Chas Bilbery:
CLASS OF 1978
Stanton County High SchoolClass of 1978
Johnson, KS
University of Colorado Class of 1992
Denver, CO
Chas's Story
Hello everyone! Long time no see!
I think about some of you from time to time. Especially, the old Manter crowd- Leona, Natasha, Pamela, Doug Hume, Larry Hoopingarner, etc. Gosh, how fast life flies by!
I live in Alaska now. I helped some friends move up here in 1998 and never left. I started a construction company in Eagle River soon after and it just took off. There seems to be a shortage of competent contractors here.
It amuses me where life has taken me. I went to the University of Colorado at the age of 28 and majored in Pre Law. I interned for a senator my senior year and, subsequently, became disenchanted with lawyers and politics. I never went on to Law School even though I had received a partial scholarship.
Afterwards, I worked for the State of Colorado Budget Office as a financial analyst on the 14th floor of a skyscraper in downtown Denver, Co. I kept being distracted watching workers down below build a light rail train system. I kept wishing I was down there building something useful instead of sitting in front of a computer screen in a office all day.
Would people view me as more successful as a corporate attorney or as a financial guru dressed in tailored Christian Dior suits and handmade Italian s...Expand for more
ilk neckties? Probably. But building a house that clients can call their home and raise their family in is much more rewarding than making some corporate stockholders even more wealthy.
My advice to all the kids in Stanton County High School now would be to pursue what you enjoy and don't worry about what other people think because you will never please everyone. Success is personal and not, necessarily, financial.
I do have some regrets though.
I regret that I didn't stay in contact with some of my old friends from Kansas.
I regret that I didn't marry that German exchange student that I met and fell in love with years ago. She went back to Germany begging me to go with her. I didn't but I did have a beautiful daughter with her.
And even though I have been to Europe, Central & South America and all over the U.S. & Canada, I regret that I haven't seen more of the world and the differences in it. But my life is not over yet!
My grandmother went from covered wagons to a man on the moon. That fact makes me wonder what we will witness before our life is over. While I don't think we will see such technological advances as she did I think we are in for a good show.
Well, everyone hello, goodbye and take care!
CHAS~
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