This is a very overdue posting from one who sat close to him all through gradeschool and junior high.
I saw him as a little tough guy that was approachable and funny... we has general laughs yet we never hung out.
When I learned of his death close to the time it happened I asked around about what he had been up to...
I was told that he was going to FJC in a Printing Technology Course.
I was somewhat mechanical and I likes darkroom work which attracted me after checking it out,( I was recently out from Navy and just wandering about career choices, working at Alpha Beta wasn't cutting it.
As such I enrolled in the Printing Technology program and completed it while working in a Book Printing company nights.... It went well for me and spent 20 years in the industry from Camera Prepress to sheetfed and web press operation. Advances in digital imaging was erroding these skills and I changed to HVAC Service after another stint in Trades Classes elsewhere.... then another 20 years.
So the connections I have made since learning about what Wayne was up to set me down the path to my life and marriage and family, and attending the 50th reunion.
Burke Thornburg
This is a very overdue posting from one who sat close to him all through gradeschool and junior high.
I saw him as a little tough guy that was approachable and funny... we has general laughs yet we never hung out.
When I learned of his death close to the time it happened I asked around about what he had been up to...
I was told that he was going to FJC in a Printing Technology Course.
I was somewhat mechanical and I likes darkroom work which attracted me after checking it out,( I was recently out from Navy and just wandering about career choices, working at Alpha Beta wasn't cutting it.
As such I enrolled in the Printing Technology program and completed it while working in a Book Printing company nights.... It went well for me and spent 20 years in the industry from Camera Prepress to sheetfed and web press operation. Advances in digital imaging was erroding these skills and I changed to HVAC Service after another stint in Trades Classes elsewhere.... then another 20 years.
So the connections I have made since learning about what Wayne was up to set me down the path to my life and marriage and family, and attending the 50th reunion.
Burke Thornburg