Wayne Haddy:  

Since I finally paid the fee and rejoined this site thought I would make use of it and briefly explain what I have been up to all these years. After HS I graduated from the university of Iowa with major emphasis in Journalism, political science and Am. History. I ended up working for the same organization my entire career. I began working at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency in CR as a PR specialist. In the early 80’s I was asked to become the Government Relations Specialist (fancy way of saying Lobbyist) for the statewide AEA system at the Iowa legislature. Like any profession that job had its pluses and minuses, but by 2011 I had reached the point that I was so sick and tired of politics that I decided that since I was in a position to do so that I would retire relatively early. The other main reason that led to that decision and almost of equal importance was that after 60 years I was tired of Iowa winters. Truth be told I hated them more each passing year! The timing of the retirement turned out to be a lucky decision. We had planned on spending about 3 months each year renting a place in Arizona, but as it turned out our first year in AZ housin...Expand for more