Tom Ball:  

CLASS OF 1972
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Evanston Township High SchoolClass of 1972
Evanston, IL
Dallas Center-Grimes High SchoolClass of 1972
Dallas center, IA
Nichols Middle SchoolClass of 1968
Evanston, IL

Tom's Story

As the Grateful Dead sang, "what a long, strange trip it's been." After high school I slowly became a semi-pro singer and bass player in Lo&Behold, a Denver-based acoustic-rock band -- with side trips as a jewelry manufacturing apprentice, steel foundry electrician apprentice, street musician, and a host of other part-time jobs to fill in between gigs. T...Expand for more
hen I discovered computers, and was soon fixing word processing machines in the Loop while spending every waking moment learning how to program. I moved to Silicon Valley and have been happily engaged in making new technology, first at Convergent, then Sun Microsystems (helped create Java), and now at Google. Details are at LinkedIn.com, user name tomball.
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Yearbooks

Evanston Township High School 1971 yearbook cover photo
1971 Yearbook
Evanston Township High School
EVANSTON, IL
Evanston Township High School 1970 yearbook cover photo
1970 Yearbook
Evanston Township High School
EVANSTON, IL
Evanston Township High School 1969 yearbook cover photo
1969 Yearbook
Evanston Township High School
EVANSTON, IL
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Reunions
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Sep 17, 2022
Tom was invited to the
ETHS Class of 1972 50th Reunion
580 invitees

Photos

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New friends at Kona, 🎼 Happy Together 😁
https://xkcd.com/2394/
If you are a musician, please join the challenge of posting a photo of you playing your instrument. Just one picture, no description. Please copy the text in your status, post a picture and look at some great memories/pict
If the bees would just wake up, we might have plums this summer!
My Nissan Leaf was delivered today, after waiting for 13 months. Don't new babies look content when they're nursing?
My daughter Amanda was out last week -- here's a picture of us right after Sue made us bust up laughing.
Engineering hallway conversation at JavaSoft in 1996, from the YouTube video "Pavni Diwanji, MAKERS at Google. (http://youtu.be/kgRowOaYC3Q)
Google is designing its own self-driving car prototypes. Looks like it drove out of a video game! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/just-press-go-designing-self-driving.html
I opened a Google search page and found it had this graphic, clicking on it brought up my G+ page. Silly, but a nice surprise.
Happily married for almost 14 years! ♥
Throwback Thursday: here's a headshot from when I played in Chicago in the late 70's. Why didn't someone point out the bad hair before printing? The three-piece suit was baby blue, by the way, which was quite tasteful back
Love having a window behind my monitor...
This is from our break room. It's either a clue why our code quality is good, or a joke-as-message from our HR team during flu season. You decide. :-)
Trinity (my first band), 1975.
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Breakfast on the rooftop with the Empire State building in the background. Almost perfect, if only my family were here, too.
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Amanda Ball and Dan in the valley of Androids.
This is Spinal Tap has the only 11-star rating scale on IMDB.com (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/).
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