| I have been married for 32 years to my beautiful
wife Amy. We have three children, Martha (28), Brian (23) and Carrie (19).
Amy has been a Para professional at our local elementary school for the last
10 years. Martha is married and works in the logistics division of a major
grain trading business in Minneapolis. She is expecting our 1st grand child
this September. Brain is working at Denali National park in Alaska and is
still single. Carrie is a student at St. Cloud State University and is on
the varsity dance team. I have been employed at Medtronic, Inc for the last
29 years and currently am a Sr. Materials Research Scientist responsible for
development of hermetic seals for implantable medical devices and have 17
issued U.S. patents. Quite a different professional path than what the
yearbook projected, i.e., manager for a sports team. Hoping to retire in 4
years. |
| Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland is a national
security commentator and columnist who appears weekly on a number of TV,
online and national radio programs. Ms. McFarland held national security
posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations, and received the
Defense Department’s highest civilian award. She ran was a Republican
candidate for the US Senate from New York in 2006. Ms. McFarland’s
government career began while a freshman at George Washington University,
working part-time in the White House Situation Room typing the President’s
Daily Brief. She spent seven years in the West Wing of the White House,
working her way up to become a key member of Dr. Henry Kissinger’s National
Security Council Staff. After the Ford Administration, Ms. McFarland studied
at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with
concentrations on nuclear weapons, China and the Soviet Union. She returned
to Washington during the Reagan Administration as a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee staff.
In 1982 Ms. McFarland became the speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Cap
Weinberger, and later the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Public Affairs and Pentagon Spokesman. In 1985 Ms. McFarland left
government, married, moved to New York, and became a stay at home mother of
five.
After the September 11 attacks, Ms. McFarland reentered public life and
resume the career she was trained for. She became active in New York
Republican politics and began speaking and writing on national security
issues. She ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2006.
Ms. McFarland is currently a regular panelist on FOX News’ online
news program The Strategy Room, as well as all the FOX News programs. She is
the host of the national security video blog, DEFCON-3 by KT, and writes a
weekly column for FOX’s online newspaper, FOXForum. Ms. McFarland is also
the national security commentator for several radio shows, including WlIU
and WVOX. She is a board member of The Jamestown Foundation, the Off the
Record Lecture Series, a Distinguished Advisor to the Foundation for Defense
of Democracies, and a Coalition Member of the Set America Free Foundation
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My wife, Janice, and I own a cooking school and
marketplace in Ellison Bay, Door County (www.savoryspoon.com).
This is our 6th year, and things are going very well. We also do culinary
tours, 2 to Europe (Italy and France), and this November we are doing one to
southwest China.
I am also a real estate broker both here in Wisconsin, as well as in Arizona
(30+ years). My main focus is with land in Arizona, and historic
restorations projects here in Wisconsin.
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