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Moore, Thomas D "Tom" |
Traverse City, MI 49684 Street Address: Contact WebMaster Phone: Contact WebMaster email: Contact WebMaster |
Hunting and Fishing |
Fellow 1954 Classmates After graduating from Greendale High I attended Ripon College (mostly for the nearby duck hunting) and then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I received my degree in mechanical engineering. I later received a masters in engineering science from Penn State. We got married in 1959 and Mary Ann and I have raised three outstanding kids and boast eight brilliant and beautiful grandchildren. Since leaving Wisconsin we have lived in Massachusetts, California, and Pennsylvania before settling in God's Country here in Traverse City, Michigan. We have lived in Traverse City for over 40 years and it is here that I morphed from an engineer to a building contractor and land developer and now to retirement. Of the five companies I have worked for before venturing out on my own. Only Boeing has survived my employment. The rest have all gone out of business. I think Boeing is lucky I worked for them for only a few years. All of our kids are doing well. My youngest daughter, who has three college degrees is now a stay-at-home mother who is trying to keep up with her 3 and 5 year olds. My older daughter an M.D., PhD is a physician at our regional medical center here in T.C. My son (after he got tired of being a ski bum) started and now is sole owner of a food import business that employs over a hundred people. His company is located about 40 miles south of Greendale. In my formative Greendale days, I developed a taste for beer which I still enjoy along with a strong interest in fishing and hunting. I still have these interests and actively pursue them but the difference is that they are no longer free and close to home. In the past I have been on hunting trips to Russia, Siberia, most of the Western states and Canada in search of bear, elk, deer, ducks and geese. Since our last mini-reunion, my son and I went on a fabulous wing shooting trip to Argentina, I had no problem firing 1000 rounds a day. Earlier this year we went on a successful but very scary elephant safari in Botswana. By the way elephant meat is tough, stringy and quite unpalatable, even when served with barbeque sauce. This is a great area for fishing and I spend much of the summer on my boat on Lake Michigan in pursuit of salmon and lake trout. For the past few years, my son, son-in-laws, the grandsons and I head up to Canada for our annual "start of the summer" fishing trip. Life is good and continues to be good. I hope you are all well and enjoying life wherever you have landed Tom Moore |