Bill Homan

Dearborn High School

Class of 1965

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Bill Homan - Class of 1965 - Dearborn High School

First Name	Bill
Last Name	Homan
Graduation Year	Class of 1965
Gender	Male
Current Location	Birmingham, MI USA
Hometown	Dearborn, Michigan
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	I was born in 1947, a couple years after World War II ended, and raised in the Detroit area, where my father and his father worked in the automobile industry. We lived in “Dearborn, The Home Town of Henry Ford”, where all the police cars said “Be Nice to People” on their doors. Our family had a small dog and two kids in it. Our neighborhood swarmed with hundreds of baby-boom kids. Halloween was like Mardi Gras night on Bourbon Street. I went to school at Clark, Haigh, Bryant, and Dearborn High. In the mid-60's, folk music was big. Then came the Beatles. I graduated in '65 and went to college for a year, but the war in Viet Nam was heating up and the draft got me in late '66. I spent two years in the Army working as an operating room technician. I explored places: Mexico, San Antonio, San Francisco, Washington, D. C., rural Texas and Virginia. In '69, the year of Woodstock, I moved to Washington, D. C. with the objective of finishing college. For the next five years, I worked as an x-ray technician, bartender, picture framer, lab technician, radio producer, layout and design artist, and newspaper editor while studying at American University. At AU, I learned some French and some Spanish. I read Chaucer, studied Czech cinema and holocaust literature with Arnost Lustig, wrote a few songs, some poetry, and a movie script. I marched in protests and demonstrations against U. S. policy in southeast Asia. There was an escalating series of political scandals. Some days there were more than 500,000 people in the streets. Around '74, exhausted from vocational, cultural, political, and educational immersion, I returned to Michigan and married a girl I had dated in high school. I started a business, got divorced, switched careers, and remarried. By '80 we were a a family of four. We moved to Florida, where we planted orange trees in our yard and spent time at the beach. We learned about Crackers, Mennonites, and red tide. I worked as vice-president of a franchise company, executive director of a sheltered workshop for handicapped adults, and then in my own business. In 1983, we became a family of five, welcoming a third daughter. I joined a computer services firm in 1985, and they moved us back to Michigan, where I went into management consulting and worked with clients all over the country and elsewhere for the next 25 years. Now balanced on the cusp of retirement, I am ready for something new. I'm thinking about learning to play the guitar a lot better. I'd like to be good enough to entertain people in nursing and retirement facilities. These days I spend most of my quality time with family. We are still in Michigan. Jan and I were married 31 years in August of '10. We are close to our 2 energetic, curious grandsons. My mom's a robust 80++ and still independent. ...(read more)