Mark Treider:  

For those of you at BHS, you knew me as Mark W. Smith. I changed our name in 1997 back to my original family name from 1871 when my great-great-grandfather came to America from Prussia. It is pronounced Tri-der. Robin, my one and only wife, is from N.C.; I met her while at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., and we've been married since 1989. Michael was born in 1990. While we wanted more children, Michael remains an only child. Robin is involved in the Church, and can often be found playing tennis. Michael loves baseball, paintballs and girls although not necessarily in that order and is an A/B student at high school. I graduated from PSU (4 years main campus) with a B.S. in accounting and after a short stint as an accountant (very boring), I joined the Air Force where I flew Fighters (very exciting). I saw the world from Korea, the Philippines, Hawaii, Canada, Germany, Spain, Turkey and east coast to west in the good ole USA. While some of it was from flying fast and low, I also scuba dived in the South China Sea, and the Atlantic. I ended up teaching the young kids how to fly the bent wing Phantom II ...Expand for more