Charlie (the Sneaker Freak)

Charlie (in Living Color):

Charlie's Biography and Interests:

Charlie was born in 1955 at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri (suburban Kansas City), at what was then known as the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital. At that time, it was a ministry of the Community of Christ. The old Independence Sanitarium is no more. Former President Harry Truman retired a couple of years earlier, and lived about two-thirds of a mile to the east on (appropriately named) Truman Road.

• Little Charlie was quite a handful growing up (sometimes, people wonder if he has grown up...):
  • He did the most amazing things!
  • One of his favorite bedtime stories.
• I grew up outside of Buckner, Jackson County, Missouri:
  • Our little town bank, once the First State Bank of Buckner, grew up through several name changes. It's now Metcalf Bank.
  • The Mid-Continent Public Library (described by my nephews, when they were little, as "the best library in the whole world") had plenty of books.

My K-12 Education was at the Buckner School, Levasy School, Fort Osage Junior High, and Fort Osage High School. These are all part of the Fort Osage School District, headquartered near the center of the district in rural Independence, Jackson County, Missouri.

When I was in high school, I took some vocational electronics training. I went through the two years of material in one year! My instructor thought I should go into some type of engineering. This was at the Career and Technology Center at Fort Osage (then known as the Fort Osage Area Vocational-Technical School).

After I graduated from high school, I went to college for that engineering degree. After four years and two sessions of summer school, I got a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1977 at the University of Missouri-Columbia at Columbia, Boone County, Missouri.

After college, I went to work at Boeing in 1977 for 32 years. Spent about half of my time working on the International Space Station.

• Places I've called home in the past since I graduated from college:
  • Abilene, Taylor County, Texas (1992-1994)
  • Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama (1982-1983) and its suburb of Madison (1985-1992)
  • Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas (1977-1982 and 1983-1985)
• I've lived in the Clear Lake City area (suburban Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA) since 1994.
• One of my hobbies is stock picking and (especially) reading the annual reports.
• Professional Societies to which I belong:
  • ACM (The First Society in Computing)
  • IEEE (Fiddling with electrons for over 110 years)
• Software I like.... take a peek in one of my sneaker boxes full of CD-ROMs!
• Things you might enjoy:
  • My family tree
  • The inventive people at perrin.com (not part of the family tree, the best we know)
  • Unusual things I've eaten for breakfast

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