Gary Price

Riverview Community High School

Class of 1962

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Gary Price - Class of 1962 - Riverview Community High School

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)

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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)

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