Michael Koons:
CLASS OF 1968
Lakewood High SchoolClass of 1968
St. petersburg, FL
Michael's Story
Well after I graduated I went to pvti in Clearwater for cooking. My draft number was coming up so I joined the navy. After I got out I worked at several hotels as a chef. I met my wife while working in St Pete. I became the chef of the Sheraton Sand Key in Clearwater Beach. I was the chef there for 6 years and that is where I was when my son was born. I am not married at this time. My career has included chefing at the Contemporary Hotel and opening the MGM Studio at Disney World, The Ritz Calton hotel in Washington DC and a member of a team of chefs at the Culinary Olympics that are held in Frankfert Germany. I became a Chef Instructor for Johnson and Wales University at the campus that was in Charleston SC for 12 years. After t...Expand for more
eaching,I opened my own business but after Sept. 11th happened I had to close the business and I ended up coming up to Alaska to be a chef for a Princess Cruise Lines hotel property. I have been here now for 7 years and just love it. I have learned to not put off anything to tomorrow if I can do it today because on May 4 in 2003 I fell over a log while bear hunting with a friend and broke my neck. I spent 8 months in the hospital in rehab and today I am considered a walking quadriplegic. My doctors call me unique. I can't work a full time job so I work just a little bit for special things. I still hunt and fish I just have to do it a little different. Well that pretty much sums up what has been going on in my life in a nut shell.
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