Michael Denny:
CLASS OF 1978
Northwest High SchoolClass of 1978
Omaha, NE
Michael's Story
After high school I failed as a roadie, a dishwasher and a downtown sidewalk popcorn vendor. Finding myself somehow in posession of both a nursing license and a degree in political science, I drifted down river to New Orleans. There, when not attending law school at Loyola, I hung around the French Quarter. Narrowly escaping the clutches of a mad voodoo queen, I then abandoned my legal studies and became an itinerant nurse, working in hospitals in 17 states. Once, while crossing the New Mexico desert, I became lost and nearly died. I was rescued by a beautiful Navajo lady named Clarice (Shi'asdzaa' Nizhoni) who took me home to her people. She looked after me until I recovered and we fell in love. We were married in a traditonal Navajo ceremony on a mesa 30 mil...Expand for more
es south of Gallup, NM. Clarice is also an active duty military officer (CDR O5) and we are now traveling the world having adventures. . I also completed a master's degree in Emergency and Disaster Management. I have just finished 2 years of working for Johns Hopkins University developing a vaccine to prevent ear and lung infections in children and I am currently the manager of a large Ebola decontamination facility located near Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa (I would rather fight Ebola in Africa than in Albuquerque). Clarice will retire from the service in 9 months and 3 weeks at which time we will return to our little home on a mesa south of Gallup, where Clarice will play with her grandkids (4 so far) and I will raise sheep and tend to my apple trees.
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