Jim Cooper:
CLASS OF 1970
East High SchoolClass of 1970
Anchorage, AK
Shawnee Mission South High SchoolClass of 1970
Overland park, KS
American Community High SchoolClass of 1970
Saigon,
International School of BangkokClass of 1970
Bangkok,
American High SchoolClass of 1970
Manila,
Jim's Story
I spent a good portion of my younger years in Asia. We moved to Saigon in August 1962, lived there for 2 1/2 great years until the escalating war resulted in the evacuation of all dependents in August 1965. My mom, younger brother and I lived in Bangkok 1965-1966 while Dad finished his assignment in Saigon, then we moved to Manila for a year. In 1968 we moved to Kansas, and I attended school at Shawnee Mission South my sophomore and junior years of high school. In 1969 we moved to Anchorage, and I graduated in 1970 as a...Expand for more
n East Anchorage High School Thunderbird. Attended the University of Kansas on an NROTC scholarship, graduated and was commissioned in 1974. I spent the next 30 years as a Naval Flight Officer flying the P-3 Orion, and was stationed primarily in the Pacific. I retired from the Navy in 2004 and worked for 9 years in the office of the Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center, then retired-retired to become full-time volunteer/grandfather/traveler. Fanatic KU fan homeported in Lawrence, Kansas.
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