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After high school, I attended Utah State for 1 year, then went on an LDS mission to the East Central States Mission, joining Steve Barlow. I was able to also make the track team at USU throwing the javelin. After my mission, I returned to USU on an athletic scholarship as a member of the track team and lettered three years. I met my wife while living in the LDS dorms there, and we were married in September 1967 and had our first child while in 1969. I studied civil engineering and joined the Air Force ROTC because I wanted to be a pilot. After graduation, I went on active duty in the US Air Force and my first assignment was at Vance AFB, in Enid, OK as a student pilot. After graduation, I chose an assignment to fly the C-141 Starlifter out of Norton AFB, San Bernardino, CA. I flew many missions into Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and spent almost as much time in Hawaii as I did in California. The highlight of my assignment was to bring the last group of POWs home from Hawaii to San Francisco when the war ended. After 3 years in the C-141, I transferred to Hill AFB and became an instructor pilot in the T-39, which was also the Commanding General's personal aircraft. I spent many hours flying around the country with the commander of Hill AFB while I was assigned there. In 1975, when the Vietnam War was over, and the Air Force decided they had too many pilots, they offered to let me out early, and I left active duty and began my civilian career. I took a job at Associated Piping and Engineering in Clearfield, and worked with Frank Corgiat for nearly 10 years. Most of our projects were to provide high-pressure piping to new power plants. When the recession in the early 80's slowed construction of power plants, I left and went back to the Air Force as a nuclear hardness engineer at Hill AFB in the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program. I spent the next 23 years at Hill AFB in various positions including the Deputy Base Civil Engineer. I went to the University of Utah in the graduate program and received my Master's of Public Administration in 1993. I retired in 2007 as the Director of Flight Systems for the ICBM Program Office.
In 1978, after trying to run our family farm for 3 years after my Air Force career, I decided there was not much future in farming and decided to build a golf course on it. It only took another 20 years to get it done, but Glen Eagle Golf Club was opened in 1998, and we spent from 1995 to 2013 developing 670 homesites around the golf course. It has been quite a hobby, but a very gratifying result has been meeting all the great people who have moved into our community and become great friends and neighbors. My wife, Jeanie, and I served a 23 month mission to the European Area from December 2010 to October 2012 where we served as European Area Auditors. We followed Steve and Lana Barlow in that assignment. It was a great experience. We now have 5 children, 16 grandchildren and many, many friends. We are proud to say that all of our children graduated from CHS, and our youngest, Robert, was Student Body President while there. He graduated in 1999. We are all proud to be CHS alumnus.
