Bruce Thompson:
CLASS OF 1962
El Segundo High SchoolClass of 1962
El segundo, CA
Bruce's Story
I graduated with a history degree from USC in spring of '67, then joined the Navy - OCS in Newport, RI, duty aboard a minesweeper off the DMZ in Viet Nam.
Spent 30+ years in technical sales. Now retired. I've lived at the same address in Huntington Beach since 1971.
I was a member of the long Beach Ski Club for 20 years and met my wife, Janis, there in 1979. We were married in 1982 and have two daughters, Katherine and Jackie, both of whom chose colleges in the East and have remained there after graduation; Jackie in New Haven, CT and the Katherine in New York city.
In 1993, when our girls were still in grade school, we moved to Germany for a year, put the kids in the local schools and took them on trips all over Western Europe during holidays and summer vac...Expand for more
ation. It was a great experience for all of us, and a little strange for Janis and me, struggling with the language as we were, to hear our 7- and 10-year old daughters chattering away with their new friends in fluent Allemanisch-German dialect.
Janis, a former English teacher, volunteers with the schools still. Our high schools have no professional college counselors, so she helps students with their college applications and essays. She's found it rewarding helping kids get accepted to Cal, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, NYU, Cornell, TCU, MIT and others. Once a teacher...
I work part time in my handyman and finish carpentry business and volunteer several days a month building houses as a Habitat for Humanity crew leader.
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