The beauty of youth... 1962 yearbook photo at Northeast Hi, St. Petersburg, FL

The ravages of age, ... on the beach in Vladivostok, 2002

Life Story, expurgated...

1960-62 I left Man in 1960 when my family moved to St. Pete, FL. Went to Northeast Hi, played in the band, played in a combo, the Continentals, and then the Midniters...

1962-64 Went to the Univ. of Fl. in Gainesville... I remember studying very hard, and getting very drunk on weekends. Played in a little combo, the Playboys.

1964- ... went the Berkeley (the Univ. of California @) to study math.... got caught up in the anti-war movement. Demonstrated, etc., worked at Berkeley Scientific Labs and then Pacific RR, finally got a PhD...left for...

197? - my girlfriend at Berkeley was from New Orleans, and I ended up at LSU, she joined me, we got married, moved to New Orleans.

197? - back to Berkeley so my wife could get her PhD, she did, we split, I sold encyclopedias .. tough business.

1980 - after a 'walkabout' for a few years, I ended up at UF as an assistant professor, lasted 2 years.

1982 - There is a Honeywell plant in St. Pete making inertial guidance systems for airplanes, rockets, etc., and I got a job there. Worked on Star Wars (a 100% scam, believe me), the Galileo space probe, etc. Got bored. Got a job at Hughes in Palos Verdes, then Lockheed in Burbank, worked on various projects including the Stealth 'fighter'. I used to like to say that for the first 10 years of my career, it wouldn't have made any difference if I had stayed home, as I really didn't do anything. Got paid though.

1986 - Another walkabout, then I was back at Honeywell in St. Pete, did some interesting stuff on the Centaur rocket, the Mars Observer, and the space station. Then another 3 year walkabout, then I got married, and moved back to Ca. Got a job at Stanford Telecom working on GPS. Had daughter 1. Moved back to Berkeley and worked at Berkeley Process Control, and Octiv.com.

2000 - The millennium found me on another walkabout that I'm still on. I remarried, have daughter 2. I'm playing sax in local clubs (I have a sax page at www.berkeleyscience.com/jam ), studying with a great player, and am trying to sell a calculus book I've written (and a calculus book page at www.berkeleyscience.com ). I'm still looking for a job, sort of!

Jobs

See above .....

New Pic, Skinny

How my years at Man High School affected my life...

Even when I was real little, I wanted to play an instrument. I got a guitar when I was maybe 8 and my dad got some fellow to give me lessons, but it was too tough. Then in the 7th grade I joined the jr. high band playing trumpet. The band master was Dale Parks. He had a little combo that had Jimmy Davidson and Stanley Calloway on tenor saxes. I loved that sound..... and still do. So I switched to tenor sax. Leroy Sharp had a band that played the local clubs, and Jimmy and Stan played sax in that group. Then Jimmy left Man, and I was the only other guy in town with a tenor sax, so I got to play in Leroy's band. I put my horn away for years........but now I'm back at it ......still love it.

I was a pretty good math student, and my interest there was spurred by the times, with Sputnik and all. It's all portrayed really well in the move "October Sky". And I stuck with the math too, and even now am still at it.

Profiles I'd like to See

Fellow beboppers:
Jimmy Davidson
Stan Calloway
David Harris
Sharon Runyon
Dennis Bailey
Leroy Sharp

Mythic Upper Classmen
Tony Tallirico
Bobby Reynolds
Dennis Leach
Patty Cook's older sister

Classmates
Jim Blevins
Clem Miller
Bobby Dean
Richard Wilson
Steve Justice
Jimmy Walls
Gretchen Adkins

Heartbreakers
Darlene Morrison
Bettina Altitzer
Carolyn Brown
Judy Stephenson

And finally, for the sheer WVness of it,
Hi Parsley

Spouse(s)

My memory isn't what it used to be...

Children

Its coming back to me....

Accomplishments

I'm thinking this one over.

Contact

Where I can be found when I can be found. My email address is wdflannery@aol.com, I live in St. Petersburg, Fl.

Man Hi Alumni