John Poe:  

way but in the same industry. I started on the drawing board to get familiar with shipbuilding (not a big effort, since I had been in the Navy after graduating from A&M), and became a senior Structural Engineer. I then spent a year with another firm doing casino barges...not a lot of challenge there, just daily arrangement changes. I worked on almost everything the Navy has (above the surface), from Frigates to Aircraft Carriers, and some commercial work, including the 415' "American Queen" Mississippi riverboat. I taught Geometry and Algebra II in a local HS. My second year, I switched to teaching Physics instead of Math. Update 7/30/2014, 4/3/2023 I retired after 8 years of teaching Physics and Math on 10 June. Right now, it's still summer vacation, retirement won't start until everyone else goes back to school on 11 August. We have a grandson, Evan, who is 4 1/2 (as of this writing), and a handful. I've already turned into my grandfather and started building him stuff... for his yard, the converted shed, his room... love him. We celebrated our retirements (Kathy retired last year after 35 years with DCPS) with a cruise from Montreal down the St. Lawrence River, to Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Maine, and Boston. Other vacation trips included to London prior to going to France to observe a solar eclipse, ending in Amsterdam; another trip to France, cruising the Seine between Paris and Rouen, with a side trip to Normandy; a two week excursion via train, coach, and ship to Alaska and the Yukon; a cruise from Montreal down the St. Lawrence and around to Boston; and a week in Iceland. This year (2023) we're starting in Arizona at the Grand Canyon, then heading north through several National Parks to Yellowstone. In the past two years, I've had a pacemaker "installed" and underwent double by-pass surgery. Doing fine, now. JDP