Here is Martha Kyle Roy's 4th
grandchild, Shae Nicole.
Pictured: Ron and Debbie (Collett)
Carder; daughters Jamye (w/husband Kevin) and Jennifer
(w/husband Steve); 4 Grandchildren: Brett - 13, Haley -
8, Chase - 8, Ty - 2 1/2 ....
From Bennett Poling (Bennie)
Then:
In case anyone
remembers me from high school, here is my story.
I left
Elkins
High School,
or should I say I quit my senior year, just weeks before
Graduation.
I had a disagreement with a
teacher, because she lied to me and I went to the
principal office and told him I quit.
He said I would never get
anywhere with out his diploma, again I had a
disagreement before I even left the school grounds.
However, I left and took my
GED, which the same principal tried to have taken away
from me, but he failed to do so.
When my graduation
invitation came, I threw it away, along with the cap and
gown.
I did not like school very
much except for Math and Science which showed in later
years. (A bit of a rebel and a bit hot head when I was
young)
Military Years:
I
worked around Elkins until 1974 when I joined the army,
just before Vet Nam
war ended.
I went off the
Fort
Dix, NJ
for basic, the war was ending and I did not make it to
Vet Nam,
but instead went to
Fort Ord,
California,
7th Infantry Division where I made Sergeant
and became the Batallion motor Sergeant.
In
1976, I received orders for
Germany
with the 3rd and 64th armor 3rd
Infantry Division; I was the motor Sergeant for C
Company.
In 1979, I went before the
Warrant officer board. I n 1979 I received orders again
for Fort Hunter Liggett, Ca. While stationed their, I
received orders for Warrant Officer and was appointed as
a W one in 1980.
In 1982, I again received
orders to go to Germany
for three more years, this time with the 1st
Squadron 2nd Armor Cavalry Regiment, over
seeing the East German and Czechoslovakian borders. In
1985, I returned to the
US
to
Fort
Hood.
TX.
Where I decided to leave the
service as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 after 14 years, to
accept a job offer with FMC, A manager from FMC had been
trying to talk me into taking a job there since 1980,
FMC built equipment for the Military.
By the time I processed out
of the service and arrived in San
Jose, Ca. for my meeting with my
new boss to be in 1987 I was handed quite a suprise.
The day I went to FMC for
the job, and I asked to see Mr. Friedman, I was told he
had passed away just 2 weeks earlier, so went the job.
Life after the Military:
It is 1987, folks were not
to keen on X-military because of Vet
Nam. I had a few job
interviews that just did not grab my interest; I found
one on about the fourth interview that seemed
interesting. The company was Varian, located in the
Silicone
Valley.
So I took a job as a Master Technician, building MOMBE
(Molecular Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxial (These use Gas
injection) system machines.
I build 12 of the 14 of
these machines ever built and traveled from New York to
Tokyo Japan to install the systems, I also built 16 MBE
systems (Molecular Beam Epitaxial systems (evaporation
type) These systems were for growing electronic chips. I
did this
from
1987 to 1991. In 1991 I took a job with the same group
as a design engineer until 1992 when the company was
sold to a company in Michigan.
(To cold to make the transfer after all the years in
sunny Calif.)
After a 3 month long
Vacation (vacation not unemployment) now 1992 I decided
to look for a new home. I was called to an interview at
Stanford
University’s
Lennar Accelerator Center (SLAC). They were looking for
someone to replace one of their Principal Technicians
for 6 months, it looked like a very interesting job so I
started the job the following Monday.
The job was with the SSRL
(Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory) division of
SLAC.
After about 30 day with SSRL
I was asked if I would help Dr. Roger Carr build his EPU
(Elliptical Polarizing Undulator) after the first day
Dr. Carr if I would take the lead on the project, and I
accepted. I build and installed the device in the
accelerator.
When the device was used it
set new records. One of the things this device made
possible was multiple layering hard drives, within the
next 2 years hard drive got cheaper and began the era of
Gigabyte drives.
After my six months, I was
offered another job at SSRL with a little longer term.
Here I worked with Physicist
and Engineers on maintaining what is know as SPEAR a ¼
mile oval shaped Accelerator (see SSRL web site and
video). In 2000 I was asked by Physicist Dr. Roger Carr
to work on the VISA project. The original design did not
work properly because of mechanical and vacuum design
problems.
I was given the OK to
re-design the device consisting of 6, 1 meter Undulator
sections.
I completed the new design,
had parts made and assembled the device and shipped
everything to Brookhaven National Laboratory, on
Long Island
NY.
Where I assembled the device and the VISA project was to
take place in 2001. (See VISA web sites)
I then took the job to build
SPEAR III in 2002; I was the Assembly manager for the 54
Girder assemblies that make up the SPEAR accelerator.
