Richard Leech:  

Met my wife, Ruth Harkey, from Hornersville, MO, at Ark. State U. Married 44+ years, one daughter, one granddaughter. Ruth got her MBE at Ole Miss, retired from Webster U. in St. Louis in 2010. She also designs, makes, and sells jewelry, and teaches jewelry making classes. For four of the past five summers she has gone to China to teach English and western customs at a university. We previously lived in Germany for six years and in Italy for three. We went back to Europe in 2007 (Athens, Rome, and Germany) and to Alaska in 2008. We attended the 50th anniversary reunion of my high school class in Oct. 2008, the only reunion I've ever attended. I spent 26 years in the Air Force followed by time at Computer Sciences Corp. Finished as a Software Systems Manager (AF) and Quality Assurance guy (CSC). I played baseball at Ark. St., baseball and football in the AF in Germany (5-6 years), football and softball in Italy (2-3 years), softball in San Angelo, TX (3 years), and baseball briefly for an Italian team, Inter Milan, which played for the European Cup in the Netherlands but came in second. Played baseball in the dedication game for the first baseball field in Sweden, baseball in the 1960 Olympics soccer stadium in Rome, and football and softball inside a volcano (dead, ...Expand for more