Conrad Curry:
CLASS OF 1966
Middletown Area High SchoolClass of 1966
Middletown, PA
Towson State Teacher's CollegeClass of 1971
Towson, MD
Harford Community CollegeClass of 1968
Bel air, MD
Conrad's Story
Life
Currently living in Matlacha, FL. Retired. Moved here from Elizabethtown, like the bad movie, Kentucky. I'm married (45 years in 19, to Cinda) and retired from Fort Knox (Army Recruiting Command)in 03 after 30 years as a government worker, and 2 as a soldier. I worked as a consultant since, and during a dry spell between contracts started a business with a partner/friend who worked for me several years ago. My job gave me the chance to travel all around the world and to do lots of interesting things. I met plenty of unique characters, learned the advertising business and seldom had a dull day at work. At the same time, my wife and I raised two children, who have given us four grandchildren...so far. Our daughter Michelle lives in Florida, near us, with her husband and son Jake. My son Chris lives in the Elizabethtown, KY area with wife Beth, and has two boys, Devin and Cohen. After graduation from MAHS I got my BA (in Art Education) from Towson State University (1/71) in Baltimore and was quickly drafted into the Army. Luckily for me my overseas service was in Germany, where I had a great time. After my discharge, I went to work for the Navy, got married and went to graduate school (American University) at night using the GI bill. We moved to Kentucky in 1994, happy to be leaving the DC area. Life in Kentucky was much more laid back, and we enjoyed having a nice group of close friends nearby. But we were sick of winter weather, and had always talked about moving south. We took advantage of the weak real estate market in 2009, buying an investment home in Cape Coral, Florida, and waterfront property on an island where we built our dream home, which we moved into in April of 2013. Since then we've been decorating the house, landscaping the yard and enjoying the pleasant warmth of southwest Florida. No regrets.
School
Crush? None in particular OR too many to list! Mostly, the teachers I had didn't inspire me. Did they inspire anyone? Some tried, I guess, and the fact that I didn't pay any attention to them is my loss. I may have been a pretty pathetic student, but I always had a bad attitude. I initiated and took part in any number of disruptive and ill advised acts. None stand out as particularly memorable, and only a few were criminal. I disliked having to go to school. Classes mostly bored me. Honestly, my happiest day of school was the LAST ONE. And yet, my memories of my time at MAHS are mostly warm ones. I had good friends, a great town and wonderful experiences that gave me memories to last a lifetime. It was a great period in my life, and I've ...Expand for more
no regrets about any of it. Trips back to M-town have been few and far between, but it's always a great time when I visit.
Workplace
I've washed dishes, laid sod, cooked, bussed tables, carried suitcases, jerked soda and managed a "Lums", all before I started working. I met my wife at work, and my best friend. Like most of my co-workers, I almost always thought the boss was an idiot. Therefore, I always tried to become the boss. That was easier, AND it payed better. Problem is, no matter how far up the chain I progressed, there was always some butt-plug ahead of me. Regardless, I usually had a pretty good time doing work I enjoyed. The week I turned 55 I happily retired. and with a good friend I met at work, started what was supposed to be a part-time marketing-communications business. It somehow became a full-time job, where we developed and billed a long list of clients while growing the business through the darkest days of the recent recession. With the business booming, and while making more money than I ever had working for Uncle Sam, I retired for good in 2013. I now work at doing as little as I can, and do not miss all the crap that came with having a job.
Military
Drafted March '71. Bootcamp? Fort Dix! Got pulled from the rest of the trainees after the 2d week and painted murals on day room walls, did training schedules for Battalion and got weekend passes every week as soon as they became available. Didn't do PT once after that 2d week! I was sent to Ft. Gordon for AIT but got pulled from the processing line and was offered an OJT "Cadre" slot, due to the fact I was a college grad and they had an opening. Figured that was better than becoming a "Field Telephone Operator" and going to Nam. Pretty much worked 2 days a week. Eventually I came down on the "overseas levy" list and while all of my friends headed for Asia, I was put on a plane to Germany. I ended up at VII Corps HQ in Stuttgart. My first week there I bought a car, and the second week the obligatory huge stereo system. That was the only money I wasted. The rest was spent on beer and women...mostly beer. I saw much of Europe, met lots of interesting people and partied heartily. I even had a reasonably good job, doing congressional inquiries and being pretty much left alone by my chain-of-command. I happily flew home at the end of my tour and was unceremoniously, but honorably, discharged. Pay sucked, but I mostly had a good time taking advantage of an adventure I didn't sign up for. No regrets about not becoming a draft dodger. In fact, I'm happy to have had the military experience.
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