Roger Williams:  

CLASS OF 1972
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South High SchoolClass of 1972
Bakersfield, CA

Roger's Story

Life Hello all: I was born poor.. we were so poor we used to live in a shoe box in the middle of the road.. we had to get up at 2 a.m. go to work at the mill for 26 hours.. get home 2 hrs before we woke up and go to bed without dinner.. if we complained our father would cut our arms and legs off with a razor blade.... but at least we had a box!!!! you tell that to kids today and they wont believe you.... I was the skinny nerd in high school who used to try and make the jocks and thumpers laugh so they wouldn't beat me up. Lani Errea and I have been happily married for over 41 years now....(wow). Our son (Eliot) is an intellectual property lawyer working in Palo Alto. El and our 1st grand gift Julian pictured. (Susan) graduated from Houston's school for the performing and visual arts. She was dancer, grad of Cinematic Studies at NYU, production mgr of tv shows like What not to wear, Monsters inside me and a dozen others. After conquering NY, she is currently the IT girl, The too good to be true 30 yr old with a job as a Oil trading broker for gasoline and other products working out of Houston. She is beautiful and still my baby girl. I graduated from Fresno st. as a civil engineer and went to work for Chevron for 11 years.Quit to ...Expand for more
become 50% owner of a business that blends gasoline and trades the futures market in oil. I now own the company and work as a consultant with 7 employees for Shell. If you are in a New York cab you are probably using gasoline my company made.. wierd job huh? Lani and I have both enjoyed the good life, seeing our children far exceed what anyone I knew in Bakersfield thought was even possible in 1972. Hope all is well with you and your family.. looking forward to hearing from some of my old friends.... We are retired, I day trade from home to pay for catfood. In process of getting on a series of short stories and trilogy novel for what this casual observer of our generation sees as the challenges to our grandchildren's. Our generation boomers, I think of as the MISSING LINK generation confronted with only one challenge. Taking all that all of our ancestors of every generation, translating and transferring their human history to our grandchildren. Gen*Human, Gen-h is on a path that will require them to define human by 2025. Legally, morally, socially, in every way in every place in the world. It is what all of us have lived for in some fashion. All. Now, time, technology, truth is a virus and free on an old iPhone. It will be wonderful.
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