Anthony Sperling:  

Life After graduating from SHS in the spring of '60, I spent the following summer working at the "Box Factory" during the day and drinking with "The Downtown Music Appreciation Guild" every night until summer ended and it was off to college at Ohio Northern. The following two summers were pretty much the same, except the school changed to Tri-State College and at the end of the summer of '62, I was hurt in an industrial fall and missed school that fall. After I was well enough, I return to Tri-State and attended year round until I graduated with a BSME in the spring of '64. I was hired by General Motors to work for their Advanced Engineering Staff at the GM Technical Center in Warren MI and started a week after graduation. On August first of '64, I married Jeanette Zachrich from Toledo and she moved to Warren to join me in my apartment. We bought a house in the spring of '65. The years past by, I enjoyed my work at GM and moved up through the ranks reaching an executive status at an early age, collecting a number of patents and honors along the way as well as more responsibilities, more pay, better offices, a company car. That part of my life was good. I bought a cruising sailboat and taught myself how to sail and joined a yacht club and began entering some evening and weekend sailboat races. On the other hand, some other things were not going so well, my dad died in the spring of '72. Over a period of years, my marriage to Jeanette disintegrated, we grew apart, and finally divorced near the end of '73 On a whim, I visited Key West Florida over the Christmas Holiday of '73 and found that I liked the climate, attitude, and fishing. I made a repeat trip the following year to enjoy a month of deep sea fishing and escape from cold and snow, and the year after that, when it was that I met Wendy Niven, a younger single woman from New Jersey who was tending bar at Sloppy Joe's. Well, one thing led to another, and she eventually joined me in Michi...Expand for more