Sometimes, our "Wanna Be Found" persons are still living. Here is a former student of mine whom I had many years ago, and thru a fluke of my playing clues I discovered him. Marie LITTLE has written exceptionally interesting articles to New Age publication for Srs. about Alderwood Manor/Lynnwood, WA area for that is her forte' as an historian who loved that area & wrote about it to my own interest since I lived in that area & loved to hear more about the old times before & during the time I lived in the area. My curiosity was piqued when I kept wondering about her LITTLE name for I had had a former student in high school in my radio (electricity/electronics) class by the surname & he'd lived in that area quite awhile. At a recent mtg. of the Sno-Isle Gen. Soc., Marie LITTLE was to speak/show slides of early Alderwood Manor/Lynnwood history. It was there that I got to meet this historian of the area and query her about the student I had had many years ago by the surname LITTLE. I wasn't sure of his given name so I said "Mike" Little-no that didn't ring a bell, but she mentioned she had a "Roy Little" & I immediately "clanged the bell" in my ol' memory system and retorted -"That's HIM" -yes, it was Roy Little that I was seeking. It turned out to be her husband's brother. Marie Little gave Roy Little my phone number, and he called me from the Bow, WA area up toward Mt.Vernon where he lives today with his wife. What a great experience it was to talk to Roy and learn a bit about his life during the long interim I had lost track of him. I often wondered about him over the years. He was very slim, had health problems to some extent back in those high school days. I would run into various former students over the years but always wondered how Roy was doing. So, now I can reveal some of the rest of the Story to you below, in Roy's own words, and memories: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Little" <royl@nwlink.com> To: "Carroll Clark" <w7iml@gte.net> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 5:35 PM Subject: Greetings > Hi Mr Clark, > It was very good to get in touch with you again! It brings back a > lot of great memories. The trouble shooting techniques that you taught > us in radio class, I have used my whole adult life. Not necessarily in > the electronic application, but the sequencing of events and how to get > things done or why they don't happen as expected. This applies to > machines, people and organizations as well. > I did get my first ham ticket in your class. It was KN7IPH and > later was K7IPH after the first year. As i recall, the first year was > the Novice license. To qualify for the Technician Class required some > air time and the license was good for 5 years. But to renew it, you > also had to have some air time, I didn't have a rig and had gone off to > other adventures so I let the license lapse. After about 30 years (gee > that seems like a long time, and it was) I got the bug and qualified > again for the technician license and was issued the call sign N7PZD. It > has been a great hobby and I have met a number of really nice people in > the hobby. I guess the thing I notice most about the hobby is that > today all you need to do is know the answers to the multiple choice > questions to get your ticket. When you taught us, we learned the theory > behind the questions and understood what the answers ment, I am not sure > that is always the case today. > As far as my being in a wheel chair, that is true. You may remember > that I was always a bit weak in the muscle department, so I didn't run > and jump or do many thing like most people do. After going to the same > doc for 35 years, I couldn't believe he had decided to retire! So when I > found a new doc, he asked what was wrong with me and I really didn't > know. So to make a long story short, I went through a lot of tests at > the UW and they really were not able to put a name on it either. But > basically my condition is genetic ans is similar to muscular distrophy > (and there are a large number of different types of MD). It has not > been a very big problem for me, i have just adjusted. And for the most > part of my life things have been great. Then this spring, I took a pile > driver fall on my back side and messed up my back something fierce. So > for now, i am getting around in a power drive chair. I do have hopes of > having the option to stand and work or walk around a little in the shop > in the future. I have been improving and am very optimistic about it. > I find it most interesting that we were both spent time in spare > planning at Boeing Everett.( Insert by Carroll :Carroll, ironically, worked for the same Spares Planning Group at Boeing, Everett, but at a much later time period than Roy did. Spares Planning Group ordered all Boeng airplane parts for all of Boeing's jets for the Parts Kits that were to go, eventually, to the planes, as needed, worlwide. Even airplanes that had crashed or had problems got their parts for the planes from these kits, and our Spares Planning which ordered parts via computer input requests.- end of insert -Carroll Clark). I joined the company in 1967 after getting > my AA degree from Everett Junior College. The 747 was very new and of > course the only airplane at the Everett plant. I learned a lot at the > Boeing Company too. The things I learned there were probably as > valuable later in life running my own business, as what I learned at the > U of W. Although it is hard to compare the two; they were both > important. > About the time the "lights went out in Seattle", I left Boeing and > went to the UofW and got my teaching certificate. I later taught > Industrial Arts (mostly crafts) to special Ed students in Seattle Public > Schools. It too was a lot of fun, but I felt that I could do greater > good for a larger number of disabled kids by going into business making > equipment for them. As things turned out, I believe that turned out to > be true. > As far as Marie's e-mail address goes, she doesn't have one and does > not surf the internet either. I have always found this interesting for > someone so "together" and kind of "progressive" in her views. But such > is the case. > Hope this finds you well. > 73 roy > > > Hams all over the World know what 73 means = Best Regards & we all use that expression which translates in any language. I have Marie LITTLE to Thank for making it possible to re-establish communications with a former student of the same surname, and I will look forward to sharing Marie's writings, just as long as EVERYONE knows that I have gotten her permission to do so and that her writings are COPYRIGHTED and must not be used w/o her permission. She wishes to compile her writings into an history that she has planned for her future. This is one more Story among the many that have cropped out among our Genealogy over the years that I have come to put under the "They Wanna Be Found" category - those curious happenings that crop up ever so often when we least expect it but make Life so much more interesting. Carroll in Snohomish - a Curious place to live ! * * * Hopefully, the HERALD will see fit to print about the new Proposed Sr Ctr for Snohomish that has hit the Senior Publications and even the TRIBUNE, but nothing appears in the Herald, so far. I wonder why. Is it the location of the new proposed senior center, or what has held them back from reporting- I wonder. * * * 30 * * *