Roger Strong:
CLASS OF 1977
Central Kitsap High SchoolClass of 1977
Silverdale, WA
Simms High SchoolClass of 1977
Simms, MT
East High SchoolClass of 1977
Bremerton, WA
Roger's Story
HEY! kids(?)
A lot of days have past since Our CKJH football team kicked ass, Hinkles had parties at there cabin and the last Zeppelin album was released.
I had wrote an intense Bio some may have read, but decided to tone it down. I often think about a lot of you and wonder how life has treated you. Well I hope. Some of us are no longer living, and as for me, well, I've managed. Not to say I haven't hit some rough spots.
I've tried hard, with my wife's help, to be a good father and grandfather. Since I have great offspring, I think it's paid off. I've worked my whole life and raised a fine family that I am extremely proud of. I've been married 19 years this time NOV. 11 (Veterans Day)and was married 3 1/2 years prior to that. I love being a family man. My age is starting to take it's toll on me now. I'm sure at least a few of you can relate. Back in 79' I had a bike accident at Seattle Int'l raceway (I wasn't racing) and shattered my left leg in 7 places.They thought they might have to amputate, but I got lucky and they were able to save it. You can't even tell (no limp, etc.) except for some gnarly screws and scars. So I stick to things with more than two wheels these days. I've had several operations on my neck, hands, legs, more on herniated discs,both my shoulders float, blah, blah, blah. Besides that I'm in pretty good shape;o}) I have worked and played hard and now it's time to pay I suppose. I've worked in mines, shipyards, lumberyards, paving crews and the hardest of all was working in the oil fields in Wyoming for Marathon Oil; a young man's game I was doing in my 30's. Lately I work in Tacoma for McFarland Cascade Pole and Lumber making telephone/utility poles and pressure treated lumber. I've been there for the past 7+ years now. But now I give instructions and let the young bucks do the muscle stuff.I put numbers in a computer, set-up the saws, stacker, green chain, and stuff. I'm a safety team delegate and an OSHA/TOC Certified lift instructor / trainer. I also operate 210 and 190 Hyster lifts or Pettybones to carry poles, if I find it necessary. believe me my life has gotten easier.
But anyway, I turned 50 on Sept.7 , but my body feels much older some days, but in my heart I still feel like a lion of 20+. I still love my cars, my music, and of course family.
Some of the facts in the Q & A are screwed up and this annoying freakin' site won't allow me back in to straighten things out. First of all it says I graduated from C.K. in 1977. But I left C.K. in 1975, went to South my Junior year, and graduated from a little country school, Simms H.S., Simms, Montana, in yep, 1977. I think my Senior class added up to about 54 grads. I want to say hi to my friends in Simms, Fort Shaw, Sun River, Vaughn and the rest of the valley. Also any living in Great Falls.
Now although I knew a lot of people at East H...Expand for more
igh, I never went there as a student.I put my name in their listing as Roger Ramjet as a joke to friends there and again this lousy sight wouldn't let me change that either. I skipped school a lot, would hang out at East, and had a lot of good times there. But I never attended one class there. Although It was only a ten minute walk from my house to East, they bussed me all the way to Silverdale. Which was cool, since that's where most of my friends were, I wanted to be, and I wanted to graduate from.
Okay then, I think that's all straightened out. A little embarrassing, well more like annoying then anything.
Now where was I, oh yea, anyway one fine day my parents decided they just couldn't wait a couple years and we moved. I've never forgiven them or let them forget that fact. At least I already had some friends at South when I moved there. Montana was a different story. More like a different country.Other then relatives, I knew no one, I had long hair, and I was a rock n' rollin' city boy. I thought my life was over. But even that turned out to be a good time. The drinking age in Montana was 18 at the time and I turned 18 a couple weeks after my Senior year started. My parents bought a Bar/restaurant that was a night club on weekends with live music Fri, Sat,and Sun nights. So they were never home. I was lucky enough to have met some pretty cool people and had some great adventures hunting, fishing, hiking and camping, etc. I've met some great people everywhere I've been actually. I have A LOT of family in Montana and Wyoming, so spent lots of summertime on Ranches riding horses, bikes, and 4x4's, also worked a lot too. Bucking hay bails, branding and inoculating cattle, pulling calves, mending fences and all the never ending B.S. it takes to run a ranch.
I thank you all for the good times and the memories. Even if we weren't friends or barely new each other, you've still played a role in my life. These days I have short term memory problems and I can't remember how to spell my own name some days, but ask me things that happened in the late 60's, 70's, 80's, and most of the 90's and I remember names, faces, dates, where, the weather, what I was driving, who you were dating . . . I mean, it's uncanny the details I remember. I guess those WERE the days my friends. It still blows my mind that I'm 50 already! I remember thinking how being 50 was so ancient. So am I now ancient? Reduced to a bloody artifact! I spent my youth wrecklessly, but had a lot of good times, and some regrets also.
Well that's a bit of how my life has gone and what I've done. I've rambled on and have bored you long enough.
That's it for now, I sincerely hope you and yours are healthy, doing well, having great success, and are enjoying your lives.
Roger (Ramjet, to some)
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