Don McNulty:
CLASS OF 1968
Largo High SchoolClass of 1968
Largo, FL
University of South Florida - BusinessClass of 1973
Tampa, FL
Largo Junior High SchoolClass of 1965
Largo, FL
Ponce De Leon Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
Clearwater, FL
North Ward Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
Clearwater, FL
Don's Story
You might remember that I was planning to become a Presbyterian minister. I didn't. I went Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College), then switched to St Pete JC's Clearwater Campus, where I got my AA degree. Then I went to USF in Tampa, where I got a BA in Economics. I married (no kids), divorced, and remarried (5 kids).
Along the way, I have worked in retailing, accounting, management, entrepreneur, cross-country truck driving, radio announcer, and a few other things. Besides a well-rounded employment/entrepreneurial history with plenty of variety, my wife Joanne and I raised 5 girls and are now blessed with 7 grandchildren. As empty-nesters, we currently are landlords, own a commercial kitchen on wheels, do some web design and website work, and volunteer a bit.
Although I moved from FL to GA, back to FL, back to GA, then VA, we live in NH on one corner of what used to be my wife's family farm; the rest has been sold off for development. Our 2+ acres feeds us pretty well with fruits and vegetables (no animals anymore, except a dog and cat, unless you also count the koi and goldfish which live year-round in our homemade pond by the small greenhouse), gives us a good amount of firewood, gave our kids (and now grandkids) a reasonable amount of work (including some home-schooling) plus lots of fun, and has been home...Expand for more
to a variety of animals (including a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach - hey, they're not as weird as you think; besides, home-school science leads you in some odd directions).
Whatever happened to the Presbyterian minister? He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (yeah, the Mormons), and even ended up for awhile as a Facilities Manager for them, overseeing the care of up to 30+ buildings and a 360+ acre historic site. Besides NH, I worked for them in NJ, NY, OH, MA, ME, and VT, but I stayed in NH as home base.
Except for minor inconveniences like 12-foot snowdrifts, 40-below temps, ice storms, minor earthquakes, remnants of hurricanes, rare tornadoes, and some flooding, NH is not bad. There are forests and lakes and mountains all around, a little bit of seashore (lots more if you go to ME), and deer, chipmunks, squirrels, skunks, foxes, coyotes, raccoons, bears, snakes etc. right in our own back yard (and occasionally even inside the house [skunk, squirrel - but they were friendly, at least]).
We actually have 6 distinct seasons: winter, late winter, mud season, construction, Fall, and early winter. Some folks say we really have only 2 seasons: tourist and dead, but technically they're wrong, it's 7 seasons: summer tourist, dead 1, fall tourist, dead 2, winter tourist, mud, and dead 3. Take your choice.
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