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First Name |
Craig |
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Last Name At Graduation |
Anderson |
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Current Last Name (if different) |
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E-mail address |
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Website(s) |
http://www.showmemustang.com/craigy/papascar.htm |
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Telephone Number(s) h – w - c |
314-968-0722(h) 314-560-1094(cell) |
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Street Address |
8458 Florence |
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City, State, Zip Code |
Brentwood MO |
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Country |
63144 |
Family
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I met Lynda in January 1974 during senior year. We were engaged right away and got married three years later. We have been together for over 30 years now. We have two sons ages 25 and 21. We have two granddaughters, which at reunion time will almost be one and two years old! Being grandparents is almost the best thing that has ever happened to us
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CHS Memories (Friends, Funniest story, Teachers, Events, Activities, Sports, Songs, Would like to forget…, etc.)
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I don’t ever remember being mainstream or following the crowd in those days. I was working after school and on weekends even by my sophomore year. I did drop out of CHS for a semester, and went back and graduated from the “Alternative School” My favorite teacher over there was Marty Sussman. The teacher I was always closest to back then was Dr. Pro the music director. The most fun I had was performing in Concert Choir, and the Broadway shows we did like the “Hello Dolly”. I can still sing my harmony part of the barbershop quartet from the “Music Man” to this day
A lot of the guys I ran with back in our own class then, never graduated high school. Names like Jim McGrath and Kenny Voyles. Back then Kenny kept checking out the same book from the school library called “Crimes and Punishment”. Oddly enough I’ve spent the last thirty years keeping track of what prison he has been in, and visiting him there on occasion.
Most of us that lived in Richmond Heights by St Mary’s hospital had no dreams or aspirations of college. I never had my picture taken for the yearbook because I knew we couldn’t afford to buy one We started at Bellevue school and when they tore that down we all transferred to DeMun. I remember meeting a lot of you for the first time at sixth grade camp.
Even if I haven’t seen you in 30 years, thinking of you makes me smile
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After High School (Career, Accomplishments, Favorite Activities, Message to classmates…, etc.)
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I was working for National Food Stores at the age of 16 and stayed there eight years or so. It wasn’t anything I wanted to do for 40 years, so I tried doing a lot of odd jobs for a few years, even driving a school bus. That lasted about three days. Being married at 20 years old and wanting children meant finding some sort of career. After graduation I was taking night school courses in electricity, I don’t have a clue why, other than my dad was an electronic technician and he could get me into those classes at the electrical union.
After I had taken six years of electrical night school, I was asked if I wanted to work as an electrician, and I had honestly never considered it. I was accepted into the electrical apprenticeship program on those night school merits, which meant six more years of going to school and an 8000-hour on the job-training program. School was easy, it’s the work that’s hardJ
I have been a journeyman electrical wireman with IBEW Local #1 for almost 25 years now and have worked on many of the major construction projects in St Louis including the building of the Rams TWA dome. The new Kiel center. I have helped remodel everything from Busch Stadium to the helicopter simulators at McDonald Douglas. I worked on the secret lead lined “War Room” that planned the Gulf War strategies. I’ve installed the approach and landing lights at Lambert Field, I’ve helped install most of the cellular phone antennas high atop buildings and towers all over eastern Missouri. I’ve done control work and renovations at all three Major car plants in Town; Ford Chrysler and the GM plant, and every major chemical plant in town. If you can see a high rise building anywhere in town, I can tell you when I’ve worked there, including a large amount of manufacturing plants most people don’t even know they exist here. Without electricians in this town, everything from the Busch Brewery to your fax machine would be out of business, the New York Blackout proved that. I’m qualified to work everything from low voltage up to 15,000 volt 3 phase equipment. When I get home from work… I never talk about it. It’s just what I do for a living. Its never been my life
I love computers. Not only have I wired many computers and networks for Lowes and Target stores but also I’ve had a computer in my house everyday since 1985 with our first Commodore 64. I went online in 1994 and through many circumstances was offered a position working for the Prodigy Online Service, and ran a National bulletin board online and started writing everyday and trained newcomers to the online world, before there was ever a single web site anywhere. Then I learned HTML and authored over 55 web pages, and never stopped loving computers. The faster the better.
Lynda and I have traveled to 38 states and six foreign countries together, along the way we have met, Tiny Tim, Art Linkletter, David Letterman, David Selby (from Falcon Crest) John Carlen (from Cagney & Lacy) Jonathan Frid (from Dark Shadows) and a few dozen other TV stars directly or indirectly because of the way our computer has interacted in our lives.
The most important things to me in life are still free. Our grandchildren, our faith in God, our love of other people, and the way I feel when I sing in the choir at church. They even give me a solo to sing now and then.
Would I change anything about my life and how it turned out? Nope, being happy to be me has been just fine.
Craigy
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