Tillman E. Turley:  

Life Came to the Phoenix Arizona Metropolitan area from California and settled in Tempe. Have worked for the Arizona Department of Education since coming. I have enjoyed being with the ADE and have had an exciting and interesting career. I now am responsible to allocate about 225 million dollars in Federal funds to Arizona public school including 450 chartered public schools. An update: I retired in 2003 and am now in Minsk, Belarus (east of Poland and west of Russia). My wife Svetlana and son Nikita, decided to come here to learn the Russian language and have an adventure. What an adventure it is...we walk almost everywhere we go and I have lost 40 lbs. Linda and I were divorced in 1990 as she decided to follow her heart and another man. Tillman, Gerry, Troy and Manda are all happily married after a few bumps and I have 13 Grand children and one Great Grand child. Learning Russian is slow but it is becoming more easy. We are anticipating a great winter with lots of cold and snow...something we didn't have in Tempe, AZ. It was a great ten years I spent in Lake Elsinore and I loved every moment of it. I've wished many times we would have stayed and watched all you great young men a...Expand for more