Tom Sharps:
CLASS OF 1964
Northbridge High SchoolClass of 1964
Northbridge, MA
University of New HampshireClass of 1968
Durham, NH
Douglas High SchoolClass of 1964
Douglas, MA
Douglas Elementary SchoolClass of 1959
Douglas, MA
Tom's Story
Life
Attended University of New Hampshire until Dec 1966, then joined Navy. Spent the next 21 years mostly on submarines, and retired as a Senior Chief Electronics Technician (Submarine Service) or as the short form goes ETCS(SS). I am married to the former Victoria Kupelian (our 30th anniversary was Sept 2005). We have two boys, Jon has completed five years in the Marine Corps, and is in college. Joe is now in Baltimore, Maryland. I still go hunting and fishing, and am still working as a government contractor, presently working new construction submarine engineering support at Electric Boat, Groton. Customer, no surprise here, is the Naval Underwater Warfare Center (NUWC). Vic and I attended the 40th reunion of our class. Margo and Joyce did a great job of organizing and putting it together--a good time was had by all.
Update May 2008:
The big news in my life is that at age 61 I do not have to wear glasses for distance. I had a highly successfull cataract operation and gambled on a TORIC lens to replace the old lens. This gives me 20/15 distance vision in the right eye, had 20/25 in the left already. Now I can drive, shoot my rifles, fish and enjoy the outdoors as never before. I intend to retire from full time work in September, and will remain here in Mystic with my wife, Victoria.
Update Feb 2010:
Well, with one full year of ...Expand for more
retirement passed without crisis, I am really getting into it. I do a little part time consulting for my old NUWC customers, just enough to keep me in pocket change for toys and recreation. Major project so far completed are the kitchen, new bathroom, and a new roof for the house. Vic and I travel down to Louisiana to see her brother and father, usually in November. Then I spend a few weeks in Maine, walking the woods and telling lies with my friends in deer camp.
Update May 2012;
Lots of adventures in and out of hospital, allbehind me now. Getting old is not for the cowardly! Wehave bought a house in North Fort Myers FL, so snowbird it for a while, Lots of work done on the house in Mystic, have gone hunting some in between trips to hospital, got a really nice Russian Boar up in VT, checking out Florida fishing,
Update December 2012:
Back in house at N.FT Myers, Mystic and its weather can be best enjoyed at a distance--say 1400 miles south! Drove down through Shenandoah Valley, side trip to NRA museum. Many of the class of 1964 are settled down here, hope to get together with them
July 2013: Back in N. FT. Myers for good, spent 7 weeks unloading junk from house in Mystic, Still unpacking down here. House in Mystic went on the market 3 weeks ago.
March 2014: Good winter in N. Ft. Myers, gearing up for 50th NHS Reunion.
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