Stuart Holloway:  

Life I left Urbana for good in Sept '68, and spent my freshman year at Morehead State, KY. Kentucky wasn't my cup of tea, so for the fall term in 1969, I transferred to Central State in Wilberforce, near Xenia, where I finished a BA in Sociology and History in '72. I have some special friends from Central State days who have become more special as time goes by. After one year of grad school at the Univ. of Wisconsin in Madison, I'd had enough of college life, so I left to start working and also got married for the first time in '73. After 2 years back in Columbus, '74-'76, I'd had enough of cold weather so transferred on my job to Long Beach, CA and moved to nearby Santa Ana in Orange County where my older brothers Larry and Bobby lived at the time. I lived in various OC cities like Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim Hiils, Irvine, Laguna Hills and San Clemente for the next 25 years. After another marriage from '79-'97 and two sons, now 38 and 36, on 12/31/2000 I packed a few things, gave away everything else, and moved to the beautiful island of Oahu, HI. I now live in the town of MIlilani, about 15 miles outside of Honolulu where I retired as an Energy Consultant. To be retired and happy in paradise with a beautiful island lady, it doesn't get any better in my opinion. I have been fortunate to have decent health and I do my part to keep it going with regular practice and teaching Qigong and Tai Chi martial arts meditation classes to people from all walks of life. My wife, Marlene, is shown in several pictures with me; she was a student in one of my classes in the fall of 2004. She quickly made her way to the head of the class and became the teacher's pet. We have been together since then and got married in January 2010. Can you say "inseparable"? She's hapa, Hawaiian for 'half' --- her mom was a war bride, born and raised in Japan, although Marlene was born in South Carolina. In July 08 she went with me to Ohio, where we attended my 40th HS reunion in Urbana, then went to my brother Ted's house in Dayton the next day to meet some special Central State friends, better known at 'The Troop', or F Troop. In the summer of 2012, we returned to Ohio for a visit with Mom and Ted, then took off for Cleveland, where I was born. We had a blast at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame there, then rented a car and drove to Niagara Falls, Canada, for a couple of days, then north and east though Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, before heading south down thru NY state to Connecticut, NYC, NJ, Philly, Baltimore and DC for 4th of July. It was a great vacation. A few months later, Marlene wanted to see her all time favorite singer, Paul McCartney, so we flew to western Canada, Vancouver, to see him perform at the BC Stadium. He played for 3 solid hours. In the summer of 2013, we made our first trip ever to Europe, touring Italy --- Rome, Pompeii, Naples, Pisa, Florence and Venice, before heading north by train to Munich for an independent tour of southern Germany. Loved it, the people, food, music, historical sites and transportation were all awesome. In October 2014, we went to Japan, my first time ever going there. Marlene lived there as a young child and still has cousins and aunties living in Fukuoka. We arrived in Osaka, a metropolis of 19 million people, where we took the Shinkansen bullet train to Fukuoka. After visiting family there, we backtracked through Hiroshima and Kyoto, two cities rich in history and culture, before flying home from Osaka. The airport there is as modern as any in the world...Expand for more