ALFRED KNYSTAUTAS:
CLASS OF 1966
Darby-Colwyn High SchoolClass of 1966
Darby, PA
Temple UniversityClass of 1969
Philadelphia, PA
Darby-Colwyn Junior High SchoolClass of 1963
Darby, PA
Walnut Street Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
Darby, PA
ALFRED's Story
Life
Married-1972. Daughter, Alexis-1982, Son, Alan-1986. Lived in suburban Wilmington DE (Newark). Still playing with cars... 'track days' at Summit Point Raceway, WV. In DuPont Engineering since 1969. Separated... September 11, 2001 (go figure, what a day that was!). Back together with my FIRST love (1966-1969) Gloria from Wisconsin... who I first met in New Jersey.
>>Update May 2006
Married Aug 2002 (in Petaluma, CA). Took retirement incentive from DuPont June 2004. Moved to Hartland, WI (half hour north-west of Milwaukee). Still car nut... go to many shows during the year. Have a millenium yellow 2003 Corvette convertible (my third Corvette). I check email at wolfwroses which is located at ya hoo. Will try to rotate my photos periodically.
>>Update June 2015 (my how time flies!)
Traded the 2003 Corvette for a 2014 StingRay... red (always my preferred color for cars). Drove from Wisconsin to just outside of Las Vegas June of last year, to attend Ron Fellows Performance Driving School (Chevy was giving a BIG discount to new buyers). WHAT a trip. Hope I can do it again sometime!!!
>>update August 3, 2020... After my wife had passed away in January of 2017... and after bouts of grief... I went on Match and found a young lady (two years younger than me)... I fell for her like a ton of bricks. A couple of months later we decided we needed to live together, and I moved in with her. That was about three and a half years ago... since then, MUCH travel: road trips to southwest, northwest, east coast... then finally bought a second home in The Villages, Florida. So we winter there, and summer in Wisconsin... using the Corvette as a 'commuter car'... We are so lucky!
Enjoy hearing from folks about Darby, not sure when I'll get a chance to get back there again. Have noticed that some others from our class have added photos. GLAD TO SEE THAT! Hope more make the effort. Old photos are the most fun (for me), but to see what people look like now is also good (in most cases).
School
Right at this moment... the first thought that comes to mind, is typing class. I was only a so-so typist, but learned the fundamentals of putting the proper fingers on the correct keys. Then becoming the newsletter editor for several car clubs... yea, cars again... encouraged me to WANT to learn to type. Now, I've become quite a "rambler" when writing letters, since it comes so easy. Thanks to those who taught my the basics.
I find myself referring to our old yearbook, just to put faces with names. Last time I did have it open, I remember looking at the girls ...Expand for more
on which I had a crush at one time or another, and some that I didn't... funny, they look even prettier now. Wish I'd taken the time to let them know how nice they were then. I guess it's best not to say who you were, but if you knew me (I mean knew me enough to talk to me)... thanks. I love you all (I hope your current husbands understand!!).
College
Went to Temple University from 1966 thru 1969... got an associate degree in mechanical engineering tech. Commuted from Darby the whole time, car pooled with Rick Lansberry for much of it. Our favorite thing was... we'd look at each other, and say "Wanna cut classes today?". It may have been after we'd gotten there in the morning, or before we'd left Darby. Happened more times than it should have.
While attending Temple, I co-oped (SP? a spell checker is my best friend... wish there was one here!) at Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton in Eddystone.
My career at DuPont started as a direct result of going to Temple... a recruiter visited there, and I was hooked! I started working in Wilmington (at DuPont's Engineering Development Laboratory... later called the Beech Street Engineering Center) the day after Labor Day in September of 1969 (seems like just yesterday).
This is a 'work in progress' latest update: July 2008
>>Workplace (updated June 2015)
Worked for DuPont Engineering for two months shy of thirty five years. Now working for HK Systems in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Still looking for the right second career though. Had an offer from DuPont in Houston... triple what I make here... but for various reasons, we'll stay here in Wisconsin. HK Systems was bought by Dematic Corp... then I retired (for good?) June 2012. Enjoying my time, but somehow am still busy as all get out.
Military
Was in the PA National Guard, 103rd Combat Engineer Battallion (located at Drexel U. armory and our vehicles were at Ft. Mifflin, behind the Phila Airport). 1970 thru 1976. Rick Lansberry was in this unit with me too. Got activated twice, once for a flood in Chester (only a few days). I remember helping to pull a dead horse out of a river... was being pulled by rope, over the roof of a jeep and into the 1/4 ton trailer behind it... it had been in the water for so long, that it began falling apart. And once for the flood in Wilkes Barre, as a result of Hurricane Agnes. Spent two weeks there, in leu of summer camp that year. Still have a fair number of slides from that experience, cars stuck between houses, rail road tracks undermined, garages in the middle of a residential street, and oil storage tanks on their sides.
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