Tim Lewis:  

College I attended 3 years (1966 to 1969) at Florida College in Temple Terrace, FL, a suburb of Tampa. It was and still is today a small, private, religious based school. I worked a year or so following school, went to California (Los Angeles area) with with a friend for 6 mo.s (my big adventure). Returned to Tampa to live and work, where I shared an apartment with my brother Joel (DHS '67) until '72, while drafting for a civil engineering firm. I met Regina Beck of Birmingham, AL while she was attending Forida College ('71-'72). We married in summer 1972. With her support and encouragement I attended Georgia Tech from '73 to '76 and graduated with a Civil Engineering degree. LIFE My first job as an engineer after graduating from Georgia Tech was in Nashville, TN. I chose to go there so I could be near the country music industry. With a friend, I wrote a number of songs that were recorded by various artists. The first ("Picking Up The Pieces") was recorded by Kenny Price and sung on the TV show Hee-Haw in '76 or '77. "My Thoughts Go Back To You" was recorded by Tommy Overstreet in 1977. Then, Mylon Lefevere recorded "Rowena" in '79. Mickey Gilley recorded "Keep On Telling Me Lies" on his last album before he was in Urban Cowboy. The greatest success has been a civil war era love song called "Burn, Georgia, Burn" recorded by the group ALABAMA on their "Feels So Right" album, which sold over 4 million copies. I had opportunity to meet the group and record in Jeff Cook's studio in Fort Payne, AL. We moved to Huntsville, AL, in 1982 where we raised our sons David (a fireman/paramedic) and Daniel (a systems engineer/math major). They are 25 & 28 yrs old, respectively (as of March '08). They are also musicians in a band together (Grand Prize Game) which can be seen on MySpace. Daniel writes songs, sings and plays guitar and David is the drummer. Sadly, Regina and I were divorced in 200...Expand for more