Mike Simpson:
CLASS OF 1969
Portage Northern High SchoolClass of 1969
Portage, MI
Indiana UniversityClass of 1982
Bloomington, IN
Western Michigan UniversityClass of 1974
Kalamazoo, MI
Mike's Story
Life
After graduating college (WMU), my first wife Beverly and I moved to Indiana where I taught high school social studies and coached the wrestling team. I wrote a book, coached the school's first state finalists and place winners, and won a teaching award or two. I then left teaching in 1983 to work in educational publishing, in which I have worked since. Publishing has taken me all over the world, from Indiana to Philadelphia to Boston to San Francisco where I now live. I've traveled a lot and seen the bigger world - London, Amsterdam, Heidelberg and Berlin -- what might have been a difficult challenge had I remained a teacher. Beverly and I split in 1992, and I took a promotion to California, where I learned to be single for the first time, and eventually met my current wife and true love, Suhl Young Chin. We travel a lot, usually adventure/outdoors travel (backpacking (Europe, Montana, the Sierra, and Hawaii so far), paddling the Grand Canyon, backpacking on Kauai, etc.). Last January we spent 2+...Expand for more
weeks traveling offbeat Thailand and the Burma border, including a bamboo raft float for two days. Summer, 2010: a friend pointed me to a 2 week contract position in a geological exploration camp in remote Nunavut Territory, Canada, north of Hudson's Bay, west of Greenland, almost to the Artic Circle - it's pretty interesting up here, "a man's world" (OK, there are 3 women in camp). Life is good. We travel and exercise and cook a lot together. In 1999, I co-founded a small higher education mathematics and statistics publishing house, Key College Publishing, as a division of a small K-12 publisher. We sold that division to a larger company in May, 2008. I landed after two years of no job and a little contracting/consulting, as VP Sales & Business Development with an exciting, small independent San Diego company, University Readers. Promoted to VP of Acquisitions & Sales in 2010. I'll remain in San Francisco, of course. If you ever come to San Francisco, we'd love to host you!
Best regards, Mike Simpson
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