Dale DeVries:  

My Teaching Life: 3 years at Concord HS (fresh and green right out of college), 2 years at Jackson Northwest HS (a little too rough for me, but I was their first ever tennis coach), and then 3 years at North Muskegon HS (a great school and tennis team) and the 80s hit with recession! I needed a job and every school district in Michigan was laying science teachers off, so I took a job learning Respiratory Therapy at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, and now have been teaching this for 25 years at Muskegon Community College! Along the way, had 2 wonderful daughters, Carrie and Janel, one divorce after 24 years, a second marriage, which gave me 4 grandchildren through marriage, and now I have my own grand-daughter. Still live near Muskegon on a nice inland lake (with great large mouth bass fishing), but we also have a cabin up north near Traverse City, on a great trout fishing stream! I had to eventually slow down playing tennis (after 3 knee surgeries) but I still love to play beach volleyball at Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon and on the West Bay Beach of Traverse City. I like to ...Expand for more