(See SSRL web sites.)
Then in 2004 I took the
Scientific Engineering position with the LCLS (Linac
Coherent Light Source) as the LCLS Undulator Assembly
manager. The VISA project was the for runner project for
the LCLS. (See the LCLS web sites)
My old friend
Dr. Roger came to me in 2004 and asked if I would design
and build the Laser Heater Undulator for the LCLS just
before I took the LCLS Engineering position. Of course
being my best friend at SLAC I said I would very much
like to do this for him. It will be the SLAC topic for
the PAC09 (Particle Accelerator Conference in
Vancouver,
Canada
on May 4-8 2009.
We are still building the LCLS; I have
installed 25 of the 33, 3 meter Undulators in the
Undulator Hall.
I have now been asked to be
the Installation Manager for LUSI (LCLS Ultrafast
Science Interments)
I plane to
retire after 21 years with
Stanford
University
in 2013 and until then I will be the Field Operations
Manager for the LCLS Undulator Hall and continue to do
projects like LUSI and the up coming Phase II Project.
Well I hope I have not
bored anyone to death, with my short life story. I hope
to come to my first reunion with all of you in 2010.
I
often think what I could have achieved if I only had his
diploma. With that I will say to all young people out
there to finish High School and go to College.
If
you don’t want to go to College think about the Military
I still miss it.
Web Site’s
SLAC
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/
SSRL
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/
SPEAR 3 Video
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/spear3/spear3_dedication_nbc.mpg
SPEAR COLSE REPORT:
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/spear3/spear32004close-outreport.pdf
VISA
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/visa/
VISA Collaboration
http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/visa/visacollaboration.html
LCLS
http://ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/
LUSI
http://photonscience.slac.stanford.edu/lusi/index.php
My e-mail for
work is :
Poling@slac.stanford.edu
My private e-mail is:
UndulatorMan@hotmail.com
My home phone is 408-223-9592
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know that our family spent
Thanksgiving in
NYC so we could see our daughter
in the Off-Broadway show "Our Sinatra" and we were not
disappointed. It is a great show and tribute to Ol' Blue
Eyes. Elliott Roth is wonderful -- both singing and
accompanying Chris Gines and our daughter, Harmony Keeney,
on the Baby grand piano as the trio flatter Sinatra by
singing some of the many songs he made famous over his
40-plus year career.
From Old Man River, Without a Song, and The Summer Wind to
The
Tender Trap, I've Got You Under
My Skin and I'm a Fool to Want You -- Keeney, Gines and Roth
continue the expressive rendering of songs that Sinatra
perfected in his lifetime.
Although you can get
tickets for $80 at
www.telecharge.com
-- you can get them HALF-PRICE at the Discount Ticket booth
on 46th street in
NYC or by logging onto
http://www.broadwaybox.com/shows/our_sinatra_nyc_tickets.aspx
The intimate Black Box dinner theater in the basement of the
Broadway Comedy Club on 53rd Street in
NYC is not wheelchair
accessible, so was easier for the young people to hop down
the stairs to see the show -- although about half the
audience was over 40 with a couple of octogenarians saying
that the show was well worth the climb up the stairs
afterward.
Also, the term dinner theater is used loosely. The foods
(chicken wings, hot dogs, sandwiches and mile-high chocolate
cake a la mode washed down with sodas, beer or cocktails)
are standard comedy club fare. But the location of the
Broadway Comedy Club between 8th and 9th avenues makes it
easy to walk down 9th Avenue from 50th to 46th street and
enjoy some wonderful restaurants -- Thai, French, Ethiopian,
Italian, endless cuisines -- with prices to fit any wallet.
So I hope all my friends had as wonderful a
Thanksgiving as we did this year
-- and please pass this information on to any of your
friends and family that may be visiting
NYC in December and January.
Thanks, Sally Keeney
 | Shirley Bailey Daniel's
granddaughter is a flower girl in this year's Forest Festival.
Here is a picture of the beautiful Alyssa Harper. |
| Bobby Hiner is a first time
grandpa!!
His daughter Krista Hiner Sappey gave birth to a beautiful baby girl
on Novemer 20, she weighed 6lb and 15oz and was named Mia Sage Sappey.
You can see a picture here.
