James Barry:
CLASS OF 1965
Grants Pass High SchoolClass of 1965
Grants pass, OR
James's Story
After High School began college career at OSU and SOC.
Left college and joined US Army and volunteered for Vietnam. Served with the First Cavalry and received Bronze Star for Meritorious Service.
Returned from Vietnam, married and resumed college. Received two degrees from the University of Oregon:
BFA in Fine and Applied Arts
BS in Computer and Information Science
Daughter Jordan Elizabeth Barry born.
Daughter Brooke Victoria Barry born.
Worked for 2 two years in Chicago. Then began career with Hughes Aircraft
Company in Fullerton California. Worked with team that developed software
to display graphics on the displays in the Command and Control Centers of
US Navy warships.
Moved with family to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia where I worked for ARAMCO
(the Arabian American Oil Company).
Son Bret Andrew Barry born in Saudi Arabia.
Traveled the world, Europe, Asia, Africa etc. Five week around the world tour.
Safari in Kenya. Regular trips to London, Paris and Rome. Lived with family
for five weeks on a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Returned to US and divorced.
Returned to Saudi Arabia where I worked for the Saudi Consollidated Electric Company in the Easterm Province (SCECO). Continued traveling. Hightlight was extensive tour of French Loire Valley Chateaux with Parisian girlfriend. Blois is a picture postcard town on the Loire. Wonderfull little bars an...Expand for more
d restaurants. The most romantic place I have ever experienced.
Returned to US and remarried my X and then again divorced, so I have a
double X... like XX.
Currently live in Klamath Falls where I am employed by JELD-WEN, Inc.. Design, develop and write barcode software.
Oldest daughter Dr. Jordan Elizabeth Toman is a radiology resident at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.
Second daughter Brooke Victoria is a senior in Civil Engineering at OIT.
Son Bet attends Lane Community college. Speaks & writes Japanese & will transfer to U of O next year to major in International Studies. Three summers ago he lived and worked in Japan for the summer.
Current hobbies are weight lifting, lap swimming, car collecting and international travel.
Last November went to Egypt via Istanbul. In Istanbul crossed the Bosporus via ferry and returned. Thus via the 15 minute ferry ride crossed from Europe to Asia and then back. In Egypt saw the Pyramids, took the sleeper train from Cairo to Luxor, visited Karnak Temple at Luxor and the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.
This December will travel to the Mexican Riviera south of Cancun with Jordan and granddaughter Aspen.
Had a great time at 45th Class Reunion. A great group of people.
Had lunch with Mike Cournoyer, my best friend from High School, and beautiful
wife Pamela in Ashland in September.
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