TABLE OF CONTENTS
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* William E. (Bill) Collins – Life Sketch:
* Fred McCarthy – Life Sketch:
* Steve Lequire – Life Sketch:
* Roger Murray – Life Sketch
* Roy A. Kauer III, MS – Life Sketch:
* Roy Kauer – 3 Personal Narratives with Story Writing Tips (Later):
* Roy Kauer – “A Stranger in a Foreign Land!” (Personal Narrative) (Later)
* Roy Kauer – “LIFE GOES ON!” (Personal Narrative) (Later)
* Roy Kauer – “The Apprenticeship Journey!” (Personal Narrative) (Later)
Sample Life Sketches (4)
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Fred McCarthy – Life Sketch:
I left Saint Edwards in January at the semester break in the 1964-65 school year. I enrolled in Shoreline Community College, worked at a number of jobs, and decided to take flying lessons at Paine Field in Everett, WA. I enlisted in the Army to become a helicopter pilot. I was trained in flying helicopters and became a Warrant Officer. After graduation from flight school I was deployed to Vietnam. There I flew transport helicopters for 5 monthsand helicopter gunships for 7 months. I returned to Saint Thomas Seminary with the intent to becoming an Army chaplain someday. I left the seminary after a year and decided to go into education. I was an elementary teacher, principal, school superintendent, college professor, author of three books, and mayor of a small city. I been married to my wife, Shannon for 50 years, and have two sons, two daughters-in-law and three grandchildren.
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William E. (Bill) Collins – Life Sketch:
I was a student at St. Edward and St. Thomas Seminaries from 1963 until 1971. After graduating from College I worked a job for one year, got married, enrolled at the University of Washington, and graduated with a Degree in Elementary Education. I taught 2 years in the Mercer School District and 3 years as a 4th Grade teacher at Holy Family Catholic School in Kirkland, Washington. While at HFK we started a family but for financial reasons I left teaching temporarily (I assumed at the time) to purchase a home and better support our growing family. I drove a city bus for Metro/Sound Transit which ultimately resulted in a 36 year career as a transit driver. My wife, Janet, and I both retired in 2015 having raised 4 children. Sadly, she passed away in 2017. Today I am blessed with 4 grandchildren, my dog “Mollie”, and a home in Kirkland.
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* Steve Lequire, Life Sketch:
* The world opened up to me after I left St. Thomas Seminary in 1967. Here are a few highlights:
* English Literature at Immaculata High, a small Catholic school in Kelowna, B.C.
* Returned to UW for a standard certificate
* Married Patty Madden
* Taught Religion at John F. Kennedy High in Burien, Wa.
* Applied to International School Services (ISS) in Princeton, N.J. for a position overseas
* Interviewed & secured a position at the American School in Japan
* Traveled all the islands in Japan and in five other countries in the Far East.
* Flew around the world in 1976
* Returned home in 1977, raised two children, Patrick & Janine
* Remained at Kennedy for 34 years.
* Volunteered as caregiver at Pediatric Interim Care Center (PICC)
* Painted houses in summers for ten years
* Retired in 2012 after 40 years in classrooms
* Became Arizona snowbirds (2013-present)
* Written a 270-page memoir of my life.
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* Roger Murray: Life Sketch
I entered St Thomas Seminary in January 1969, as a sophomore and a member of the StEd’s HS graduating class of 1967. I graduated in June 1971 with a BA in Philosophy. After graduating, I worked for a year at an Intermediate Care Facility, run by Tom Whitaker’s family, while I shared a house with a classmate, Bill Collins, and a few others. After that year, I attended CWSC for 2 years as a grad student in Counseling Psychology, but changed plans while there and received another BA, this time in Math Education, with a minor in Philosophy, in June of 1974.
Over the next 50 years, I continued working at CYO summer camps for the next 3 years, as a beach director, camp director, and for two years, was the director of the boy’s hiking program, Camp Nanamakee, leading 3 8 day-long hikes a summer.
My 30’s were an important decade for me. I designed and built the house I still live in. I bicycled across the country in 1984, I got married in 1986, fathered a child, and am no longer married.
I taught middle school math almost continuously for the next 40 years, with jobs in Kelso, St. Bernadette’s in Burien, The Overlake School in Redmond, Warden WA, Moses Lake WA, and at Seattle Academy in Seattle. I retired from Seattle Academy in June of 2016 but substituted there some for the next 3 years. I did take a year off to work with NOAA in the mid-Pacific Ocean for a season in 1978.
I have spent the years since I retired working on my house, travelling in SE Asia, white water river rafting and recently started taking helicopter flying lessons.
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Roy A. Kauer III, MS in Counseling, SFC USA Retired – Life Sketch:
• After 10 years in the seminary I took a sabbatical and joined a Christian Family Religious Order called the Order Ecumenical. We staffed the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago.
*’We lived in community as individual families and followed poverty guidelines. For 15 years I helped train Church and Community Leaders in self-help projects around the world. After marrying Jodi, we left the Institute, and raised two boys.
*’ I worked in many civilian career fields including 8 years as a business accountant, and an Army Reserve Personnel and Finance Sergeant, and 18 years as a military recruiter. My various jobs and a Masters Degree in Counseling prepared me for a fabulous retirement experience.
• After retiring from the army at age 60, I served for 8 years as an employment specialist for disabled military veterans and also as a volunteer for my Church in various leadership positions, including 30 years as a Boy Scout Leader with our two sons.
• My 25 years of experience as a Rotary International leader and 4 years as a Toastmasters leader and a professional group Facilitator prepared me to retire, with my wife of 47 years, to a small village in Northern Mexico. The house we bought there is in the middle of the desert near the Sea of Cortez. We served the Churches and community groups there for 7 years.
* Now we live in Yuma and serve our Church in Yuma and Mexico, the Military American Legion and the Yuma Young Marines Unit.
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