Gary Phillips:  

CLASS OF 1973
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Scottsdale, AZ

Gary's Story

My life in a nutshell. After high school, I served 4 years in the military, where I went to Europe for 3 years. Instead of coming home when I was on leave, I traveled to all the countries there. I had a great time & learned about the different cultures in the different countries. When I returned I met, and married my beautiful wife Marietta, a New Yorker. She is a loving caring career woman that I love today as the first day I met her. We were blessed with three beautiful daughter¿s , whom have shown me the real meaning of love. My youngest daughter Melissa, disliked High School like me, instead of taking a negative approach, like I did, she decided to get it over with, and she graduated from Desert Vista High School in 3 years. She is now a junior at NAU ¿Northern Arizona University ¿, working on a duel major. My middle child, Amanda, graduated from Arcadia High School where she was captain of their state champion high school soccer team and she was elected the Prom Queen of her Senior class. She is now a certified/licensed real estate agent and is working on finishing her bachelor¿s degree. She is married and her husband¿s parents ironically are also Coronado alumni, (small world). My oldest Tanya also graduated from Arcadia High School....Expand for more
She came down with medical issues in her late teens, which has halted from pursuing higher education, but she is a fighter! A few years later she became pregnant, was told by many doctors to have a abortion or chances were she would not survive the pregnancy or there would be severe problems with the baby. She refused to listen to the doctors, I am happy to say she is doing fine & I am a Grandfather of healthy, beautiful & highly intelligent granddaughter. I am so proud of my daughter¿s pro life values. Getting back to me, when I returned from the military, I helped build a thriving Aero Space Business for over 27 years, which we sold for a tidy sum I my add. I retired for a couple years, got bored & went into retail management for 5 years. Then I returned to Aero Space where I am working today. I am presently attending MCC ¿Mesa Community College¿ to learn Web Design. I have built a web site called hoabillboard.com. It is live & active, but I am still working on a few of the pages. Maybe some of you will visit my site & post your H.O.A. stories. I am restoring a old 1965 Ford Galaxy 500 for those who can appreciate old cars. I love going on long bike rides on my motorcycle. As you can see life is good & I have been blessed in many ways.
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Mr Bones is ready for Trunk n Treat
Merry Christmas to all
Lily and Bella horsing around in the montains
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Lily and her dance mates took first place in their first regional dance compitition "2018" in their trio "Birds" trying to figure out what birds they look like,  what do you think?
At another dance compitition,  Lily in her new Solo costume,  she was awarded a Double Platinum,  their highest award, for her performace, took 7th overall.
Lilly's first driving lesson, in the mountains away from traffic!
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Lily recieving her orange belt this week end.
How hot is she, such a natural beauty with no makeup, not many woman can pull that off!!!
It is official, their adoption went thur today, we know have the legal documents, as if we need them to call them ours!
Lily had her recital last night, she was the Black Swan, one of six dances she preformed in.
Just got back from Wisconsin, Where Rainbow held this years National Dance Competition where hundreds of dancers from across the US participated,  my daughter Lily won numerous trophies, here is a picture of 1 of 2 Grand Fi
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