Lee Weber Updates Us

Lee Weber, who you can reach at zootallures93@hotmail.com, provided a detailed summary of the past 49 years, and here are the highlights:

 After graduation, he worked at Mayfair, the supermarket that replaced Park n' Shop at 98th and Pacific (remember it?), until moving to Milwaukee in 1971. He was drafted that year and eventually was stationed in Neu Ulm, Germany ("Four years of German in high school helped!"). He operated the 4-bit militarized Burroughs 2404 computer, which he describes as a high level of technology that consumers would not have access to until the mid-1980s. He writes: "It controlled the missile with a 25K ton nuclear yield (Our motto: We gave Peace a Chance) to stop Soviet tanks outnumbering us 10:1; this proved to be of high bargaining power for Reagan with Gorbachev in Iceland in 1988."

 He attended the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha for a couple of years, married Kristin in 1977, and they began work as managers of a group home for developmentally delayed adults. Their first child, a son, was born in 1981, and in 1982, Lee returned to school to study biomedical engineering technology.

 He joined General Electric's medical division in 1984, and in 1985 he and Kristin became parents of a daughter. From 1985 until 1989 he worked as a field service engineer for HGM Medical Laser Systems, and then from 1989 through 2016, as a biomed engineering technician at St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee.

In December 2016 he did what many of us have done--or hope to do: "I dropped off the iPhone, the ID card, the shop keys---and I retired!" Today he says he's in a personally designed "decompression program," learning how to relax, not worrying about hurrying to complete projects before the weekend is over.

 He plans a trip to the Northwest next April and particularly interested in seeing the Mr. Ward who taught electronics. (Anyone else remember him?)