Robert King

Loving basketball, but not being good enough to make our great JCHS squad, and not wanting to go to K-State (only because my parents were overseas and I'd driven too many go-carts and knew Aggieville already!), I followed my best bud PT, now Dr. Paul Turner of Sunny Sacramento) to Snob Hill (I mean KU), and have been a devout Jayhawk ever since! I got my BS in English Literature and Philosophy, somehow got into the Carpet Industry, and since 1983 have been in Colorado. I got as far as VP of a carpet manufacturer, and travelled and have worked mostly in the MidWest. I now work for the largest "retail" franchisee in the Industry, Carpet One, in Boulder, CO. My parents still live in Junction so nearly every year I drive by the old "haunts," drag the square, and try to attend a Jayhawk game in Lawrence. I've been single for several years, having been married twice in my "younger daze," and have tried to "retain" (or should I say "recapture") those days of "youth and their glad animal movements," although the grey is beginning in the temples and I'm having trouble rationalizing that all those smile "lines" should now begin to be called what they are: wrinkles. Good health, good friends, and wonderful exploits all over the world (being a military kid the moving and travelling I think may be genetic!) are kind trade for the passing years. Books, basketball, skiing, movies and selling carpet along with Mexico and Las Vegas seem to fill my life. And great memories. . .it's great to see all the faces on this website and I can kick myself for not having returned to the reunions--no more excuses--I'll be at the next one!