Riverview Community High School Alumni
Riverview, Michigan (MI)
Gary Price
Riverview Community High School
Class of 1962
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GARY'S PROFILE
| First Name | Gary |
| Last Name | Price |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1962 |
| Gender | Male |
| City | N/A |
| State/Province | HI |
| Country | United States |
| Occupation | Retired Diplomat |
| Married | Yes |
| Favorite School Memory | My infatuation with Penny Bodrie and Lynn Shoenut |
| About Me | Life since High School: There is little to tell of my years since 1962. After working for a year in Connecticut, I went to Michigan State University for 3 years from 1963 to 1966. I was drafted into the Army in 1966 and was a medic for 2 years. I was discharged in 1968 and got married to my wife Michele. I returned to school at the University of Hawaii and finished a BA in 1972 and a Master's in Public Health in 1974. I surprisingly passed the Foreign Service Officer's written and oral examinations and was hired by the U.S. State Department as a political officer (the classic diplomat) in 1975. After junior officer training I was assigned to our Embassy in Maseru, Lesotho in 1975. After a two year tour as the Embassy's political, consular, and administrative officer, I was assigned to Japanese language training in 1977 then to Embassy Tokyo in 1978. At the end of two years as a consular then political officer in Tokyo, I was assigned for one year in 1980 to the Sinai Desert to monitor the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. I flew and drove all over the Sinai Desert visiting Egyptian and Israeli military installations, comparing their activities and personnel to the treaty limitations. I next had a Mid-Level officers' course in Washington for 6 months followed by a two-year tour as the East-Asian regional officer in the Human Rights Bureau at the State Department in DC. Then I was again assigned in 1983 to monitor the final Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai for a year. Then back to DC to work for two years as the African political/military Intelligence analyst in the Department's Intelligence and Research Bureau (INR). Then back to the Sinai for one more year in 1986, because of a particularly tense time in the Middle East, both the Egyptians and Israelis wanted inspectors that they both knew and trusted. In 1987, I was assigned as the chief of the Political/Economic Section at our embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia. After two years in that hellhole, I returned to Washington and took a Computer Systems Manager's course, and was assigned for three years to manage the computer system at our embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1993, I returned to the INR bureau as the Middle East political/military analyst. In August 1995, I retired from active duty and moved to Arizona then to Hawaii in 2003. From 1995 until 2006 I returned to the Department every year for 5-6 months as a rehired annuitant to edit and publish the Annual Human Rights Country Reports to Congress. Got half a year's pay without reducing my pension, a nice deal for us retired Foreign Service types. In 2007, rather than leave Hawaii, I work as a document examiner for 20 hours a week helping the State Department's Honolulu Passport Agency bring its passport backlog under control. From 2008 to the present, I have worked as an editor/formater of the State Department’s annual Narcotics Control Strategy Report to Congress by telecommuting from Hawaii. Michele and I have two daughters, the oldest is a doctor and the youngest is a lawyer and company vice-president. I have a grandson and a gr...(read more) |
Class of 1962 Alumni and Other Nearby Classes
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Nick Aloisio
Class of 1997
Paul Langlois
Class of 1987
Jackie Curtis
Class of 1971
Mick Flowers
Class of 1994
Elizabeth Gilbert
Class of 2008
Glenna Hawk
Class of 1967
Robert Strait
Class of 1967
Debra Copeland
Class of 1972
Ashleigh Fyman
Class of 2005
Carol Bodziak
Class of 1982
Jess Eory
Class of 2005
Susan Smallwood
Class of 1977
Christine Mcshane
Class of 1977
Rosalie Cheplick
Class of 1980
Sara Maynard
Class of 1997
Kathy Wadlin
Class of 1975
Denise Chesney
Class of 1977
Paul Zitzelsberger
Class of 1970
Upcoming Class of 1962 Reunions
Plan a Class of 1962 Reunion for Free
60th 1964 Class Reunion
Invited Classes: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
Date: Oct 11, 2024
Description: The cost will be $60 per attendee. Payments can be made via PayPal to GExner064 or via check payable to Greg Exner 22071...(read more)
Recent Class of 1962 Reunions
Classes of 1960-1965 invited to the Class of 1964 50th Reunion
Invited Classes: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Date: Sep 27, 2014
Description: We are having our 50th Class Reunion on September 27th. We are inviting the classes from 1960-1965. It will be held a...(read more)
JULY 2014 'GREENS' 1960-1960 REUNION
Invited Classes: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
Date: Jul 19, 2014
Description: Starting time tbd and tba - soon. PLEASE RSVP TO TRESA (MAGIERA) STITLEY AT TresaRose@gmail.com
Summer Reunion
Invited Classes: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
Date: Aug 10, 2013
Description: Hi! We will have dinner first at 4 pm. Restaurant to be announced. Then, on to VFW in Trenton at 7 pm to party! (D...(read more)