My first experience with Rockford came about to a disastrous day at the Tecumseh labs where I ws employed. I came home feeling totally shot. Martha said to sit down and have supper, things will look better in the morning. It didn’t […]
Julie. our middle child, while working as a counselor at Atwood Park, observed a puppy being tossed from a passing vehicle. Being the crafty person she is, she got the dog checked and shots at a vet before bringing it home. Martha […]
Although I never played baseball, I was very familiar with the game. Because of age restrictions I played a lot of fast pitch softball. My neighbor Bob across the street came over to talk little league with me. It seems that his […]
One of the crazy plays we worked out for hockey games we called the door play. It required that we be shorthanded killing a penalty. Our defensive end must also be in the same end of the rink where our bench was. […]
One of my fondest moments in hockey occurred after I had quit coaching. We had always stressed to the players that you have taken from hockey; you should give back. Many of them did, as coaches, board members, or financially. My son […]
After retiring I carried a cell phone for my former employer for seven years solving customer service issues. Every service manager in our industry in North America had my cell phone number. Actually, the calls didn’t stop until I had been retired […]
When I first came to work at Sundstrand in 1969 in the Engineering department of Sundstrand Hydraulics, I was given a project that had been tried by several other engineers. The object was to take the two mini pumps, one which operated […]
One thing in my life might lead you to think I grew up in the intercity of a large metropolitan area. I never played baseball. I played football, tennis, basketball, and fast pitch softball, never baseball. When Little League came in, I […]
One year in the dead of winter I passed Dana’s cubicle, and it looked like smoke was rising from her. I ask her what was bothering her. She told me she was talking to a rancher in Montana whose furnace wasn’t working, […]
One year the day before Thanksgiving I had to fly to Minneapolis on a trouble call. It seems a pressure washer manufacturer using our pumps on their machines couldn’t get our pumps to pump. I flew up on a Northwest Airlines EMB […]