BILL STOKES - I did a variety of jobs after getting the BA and leaving St Pat's and my management of Marie's Pizza parlor, Menlo Park in 1969. (I remember Joe Barile coming by to visit at Marie's.) In '69 many seminarians got jobs at The B of A main office in SF; so did I. I lasted 7 months. After that I worked in the trucking/railroad industry for a few years in the East Bay, Western Pacific and then the Atchison Pica & Santa Fe. In 1975 I started remodeling and building houses with Joel Lipski -- a guy who used to correct our philosophy papers. Joel and I used to have great chess matches.

In 1983 I moved to Sacramento as a Sergeant-at-Arms at the CA State Assembly where life long friend Pat Johnston was an Assemblyman. I worked for the Assembly and then the Senate. While there I went to graduate school at CA State University Sacramento at nights and kept a 3.94 GPA. When I graduated with a Masters of Science Management Information Systems I was 50. I the went to work for Raleys/Bel Aire/Nob Hill Foods, a grocery chain, as a Database dude.

I had a heart attack in 2001 and a transient ischemic attack in 2002, and now I am a database dude at the Legislative Counsel's Data Center. I work a lot on the Oracle financials systems. I took up ballroom dancing in 1998 and now do International style. I have actually been in competitions!! I continue to study jazz piano with a local pro, Aaron Garner. I'll play a four hour gig for the women's awareness of heart disease at CHW's Mercy Hospital here in Sacratomato. I see Rich (the bishop) Garcia every once in a while. I am still looking for a rich nympho.   -4/20/09  stokes2401@comcast.net