Ernest Oakes:  

Life I have resided in San Antonio, TX since graduation in 1963. I spent four years in the Air Force all here in SA. I got into the computer software area in 1963 and retired in January of 2001 as Chief, Software Development for the Air Force Institute for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health Risk Analysis at Brooks AFB, San Antonio, TX. The last 33.5 years of my career was as a civilian employee of the Air Force. I married a fellow civil servant in the fall of 1967. She is a native San Antonian so that's how I ended up staying here in SA. She too retired this year. We did not have any children so we're free to move around pretty much as we please. Looking forward to many retirement years. Activities I really like are running, traveling, and gambling. Carol, my wife and I never met a casino or horse track that we did not like. Thanks to the original inspiration of Mr. Dix Manning, I completed my 40th year of running in Jan 2001 and went over the 78000 mile mark in Feb. Update as of August 2008. Over the past several years, I've reconnected with many of my friends and classmates from my early days in WV. We've celebrated the 40th anniversar...Expand for more