Alan McEachern:  

Life OK, I give. I've been terribly remiss in creating a profile. After dutifully screening out the "classmates" pop-ups as spam for many years I discovered that it was a handy way to re-connect with old friends and particularly to connect to the committee working on the 30th reunion. And - of course I'll be there! Not long after graduation I started work in a sales position in Renton. Spent 2 years there and learned a great deal about life. In the process, I also decided that I had a great attraction to the young lady who ran our switchboard. Of course, that was back when you really called them a switchboard. I started hanging out with Connie and her friends (now you might call it "stalking") and after a few months of this she decided we might as well make it more official. Actually dating a fellow employee violated company policy - can you imagine - so we were both let go. Turned out to be a very good move on everyone's part. The "policy" was based on an assumption that relationships in the workplace weer disruptive and never worked out. Well, Connie and I were married in '81 and celebrated our 25th anniversary last summer. Worked out well after all! It also was prophetic that she was running the phone system. Not long after we left, I started working for a company named Northern Telecom engineering and selling telecom systems. That was just at the dawning of the explosion in telecommunications technology and applications that we might call the Information Age. I've been in that ever since, with 23 years now at what was Pacific Northwest Bell but has since morphed into USWest and then Qwest. My team and I handle a group of named national accounts. Enough of that... About the same time as the 10 year reunion, Connie and I reconnected with some old friends and started getting together regularly. Remember Don Dilley and Mike Smith? Well, one day Don calls to tell me that he's signed me up to audition for a role in a musical. Next thing I...Expand for more