William Blevins:
CLASS OF 1975
Barboursville High SchoolClass of 1975
Barboursville, WV
Karlsruhe American High SchoolClass of 1975
Karlsruhe,
Beverly Hills Junior High SchoolClass of 1971
Huntington, WV
Memorial Junior High SchoolClass of 1971
Lyndhurst, OH
Forest Park Junior High SchoolClass of 1970
Euclid, OH
William's Story
Life
My Pets
5 parrots...
2 Cockatoos (Coco and Rocky)
1 Blue and Gold Macaw (The Brat)
1 African Gray (Sam)
1 Blue Front Amazon (Tigger)
All of them talk to some extent.
They're all part 'love bird' and part Feathered Terrorist...
People are always asking where I'm "from" - difficult question for me... Considering I am an "army brat" and went to 22 schools on 3 continents by the time I graduated from BHS in '75.
Some of them were awful miserable places that I couldn't wait to leave - Cleveland, El Paso, Tappan New York and Barboursville - where I didn't seem able to do anything quite right or fit in and finally stopped trying. I was lonely and never really made any close friends. Never did anything with anyone outside of school-sponsored things...
Others like Karlsruhe Germany, One place on Okinawa, Spokane where I was surprisingly happy and really didn't want to leave when it was time. Karlsruhe was my favorite - a fairly small school when I was there less than 30 in the graduating classes. The '72-'73 school year - I always seemed to be doing something at school - Band, Cross Country, Track Yearbook staff, Chess club, German/American cl...Expand for more
ub. I had a group of friends that I did things with outside school too - including my 1st beer at the Moninger brewery restaurant downtown when I was 15. Parties or just "hanging out" talking etc.
After high school, college at WVU and a short, disastrous bout with the air farce, I moved to California (with an eternity one summer in Tulsa Oklahoma on the way ) I've lived in San Francisco since the early 80's - I like it here, though it's getting too expensive to live here. I even like the fog, which seems to drive most people crazy. We have 3 seasons every day, none of them summer ;-)
I write computer software for a living - I've had code running for everything from a process control box at a steel mill to a data collection system on a linear particle accelerator, a Dept. of Energy radiological research lab to a foreign currency payments system at a bank and a system that scheduled locomotives for a railroad.
Romance - took me forever to figure myself out in that department - along the way, there were a couple of the silliest schoolboy crushes you could imagine on people that might surprise you though I never did anything about any of them.
Register for Free to view all details!
Yearbooks
Reunions
Photos
