Melvin Casey:
CLASS OF 1954
Waltham High SchoolClass of 1954
Waltham, MA
Melvin's Story
After High School graduation in 1954 I worked for Raytheon Co. in Waltham for one year and then went into the US Navy for four years. I learned electronics in the service and did some travel (including a Mediterranean Cruise). I married Esther Wyman while in the Navy and we had one child before being honorably discharged and then another child a year later.
After the service I worked as an electronics quality control technician for Sanborn Co. in Waltham, traveled to California in 1962 and worked for Hewlett Packard Co as an electronics sales and service rep in their medical division. Esther and I had our third child during this stint of our lives.
We returned to Waltham in 1968 and continued working in the medical sales field as regional manager for another year before making a mid life career change in 1969. We purchased a home in Hudson, MA the year before.
I began night study at the Boston Architectural Center and worked days for Keye...Expand for more
s Assoc. in Waltham as an Architectural Draftsman. A full-time day job, part-time night jobs and schooling kept me quite busy for fifteen years. Esther was a stay at home engineer during this period but finally was able to get a job at Grover Cronins before it closed.
I eventually became an Architect and retired from Keyes Assoc. (in 2001) after thirty years of working for that firm.
Esther and I reside in Hypoluxo, Florida for most of the year now and we travel when we can. We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary in 2007 and went to Hawaii for the first time. I have visited and slept in all fifty states now. In 2005 I drove (alone for the most part) from Florida to Alaska and back.
I write a little and take photographs (for my own enjoyment) and use the computer quite extensively. Esther has a busy social calendar with the local ladies and is involved in raising funds for the Kobren Cancer Fund.
That's my story and I am sticking to it.
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