We moved to Rockville, MD before I started 4th grade. It was a fantastic neighborhood full of kids, Cockrills, Gaskins, Caswells, Neils, Leimbachs, Gross’s, Latchaws, Reids. My days were spent outside playing whiffleball, football and basketball and my love of sports is rooted in this time period. Our house on Brad drive was at the top of a steep hill which was the perfect sledding street since not much traffic. Dozens of sledders would be out if we had snow. I was an average sized, average speed kid up through 6th grade. Barely made the 4-man relay team in my 6th grade class of 30 kids. But something crazy happened when I was in 7th grade. I matured early and grew 6”. I was suddenly bigger and faster than most of the same kids I grew up with and by 8th grade I was unbeatable in a foot race. I was 5’8” and thought I was going to be over 6’ by HS, but alas, I never grew another inch. By 10th grade I was average size again, but still top 4 or 5 in speed. My Junior HS had cross country and track teams which I always did and loved. Went to Peary High School in Rockville. It's now closed. I continued my love of sports and played football, baseball and wrestled. I loved basketball too but started too late in life and just did not have the skills to compete at that level. I really enjoyed HS and did not realize at the time that it would be one of the best times of my life. I still have a close-knit group of friends who still get together. Mark, Rob and Len I met in elementary school and Al, John and Donnie I met in Jr High. We all had a common love of sports and after college we reunited to play rec league softball, football and basketball. We played softball for so many years, our wives all knew each other and our young kids too. We still take an annual golfing trip together. Jeff comes too.
I received a BS degree in electrical engineering from the U of
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