Richard Briggs:  

Life Married Sue Ann Hamilton, from Jacksonville, Illinois 12/27/69 (BA WMU '68) (MS U of M '73). I Worked for the State of Michigan 28 1/2 years, Information Technology. The last position was, Wide Area Network Administrator for the Department of Community Health. Retired November 2002 along with 7,800 other "older" employees. I enjoy my hobbies of woodworking, photograpy, gormet cooking, and model railroading. My daughter Cynthia, and I work on our family geneology. In the last 8 years we have uncovered our family ancestory back to 642AD of my mothers geneology, and 846AD of my fathers geneology. College Where to start..1964-65 attended Kellogg Community College. 1965 through 1967 attended ITT (Indianapolis campus). 1967 through 1969 attended Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Married December 1969, and moved to Lansing,attended Lansing Community College. 1971 through 1973 attended and graduated from Lansing Business University (now Davenport College) with an Associates degree in computer science. Workplace Worked Summers at the Upjohn Company 1964-65, Worked full time while attending college 1967-69 as a janitor at the Upjohn Research Campus. Moved to Lansing doing odd-jobs 1970-1973. Employed full time in Information Tecnology 1974 - 2002 by the State of Michigan. Worked from 1974 through '87 for DSS. Moved to the Department of Public Health, Technical Support 1987 - 96. After merger with Mental Health and other agencies 1996 - 2002 remained in Technical Support as the Wide Area Network Administrator working with both public and private health agencies throughout Michigan. Our daughter Cynthia and her husband Kristopher have given us a granddaughter. She is the apple of her grandparents eye. I enjoy being a granddad even though it wears me out trying to keep up with her. 12,December,2009 we now have a grandson Intabre. Our Family tree turned up some pleasant surprises. My great grandmother Thompson (North) was the oldest daughter of Countess Erma North of Marlmoor, Scotland. My great great grandmother was born 1817 and lived to be 100 years old. We know she was a victorian autocrat in every sense of the word. My great grandmother became countess in 1917 upon the death of her mother however she never returned to the UK as she was by that time a grandmother herself. When my mother turned 16 great grandmother gave my mother the title as she was the oldest granddaughter. My mother in turn passed the title onto her only granddaughter, our daughter Cynthia when she turned 16. Cy...Expand for more