Peter Waters:  

Hi, Its March 27th, 2018. I attended Memo's 75th B-Day celebration in May 2004. I had a great time there and was shocked to see wine and beer at the evening party/dance. I stayed there until 2 AM and there were still serving wine!!!!! I have a lot to tell you. Let's start with me getting married to Janet Robertson in August 1970 in the tiny Village of Sturgeon Point. Its near Fenelon Falls. We were only the 6th couple to get married in the octagonal wooden non-denominational church that was about 125 years old at that time. After the party that night at the Robertson's summer home on the lake, we jumped into my Corvair and started the long drive to Halifax. I was working for GE Canada at the time and I was transferred during the winter before the wedding. We returned to Toronto in June 1972 and I was enrolled in GE's Financial Management Program (FMP) which was a very strenuous course (in the evening) in 5 graduate level cost and general accounting, financial analysis, MIS and auditing classes. It took 5 semesters to finish. Immediately thereafter, I was invited to join GE's Corporate Audit Staff, and traveled throughout Canada for 3 years auditing 12 different businesses (1 every 3 months). After that I joined GE Medical Systems Canada in Markham. 18 months later, I was invited to interview at GE Medical's world HQ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved the family (Courtney was born in 1976) in Jan 1979. I worked in GE's X-Ray/CT business first, then in their nuclear Medicine business, and finally was sent to their Ultrasound business near Sacramento California where I lived from 1983 to 1988. Allison was born in Milwaukee in 1980, and Meredith was born in the Sacramento area in 1985. GE decided to close the Sacramento facility and consolidate it with their Milwaukee operations. Most of the management team left as they did not want to go back to a cold climate but more importantly, the recruiters from Silicon Valley were banging on our doors as the medical device business in California was very strong. I ended up going to Toshiba Medical Systems in Orange County (southern California) and we relocated there. Toshiba made a very large acquisition and it didn't work out so 6 senior people who had joined them to support their growth were let go (including me) but all were given 9 month severance packages. That allowed me the opportunity to try and start a consulting company, as I had children who didn't want to move. But also there was a large recession going on too. I hung in or 5 years until an entrepreneur who I had met at a ma...Expand for more