job opportunity at Boeing to work on a different type of program. I also heard that the public school system in Madison was ranked in the top ten of the country. My daughter is fourteen and is soon going to be driving. She is on the Madison swim team and has made a good group of friends down here. My son is ten. He started gymnastics at age 2 and made the competitive team when he was eight (youngest on the team by 4 years). He was very good. He became tired of ...Expand for more