Monday, July 04, 2005
Bios: Lesle Oliver Robinson, Dennis Timoskevich
Happy Fourth of July!!!!!!!!!
Hope your celebration is going well wherever you are. On this great American holiday, a special thanks to all the veterans among our classmates who have sacrificed and served in behalf of freedom.
We also remember Glen Shropshire and Keith Schipp who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Just 25 days until we meet again. We're still encouraging you to send in those registrations for what should be a wonderful gathering of 1965 Sandpoint High School classmates.
If you have any questions or anything you wish to put on the blog, drop me a line at malove@imbris.net.
On to the bios:
Lesle Oliver Robinson: When I saw you last in 1995, I was still a single, working woman. I was vice president for human relations with a small but prestigious grocery company in Seattle where I'd been since 1978.
In 1997, I met and fell in love with a wonderful guy and began dramatically changing my life. We had a great time together, traveling and sharing friends and family. After two whirlwind years, we bought a home in Palm Desert, Calif., and I retired from my job (1999).
He and I made it "official" and married just two days before the 9/11 attack in New York. Friends and family who had flown in for the wedding were unable to leave town for a week!
Since then, Ed has retired too, and we (and our ShihTsu, Cali) enjoy time at our summer home on the beach in Port Hadlock, Wash., or our winter home on a golf course in Palm Desert, Calif., or traveling in our RV.
We are very fortunate to be healthy and happy.
Dennis Timoskevich: After college at the University of Idaho, where I met my lovely wife Elsie, I joined the Air Force and completed pilot training at Reese AFB in Lubbock, Texas. Upon graduation, we moved to Sacramento, California, where I flew T-29s for the navigator training program.
My next assignment took us to West Berlin, Germany, where I worked with the State Department coordinating air traffic (military and civilian) through the East German corridors. It was an interesting assignment where I worked with Soviet, British and French military counterparts. It also provided a great opportunity to visit Russia and much of Western Europe.
From there, we returned to Northern California where I flew C-5 cargo aircraft all over the world. Then, I was transferred to Altus, Oklahoma, where I trained pilots to fly the C-5 Galaxy.
In 1986, Elsi, our two sons and I moved to San Antonio, Texas. I was assigned to get an Air Force Reserve Unit qualified in the C-5 at Kelly Air Force Base. Once the squadron was mission qualified, my position went away, so I retired from the Air Force and joined Pan Am World Airways. For the next two years, I flew out of New York until the company went bankrupt.
For a short period, I was in business for myself, until I was offered a job, training new pilots for the Air Force. During the next three years, I commuted to Del Rio, Texas, to teach academic courses and provide flight-simulator training.
Finally, I was able to transfer to San Antonio where I began training Air Force, Navy and some foreign pilots to become instructor pilots. I have fun going to work every day and playing golf in my spare time!
Elsie works in the administrative office of one of the large San Antonio school districts. Our sons, Mike and Dan, also live in San Antonio.
