Ken Waters � former merchant sea officer � retired as City Engineer for a city in Connecticut.

Bob Brackney was an investment banker.

Homer Powley was an industrial chemist and Army (civilian) ballistician.

Bob Hagel was a Forest Service packer and hunting outfitter and guide.

Les Bowman retired from a kaleidoscopic career in aviation and was an outfitter and guide.

Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, and Archibald Rutledge were college professors. (Rutledge almost won a Nobel Prize for literature � lost to Faulkner. Shoulda won.)

Ed McGivern was a sign-painter.

Phil Sharpe was an Army officer, IIRC.

Bill Brophy was an Army officer.

Hal Swiggett and Bob Brister were newspapermen.

One whose name I can't dredge-up at the moment was a telephone lineman.

Mike Venturino was a truck-driver who later owned and operated a movie theater.

George Nonte was an Army officer.

Elmer Keith was a rancher, outfitter, and once known as "The Dean of American Guides," with a WWII stint as a civilian Army armorer.

"Townie" Whelen was an Army colonel.

Bill Jordan (Marine) and Charlie Askins (Army) were retired military and Border Patrol.

"Skeeter" Skelton wore a lawman badge or two.

Hal MacFarland, Parker Ackley, and Roy Dunlap were gunsmiths.

Les Wallach worked for the Park Service.



(All whom I can think-of right now.)


"Good enough" isn't.

Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.