Doug Logan:
CLASS OF 1971
Merrimack Valley High SchoolClass of 1971
Penacook, NH
Doug's Story
Life
Now Living In: Vernon Center, New York USA
What a long, strange journey it has been . . . I would have graduated in 1971 if my father had not moved the family back to his hometown of Kent Bridge, Ontario, Canada. So, I was the kid that just sort of disappeared. . . but I remember many of you with fondness, George Sartorelli (my partner in crime), Kevin Carlysle, Les Corliss (and his beautiful sister Carol), His cousin Barb Corliss and her brother Dana, my cousin (who seems to have dropped off the planet) Jimmy Lake, and many others.
I want to share a short story with all of you. It is an allegory of the first 26 years of my life . . . I don't know who wrote it, but it was an epiphanous moment for me when I read it, and it changed the course of my life...
"A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air, like a chicken would. Years passed and the eagle grew very old and bald. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who is that?" he whispered in wonder to himself. "That is the Eagle, the King of the Birds," said his neighbor chicken. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth--we're chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that is what he thought he was". . . Such is ones' fate if you are not told that you can do better . . . . but that is another story. . hint: See "Then" pic above.
Got my GED in August, 1982 at 29. I entered NH VocTech in Laconia a few years later. I attended classes full time and graduated Summa Cum Laude in the spring of 1984 with an ...Expand for more
AAS Industrial Electronics. Back then that was good enough to get a pretty good job. My first marriage failed soon after. I worked at Sprague Electric as an Engineering Tech for a few years then took a job with Summa Four in Manchester, NH. Great job but got caught in the tech slump of the time and was laid off. Took an engineering job in Utica, NY, worked a few years then quit and started my own business designing and manufacturing Giant Scale RC Aircraft for the high end sport and competition markets (turned a hobby into a business. . . how cliché). Did real well until NAFTA and the WTO changed the rules of global marketplaces and competition. Sold what was left of the business and worked for a couple years as an aviation mechanic at a facility that provided aircraft maintenance services to air cargo carriers and the US military. This was at the former Griffis Air Force SAC base in Rome, NY. Had enough of that and went to SUNY IT at Utica/Rome full time for two years and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Telecommunications Engineering on December 14, 2002. Not only was I the oldest student at 49, but I was also the head of my class! WoHoo! I am currently working as an Engineer/Analyst for an Engineering Consulting firm in Rome, NY. Our clients include NY State Government and it's Agencies and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. I'm the company GIS programmer/analyst geek.
My hobbies are playing the guitar in a blues band, working on my house, and building fast cars in the time left over (currently working on two Porsches). I am married (2nd for me 1st for her) to the most wonderful and prettiest lady in the world and have two cats that we both adore beyond words.
I have two wonderful children from my 1st marriage. My son is a Staff Sgt. in the US Army, has been deployed once to the DMZ in Korea, and once to Tikrit, Iraq. The US Army is his career, his 9th year in is fast approaching. My daughter is a successful Health Care professional.
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