Rick Gordon:  

I'm having a ball at 51. I hope all you other class of '78ers are too. I recieved a B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders form UCA in 1983 and finished my M.S. in Commuinication Sciences and Disorders from Radford University in Radford Virginia in 1991. I completed my Clinical Fellowship Year in 1992 achieving my Certificate of Clinical Competence making me a Speech/Language Pathologist. It's hard to believe I've been doing this for 25 years. While living in Virginia, I met my wife, Beth, in 1985 and we were married in 1987. My son, Jared, was born in 1994. We got a late start so while most of you are now grandparents I'm still experiencing having a son in High School. Sad notes include my grandfather dying in January of 1996 followed by the death of my father in February 1996. That's a dark year I'd rather forget. Grandmother past in 1999. My mother is still living in the home you may remember in Heber. We've gone to countless little league baseball and football games and middle school football games. Now we have seen him play football as a freshman and are looking forward to seeing him play high school baseball as well. My wife is a Teacher of the Visually Impaired as well as a preschool intake coordinator for the Greater Clark County School District in Clark County Indiana. We live in Charlestown, IN which is about the size of Heber. We live on six acres that back up to 400 acres of natur...Expand for more