Eric M. Schiffer:  

I'm disappointed that I was unable to graduate with the Flint Southwestern class of '69. Unfortunately, my family moved in the middle of our 11th grade to Oak Park, MI where I graduated with the class of '69 from Oak Park. A fond memory was setting Flint Southwestern High's Sit Up Record after Mr. Mazza stopped me at 150 on Friday. I was determend to break the old record of 425 and hit 1,000 and beat the city record on Monday. On Monday, with Sam Stewart holding my legs I reached 500, before Mr. Mazza once again stopped me. At least I set a new school record. In the pool I fell short by one tenth of a second of Southwestern's 25 yard free style record which was 11.2. I did 11.3. My favorite teacher of all time was Flint Southwestern's Mr. Plourde. He mixed humor and proper etiquette with education. Having grown up in Flint with our family owning scrap yards and auto parts stores, which allowed me to follow my passion and move from the age of four building model cars to working on real cars at the age of ten. After taking many math and drafting courses both at Zimmerman Jr High School and Southwestern my career path changed with the move to Oak Park High School who did not offer the same engineering courses as Southwestern. It changed from wanting to go to GMI and becoming a mechanical engineer to looking at becoming some type of physician. After Graduating the University of Michigan in 1975 with my Bachelor's degree, I then went onto Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo outside of St. Louis. There I received my Doctor of Chiropractic, D.C. degree in 1979. While attending Logan I married Janis Terebelo in 1976. I had known Janis' brother Bennett from Bagely Elementary School in Detroit. I had attended Bagley from Kindergarden through the middle of Fifth grade. After Graduating Logan Janis and I returned to Southfield,...Expand for more