Kent Yates

Central High School

Class of 1971

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Kent Yates - Class of 1971 - Central High School

First Name	Kent
Last Name	Yates
Graduation Year	Class of 1971
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	WA
Country	United States
Occupation	Retired From University Of Illinois After 25 Years As Data Communications Specialist (2 Years), Research Scientist (3 Years), And Research Programmer (20 Years).
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Traveling with Claude Wooley to Florida to watch the launch of Apollo 15 from the VIP stands at the Cape. Wooley was a hoot to hang around with. We even looked for arrowheads together in nearby dry river beds, where he would later recount the pleasure of drinking water out of the hoof impression made by a cow -- something he said he hadn't done since he was a kid. From him I learned the names of some impressive-sounding grasses, such as andropogon saccharoides and scleropogon brevifolius...(read more)
About Me	Spent 14 months managing a satellite tracking station at Palmer Station, Antarctica. Worked for six years as a Broadcast Engineer, married twice, raised two wonderful children, and created and managed (for 21 years) the Information Technology Systems for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS) of the University of Illinois (now the School of Information Science). During that 21 years, GSLIS was always ranked the #1 Library & Information Science School in the USA. Since retirement in 2008, my wife, Lynn, and I have been living on a timber farm and learning how to be s...(read more)