Frank Overman:  

Let's see... Blizzard of '78 and our graduation was 30 years ago... where does the time go? Maxine Parker and I got married in 1979. At the time I was going to ITT Tech and working at Essig Brother's Mitee Handy hardware in Carmel. Wasn't too long before I started working for Monroe Systems for Business in the Park 100 area of Northwest Indianapolis. The job was repairing office machines around the central Indiana area. As far South as Bloomington and North to Lafayette. When they asked me to move to Fort Wayne in 1985. I left them and started working for Four Phase Systems repairing mini computers. About the time I joined Four Phase they were bought by Motorola. Then in 1986 they asked me to move to Fort Wayne. I'm slow sometimes but I do catch on, so we moved. When we left Westfield we had Frankie (1980) and Adam (1982). In Fort Wayne Nick (1986), Jon (1989), and Annie (1990) were born. That's it. No more kids. From 1986 to 1990 I worked out of my house, servicing computers in the Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan area. Then in 1990 the PCs were taking over and Cellular was taking off. They sent me to a school to learn about installing Base Stations, the radio systems that make cell phones work. From 1990 to 1992 I was out on the road Missouri, Iowa, Texas, North and South Carolina, Washington DC, California were most of the projects. Much of this time I was out on the road 10 days, and home 4. A lot of driving, and some of it flying. In 1990 I heard of an opening in Arlington Heights IL in product quality, and took the job. It didn't include relocation, but was considered a travel job. An ongoing, temporary assignment where I'd drive in from Ft Wayne to Chicago on Monday, stay in the La Quinta near the office, and drive home on Friday. In 1994 they wanted to consolidate our team, so they paid for relocation. Sold our house at the end of 94, spent the holidays in a beige apartmen...Expand for more