Richard Gilmer:
CLASS OF 1964
Lake Oswego High SchoolClass of 1964
Lake oswego, OR
Richard's Story
For those of you that don't remember, I was not very interested in continuing on to college. Never took any SATs. In order to avoid Nam I joined the Sheet Metal Workers Apprentice program, this was considered a critical trade, and therefore I was deferred from the draft. All went well until May 1969, I was involved in an industrial accident. Lost all four fingers on my left hand, the fore finger was able to be reattached. At the time I devastated not knowing I would do the rest of my life. Luckily that passed quickly and I figured I better find some other line of work. That fall I start...Expand for more
ed at PCC, spent 2 years there making up for my shortcomings from high school and getting as many lower division classes out of the way. Next, went to PSU, spent the next 3 years concentrating on math and science/engineering classes. Graduated spring of 1974 and went to work the next week for Cascade Corp. as a Mechanical Engineer.
Got married in July 1981. Retired from Cascade Corp. in 1995. Sold out everything in Portland and moved to Costa Rica. We have been living the good life there ever since. Family and friends have been down to visit and we have been back to Portland twice now.
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