Cecil Walker:
CLASS OF 1974
West Phoenix High SchoolClass of 1974
Phoenix, AZ
Simpson Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
Phoenix, AZ
Cecil's Story
Prior to West High I attended Simpson grade school.
At West High I was kind of a quiet, shy guy. Did Track and Cross Country my freshman year. Enjoyed science and electronics classes, struggled with math and was ok in English (which is a good thing since I'm now an IT Crisis Manage in an IT Operations group at Intel Corp.
Met my (then to be future) wife (Donna Schutte) in a German language class I took as a freshman. Didn't see her again until right after graduation where I bumped into her at a JC Penney's where she was working in the Gift Wrap department. As it turned out, my best friend Matt Joralmon was dating Donna's best friend so it was an easy double-date situation!
We got married a little over a year after leaving high school and had a daughter (Brandy) the following year. My son Andrew followed 6 years later and my youngest son Adam 2 years after Andrew.
While working at Intel, we moved to Folsom, California for about 3.5 years but moved back because we really missed Arizona. That and the majority of our relatives were here!
Now have 5 grandchildren (2 boys and 3 gi...Expand for more
rls) and one more on the way! Very proud of the careers my kids have pursued. (High School English Teacher, Physician's Assistant, Firefighter/Paramedic).
My list of hobbies are ever changing, with some of them coming around again and again. My longest passion has been photography and videography. Had a motorsports photography company for a few years and got pretty good shooting motorcycles and race cars on various tracks. Now I mainly do events at Intel and volunteer to shoot non-profit events. You can see photos on Flickr by adding /cecilwalker to the end of the URL and videos on Vimeo by adding /cecilwalker.
Another long-term passion has been motorcycles (started riding in 1993) but I don't ride as much as I used to.
Latest in the long list is Scuba. I'm a PADI certified Rescue Diver and may one day go on to become a Divemaster. I took my 4th sabbatical from Intel over the summer of 2013 and dived Channel Islands a few times, Oil Rigs off of Long Beach once, Cozumel, Roatan, Bonaire, Grand Cayman, Belize and Fiji.
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