Turns East:  

You knew me at Richwoods High School as CHUCK ADDY (Charles Russell ADDY). I changed my name to Turns to the East on March 13, 1994 in Woodstock, IL at a Congregational Unitarian Universalist church service. My birth name came from my grandfathers (maternal - Charles Grant Powell & paternal - Russell Addy). Both grandfathers had passed on before my name change in 1994. I've attended Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, Northern IL Univ. in Dekalb, IL, Northern MI Univ. in Marquette, MI (BS - park management and recreational planning - 1977) and MI State Univ. in East Lansing, MI (Master of Public Administration - 1985). I completed my MPA classwork in 1983 but was given a two-year extension on writing two papers after my best friend and classmate (Paul Zainea) committed suicide by hanging himself outside the MSU Administration Building the spring of 1983. I played one and one half seasons of varsity and JV football at Augustana College (1969-1970) when fractures of ulna and radius bones in my left arm ended my season just before Halloween, 1970. My college roommate (Lance) was the Viking mascot and my girlfriend (Kathy Plummer - Richwoods Class of 1970) was a cheerleader. We all arrived together at the hospital in her parents' station wagon. When we showed up at the ER the nurses weren't going let us in because they thought we were doing an early 'trick or treat' gag. Football lockers at Augustana were alphabetically assigned so I had mine next to Kenny Anderson, Cincinnati Bengals, Super Bowl XVI quarterback and two-time Pro Bowl QB. Kenny owns the NFL's best season passing percentage record -- a few thousandths of a percentage point better than Joe Montana. Kenny got lots of mileage out of the short square-out pass pattern. Kenny's book on quarterbacking is said to be the best one in print. I worked in Blaine, Washington working for US Customs and Border Protection / DHS from January, 2004 to December 7, 2011. I finished at Point Roberts, WA. I was sent to Glynco, GA for 12 weeks of law enforcement training to become a CBP officer. The hiring process took 20 months including LASIK surgery and 2 psychiatric evaluations at my own expense (to see if I was crazy enough to do this type of work, I guess). Prior to taking the job at CBP I was a part-time graveyard shift security worker at the Univ. of WI - Milwaukee Union Bldg. and a security worker II at UW-M supervising student workers writing parking tickets in campus parking lots. I've completed two other law enforcement training schools. One (297 hours) in 1974 in Marquette, MI for my NMU campus safety officer position and another in 2002 (WI Standards Board - 400 hours at MATC in Oak Creek, WI) to attempt to get back into local law enforcement after my one disappointing 1st week of attempting to teach 7th graders science and social studies in Milwaukee's (inner-city) Burroughs Middle School. I resigned after Labor Day weekend . . a week prior to 9/11/2001. I house and pet sat -- PEACE of MIND SERVICES -- since leaving DHS / CBP in WA in June, 2013. I filed for Social Security in December, 2014. I was part of a group which attempted to implement a co-housing project in Milwaukee in 1999-2000. No luck there, but did visit Monterrey House in St. Louis Park, MN for ideas. Up until my move to Washington I spent my life in Illinois, Upper Michigan, lower Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin. I also lived for 2.5 years (1964 - 1967) in Silver Spring, MD when my father was transferred from Caterpillar's Mossville plant (we lived in Glasford, IL) to Washington, DC in defense products. My dad was mayor of Glasford, IL for one term and played a role in two capital improvement projects for the town of 900 -- a secondary & tertiary treatment sewer plant and a new natural gas line. I loved spending time on the DC Mall, the Smithsonian Institute (especially it's Air & Space Museum -- just a hut at the time), the National Gallery of Art, The National Archives, FBI tours featuring the firing of .50 caliber machine guns, the Washington Monument, the White House and Capital Building tours, etc. On my last day of school at White Oak Jr. High in Silver Spring, MD in 1966 I was excused from school to go see returning NASA / Gemini astronauts Ed White and Jim Lovell in a parade with vice-president Hubert H Humphrey after the first US "spacewalk" in Earth-orbit by Ed White. They passed by my curb position sitting on the top of the backseats in a convertible about six feet away. When my father was transferred back to Peoria in 1966, my parents bought a house on West Riviera Drive off Northwoods Road. Our 'neighborhood' had Roger and Debbie Mayer, Dale and Dean Wright, Duane Phillips, Dave Zigele, Dave Wand, Ron Amundsen and Ann Cox living nearby (all less than a half-mile from RHS). I chipped my two upper front teeth while bench pressing weights in the gymnasium balcony at Richwoods' Fifth Quarter Club (weight lifting program for off-season RHS players) the winter of 