Christopher Chien:
CLASS OF 1979
Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High SchoolClass of 1979
Burnt hills, NY
Salzburg International PreparatoryClass of 1979
Salzburg,
Lake Placid High SchoolClass of 1979
Lake placid, NY
Christopher's Story
I left BH-BL HS after the 1976-77 school year when my parents decided to move to Lake Placid, NY to work with the LPOOC (Lakd Placid Olympic Organizing Committee) to prepare for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. Some highlights? Watching Eric & Beth Heiden blow away the competition at the 1978 World Speedskating Championships; learning how to speed skate from Sheila Young (1976 OWG 3-time medalist). Taking the German Regents Exam after not studying all year (LPHS didn't offer German, only French and Spanish; somewhat ironic considering how many people of German origin lived there then, and still do) and doing well (vielen Dank, Herr Miller; danke, Herr Whalen).
In early 1978 my parents decided to move again, this time to Saudi Arabia, where my stepfather had taken a job with an international construction firm working for the Saudi Government. As part of the deal, I was given the choice of going to school in Europe. Since I wanted to pur...Expand for more
sue German, I chose a school in Salzburg, Austria. I lived in Austria from October 1978-May 1979. (Yes, I know most of the locations in which "The Sound of Music" was shot.)
Came home and worked at Storytown USA for the summer before heading to college. I actually remember speaking with some of my BH-BL classmates (Leanne Lavergne and Jenny Bertino) one day as they were about to get on my ride (yes, they still got on). Must have been senior day or something.
Went to college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Spent some time at University of Heidelberg (Germany) as a junior. Also worked for Wesleyan University Press while a student, which got me started working in the publishing industry. After graduation I worked for Prentice-Hall (now Pearson) in NJ and then moved back to Albany in the late 1980s. I currently work at Cengage Learning (formerly known as Delmar Publishers, Inc. and Thomson Delmar Learning) in Clifton Park, NY.
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