Gerald Weeks:  

Life Attended Greenfield Elementry till second grade. Then transferrred to Standard School. Got put back a year, ending up repeating second grade. Always felt bad about it, but realize now it was best for me! In 7th and 8th grade played Flag Football, Junior Optimist Basketball, and Baseball. Tried out for band playing the Cornet, but ended up quiting, because I didn't like the band teacher!!! One of the distasteful things about graduating from Standard was having to go through graduation certimonies with a nasty looking boil on my face. I went to North High for a semester during my freshman year and then transferred to Bakersfield High. I played freshman football at North High and thought I would play at Bakersfield High, but Paul Briggs the coach at the time I didn't like, so I went out for Cross-Country and Track and have been an avid jogger all my life pretty much. Had a good Cross-Country coach Mr. Beerline (that the name I remember) and a great track coach whom I don't remember. In my Junior and Senior year I went to work part time for the Californian as a proof deliver. At BHS I met & and eventually married my High School sweetheart Virginia M Lawson to whom I have been married over 54 years. I joined the Navy after High School and after 4 years got a Navy Civil Service job for the next 37 years. MY specialty was missiles, computers, automated test equipment, software & hardware design, program management, and missile support equipment. Overall I had a great career, but the last 5 years were h...Expand for more