Alan Smith:
CLASS OF 1968
Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1968
Riverside, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1972
Santa barbara, CA
Alan's Story
Starter on the Water Polo Team, Swim Team, Trumpet Player in the Pep Band, French Horn Player in the Orchestra, Tenor in the Choir, Ad getter for the Poly Spotlight, good friend of Tim and Tom Wynn in ROTC, which by default made me friends with ROTC. I was in Honors English, and we to RCC for one period for Calculus.
I graduated from UCSB in 1972, with 6 varsity letters, 3 each in Water Polo and Swimming, and was Captain of the Water Polo Team in 1971. Got my BA in mathematics, teaching degree, and taught one year at 1000 Oaks High School. Bummed around, looking for the answer to Life, Universe, and Everything. I didn't come up with "42!".
Moved to Mesa,Arizona, hoping it would be easier to find a job teaching there. Just subbing wasn't enough. In December of 1977, I joined the Army, went in the Infantry, ...Expand for more
after Basic and AIT, I went to OCS.
Assigned to the Signal Corps, I went to Germany for 3 years. I was assigned to Stuttgart and Worms.
Went back to Advanced Officers training, and made Captain, then was assigned to XVIII Airborne Corp, 50th Signal Battalion as the Supply Officer
Got out of the Army with Dunlap's Disease (Yup, the Army gave me a beer belly, can I get disability for that?). I got a job at IITRI in Annapolis, MD and stayed there for 8 years. Then I applied for and got a job with Microsoft. I worked there for 4 years, then contracted for 4 more years in the Seattle Area.
I moved to Tennessee when I left my wife of 19 years (the divorce was finalized 18 months after I left).
After ten years of Contracting, I have finally found something I love, and work for Qinetiq-NA in Huntsville, AL.
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