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Clyde Smith
1801 Nantasket Road Knoxville, TN 37922 865-777-0957 cappyf+yahoo.com To use the above email address, replace the "+" with an at sign, (@),. This is done so robots will not pick up the address to use for spam. |
Posted 6/25/16 Well, out the door from WLHS and right away a couple of false starts – Purdue and Tri State College, then a short unsuccessful marriage, but my first son. Off to Vietnam with the US Air Force and finally God got my attention. When I returned I married the love of my life in 1973 and returned to WL to finish my engineering degree at PU in 1976. After graduation Kathy and I moved to Greenville, NC where I worked as an engineer for E.I. DuPont for 5 years. We added a son and daughter to our family then transferred to Aiken, SC where I started my career in the nuclear fuels business as a Project Manager; also completed my MS in Engineering Design. We spent 24 years in SC raising children and having all the fun that goes with it! In 2005 my work took me to Knoxville, TN where I worked as a Project Manger and Process Engineer at the nuclear fuels complex in Oak Ridge, TN. The children are out of the nest and living their own lives; Kathy and I are enjoying life in east Tennessee on our own. The mountains are a great place to live! I retired from Oak Ridge in 2013 and now do what I want. I get the exercise I should have been getting years ago and I work with various mission groups mostly through my church. I spend a lot of my time with “Mission of Hope,” serving on the Board of Directors and ministering to the people, mostly children in the impoverished coal mining communities in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. Our daughter and her family live in Charleston, SC where she manages a jewelry store. She and her husband are raising our (absolutely adorable) granddaughter. Our son is the plant manager for a display and packaging company in Houston, TX, living the bachelor’s life! My other son and his wife are in Baton Rouge, LA providing maintenance service on digital equipment for the US Postal Service. Their son is a rising junior in engineering at LSU. We love our lives as retirees in the East Tennessee area – just ask! I’m looking forward to seeing folks in WL at the reunion! |