Don T Bryant:  

Life Hello Knights & Ladies, Don "T" checking in, remember there were 2 Don Bryants-I am the taller one. You may remember me as the soda jerk in our term play, "I Remember Mama"-I had 2 entire lines to say and got them both out correctly! On a more serious note, since then I have had my Andy Warhol "15 minutes of fame" when I married my long time partner, Kim Barnes in the ruins of our home near Lake Temescal a month after the BIG Berkeley/Oakland hills fire of October '91. A few walls were left standing for dramatic effect, so there was a nice backdrop for the event. I spent so much time on the property just after the fire, I became a bit of a "media darling" as news crew after news crew came by , put a microphone in my face with all manor of questions. I had to promise Kim I would not alert the media regarding our wedding ceremony, but my good friend Hank Ball (January class of '58) called channel 2, so Rob Roth and crew were there,so the event made the 6 and the 10 o'clock news that Sunday evening. Also, a photograph of the ceremony was in the Oakland Tribune plus a few other papers as far away as LA. My first "3 minutes of fame" occured the Thursday after the fire when I ended up on the Peter Jennings evening show talking about a small prayer service I organized on our site to honor the 25 persons that lost their life in the blaze. I could not finish telling the story without getting all choked up, so I think that made the interview "newsworthy" enough for national TV. Kim has 2 girls, so at the wedding, I went from "batchlorhood" to "grandfatherhood" the easy way, as I don't do diapers, and we now have 4 wonderful grandchildren. We have a 15 person Management Consulting firm in Berkeley that is now 21 years in existence, and having such a good time that retirement really is not in the picture anytime soon. Frankly, the big "R" is a bit scary for both of us-would boredom set in? We travel as much as possible, and get to Europe a couple of times a year and have business...Expand for more