Joseph Brownlee:
CLASS OF 1979
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Tallmadge High SchoolClass of 1979
Tallmadge, OH
Joseph's Story
Hey everyone, life has been a pretty good ride since high school. I married a girl I met at one of Gary Hilbish's famous New Years Eve parties and we have been married now for 25 years. We moved to Florida in 1985 and I became a Deputy Sheriff in 1987. I work for the Broward County Sheriff's Office, which is mainly the Fort Lauderdale area. If you have ever watched COPS (go ahead admit it I know that you love it) the show started back in 1988 and I was on the show 2 times. We have one son named Reggie and he turned 21 in January. He is a great kid and he has a great job. He is an assistant manager at one of the biggest GAP stores in the country. His store is in Orlando, Florida. I will be starting my 23 year in law enforcement this June and right now I am assigned to work at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport. Working at the airport has been a great assignment and I have had many memorable moments. As you can see by one of my pictures I was assigned to the President's security team a few years ago and although the President was running behind schedule by a few minutes I was not able to get a picture with him but he signed a large poster of the whole security team for me. I also got to meet Vice President Biden, Hilary Clinton and several Supreme Court Justices. I also got to meet the 1997 Cleveland Indians World Series Team and even got the whole team to sign a baseball for me. I hav...Expand for more
e met many, many movie stars including James Gandolfini & Tony Sirico (from The Sopranos), Burt Reynolds, Gene Hackman, Mickey Rooney, Leslie Nielsen, Keira Knightly, Steve Guttenberg, Judith Light, Carmen Electra, Jessica Alba, Laura Durn, and many more pro athletes but the nicest of them all was Florence Henderson from the Brady Bunch. She was so nice and even ate a couple of my home made chocolate chip cookies. But I look forward to retiring to Tennessee in 2012 because I have also seen more bad stuff than most people will or ever need to see. My most favorite memory though was in May of 2006 when a passenger Michael Offear who was flying on Delta airlines with his 17 year old handicapped son and wife and Michael had a heart attack while going through the security checkpoint. I was able to perform CPR on him and saved his life. I see him and his family every few months as they travel to Fort Lauderdale for his son's physical theropy and he says Thank You every time he sees me. That is something I will never forget. I missed not being up in Tallmadge though as I missed seeing my brothers and sisters families grow up. I guess we all have to make hard choices. Any member of the Tallmadge High School class of 1978 or 1979 who needs to travel to Fort Lauderdale to contact me and I will help you in any way that I can.
Hopefully we will have a 30th reunion and if so I look forward to seeing you.
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