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Alumni
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| Your Name: Jim Stephenson | ||||||
| City and State: St. Paul, Minnesota | ||||||
| Email Address: jp.stephenson@comcast.net | ||||||
| Occupation: Systems Engineer, Staff @ Lockheed Martin | ||||||
| Spouse's First Name: Debra | ||||||
| Was s/he a Commack South graduate?: No | ||||||
| What year?: 1971 | ||||||
| Number of Children: 2 | ||||||
| Number of Grandchildren: 0 | ||||||
| Hobbies: <>Jet Boating; College & NFL Football | ||||||
| Places I've lived: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Sunnyvale, CA; <>Marietta, GA; <>Amelia Island, FL; St. Paul, MN | ||||||
| After high school, I thought I would: go into medicine, but ended up a Nuclear Weapons Officer on a US nuclear submarine. | ||||||
| Interesting jobs I've had
since
high school:
Submarine Weapons Officer, Trident Missile Systems Engineer,
Nuclear Weapons Reliability Engineer,
...and lots of other US Defense contracts, and some that I
will never be able to talk about.
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| Best memory of high school: Participating on the Fencing Team (I was Captain of the team during my Sr. year), and hanging out with Debbie Sutton, my next door neighbor. She is a super person, and wish her the best. I lost track of her after her mother passed away, and they moved out of Commack. | ||||||
| Best memory since high school: Back in late 1978, our submarine was cought in a hurricane off Guam, and we could not submerge. I spent 9 hours on the bridge as a junior officer taking solid ocean waves over my head. We had to be tied into the conning tower or be washed away. I actually had to hold my breath at times befor the boat would re-surface. When we got back into Guam after the storm passed, the Commodore of the submarine squadron awarded me the opportunity to give General Jimmy Doolittle a tour of our submarine. That was a tremendous honor, and I'll cherish the photo of the two of us forever. He was our most famous Ace during WWII. | ||||||
| Favorite class(es): Math and Sciences | ||||||
| Favorite teacher(s): John Ennis | ||||||
| What is something about you that might surprise your former classmates?: I went on to compete as a fencer at the US National Championships in 1975, and was offerred a spot on the US Military Fencing Team. My wife (of 25-yrs) and I have two sons, Scott and Mark. Scott was invited to the 2007 NFL Combine, and will be in the NFL Draft in April as a Center from Iowa State University. Mark is a Cadet in the US Army, also at Iowa State University, and is going to Army Airborne school in the Summer of 2007. | ||||||
| Message to share with your fellow alumni: Just remember that life is full of good time and bad times, but trust God and He will see us through it all. Love your family most of all, and be faithful to yourself and your friends, and try to leave a legacy for others to remember you by. Most of us don't! | ||||||
| When would you like to have another class get-together?: 40th Reunion | ||||||