Gerald Woodward:  

Life While attending California State University at Long Beach, I met the brother of my spouse. He had moved into an apartment building in Long Beach, CA. several houses down the street from where I lived. His sister came from Pennsylvania in the summer of 1960, to stay with with him and to attend college, but he never introduced her to me. A year and a half later, on December 27, 1962, I saw her walking on Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach, and I followed her into a shoe store and introduced myself. Our first date was for the New Year's eve concert at the Long Beach Convention Center to hear and dance to Ray Charles and his orchestra, and the rest as they say, is history. We were married on February 14, 1964. My daughter attended college at Pepperdine University on an academic scholarship, majoring in Psychology. She now writes the procedures for the improvement process going on within SBC and AT&T in their San Ramon, CA Office. She travels from time to time to Anaheim, CA to perform her job, so we get to see her about 6 times a year here or traveling north to see her. I am fully retired as of Friday, March 2nd, 2007!!! Now I will work when I feel like working and if I want to work! I've got lots of hobbies and places I want to see, food to taste, and roses to smell. I am getting used to this retirement thing real quick! :-) I guess I should not have said that I was fully retired as I teach a class in Pneumatic Controls and Building Automation, part-time, two nights a week. I teach one night a week (18 week course each semester) at the Joint Journeyman and Apprentice Training Center (JJATC) in Los Angeles over the past 22 1/2 years, and one night a week at Orange Coast Community College (16 week class each semester) for the past 10 years. School Greetings to all my fellow Connies and Clems!! Little did we know how important and how much fun our high school days were going to be for us. I would have done a few things differently knowing what I know now. I was a good student as well as athletic (football, basketball and track), but I know I could have been an even better student although 3.73 GPA is not too bad. Nothing could make me give up the many happy days spent at AUHS!!! I also attended Stevenson Jr. H.S. (9th Grade) and Roosevelt H.S. (10th Grade) in Los Angeles, after moving to California from New Jersey in 1955, and made many friends at both schools, some of whom are still friends to this day. After graduating from Anaheim Union High Sch...Expand for more