John Hayes:
CLASS OF 1971
Grosse Pointe South High SchoolClass of 1971
Grosse pointe, MI
John's Story
Life has been good...
My Kids
I have twin boys who are now (22). One is struggling to launch and the other is about to graduate from CO School of Mines with a degree in CS. They are both great guys! My wife is a retired attorney who has become an accomplished artist.
My Job
I've started a couple of optics companies and I was a research professor working on methods for testing large multi-mirror space telescope systems. One of my companies supplied a lot of the test equipment needed to build the components for JWST. I've been retired for 17 years although I still sit on a corporate board and chair the advisory board for the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.
For Fun
I've be a technical rock climber for 43 years and...Expand for more
at 70, I still climb hard 5.10/easy 5.11. I'm an ATP rated pilot and flight instructor flying aerobatics, a jet, and now learning to fly helicopters. I'm lucky to have flown all over the world and I wrote for "Plane and Pilot" magazine for about 5 years. In retirement, I resurrected my high school interest in astronomy and I now operate a remote observatory in Chile with a 0.5 m telescope for imaging deep sky objects. My images have won numerous awards.
I mostly live in central Oregon in Bend and in Tucson during the winter.
I can barely remember high school and it's been a long time since I've visited Michigan. If I do a reunion it's with my grad-school buddies. Still, I remember a few of you from GPS and I hope that you are all doing well...
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