Tell us a little about your history since leaving High School.
Or tell us a short story you remember from High School.
NOTE: In the interest of privacy, your entries should not be too revealing. (No Birth Dates, No Emails, No Children’s Names, No Phone Numbers, No Addresses, No Inappropriate language)
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June 14, 2018 at 4:46 pm
After graduating grade 12 in 1965 and taking a ‘gap year’, seeing the country and working for MT&T, CPR, etc. (marks too low to get into SMU, yet – I majored in snooker and minored in pool in high school), I got accepted by SMU (interviewed by the Registrar, Kevin Cleary, who was a fine person and flexible in his interpretation of the rules) and got a BA in sociology, followed by an MA in from Dal. I then taught sociology for Lakehead Univ. and Univ. of Manitoba, the latter based in Thompson. I also taught academic upgrading on reserves in N. Manitoba. In 1978, I returned east with my wife and son in tow and did: tourism research for Parks Canada; airport planning for Transport Canada; ‘soft skills’ training for DND, etc. At 49, I also picked up an M. Ed in adult education and did some part-time teaching at MSV. I met my second wife, Sandra in 1989, have a 41-year-old son (manager at Golf Central in Bayers Lake) and a live-wire 6-year-old grand-daughter. I semi-retired at 57 and did some consulting work for two years. Travel, volunteer work, ‘honey-dos’, family and dog give my life purpose these days.