Michael Garver:
CLASS OF 1963
South Gate High SchoolClass of 1963
South gate, CA
Bell High SchoolClass of 1963
Bell, CA
Michael's Story
Greetings to Old Friends:
Where do I start ? Graduated in June 1963. Joined the Army 12 days later. 4 years took me to Europe and Asia. Returned 1967, started college, finished a BS at Sac State (75), MPA at USC (78) and an MS from Cal-Poly Pomona (89), all in Management. The schooling was at night while working full time and raising kids.
Met Nancy in college in San Diego, got married in 1969 and we will celebrate our 40th Anniversary this June 7th.
Nancy worked in the Banking arena when we were first married. When the computer industry started she began as a Programmer and grew with the market. She retired several years ago as an IBM Systems Administrator with ACS, a large corporation in Dallas. I joined CHP in 1968 and continued the education at night. Retired in 1994 as Assistant Chief. Worked in 13 different assignments including San Diego, Oceanside, LA, Sacramento, San Francisco, Redding, Napa and Fairfield. Promoting in CHP requires moves much like the military. Retired for 5 years spending my time involved in Rotary, Shriners Hospital and Bicycling. Went back to work as the Executive Director of Meals On Wheels of Solano County in 2000 and spent 6 years raising money, growing the organization and feeding the elderly. Retired for a 2nd time two years ago and I am really enjoying it.
We have been blessed with two wonderful kids: Nickie who is 36 and Michael who is 33. Both are graduates of the University of California and work in the business world. Nickie worked for 4 years as an Agricultural Commodities Broker and then decided she wanted to own her own business. She now owns three Quiznos Restaurants in the central valley of Californa. Our son Mike works as a Senior Buyer for the JC Penney's Corp. in Dallas Texas. Nickie has presented us with 3 beautiful grand-babies: Jacob 6, Clara ...Expand for more
4 and Lila 7 months, Mike gave us Luke 5, and Kate who is 3 weeks old. In a period of 6 years we gained 5 grandkids and like many of you are ecstatic about our role as Grandparents. By the way, both of our kids have spouses: Nickie is married to Mark and Mike is married to Virgina. I never thought being a Grandfather would be a big deal but when the first one came along...boy did I ever change.
I hosted a "mini" South Gate Class reunion at our home in Fairfield last summer for those of us who live in northern California. We had 25 people and what was suppose to be an afternoon pool-thing lasted way into the night. We had a wonderful time and it turned out to be super.
We now live in Vacaville which is half-way between Sacramento and San Francisco and about 45 minutes from Napa. We sold a ranch where we lived for 25 years and bought a smaller home in a gated retirement community.
Nancy and I have had the great fortune of traveling around the world while serving in a leadership capacity with Rotary International and we have also been involved in humanitarian missions with Rotaplast International that does cleft pallet and cleft lip surgeries in 3rd world countries.
We played a lot of tennis when were younger and had to give it up for a lack of spare replacement body parts. We took up golf about 18 months ago (one of the promises we made to each other years ago) and are now hooked on it. So, we play golf, spend time with the grandkids, actively participate in Rotary, Nancy travels with her girlfriends and I became a Shrine Clown with Shriners Hospital and am now into clowning outside of Shriners. Life is good !
I am not sure how this Classmates thing really works so send me an email. I would love to hear about you and what you have been up to...
Thanks for reading my story !
Mike Garver
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