Joe Roberts:  

After barely graduating at Johnson, I tried City College for a year, flunked out, then joined the Navy in 1966 with Bob Burfield (Class '65) and loved it; stayed for 20 years. Attended UU in electrical engineering, then CAL Berkeley in civil and then CU on the GI Bill for an MBA. Traveled 30+ countries in the Navy and moved to Boulder,CO in 1986 when I retired from the Navy with my last tour as the Staff Engineer (Navy SEABEES) on the CINCPACFLT Staff in Pearl. I was enlisted for 8 years and then got a Navy Commission as a "Mustang" Ensign. Spent a year in flight school then went aboard ship for four years. Obtained licenses as a Master Electrician, Master Plumber, General Contractor while in the SEABEES and then Class B Mechanical Contractor and eventually a Professional Engineer (Colorado PE) in 1990. Spent the summers of 1983 and 1985 in Egypt on a Navy Operation as the Staff Engineer on the Rapid Deployment Forces, and could see the light show from my tent west of Cairo on the pyramids and spinx every night prior to taps. Tragically, my wife, Jeanne of 48 years, was overcome by a deadly and incurable form of internal cancer called chilangiosarcoma (CCA) and passed in April 2015 in my arms, in her own bed with our three sons and daughter-in-laws at her bedside. She had three weeks to live after five operations to help prolong her life. No one who gets this form of cancer lives past 6 months. Jeanne and I got married at 20 in 1968 and we have 3 sons: Joe,Jr., Daren and Justin...and 9 grandchildren. We started Roberts & Sons in 1977 and our property mgmt and sales business in '92, called Roberts and Sons, LLC in...Expand for more