James Barlow

Father - first graduating class
Uncles - 1961
Sister-in-law - 1969

I worked mostly in my junior and senior year so I wasn't there much. My wife is actually filling out my story. She remembers much better than I as we started dating in 1975. It definitely wasn't a funny memory but me and another kid, don't even remember who it was, started rough housing and he pushed me and I fell back on my head and ended up having to go to the hospital by ambulance.

I started at TECO in 1980 and soon after joined their apprenticeship to become a lineman. I was a lineman until 2005 at which time I became a trainer over at the school TECO has to train men to become lineman. In 2009, I moved back over to Western Service area where I became a line supervisor.