South Lake High School Alumni
St. Clair Shores, Michigan (MI)
Paul Daniels (Paul Daniels)
South Lake High School
Class of 1977
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PAUL'S PROFILE
| First Name | Paul |
| Last Name | Daniels |
| Maiden Name | Daniels |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1977 |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Indian River, MI |
| Hometown | Detroit |
| Relationship Status | Single |
| About Me | In the 1980's, having begun a successful career as a licensed heating contractor, I decided to see the world, First visited the former Soviet Union. The following year took 17 flights across Asia including (pre-normalization) Vietnam, cruising the Perfume River and crawling through the Kuchi Tunnels near Saigon. In 1991 I sold most everything I owned, quit my fourteen year job and headed to Africa, camping across 23 African countries, hitchhiking some 5000 miles across the south including the miles logged on cargo planes. African adventures included camping up the Niger River to Timbuktu, visiting 900-year-old Ethiopian stone churches, climbing Mt. Muhavura and Mgahinga in Uganda and having a wild gorilla playfully pound on my leg in the mountains in Zaire, bagging a gold-medal Kudu in Namibia and shooting the Zambezi River rapids on a surfboard. On the negative side, I was attacked by bandits while hitchhiking through Mozambique and had Ethiopian solders point AK-47s at my head when my driver tried to crash through a road block. I was also once chased by a hippopotamus. While still suffering side effects of numerous hospitalizations that included bouts of Dengue-fever, Typhus and Schistosomiasis it was a blood infection contracted in Zaire that turned most of my left arm purple, that could have killed me. Other adventures include hiking the Anapurna trail in Nepal, traveling 5,000 miles by train across India, and briefly teaching industrial classes in a Russian auto factory. In 1999 30 days after applying for a job to winterover at the U.S. Antarctic Research Station- McMurdo., I was locked into the Antarctic for my first winterover. In 2001 I became one of the less than 1000 people in history to winterover directly at the South Pole, where I was heavily involved in the first ever mid-winter South Pole medical evacuation, this was my greatest adventure. In 2004 after wintering at the U.S. Antarctic Research Station-Palmer, I became one of only 38 people to winterover at all three American Antarctic stations. Following my Antarctic winters, I backpacked up the center and around nearly the entire perimeter of Australia. Since then, working top secret construction in China and Libya, followed by fifteen months in Afghanistan, driving over 600 times down its most dangerous road. I once found himself running for cover as automatic weapons fired over his head and thousands of rioters sent burning trucks careering into his walled compound. Citing burnout and exhaustion, I came home to labor on my long-delayed video documentary of the 2001 South Pole winter. I was compelled to stay home for six years in order to care for my ailing and mother until she was 91 years old, hence, I finished my career working in downtown Detroit, a mile from where I was born, as the lead building engineer for the Chrysler House, Federal Reserve Building and three other large structures. I am now retired and residing in Indian River Michigan. Having traveled all seven continents and nearly 90 countries, I'...(read more) |
Class of 1977 Alumni
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Michael Reid
Class of 1980
Ted Dumas
Class of 1982
Tom Yeaman
Class of 1975
Michelle Russell
Class of 1972
Stephen Bales
Class of 1974
Jim Parski
Class of 1983
Jackie Garofalo
Class of 1973
Teresa Pease
Class of 1983
Sandra Harp
Class of 1996
Brandon Brandon Bishop
Class of 2011
Bonnie Heacox
Class of 1989
Richard Arnold
Class of 1951
Craig Rogers
Class of 1989
Adam Konwerski
Class of 1996
Joe Peak
Class of 1977
Ã…sa Ander
Class of 1989
Tom Hinz
Class of 1976
Samantha Peterson
Class of 1993
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