Dave Viens:  

(Updates all the way at the end) Hello! :0) After graduation from St. Alphonsus and then Moreau High, I joined the Air Force in 1973. I was a medic, and worked as an operating room technician. I married the love of my life, Sue, on St. Patrick's Day, 1979, and our daughter, Sarah, was born in 1981; our son Chris was born in 1988. I continued to work in the operating room until I was 40 when I decided a less stressful life was calling. For the past twenty years, I have worked as a barber in Tacoma, Washington, owning my own shop for the past ten years. I live a simple and quiet life, and I am enormously happy. My wife worked as a nurse for years, and is now retired; Sarah is a professional classical musician - principal trumpet of the Eugene (Oregon) Symphony, a freelance performer playing with other symphonies including the Seattle Symphony, and a college professor (University of Oregon); Chris is a middle school music teacher. My wife and I love our grandson, Henry, who is almost 3 yrs old. I think back to my time at St. Alphonsus with fondness, and often tell my customers: It is the students from those years I...Expand for more