Joseph Geisler:  

PLEASE VIEW MY ALBUMS... PHOTOS... category above!!! These albums took a lot of time to do and explain a lot about part of my life that a lot of you never knew about me. If you were a student of mine. Many of you all did know some of this if you ever visited me at home or at one of my shops where I built cars.. I attended Central High in Springfield, Mo and Greenwood. Graduated in 1963. Became a teacher and worked as a Maintenance engineer in a few industries in addition to teaching. Thanks to Fla. Schools System (28 years) for wonderful employment and a retirement finally! Missouri schools, where I was raised, I taught for only 5 years... just one year at a time in each school. Got tired of winters there so I flew South. Also I drag raced and built cars which some people thought I was a wild dude...... NOT!!! My car hobby, had me treading my time not in class rebuilding an old car. This did several things. Yes I used electricity keeping the lights on and for tools to run. BUT I also bought my own drill bits and tools as the ones in the school shops were not taken care of by the last teachers that left and I replaced. I got tired of hearing those comments when I heard them. My tools that we also used in shop teaching!! I also repaired all of the machinery neglected, out of adjustment, bad bearings from lack of lubrication. Many of these shops had been Agriculture classes too made into Industrial Arts courses IF they found a shop teacher willing to come on board. So the places were a pig sty (pun intended here) which I also rebuilt all of these discrepancies at NO charge to the school administrations. after school on my OWN time which I was not obligated to do. These car simple projects, were, actually a course builder but it was not seen that way in the small Missour...Expand for more