Terry Foley:  

Life I'm a happy guy, but it's not been a linear path! For someone trained in architecture, a matrix-building problem solver, I seem to've been content to go with the flow in life's currents, figuring out how to make it work wherever I was. I spent three years in the army in Germany right out of high school, providentially between Korea and Vietnam. I was in a small missile detachment, stationed with a NATO French artillery group in the Black Forest. I got to ski weekends during the winters and made an effort to learn to speak German during my army days. I was discharged there and stayed 4 more months to attend the Goethe-Institut, a German language school for foreigners. I returned to New York City on a troop ship, finishing the trip back to Bend riding Greyhound. Got after it that fall, family and school-wise, getting married and starting at Central Oregon Community College. Moved to Portland and PSU, and Peter was born. Moved to Ashland for a year at Southern Oregon College (back then). Moved to Eugene and began the 5 year architecture program. Erin was born. After while I carried a double major with German, since I had that going for me. Graduated, twice, moved to Camp Sherman where the kids attended grade school for six years, and then back to Bend. The five-plus years in Eugene in the '60's were powerful, consciousness-expanding times, personally and globally. Viet Nam, population, and energy concerns made everyone more widely responsible. (Where'd that go!) I tried architecture for a while but it was too restrictive so I went back into the ski world, gravitating to full-time coaching work in Bend and program directing in Colorado for 5 years, where Peter and Erin graduated from high school. Anne and I divorced and I married Joyce, between school -architecture, and Colorado. After a couple years back in Bend I found myself "Peter-principled" out of skiing and back in to architecture. I worked for a guy, designin...Expand for more