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Alumni News TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE Connect with Us Visit us on Facebook at: TKE Omicron https://www.facebook.com/groups/TKEOmicron/ Or for help fnding our other pages Visit: http://www.mygreekgift.org/omicronTKE for the direct links! Have Alumni News? We want to hear from you! Send your personal updates, accomplishments, adventures, and photos to our Account Manager Kasey Breedlove at kbreedlove@ thelaurusgroup.net, or simply fll out the tear-away form at the bottom of your cover Photo taken at the house in October of 1984 - President Ronald Reagan visited for lunch. letter and return it in the mail. We want to share it in the next issue of The Lamppost! Ullum (Continued from Page 1) there. I even dreamt in Vietnamese! That’s when I After language school, I went to Goodfellow knew it was the AFB, in San Angelo, TX. First time I ever career I wanted saw tumbleweeds!! In order for me to get my to follow. orders I needed a top secret clearance. My Outside of mom told me that someone from TKE called work, what do her and wondered what the heck was going you do for fun? on because the FBI was at the house asking about me. Once I graduated for cryptologic Mostly, I look school in San Angelo, I was sent to survival forward to the school in Spokane, WA. That was a month of Doug with his wife, Beth, and their daughter Samantha, and son, Nick. times when my simulated POW camp and interrogations. My kids come over fnal destination put me at Kadena Air Base or home for the in Okinawa, Japan. I few over 300 combat We went to Hong Kong, the Philippines, and weekend, we have such fun together. Besides missions on the RC-135 as an Airborne Korea. I fnished my degree at the University that, I love Buckeye football, cook on the grill, Vietnamese Cryptologic Linguist. of Maryland over there and we would go on have my family and friends here to entertain, adventures to all of the islands around Okinawa. art shows, fea markets or hang out at home. How did you meet your wife, Beth? Our frst house was in the local community. How do you keep in touch with your We were introduced to each other by one of Crazy! No air conditioning, we would lay in Omicron brothers today? her sorority sisters in Alpha Phi. It was during bed at night and hear large things falling out homecoming and we went out together a few of the trees. Okinawa is tropical so lots on I will have to admit it was diffcult in the times. I then left Ohio State and went home to large bugs and other things! We were waiting early days. No internet or cell phones yet. fgure out my life. I left for the Air Force and on new base housing to open up and got a 600 Facebook has made it a whole lot easier. called her parents’ house while I was home sq. ft. two bedroom apartment with AC and What brought you back as a volunteer on leave for the holidays in 1983. She wasn’t everything!! It wasn’t too long after that that alumnus? home so I left a message. We started writing our frst child Nicholas was born. letters to each other and she came to visit me I wanted to give back, it was extremely in San Angelo, TX, and we went to Florida for Why did you get into medical sales? challenging. The house had aged a lot. It was a week together and I asked her to marry me. I got out of the Air Force in 1988 and we knew more of a landlord-tenant situation. I only I was leaving for Japan and we were married we were coming back to Columbus. I worked went to a couple of chapter meetings. on May 10th, 1985, and this year will be our briefy for an IT company and that was not what Why do you feel it is important to 30th anniversary. I wanted to do. I had wanted to study medicine maintain a relationship with TKE? What was it like living in Japan as a newlywed? for a long time but realized I did not have the Some of my oldest friends are my fraters We had a lot of fun there. We were young and needed focus. Another of Beth’s Alpha Phi at TKE. I wouldn’t trade what we did for sisters was in medical sales and suggested it to in love and loved the ability to travel Asia. anything in the world. It enabled me to meet me and connected me with the hiring manager. my awesome wife and have 2 beautiful kids. TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE TKE