Michael Brown:
CLASS OF 1967
Springfield North High SchoolClass of 1967
Springfield, OH
Michael's Story
Throughout High School I didn't really connect. While I was involved in Junior Achievement, Civil Air Patrol, photography, international folk dancing, and the debate club, I was absorbed by the crowd in school and anything but "cool." After college I joined the National Park Service; became a Park Ranger; saw a lot of the country; did law enforcement, search and rescue, resource management, EMT, and became a park manager and later the Service's Deputy CIO and then Director of Strategic Planning. Along the way I learned Irish folk dancing, and managed the dance club and band for several years. After 36 years with the government I retired and started my own consulting company. My wife and I have been married since '72. We enjoy discovering our nation's history and do a lot of travel visiting out of the way sites where the real stories are of the people who built this country. I've returned to photography as a hobby with most of my attention drawn to landscapes and architecture.
I am appalled with the political discourse today and the willingness of my fellow citizens to suspend critical thinking and allow hate radio/tv/internet to dictate w...Expand for more
hat they believe. When we were growing up there were wingnuts like the John Birch Society who believed that communism was taking over America. But these organizations were recognized by the vast majority as extreme and they had little influence. Today, it is the extreme points of view that are dictating the conversation. It used to be, even here in Washington, that our representatives were civil and recognized their responsibility to work together, cooperate, and compromise when necessary - for the benefit of the country. Today, they seem willing to tear the country apart so they can blame each other.
Clearly, I've become an old man. I didn't do well in High School but I knew where we were on a world map, could identify all of the states and presidents. Something more than what the kids to seem to be able to do today. Later, I learned how to study, how to research a topic, and more importantly how to think critically and form an educated opinion and share it without name calling, innuendo, and absurd accusations.
There you go, you've got my story through a list of milestones passed and thoughts on current affairs. See you at the reunion.
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