Eric Manning:
CLASS OF 1957
Central High SchoolClass of 1957
Sarnia, ON
Sarnia Collegiate & Technical High SchoolClass of 1957
Sarnia, ON
Hanna Memorial SchoolClass of 1952
Sarnia, ON
Eric's Story
Well, let's see. It's been a long half-century since Central '57!
I did my very best to live up to the Captain Video label, which I think I got at SCITS back in Grade 9.
I did some of the early research in fault-tolerant computing, at the University of Illinois and Bell Labs, and some of the work which eventually led to the Internet [none of us oldtimers thought it would be used for e-mail, let alone for Youtube!] at Waterloo, then moved to Victoria as Dean when the new Faculty of Engineering started up here at UVic in '86, and have lived here happily ever after.
I like the snow be...Expand for more
tter when it stays up on the mountaintops, [where it properly belongs].
My son David and daughter Paula live here in Victoria too, which is wonderful. Eileen's kids - Kathleen & Jim - live in Denver and L.A., so we don't get to visit them as often as we'd like. And I'm a grandfather![Katherine, age 13].
Eileen & I spend some of our spare time sailing in the Gulf Islands. I'm a car nut, egged on by the twisty roads and [usually] lack of snow & ice on the roads here. The current one is 2 seats, 6 forward speeds, 240 hp from 2 litres, 250 km/hour max. I haven't bent it yet, touch wood.
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