Jeff Smith:
CLASS OF 1960
Walla Walla High SchoolClass of 1960
Walla walla, WA
Washington State University - Electrical EngineeringClass of 1969
Pullman, WA
Pioneer Middle SchoolClass of 1957
Walla walla, WA
Sharpstein Elementary SchoolClass of 1954
Walla walla, WA
Jeff's Story
After graduating in 1960, I went into the Navy. I went through the Navy school for electronics technicians and then on to active duty aboard the USS Forster (DER334) home ported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I enjoyed my duty assignment of repairing communication and radar systems. In 1963 I left active duty and enrolled in Electrical Engineering at WSU. At a summer job in Tacoma, I met Gloria and discovered she was also attending WSU. We were married in 1968 and finished our last year at WSU as married students. We graduated in 1969 and I began working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA as an electrical engineer.
We had a son in 1970 and a daughter in 1972. In 1978 I transferred to Keyport Naval Torpedo Stati...Expand for more
on and our family moved to Newport, Rhode Island for two years. In 1980 we returned to our house in Bremerton. In 1981 I transferred back to the shipyard finally retiring from government employment in 1997 as an engineering manager. After a year I worked for CDI Marine as an engineering manager until the end of 2004. I have been fully retired since that time.
My son went through an apprenticeship and became a journeyman pipefitter and my daughter went to WSU and got a degree in Architecture. We have three Grandkids, a boy from our son and boy and girl from our daughter.
We now enjoy spending time with our grandkids, traveling, and gardening. My wife also enjoys quilting and I enjoy music, Ham Radio, and woodworking.
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