25th Reunion

ROBERT F. YOUNG

1434 Punahou St., #316, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822- 4713

( 808 ) 941- 1831

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After graduation, I spent four and a half years in the Army: a year on Kauai followed by time in Southern California; Colorado Springs; Muskogee, Okla. and Gainesville, Texas. I spent the last few months of the war in the Philippines (Manila and Mindanao) and Japan, returning home for discharge in December, 1945. During that whole time, the only enemies I saw were some German POWs in Colorado.

In March of 1946, I went to work for the Bell System in San Francisco (The Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co). This was followed by transfers to Pac. NW Bell in Portland (1952) and in Seattle (1968). I retired in Seattle in 1974 and, in that same year, we went back to the Bay Area (Los Altos). In 1983, we moved into Arcadia, a retirement residence here in Honolulu.

During my working years, travel was minimal: a few trips around the mainland, U.S., primarily to see family (all of whom were in the East) and annual vacations on Kauai. After retirement, we took a couple of trips to the South pacific: Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji. In Honolulu, however, I've found a very comfortable little rut. As a result, we've been out of the state only twice in the seven years we've lived here on trips to the Mainland in 1985 and 1990.

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In 1943, I married Frances Newby of Indiana, the smartest thing I ever did. My room-mate, Bill Hale, was best man at the wedding. The marriage was a short acquaintance, war- time thing that seems to have lasted very well. We fully expect to celebrate our 50th three years from now.

Currently I'm Secretary - Treasurer of the Arcadia Mens' Club and Secretary of the Arcadia Residents' Assn. I run a recycling operation at Arcadia which is saving the organization about $500 a month, a benefit over and above the environmental benefit. I lawn bowl once a week and one month a year, on Kauai, I knock myself out trying to play golf. Playing one month a year does not a golfer make!

All told, it is, and has been, a pretty good life!