Ron Darling:  

CLASS OF 1977
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Grand prairie, TX
Grand prairie, TX

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Self employed as a contract business/database software developer since Jan 94. Have a growing bank of programmers that work for me from Romania. Personally I specialize in the Managed Care/Healthcare industry, my RomProgs do programming work for me in the Defense Industry and Auto Parts/Paint Distribution. Also have an Aviation Maintenance software package I wrote that I sell into that market. Married to Leisha Arnold (Class of 79) since June of 94. Have a daughter born in 1999 who is a bright, cheerful wonderful little girl named Claire. In 2006 moved to a house overlooking green 3 on Lantana Golf course near Flower Mound. I work from my home office, help mom home school Claire. I am a golf fanatic and even more crazy about snow skiing. My motto is, Golf is kissing but Snow Skiing is Sex !!!. I play golf 2 to 3 times a week, and ski as many days as we can afford in the winter. Leish and I dated on the back of a Santana Tandem bicycle, preparing for a self contained ride through the Canadian Rockies in 1993. We rode 180 miles from Banff to Jasper, flying to Banff and back with a friend in his single engine Bellanca Super Viking. At first Leisha and I were just very good friends, testing the luv waters. By the time we were in the mountains of Canada with 100 lbs of gear on our bike I pretty much knew she would do the things in life I was interested in doing. I also knew by that time this girl would ...Expand for more
always pull her part of the load and she always has. So I married her in Jan of 94, making her mine :) Her and I have lived and worked together pretty much 24/7 since 1994. Obviously Claire was with both of us all day and night when she was a young child but now that we also home school her it's a lot of time together. I am a blessed man in that all three of us love to be together so much. I enlisted in the US Army not too long after high school. Was trained as a US Army Deep Sea Diver. 1 of only 33 in the world in 1979. Performed a pier inspection at Alcatraz Prison and inspected other govt. owned assets around San Fran bay. Damn inspections at Clark Hill Lake MO, Pier Inspections for the Coast Guard port in Key West FL, Archaeological and Ice Dives in the Potomac River Washington DC, helped install ocean statistical gathering devices in Kitty Hawk North Carolina as well as being a part of beach erosion research in other parts of North Carolina. After the Army I worked in the Clothes business eventually spending some time at the Neiman Marcus mens store in Downtown Dallas, after that selling custom clothing to men in their office. Worked in my parents aviation parts repair center in Forth Worth from 1987 - 1994. Then as I said, went on my own in 1994. Diving for the US Army was a great adventure, and is also one of the of the things I have done of which I would do almost anything to do over again.
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