Tom Kranovich:  

Updated on December 14, 2018. Life and Family after high school: From my second marriage I have two sons, both grown and both doing well. They are relatively short. One is 6' 5" and the other is 6' 4". Their mom lives in the Portland metro area. I am fortunate to be able to say that my kids get along really well with Cindy, my wife and partner of 30+ years. We now have six grandchildren with a sixth on the way. Four live in Mt. Prospect, a suburb of Chicago, with my older boy, Matt, and their mom, Molly. After attending Northwestern University Matt became an actuary. He works down town Chicago. My younger boy, Jeff, is married to Megan. They live in Portland and have two children, Lydia and Logan. The other, an as yet unnamed boy, is due in February. Megan is a nurse and Jeff is a stay at home dad. He also is a rather talented, but as of yet unrecognized, luthier. Work and professional history: During college, after my summer at A-67, I worked two summers at Interior Airways loading, unloading, fueling and playing mechanic's helper on old WWII vintage aircraft (a job that I enjoyed more than any since). I spent the summer before my senior year in college working construction at Cape Lisburne, Alaska for GHEMM Co. After college I was a band director for eight years. During the summer I would return to Fairbanks to work or go to summer school for my Master's degree. I worked one summer teaching at a U of A band camp in the afternoon and took flying lessons in the morning. For two summers I worked for GHEMM Co., one building bridges and one bailing gravel. In 1977 I received my master's degree in music and promised myself that I would never again go to school. . I taught for six years in Redmond, Oregon where my Jr. Hi. bands were the first from Central Oregon to be invited to perform for the Oregon Music Educator's conference and for the Northwest Region of the Music Educator's National Conference. I left Redmond to take a job at Lake Oswego High School where I taught for two years without any spectacular accomplishments. Ironically I have no contact with any of my former students from Redmond, where I had significant success, but two of my current dearest friends were from Lake Oswego. The last year that I taught, 1978, I broke my promise and started law school at night (a four year program) at Lewis and Clark. My last three years of night school I clerked in Circuit Court. While in law school I taught legal writing for two years. My third year of law school Jan Alton and I were partners and we won the school moot court, mock trial competition. After passing the bar in 1982 I went into private practice doing general litigation. I then went to SAFECO insurance and was a litigator doing insurance defense for eight years before becoming their managing attorney in Portland for six years. I left SAFECO (which sounds better than saying I was sacked) and went back into private practice in 2002. In 2003 I hired Angela Franco Lucero (who, like me grew up in New Mexico) as an associate and we became partners when we...Expand for more