Thomas Holmes:  

In the last couple of months, I have had many visits to my CM site. . I can also guess that there is a curosity of who this guyTom Holmes is. To most of my fellow classmates, I was rather obscure The reason is that I worked at Santas Village near Lake Arrowhead every weekend, holidays and summer vacation. That mean I was never at school activities except for football games because of band. Thinking back, I only attended one dance. To complicate this even turther, I went to PHS for my Sophomore and half of my junior year. My parents moved from the east side of SB to Rialto which mean a school change. I thank my cousin Pat Smith for helping me acclimate to SBHS. After graduating from SBHS, I went to Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. There I was in the band and Sigma Nu fraternity. It was a great experience to gain self confidence, learn to chase girls, and drink beer. Unfortunately it was not a great education experience (my fault) and I left in the middle of my sophomore year. Actually I dropped out before they threw me out. Went into the USAF in Sept 1961. After basic at San Antonio, I was sent to Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS for Electronics Training. Towards the end of this training, I was selected to be an instructor and was retained at Keesler for what I thought was going to be the rest of my four year enlistment. I did stay there until 1964, but due to Viet Nam, I was sent to an isolated site in Alaska for my last year. After leaving the USAF, I became an engineer at a company in Riverside. During the course of that employment, I sent into sales and was eventually transferred to Orlando, FL as a Sales Engineer. When the electronics industry fell apart in the early 70's we moved to Ft. Walton Beach, FL. During my tenure in FL, I became involved with the Dale Carnegie program where I became and instructor (13 years.) It was in one of my classes that I met the CEO of the Eglin Federal Credit Union in Ft. Walton Beach who offered me a job as their VP and director of Marketing. That led to a position 7 years later in Pensacola with Mutual Federal Savings & Loan (The oldest S&L in the state) as again, VP Director of Marketing. While in Ft. Walton Beach I joined the Shrine. That was 38 years ago. After moving to Woodland Park, CO I became the Potentate for Al Kaly Shrine for all of S...Expand for more