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Thomas McCaffrey
Doctoral Student
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First job - lived in Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia. Third world countries then. The smell of spices and satay cooking, the ethnic diversity, even the heat and humidity. All wonderful. 15 years as associate/partner with McKinsey (the consulting firm). Learned about quality work and client service. Lifelong lesson. Wall Street 1985-1990. LBO time. Knew some of the good guys as well as the crooks. Deal a day. Sometimes wrenching but nonetheless necessary restructuring of complacent corpoprate America. Ten years in the corporate world. Mostly busines success but bad press. So it goes. Bought ranch in Eastern Oregon. Sometime cowboy. Accepted and embraced by that culture. Great honor.(Aside:There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man - Winston Churchill). Along the way, Dad to eight kids and husband to one now ex-wife and best friend. Many adventures over the years - serious mountaineering, climbing ice waterfalls, kayaking class IV/V rivers, three weeks in Yellowstone in the dead of winter, cross country skiing/camping, competing with a champion cutting horse. Adrenalin rush. Now finishing Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. No clue how to retire. It has been one hell of a ride so far. Will close, yet again, with Satchel Paige: Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. No need to say more.
Worst memory. F triple minus (for real) on first test in Ms. Anderson's Latin class. Bit of a wakeup call.
Best: Weekday afternoons playing touch football in the park at 69th street and Ward Parkway
2012-09-26 20:03:08
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Sue McCarter
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2012-09-10 19:13:24
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Staley McDermet
Preservation Architect
Married
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The first thing I did after graduation from Southwest was to lose the coke-bottle bottom glasses and get contact lenses. A welcome change.
I then went to Kansas State University. The best part of college was my fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon. The fraternity was a wonderful, transformative experience, and I enjoyed the experience and the brotherhood immensely. I served the fraternity as Rush Chairman and President.
I majored in architecture for three years, then decided I didn’t like architecture and changed my major to personnel administration. After graduation, I went to work for United Air Lines in Detroit as an Employment Representative. Yes, part of my job was to hire stewardesses, the politically correct name for which is now Flight Attendants. Not nearly as great as it sounds, but it was interesting work. Two years later I was promoted to United’s regional personnel office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Working with United was interesting, and the travel benefits were great. I was even able to send my parents to Hawaii a couple of times. However, I came to the realization that the heavy-duty corporate life was not for me. During my time with United I traveled a lot and became very interested in Historic Preservation. So I left United at the end of 1970 and returned to K-State to finish my Architecture degree, with an emphasis in Historic Preservation.
Shortly before leaving United, I met my future wife Beth when I hired her for a position in Boston. What followed were many long-distance trips between Pittsburgh and Boston, then Manhattan and Boston, and we married in May, 1971.
My last semester at KSU (summer of 1972) was my thesis, and for that I designed and documented the construction of my parents’ retirement house at the Lake of the Ozarks, which required that we move to the lake for the summer. Then, after my second graduation, we returned to Boston where Beth got her old job back with United, and I started work as an architect. In June, 1973, we bought an 1874 Victorian house in Salem, Massachusetts, then spent many years restoring it, doing most of the work ourselves.
After working for architectural firms in Boston and Salem, and the City of Salem, I started my own firm in 1979 specializing in historic preservation and working with old buildings. A high point was that in 1983, I received a Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for the restoration of a significant building in Salem.
In Salem, I was involved with Historic Salem, Inc., a local preservation organization, where I was president twice. I was also on the Salem Planning Board, where I was chairman for a while. I became very interested in zoning issues and even after I left the Planning Board, remained active and involved in zoning – much to the displeasure of innumerable developers.
We never had children, so Beth took up horseback riding and eventually bought a horse, which she enjoyed immensely - jumping, hunting, and showing. I had always been interested in sailing, so we bought a sailboat on which we could take extended trips. It was moored in Salem harbor near our house, and in the summers we would sail up to Maine for a couple of weeks. Very enjoyable times.
In 2002, Beth and I bought an old farm house in Marlboro, Vermont, out in the woods. After 9/11, United Air Lines declared bankruptcy, Beth was forced to retire early, and in 2005 we decided to move to Vermont permanently. I found employment with a local architectural firm and finally retired in 2010.
Here in Marlboro, I am a Historical Society Trustee, am on the Planning Commission, and was on the Board of Directors of the Hogback Mountain Conservation Commission. Interestingly, my interests have turned from preservation of the built environment to preservation of the natural environment, and prevention of habitat and forest fragmentation.
We are doing well, and, in good health. (Although I haven’t been water-skiing in seven years - My friend sold his boat! Remember our Senior trip to the Ozarks?) I spend a lot of time outdoors and continue to work on and restore this old house (and barn), and luckily in the winter, we really enjoy snowshoeing.
Best wishes to all.
My best memory was getting an A+ one term in wood shop from Mr. Polson.
My least favorite memory was trying out for the varsity basketball team my senior year but getting cut the last day.
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Molly McGee
 
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Molly McGee
Retired
Single
Enjoying good health and traveling the world
Loved Southwest, excellent teachers wonderful friends and happy memories
Bought a second home in Indian Wells California.
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Lee McGraw
 
retired
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Making many friends....Having my shorts fall down during track meet at Southeast
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