James Mike Ford:  

Life After Foothill I attended Bakersfield College and graduated with a degree in Industrial Electronics. I then got married to Nancy Jonas who had graduated from BHS. I attended Fresno State University and graduated with a degree in Industrial Electronics. We had our first child a son, John. My first employer was Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo where I worked for almost 7 years. In that time we had a daughter, Christi, and twin boys, Robert and Brian. We then moved back to Bakersfield where I worked for Superior Faming Company. In 1979 I started work for Continental Telephone Company and we had our last child, Scott. Continental Telephone Company changed their name to CONTEL and in 1991 merged with GTE. I was moved to Thousand Oaks and we lived in Newberry Park. In 1993 I was transferred to Tampa Florida. GTE has merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon and we are in the process of merging with MCI. My wife , Nancy, works fo...Expand for more