Steve Hayes:  

College I got my BS in Aerospace Engineering from Penn State in 1981. I was also a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity with another BHS '77 grad, David Teplica. After graduating from Penn State I attended the University of LaVerne in Pomona, California and received my MBA in 1989. I've thought about getting a doctorate in history, which I have a real fascination for, but that'll be later in life if at all. Workplace My first "job" was pumping gas at Joe's Texaco near the high school. I also was a fledgling "tour guide" at Penn's Cave for a summer while in high school, (mostly I fed the trout and put bumper stickers on visiting cars and cleaned the bathroom, ugh) and also worked as a sales clerk at the Gee Bees department store at the Nittany Mall for a time. While in college I worked with another BHS '77 alum, Rod Corl, at the Centre Community Hospital (now called the Mount Nittany Medical Center) in the cafeteria. After graduating from Penn State I went to southern California and landed a job with Rockwell International on the Space Shuttle program as a thermal protection engineer. I even had a chance to go to Cape Kennedy and crawl inside the shuttle wing and stand on the launch platform, and watched it land at Edwards Air Force base. I also spent time on the space station program during the concept propoal phase. After leaving the Space Shuttle/Station program, I went to work for Northrop Corp. on the then, top ...Expand for more