Del Ahlin:  

CLASS OF 1989
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Hesperia, CA
Chandler, AZ
Chandler, AZ
Gilbert, AZ
San marcos, CA

Del's Story

Life's good. Married for 14 years, 4 kids. (edit 18 years/5 kids)(edit 21 years, still 5 kids)(edit 23 years, still 5 kids, but lost Samantha to school and losing Mark to a church mission in a few months.) Moved a plethera of times throughout my youth. Started out in Vista, Ca. moved to Gilbert, Az. and then a few places in Chandler/Chandler Heights, then to Prescott for a brief moment and then on to Beautiful Hesperia, Ca. Bro Mark referred to it as "nuclear devastation." I wouldn't go that far, but from the looks of it, I'm pretty sure there must have been carnage of some sort... But alas, it's my High School stomping grounds and therefore worthy of mention. We spent four years or so here and then onto St. George, Ut where my parents finally settled down (but only because my dad developed Alzheimer's disease and passed away in 2006 - or they would probably still be moving). I attended Dixie College in St. George, Ut but not with very much passion. I was mostly interested in music and so only took music classes after a while. I played with the jazz ensemble in high school and continued that into college - I did a lot of composition but there wasn't much happening in St. George at that time. It was here at Dixie that I met Jacque. We married in 1994 and had Samantha in '95. I didn't try the school thing again until 2001. I worked for a while as a video game music/sound composer for a local company called Strata. After a while the company took a nose dive ...Expand for more
and so did all the employees. I realized at that time that I would need to make a living and music was not such a stable source of income. After being laid off from Strata, Jacque decided she wanted to go back to school at the University of Utah. So we moved up there (and had a couple more kids). I slowly worked my way up the ranks of computer dude until I landed my current job in 2000 working as Systems Admin for Probation & Pretrial for the 10th District of Utah. Good gig. It hasn't done much for my musical desires though, so in 2001 I decided to go back to school (at the U of U) where I eventually received a Bachelor in Jazz Composition studying mostly with Henry Wolking. This degree is absolutely useless, though - so the plan is that someday I'll go back again and do the Master's program teaching cert and teach somewhere - hopefully at some Jr college somewhere. And make a fraction of what I make now! So obviously, financial things will need to be straightened out before that happens. -I'm hoping by retirement! :( That's ok, life is still good. (Edit was RIF'd from the courts job. Took an IT management job with United Security Financial in 2012, then an IT management job with The Local Pages in 2014, and finally a job with Jacobs Technology at a naval weapons station at China Lake as a Sr Sys Admin, then SQL Team Lead, and presently WebOps Sys Admin in 2016. It is currently April 2018.) I look forward to hearing from old friends. del_ahlinatyahoodotcom
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Jacque & Alex
Emily - age 5
Mark age 8
Samantha age 13
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