Robert Dryden:  

Life Married Sylvie Savage 1968. She and I have known each other since grade school. Courtesy of the US Army,we lived in several locations in the US,Redstone Arsenal,Alabama Sandia Base,New Mexico, Fort Carson Colorado and spent 18 months in Okinawa where our only son, Everett, was born. I finished college in 1972 and went to work as a consulting engineer out of Anchorage in electric power systems, power plants, transmission lines. Sylvie and I were divorced in 1975, while I was City Engineer in Cordova. I moved back to Anchorage, rejoined the consulting engineering ranks and set up the firm of Dryden & LaRue Consulting Engineers. I remained single until 1990 when I married Audrey Parker, another high school classmate. We lived in Anchorage, getting her two sons and my son out on their own. We divorced in 2000. I continued in Anchorage until the spring of 2003 when the opportunity arose to come to Sitka. I was tired of the incessant pace of consulting and took the job with the City of Sitka as systems engineer. I scaled down my house by 2/3, bought a nice slow diesel cruiser boat and started doing the things I never had time to do. In February of 2005 I married April Wilkening, a 31 year resident of Anchorage who I had met in 2001. She is a wonderful partner in all I do. We still live in Sitka with our three dogs. Life is good here. We are looking forward to retirement in the near future. Workplace I worked for State Highways during Col...Expand for more