Greg with his son Griffin

{this pic was taken in Doree's front yard 
when they came to visit in April 2002}

I am a project engineer for Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway-the nations second largest freight railroad with 45K employees, and 33K miles of track. Big slow moving corporate machine. I develop and manage projects on the engineering side relative to new industries receiving rail service, passenger rail stations, public projects etc. I wear many hats and am the sole field/project engineer in Southern Ca. I am the one left holding the large workload after all the corporate downsizing. It is overwhelming most of the time and makes me crazy. My formal education is in surveying and mapping which I finished at the age of 37. I schooled for a year at the Denver Institute of Technology where I received an Associate of Applied Science degree. Before that I was Bell Captain at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad. You may have heard of it. Used to hold the Tournament of Champions golf tournament there, from its inception until just a few years ago. Now that was a fun job for a long time, living the easy life in the 80's surfing , skiing, Baja, and doing a fair amount of partying (glad those days are over), but something I did not want to do beyond my thirties. Two great kids, my son Griffin is 10 and my daughter Quinn is 7.

It is fun thinking back to our childhood. What a different era. You know, it seems like I spent about half of my young life in that park, even through high school I went there almost every night to play basketball under the lights. I still keep in contact with some of the guys from the old neighborhood. I talk to Jim Lee (Huntington Beach) occasionally. Jay Forbes is in Temecula, but I have not seen him in 20 years. I was always, and am still to this day, very close friends with Carl West. He and I spent 5 months in Europe in 1972-73. He lives in Atlanta and teaches high school Geography and Political Science.

To be continued....................