Charles (Merrill) Bowen:
CLASS OF 1975
Toms River South High SchoolClass of 1975
Toms river, NJ
Charles (Merrill)'s Story
Life
Just re-upped to see what's going on!
Yikes - can you believe Captain & Tennille had a top song for our year?
If any of you remember me - I went by my middle name in HS - just because that's what my whole family did. Don't ask me why - ask my dad..... But, after a while, when I went back to finish my degrees later on, I just got tired of explaining to the "Last name, First Name, Middle initial" forms and such that I go by my middle name. So, just because I'm lazy, I just defaulted to Charles, my first name. Same guy, new package...
Long whirlwind story for me streching from Jersey to Delaware, to Maryand, to California, to Texas, and now Oklahoma. Plus stops in between!
Not sure if the check boxes capture me just right - for those who know me that's obvious!
Really varied life so far, and still going strong. Finally got married and have 2 step kids.
Used to teach at Oklahoma State University, but got tired quickly of the academic BS associated with being a professor, so made a 180 and went to culinary school in Manhattan (French Culinary Institute). Now I h...Expand for more
ave various business interests and teach cooking on the side - really would like to open a place, but it's a tough racket and let's face it - we ain't that young anymore. Even if I still act like it......
Went to U of Delaware where I majored in football and fraternity, which did NOT match well with the university requirements for a civil engineering degree. After that, fooled around with a bunch of jobs, doing really everything from A-Z. Finally decided to go back to school and finished my BS in civil engineering at NJIT. Did well enough to get a scholarship to U of California at Berkeley, and got actually 2 masters there in civil engineering. Finished up with a PhD at the U of Texas at Austin (where I still have season tickets for football - Hook 'em Horns!).
Been a long time since I've been back to Jersey. Spent a weekend there in oh, about '02, and before that, jeez, probably 10 years before. Love to travel, but as we all found out,real life sometimes gets in the way of our cool plans!
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