Bryan Cobb:  

Greetings, fellow Tigers! (Updated June 2020) I turned 62 this year, so I guess it's a good time to update these notes about what I've been doing since I left "dear old CHS." I went to OSU in 1976 to become an engineer. I discovered that I liked words better than numbers, so after two years I switched to English and technical writing. I didn't get my degree in Stillwater, though. I left school in 1981 to work for AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey. I thought I could finish my degree at a local college once I got established there. How was I to know that I wouldn't finish college for another 20+ years? Regardless, to this day I'm still a Cowboy at heart. (ORANGE POWER!) I transferred to the Chicago area in 1983. I liked Chicagoland and I even became a Cubs fan! I enjoyed being close to the city, but living in the 'burbs. I developed a taste for jazz in the clubs on State Street, and a taste for Chicago style pizza at Gino's East and Pizzeria Uno. Wisconsin, with its snowmobiles and other winter fun, was only a couple hours away. I had good friends and a good church family, and I got back home to Cleveland to visit my family every year or so. In 1988, AT&T sent me back to New Jersey for a six-month field assignment. I found a local church to attend while I was there. The first morning I visited that little church in Colts Neck, a pretty woman in a red dress turned around and smiled at me. I smiled back. The rest, as they say, is history. I married Nancy a year later in 1989, and moved her and her six-year-old daughter Amy out to Chicago. A year after that, I moved them again when I took a job in Huntsville, Alabama, where we've lived ever since. (Advice to future generations: don't move your wife across the country when she's eight months pregnant!) Fast forward to the present: I am still working for a defen...Expand for more