Robert Wistort:
CLASS OF 1946
Pullman Technical High SchoolClass of 1946
Chicago, IL
Robert's Story
You may better remember me as the tall dude with the crippled left arm. I majored in drafting; Mr Royster was my instructor. Upon graduation I enrolled in Morgan Park Junior College. After a year I transferred to the Illinois Institute of Technology, formerly Armour Tech. I majored in Mechanical Engineering and graduated in January of 51. During my last two years I was on a work-study program with the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver Colo. I had a job upon graduation in Denver. I worked in the office until April when they sent me to Hungry Horse Dam in Northern Montana. I was an Inspector on the heavy construction project. The project was 25 miles from Glacier National Park so I visited there and in Canada many many times. Construction shut down in November so it was back to Chicago.
I took a job with a consulting engineering firm in downtown Chicago. Come April of 52 they sent me to Northern Minnesota as field engineer on a Taconite mining project townsite. Come ...Expand for more
November and the snow it was back to Chicago. I got married and found work as plant engineer for Kawneer Co in Niles Mich. Had two kids and after five years, due to an ad in the Chicago Trib I was offered a job with a consulting engineering firm in San Francisco. The job was with The UC Livermore Radiation Lab. I was there for five years, had another kid. I finally figured out what was causing these kids and had a vasectomy. After nine years of marriage wife died of breast cancer leaving me with three kids all under age of five; stressful times.
Married the bosses secretary, lived in the East bay and after 30 years of marriage second wife died, bummer. Decided to move to San Diego to be near daughter. In 01 married present wife, Jackie. We did a lot of world traveling finally wound up living in a retirement community in Escondido CA. with a lot of old farts like me. Any Pullman classmates that remember me can contact me thru classmates. Enjoy, have fun, be happy.
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