Rod Kirkendall:
CLASS OF 1968
East Canton High SchoolClass of 1968
East canton, OH
Rod's Story
Life & Times
After graduation from East Canton in '68, I attended Case Western Reserve University. ' started out in engineering, switched to pre-med, ended up with a double major in Psychology, and have now been an investment broker and financial planner for 33 years.
At CWRU, I spent one year on the varsity football team, was rear-ended into a 5-car accident (no more football), got into gymnastics and ended up assisting in teaching the classses, did stats for varsity basketball team all four years, got a bad case of spring fever my junior year and ended up on the varsity baseball team for one season. Fraternity? Beta Theta Pi.
' met Edee at the Naked Lady (a disco) in Mentor in the late fall of 1975, proposed New Year's Eve, and married on the 4th of July in '76. I was in my 2nd year at Merrill Lynch at that time. Edee is a 1971 graduate of Crestwood High (Mantua OH). Interests include organic gardening (veggies, herbs and flowers) and alternative medicine. She is also an ordained minist...Expand for more
er and offers unique counseling services.
After building a home and living in it at Lake Mohawk for 19 years, we move to Fairfield Twp, Ohio, in October of 1998. We live on a hill about 1/4 mile north of Dover Dam across from the Tuscarawas River -- 11 acres, big old house (circa 1950), 2-story bank barn, and a long driveway (app 800' uphill before the house appears) off State Route 800. We're located 20 minutes south of Canton, approximately equidistant from Zoar, Dover, and New Philadelphia, 10 minutes off I-77.
Edee and I will celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary this summer.
We have no human children, but we do have six pets in our family (not counting the deer and other critters around here) ... five cats (Merlyn, Sadie, Moya, Tu-Tone, and Buddha) and one dog (Caleb, a 110-pound Wolf-Husky-German Shepherd mix).
What am I reading aside from business-related articles and research all day? Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth: Awakening Your Life's Purpose."
Lord willing, I will never retire.
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