1968-9. I forgive you, Jeff Stone. I took care of the remaining damage with a dental implant and crown about one year back. I think that is what started me thinking about my Richwoods days again. I once saw a tornado cloud over the Illinois River one summer (1969?) as we were driving thru Detweiler Park headed north to a Cubs game. We heard about it on WIRL-AM about 2 minutes later (when we probably we were at least north of Mossville and Chilicothe). I put my first wife, Kathy Plummer, thru nursing school at Northern MI Univ. in Marquette, MI (BS - RN) via a free faculty / staff / spouse tuition benefit while working as a deputy county sheriff / campus safety officer at NMU (1973-5). Mohammed Ali came to Marquette, MI to fight former sparring partner Jimmy Ellis in an exhibition / fundraiser for the Olympic Training Center at NMU in 1976. I saw him on Main Street at a public parade / appearance in front of a downtown movie theater and was about 8 feet in front of him. This was at a time when Cobo Arena in Detroit was dying to get Ali to do something similar in Detroit. Part of the attraction for Ali was he was looking for a retirement farm property and the Marquette chief of police was a caretaker at Loma Farms out Big Bay Road which was offered and Ali apparently declined. Way too cold up there (for me, too)! Did you know that 'Anatomy of a Murder,' directed and produced by Otto Preminger, starring Jimmy Stewart, Ben Gazzara, Lee Remmick, Eve Arden, George C Scott, Orson Bean and Duke Ellington (as Pie Eye) was filmed (1959) in Marquette, MI? To relax I like to watch DVD concert videos. My beer days are over with 2009 blood allergy test results showing auto-immune diseases with gluten and dairy intolerances. I met Paul Peltzoldt, founder of National Outdoor Leadership School, NOLS (and first person to climb Grand Teton in WY -- in his cowboy boots!) at a summer camp conference in IL (1977) while I was involved in an attempt to set up HERE Corp. (Health, Environment and Recreation Education) in Republic, MI after graduating from NMU in 8/1977. Our first venture was planned to be a camping trip to Illinois Beach State Park and visit the touring King Tut exhibit and Great America in Chicago, IL. We had my wife, another RN and a physician's assistant working on health grants. It didn't pan out so I took a job in White Cloud, MI in January, 1978 to work for the U S Forest Service as a Young Adult Conservation Corps crew leader. My wife completed the move from Marquette, MI and got a job at Newaygo Co Health Dept. as a family planning health educator contracted through Kent Co (MI) Planned Parenthood in Grand Rapids, MI. I co-taught (after training and certification) an abstinence-based sex education curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL), to co-ed 7th graders at Milwaukee's First Unitarian Church in 1999-2000. I've participated in two 500 mile, 6-day bicycle rides -- (Des Moines)Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI) in 1984 and AIDS Ride 4, Minneapolis - WI - Chicago (sponsored by Tanqueray) in 1999 with team members from WI Planned Parenthood. I'm considering another RAGBRAI (3rd week of July) and / or the 45th Richwoods Class Reunion (September 19 & 20) in 2014. When I left my job as assistant city manager in Marquette, MI in 1986 I returned to Peoria and lived with my mom and sister (Jana) before finding part-time jobs including the National Corrective Training Institute (NCTI) and getting an apt on Knoxville. NCTI ran the Peoria County Driver Improvement Program where I taught approximately 90 classes of 40 first-time traffic offenders (3,600) for 8 hours of life skills training. This background help me to set up WCDPP in Rockford, IL, 1988 - 1990. While I was in Peoria from 12/1985 to 4/1987 I took VFR flight lessons and ground school training at Pointer Aviation at Mt. Hawley Airport. Pointer went bankrupt and I lost my pre-paid training fees, but not until I had a solo local flight in a 151 Cessna in July, 1986. As Bill Shuman can tell you . . . . . it's not the Bernoulli effect that keeps an airplane aloft, it MONEY! Ha! During my return to Peoria I had a Bartonville girlfriend who liked to golf with me. Neither of us were any good (108 was my best), but my most memorable moment on a golf course was when Janet saw me 'hole-out' from 57 yards at Detweiler Park golf course. I admired Archibald Cox, the Special Prosecutor that Nixon fired as the beginning of the famous SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE on 10/20/1973. I met Archie when he was president of Common Cause in Washington, DC in the summer of 1980. (I also met John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause.) I invited Archie to a Nixon resignation (8/9/1974) anniversary party held in Marquette, MI when I was a city management intern in the planning dept. in 1981. Archie conveyed his regrets on Harvard Law School stationery where he was teaching constitutional law. Archie said that my having ...Expand for more