Michael Muller:  

CLASS OF 1979
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Houston, TX
Austin, TX
Austin, TX
Houston, TX

Michael's Story

I was only at Marian two years and guess that not very many people remember me. I played baseball and soccer and was the representative-at-large my senior year after running a campaign to come in second. I really stepped in it when I refused a friendship plaque from some high-school( maybe Bishop Byrne) afte the student body had been yelling racial epithets at our football team before game-time. I was removed from office the following Monday by the school administration. Still, I am sure I did the right thing. After high-school my family moved to Bandera,TX. I stayed about 3 months and came back to Houston. I worked for Southwestern Bell for about a year and moved to Monterrey, Mexico for a half a year and studied spanish and bummed around. That was a very exciting time. I learned a lot about self-reliance. I went to UT Austin from 1981-1986 when I graduated with a BA in History. There are plenty of stories during that period, but, all the names would have to be changed and I'm a bit fuzzy on most of the details. I did have fun most of the time. Austin is, if nothing else, a place with lots of distractions and I found most of them. After graduation I spent the summer of 1986 bartending in the South of France outside St.Tropez and when I came back to the US the only job I could find with my History degree was to wait tables at the same restaurants where I had already worked. I saw an ad for flight attendant with American Airlines and applied ...Expand for more
and got hired. I thought I would do that job one year at the most, but, ended up staying almost 18 years. About the fifth year there, I started taking flying lessons at a local airport in Dallas and got hooked on flying. I got some small jobs working for airplane brokers delivering airplanes around the country. As my experience grew, I got a job flying a twin engine airplane for a small manufacturing business in Lewisville, TX and worked there a year. Then I got hired at a commuter airline in St. Louis, MO. and flew a 72 passenger airplane alled an ATR -72. I worked there for two years when I got hired by an airline in Atlanta called AirTran Airways. AirTran is a low-cost carrier kind of like Southwest only smaller. Southwest has 500 airplanes and we have like 120 airplanes. I am a captain and an instructor on the Boeing 717 . It is a 117 passenger jet. I feel really fortunate to have had so many opportunities to try different things while I have tried to find a good fit for me. Today, I love what I do and hope I get to do it until mandatory retirement at 65. Along the way, I met my wife Karen who still is a flight attendant for American Airlines. We have two sons , Michael age 11 and Lance age 5. We live in a suburb of Atlanta called Peachtree City. It is kind of a cool place. The town has 85 miles of golf cart paths that interconnect the entire town. I hope as a class we can pull together a cool reunion for 2009.It's just around the corner.
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