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| From Sheila Simmons:
I have worked at the Huttonsville
Correctional Center for 20 years. For 15 years I have been the
director of the West Virginia Braille Program (a division of Prison
Industries that includes license plates, license decals, furniture,
etc.). I have a crew of inmates that have Library of Congress
Certification in Braille Transcription. We transcribe textbooks into
literary Braille for schools all over the United States and Canada. We
work in close contact with the West Virginia School for the Deaf and
Blind and the West Virginia Instructional Resource Center, both
located in Romney. I am married to Gary Simmons, most people know him
as Moldy, and we have one son, 33 year old Scott, married to Julie
Lantz Simmons (she is the nurse for Dr. Corder in Elkins) and they
have a 4 year old son, Grant, the "apple of my eye." We moved to
Huttonsville in 1990 after Scott graduated from EHS. |
| From Louis Moore:
We moved to New Jersey last
September - I started working out here last July. I had been working
for an automotive supplier in Detroit and the future was not looking
too bright. Knew of this company through some folks that I had
worked with in the past. Really good job but the $$$ increase mostly
got ate up by the cost of living in NJ - ridiculous - but we are
really doing fine. Bought a house that we have been working on
almost continuously - it is really nice now. Victoria worked for a
mortgage company for several months but they moved the office her 20
minute commute became 50 -60 and she told them "no thanks".
The move from Michigan - we had
been there together for 14 years - was tougher that we anticipated.
We are both missing our friends there but we have gotten back a
couple of times and some of our friends have been here to visit. We
are about an hour from New York City but are in a really nice hilly
part of NJ about 15 miles from the Pennsylvania border.
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| From Sharon Isner Hitt : Just
to update my life, I have been married for 35 years, have a son and a
daughter and 5 grandchildren.
|
| From Tom and Joan Vance.
Tom and I are still a "thing" just like in 1968, 69, 70 and 30+ more
years. We've been married now for 33 years, and have two children.
Amy, who lives in Staunton VA with her husband and 3 children, and
Jeff, who lives in Myrtle Beach with his wife and 2 children. How did
Tom & I get so old as to have 5 grandchildren already???? Oh well,
life is great and we are so blessed. Tom is a district
conservationist for USDA, in Greenbrier County (Lewisburg) and has
just a little over 2 years until he can retire. We do get to Elkins
pretty often, since my parents and his Mother are still living there.
We have a cabin on what was his grandmother's property, so we always
have a place to stay, etc. I'm looking forward to the reunion, since
we've missed the last few.
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From Greg Haddix
Well here's my story since I
left high school. Attended Fairmont State College (started out rooming
with Mike Feaster and Ed Meredith....then Mike left college and Ed and
I roomed together until we graduated). Graduated in '74 and went
straight to Washington DC and worked in a private psychiatric hospital
as a recreation therapist. Spent 4 years there and then came back to
Elkins. Acquired my master electrician's license and worked in the
electrical field for approx. 10 years. I went back into the
behavioral health field, starting with the Elkins Mountain School for
one year, as a counselor. Then to the Appalachian Community Health
Center for 5 years as the director of the Day Treatment program.
During this time at Appalachian I was able to acquire my master degree
in Guidance and Counseling K-12 and a specialty in community agency
counseling. Went into the school system for a short time and then
went to work with Youth Health Center in Elkins, working with children
doing individual, group, and play therapy. From there I moved on to
where I am presently with the West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation
Services as a vocational counselor for the past 4 years. I also work
on a contracted, part time basis, in the Randolph County School System
as a guidance counselor with the Alternative Learning Center at the
Elkins High School and Tygart Valley High School. Hope to retire with
the state.
That's what I have done
vocationally, now for what I have done personally. Upon graduating
from college I married my high school sweetheart Marsha Feaster and we
were married for three years and were divorced. I remarried in '79 to
a lady from Virginia and we were married for 20 years. We had two
handsome boys, Nicholas Ryan and Philip Bryce Haddix. Hard to believe
that Nick is 21 and Phil is 19. Just to boast a little bit to all you
EHS alumni who follow the football program at EHS. Both Nick and Phil
played for EHS. Nick was not quite as passionate as Phil about the
game. Phil played for EHS for the past 4 years and each year he was
selected to the first team all conference NCAC team. He was a running
back for EHS and he was a starter in his junior and senior year. Last
year he was the work horse for the team as he ran for over a 1000+ yds
leading the team to the best record in the past 10 years of 8-2 and a
position in the state playoffs. He was also selected to the 2nd team
All State as well. This is all kind of amazing in that Phil only
weighed, at most during his time at EHS, 150 lbs. He was quick and
had a way of avoiding direct hits. Enough boasting for
now......that's one of those perks you get when you're a father or
should I say parent??
