David Combest:
CLASS OF 1969
W.B. Ray High SchoolClass of 1969
Corpus christi, TX
Texas A&I UniversityClass of 1974
Corpus christi, TX
Del Mar CollegeClass of 1971
Corpus christi, TX
Baker Junior High SchoolClass of 1967
Corpus christi, TX
Carroll Lane Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Corpus christi, TX
David's Story
Life
Happily married to our classmate, Berle Jean Hubbert. We're about to celebrate our 38th anniversary.
2 daughters: Mendy, 37, with 4 children (15, 13, 10, 8), and Marcia, 34, with a new son named Carson. Now Marcia is pregnant again, and grandchild #6 will arrive in July of '08.
Retired in 2001. We like to travel & play with grandkids. My health allows a trip every couple of years as long as we take an "old folks tour" - slow pace and plenty of rest. In 1994 my body rebelled against the hours I kept and stress I absorbed, and I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Immune Disfunction Syndrome. We even went to Mayo for 10 days and had every-test-know-to-man run trying to find something treatable, but no luck. I worked another 7 years while tired and sore; much work done from home. Now, I treat symptoms, try to stay active enough to feel alive and rest enough to keep from "crashing".
Last travel was in May of 2007, when we revisited Rothenberg, Germany, Salzburg and Innsbruck, Austria, and Lucerne, Switzerland. We're schedul...Expand for more
ed for an Italian tour in April of 2008 that I'm very much looking forward to. We've been working "backward in time" visiting centers of western thought and culture. After NYC and Washington, DC we took trips to London and then Paris. After we visit Rome, Athens in on my future checklist. Ah, world history....
I try to keep caught up with what's going on at:
web(dot)mac(dot)com(slash)davidecombest(slash)dcombest(slash)Welcome(dot)html
It's a shame CM doesn't allow direct links to pages.
Family and trip photos (plus some photos of the class of '69 at Mike Williams' house last summer) are up at:
picasaweb(dot)google(dot)com(slash)dcombest
Life is good pretty good...
Workplace
1969 - 1972 Corpus Christi State National Bank.
1972 - 1983 Citizens State Bank, Corpus Christi.
1985 - 1989 Private consulting practice.
1989 - 2002 International Bank of Commerce.
All jobs Information Technology related except "whim jobs" including political campaigns, marine machine shop, insurance sales (all to help friends - but interesting).
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