Gary Rohr:  

I went to DeVeaux grade school - kindergarten thru 8th grade. It looked as though I'd be going to Start High School, like my sister, but then my parents were forced to move and I ended up in a different school district and went to DeVilbiss High School and then the University of Toledo Community College. I worked at SS Kresge in Westgate Shopping Center at Central and Secor while in high school and then a good friend, Mark Macey, helped me to get a job with Owens-Illinois in their data center. I worked at O-I for nealy 15 years and then left to go to work for Blue Cross on Sylvania Ave where I stayed until Blue Cross merged with a plan in Cleveland and the job I was doing moved there. The cost of living was higher in Cleveland and Blue Cross wasn't willing to pay me any more so I looked for a job elsewhere. There were no computer jobs in Toledo so I looked for warmer weather out of state and landed in Phoenix, Arizona. The Arizona Bank (TAB) had just merged with Security Pacific and everybody quit when it looked as though they'd be shutting down their data center and relocating it. Nothing was definite so I took the chance and moved my wife Deb and 2 sons (Robbie 5 and Jamie 3) to Phoenix. We were in Phoenix less than 6 months when they made it official that the data center was being moved so I took a job with a company called Avnet. Avnet was rather smal...Expand for more