Well as they say,
three's a charm. I met a very special person approx. 4 ½ years ago
and we married in June of 2000. Her name is Patricia Huffman and she
was born and raised in Valley Bend, WV and attended school at the
Tygart Valley High School (imagine mixing a Tiger with a
Bulldog....for those of you who have been out of touch for a
while.....Elkins Tigers and Tygart Valley Bulldogs). She attended
college at Marshall University and acquired her master degree in
Guidance and Counseling from Marshall as well. She worked at Youth
Health Services in Elkins and this is where we met. After having our
second daughter, Patricia has stayed at home till the girls start
school and then she plans to return to work. But the scary part for
me is that I have started another family at the age of 50. I have two
beautiful daughters, Courtney Paige, 3 years old and Abigail Renee, 2
years old, and a step son, Steven Ryan, 7 years old. It's amazing the
difference between raising two boys and then raising two girls. No
comparison!!!!! We all currently reside in East Daily, on the back
road for those of you who want to visit and all is welcome. Haddix/Huffman
sign is hanging on the lamp post in the yard and a bright yellow pole
(so we won't back into it with the van) holding a backboard and hoop
at the edge of the driveway. Can't miss it!!!! I am going to try to
send accompanying pictures with this document so you can see what I'm
bragging about. (in terms of kids).
In terms of hobbies, I
play guitar for my own entertainment.....occasionally go public. Into
remodeling around the house, have remodels two house completely that I
lived in the past. Got into restoring old Volkswagons a few years
back and have a 1970 Beetle setting in my garage at the present
time. Like walking/running (to keep my weight down) and the picture
that I am send I am 20 lbs lighter than when the picture was taken.
You know time has really
gotten away. I think back on my days in school and how I struggled
through school academically and socially for various reasons. I have
talked to others in our class and it seems that a lot of others had a
lot of the same feeling that I had about school in how we each treated
each other as class mates. I guess we have to go through these times
and this is what helps to form the person that we have become today.
I was quiet and lacking in self esteem when I attended school and it
held me back from accomplishing a lot of things. It also served to
not allow a lot of you to get to know me as I really was. That's the
part, when I look back on school and all the memories, that I have a
hard time feeling good about. However, I have been able to overcome a
lot of these childhood faults and have been able to move on. It's like
my wife keeps asking me, when I say I would like to go back and change
some things, if you could, would you be where you are today? Since I
am content at where I am in my personal life......I guess I really
wouldn't want to change anything. However, it's hard not to
think...........what if!!!!!!
I hope to be at the
next reunion. Looking forward to seeing all of you.
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| From Gary Bonnell |
Spent twenty years in the Air Force and retired in 1993.
Was fortunate enough meet and marry Stephanie while we were both
stationed in Germany (yes she was in the Air Force too and she retired
in 1994).
Have lived in the San Antonio, TX area since returning from Germany in
1987
Had a house right in San Antonio until 1997 when we got tired of the
hustle and bustle of city life. Sold that house, bought two acres of
land south of San Antonio and had a new house built. Continued
to work (as did Stephanie) until 2002. Decided then that we'd had
enough of the "rat race", so we both quit our jobs and began
traveling. We packed up the RV and hit the road when the hot summer
weather arrives in south Texas (about mid May) and generally stay away
until about mid to late Sept. Then we come back home to Texas for the
winter.
| From Brian Bell:
My wife Cheryl, daughter Nikki
and I have been at 723 N. Locust Street for 11 years. Cheryl is a
department manager at Target, Nikki is in 7th grade at Northern
Middle School, and I'm in my 10th year at World Kitchen, Inc.
(formerly Corning, Inc.) in Greencastle, PA Things are pretty
hectic at work right now but will taper off toward Christmas. My
mom Katye is nearing in on her 81st birthday and doing well.
Haskell passed away from Parkinson disease in 1996 at the age of
73. Larry and his wife Deanna still live in Bridgeport/Clarksburg,
WV area and Mark lives with his wife Christina in Vienna, VA.
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| Update from Don Sturm.
After leaving EHS, I went to Virginia Computer School after I
graduated, I started working for the Census Bureau located in
Suitland, Md. not far from Andrews Air Force Base. My Mother died in
1971 so after that I lost contact with anyone in Elkins. So no one
knew how to contact me about the reunions. So when it was coming
time for the 1990 reunion I surf on to the EHS website and found a
place to post a message. It was not to long until Carol Lantz
responded and got me back in touch with the class. I married
Barbara a student at Virginia Computer School in July 1972 and we now
live in Brandywine, MD (just on the other side of Andrews so I have to
go all the way around the Base to get to work. No children just 2
dogs and a bird. I now work on a Electronic Reporting Branch help
desk for companies that have to report data to the bureau. I will be
able to retire at the end of 2006, we plan to move back to her area
near Southport, NC. She does not like snow for some strange
reason??
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