Ronald House:  

A Hoosier, I was born and raised in Anderson, Indiana. So, of course, basketball is in my blood. I attended 10th Street Elementary where I made passing grades and played basketball, but not very good basketball. If memory serves, we lost nearly all of our games when I was in 6th grade. Next, I attended South Side Junior High. There, I gave up on embarrassing myself in sports and instead focused all my energies on my studies. That worked out better and I made all A's for three years, before moving on to Madison Heights High School and trying to coast to a diploma. If you were at MHHS, do you remember a stack of books walking down the hallway with a skinny beanpole of a kid behind them, wearing thick glasses? That was probably me. You may not remember me, I was basically just a quiet geek. I would have been a computer nerd, if we had personal computers in those days. I took a lot of Honors courses, but I wasn't involved in any more athletics and only a few extracurricular activities/clubs. One of my favorite High School activities was watching MHHS basketball games and then going out for pizza afterwards with a few friends. I was always very shy around girls, so I didn't date or attend any dances or proms. After High School graduation, I attended Purdue for a couple of years studying Engineering and Physics. After my first year, I got a co-op job in Oak Ridge TN working for the contractor operating the K-25 Department of Energy (DOE) facility. I then transfered to Indiana State to study Computer Science and earned a BS Cum Laude in 1984. Since college, I have worked at the K-25 and Y-12 DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, TN, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) DOE facility in Livermore, CA. At 29, still basically a shy geek, I somehow got lucky and got married to a fellow Hoosier, five years younger. My wife had graduated from Ball State and moved down to Knoxville TN looking for a teaching job. We were introduced by my grandmother who kn...Expand for more