Kendall Keene:  

Nineteen-sixty-eight found me in Casper, working at an oil field fabrication company and going to school part time at Casper College. I met Pat and got married in '69'. Pat is from Casper. Our daughter was born in late '69'. In 1970, Pat and I went to Laramie with daughter in tow. Pat graduated, with honors in Nursing and I graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After school, we ended up in Houston, where we still live. In 1973 our son was born. He's married and has three daughters. A picture of any of them will bring a smile to their grandmother's face. I worked for Reed Tool Co. for nine years, mostly as an engineering manager. It started my travels. I have been in forty seven states and twenty-eight countries. I traveled to China four times, and northern Canada three times last year (I'm getting tired of all the travel.) While I was with Reed, we lived in southern Indiana for two years. Southern Indiana is a great place to live and raise kids. Sorry we only live there two years. In the early '80's', I moved to FMC corp. I was with FMC 19 years as an engineering manager and later as the World Wide Quality Improvement Manager. Pat worked as the Head Nurse for a large emergence room. Our kids were involved swimming and tennis. In 1989 I had the opportunity to be the temporary Engineering Manager in Scotland. I was there for seven month and we fell in love with Scotland. We spend a month exploring Scotland at the end of my work and wished we could stay. Since 1999, I've changed jobs several times. (Once you reach 55, you are expendable) I have stay in oil field equipment and plan to continue to work for another 2 or 3 years. Pat's health is not too good and health insurance is an issue. I am currently the Engineering Manager for a smaller wellhead equipment supplier. I'll fill in some of the gaps and add some 'war'...Expand for more