James Graczyk:
CLASS OF 1960
Kensington High SchoolClass of 1960
Buffalo, NY
California State University - EngineeringClass of 1971
Long beach, CA
James's Story
After graduating from Ken in 1960 I went to UB for a year,. Screwed up & wound up going tp ECTI. Graduated in 1964, Married one of our classmates (Bonnie Prouty-Sept '64) and moved to Calif to work for Allied Chemical. Went back to school at Cal State Long Beach in 1968 and graduated in Jan '71. Went to work for Mobil Oil in LA. Bonnie divorced me in 1972 and I remarried in 1973 to a woman from Oklahoma who was working for Mobil Oil in Dallas, TX.
Had three daughters between 1975 and 1980 (twins)
Worked for a number of different oil companies in Calif & started my own in 1979(?). Sold out in 1984 "retired" and moved to Colorado.
Went nuts after a couple of years and went back to school to become a teacher in 1989. Finished in 1990 and took a job as a teacher in Kansas City, MO. Worked for a number of different districts until 2006 when we moved back to Colo.
While I was in Missouri I continued to go to school and did my Ph.D. work in physics and education.
Worked in the Aurora ...Expand for more
school district until May '09 when I retired for real. We then moved into a small town outside of Colo Springs high in the mountains (9000+ ft).
We presently do quite a bit of traveling outside of the country and will continue to do so as long as our/my health holds out.
We then moved to Arkansas because of my back problems (unable to shove snow). Still doing a lot of cruising. We have a 21 day MED cruise planned in Feb,-15 and are looking forward to it. Took a 7 day Caribbean cruise with friends that we met on our Med cruise just to relax. In fact we never got off the ship. We have a 15 day cruise scheduled in August 2017 out of London going to Greenland and Iceland, again with the friends from the Med cruise.
Have since moved to PA to be closer to out eldest daughter to give my wife some support when my stage 4 matastatic castrate prostate cancer gets too bad for her to do it alone. Went back to the reunion picnic in 2016 and hope to do it each year until I am unable to travel
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