Roger Perkins:
CLASS OF 1957
Beecher City High SchoolClass of 1957
Beecher city, IL
University of Illinois - Graduate SchoolClass of 1975
Urbana, IL
Eastern Illinois UniversityClass of 1969
Charleston, IL
Mckinley High SchoolClass of 1957
Cedar rapids, IA
Cowden-Herrick High SchoolClass of 1938
Cowden, IL
Roger's Story
Life
My wife and I moved to Illinois after I retired from 3M at the end of June 2005. We had lived in Minnesota for 30 years, initially in Rochester, MN and then in Woodbury, MN.
We celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary in 2009.
School
I attended grade school 1946-1952 and junior high and high school 1952-1957 in Beecher City, IL.
My wife, Karen D.V. (Peterson) Perkins graduated from McKinley High School Cedar Rapids, IA 1957. Thus I am listed as a friend at McKinley.
My Perkins grandparents lived in Cowden,IL, thus my father Charles A. Perkins and his brothers and sister attended school in the Cowden school system as did many people of my parents' generation from Beecher City, IL because Cowden already had a 4 year high school. Thus I am listed as a friend on the Cowden school.
College
I attended Eastern Illinois University 1958-62, entered the USAF then return and graduated from EIU 1...Expand for more
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Graduate school at University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana received doctorate in 1975.
Post-doctoral Fellowship
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN from August 1975 to September 1977 in Experimental Pathology.
Workplace
Employed at 3M corporate headquarters in St. Paul (Maplewood), MN October 1977 - June 2005, as toxicologist is 3M Corporate Medical Department. Manager of Toxicology for International Operations 1997-2001.
Retired end of June 2005.
Military
USAF October 1964 - August 1968.
Lackland AFB
Indiana Unversity, Bloomington, IN, Russian Language school
Goodfellow AFB
Berlin, Germany
Goodfellow AFB
Trabzon, Turkey
returned to Eastern Illinois University to complete undergrad degree.
Retirement:
Pursuing hobby of n-scale model railroading, reading and doing some writing. Recently added teaching in a Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program at Bradley University to planned activities.
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