Joseph Gibbons:  

After graduation, I joined the navy for four years. I've seen about 3/4 of the world including Vietnam during the war years. The navy almost became my career, then I changed my mind and came back home to Michigan and earned a journeyman's card as a Toolmaker-jig and fixture builder. During this time, I met and married my wife, Glenda. We started a family; two sons, Joseph and David. We moved our family to the Santa Cruz mountains in California in 1982, where I worked as a Systems Analyst for four years. Then we moved back to Michigan. I was rehired at Chrysler as a toolmaker-jig & fixture builder; then I was promoted to a management position. While all this was happening, the wife and I moved to a small farm in St....Expand for more