William Meilahn:  

Following CHS, I went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, graduating in 1962 with a BS degree (surprised?) and an ROTC commission in the Infantry. After a hitch in the 101st Airborne, I was lucky enough to be sent to the Army Language School, where I learned some passable Spanish. I then served the 8th Special Forces Group in Panama and the Dominican Republic for about 5 years. I did my time in Viet Nam, got out and worked overseas for an un-namable government agency for a few years. I finally got wise, quit and went to work for Ross Perot's EDS in 1974, where I began to learn something about computers and programming. Later, I received an MBA in Finance from Harvard, and continued to work in and about computer systems until my retirement in 2005. I married a girl named Sue, a school teacher from Texas whom I met in Panama in 1966. We lived in 23 different cities, including San Juan, Puerto Rico, where our third child was born. We had...Expand for more