Tom Sharps:  

CLASS OF 1964
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Northbridge, MA
Durham, NH
Douglas High SchoolClass of 1964
Douglas, MA
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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Tom Sharps' Classmates profile album
Sub Base
Three First Class in 1972
NHS Class 0f 1964, 40th reunion.
20th NHS Class of 1964 reunion
USS CONNECTICUT, SSN-22
NUWC Weaponeers
Tom And Stretch at Lancaster Fair 2006
Tom and Fifth Bear, Canada 2004
Tom Sharps' album, Timeline photos
Sitting in Atlanta Airport, homeward bound. TOA 2135.
Tom Sharps' album, Timeline photos
Tom Sharps' album, Mobile uploads
Tom Sharps' album, Mobile uploads
All went well at Mayo Clini this week, Def improving, long all over past five years. Prior to trip up to Jacksonville attended Halloween party at Tara Woods.
Tom Sharps and Tom Farley in charge again
Second wall of names
Names of veterans of Vietnam era, wall 1
Joe Fitzgerald's memorial-only person we lost from town, although many were hurt
Pete Schotanous giving the invocation
This is the Northbridge memorial 11           nov 2011
Note blueberry netting on bushes aft of dory
Dory up for maintenance
Strawberry patch produced well this year
Smaller tiller, smaller garden
This is the way I feel lately:
Our house in N. Fort Myers
Raw materials for pest loads.  #9 shot, Speer shot capsules.  These are loaded into .38 Special cases, federal small pistol primer, 4.5 grains of 700X powder yields honest 1100 fps.  Great for snakes, opossums and skunks,
TZ-75 in box, a 9mm clone of the CZ-75, high end .
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