What This person has been doing for the last 50 years
AHLFELD, CHARLES EDWARD (Barbara Anne)
6635 Caminito Blythefield, LaJolla, CA 92037
Phone 858/454-8171
e-mail ems@san.rr.com
Children 3 Grandchildren 3
Best Gables Memory
The first challenge is, can I remember anything from 45 years ago? Actually,
I can, but singling out any one memory would do injustice to all those other
great times we had together in the “age on innocence”. Well, relative
innocence. I can remember those exciting football games in the Orange Bowl,
signing Cavaleons during study hall, practical jokes, racing from 504 to 105
in a sea of people, Jimmy’s Hurricane, strange odors and sounds emanating
from lockers, science fairs, parties, track meets, NHS, something about the
parking lot?, Sputnik, our slide rules hanging from our belts, … Good
Grief!… It’s all coming back! Then there was that fateful day
when 863 of us crowded on to the stage in Dade County Auditorium. The absolute
best memory I have of Coral Gables High is that there was never a dull or
boring day.
What I’m doing now
I have my own sole proprietorship business, “Engineering Management
Services”, currently providing contracted project management for the
Archimedes Technology Group, Inc. in San Diego. EMS has also contracted with
Burns & Roe Enterprises, CANATOM. and CNUS for consulting and contract
management for various nuclear projects in Toronto, Canada and at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory.
Special Events in my life
In early 1962 I met a cute young thing named Barbara Anne and we got married
on the 29th of Dec. that same year. In ’63 we welcomed daughter, Judy,
in’66 daughter, Nancy, and in ’71 daughter, Shari. At that point
we stopped trying to have a son. We have two grandsons and a granddaughter,
so we finally got some more boys in the family. Barbara Anne and I recently
celebrated out 40th with a cruise in the Caribbean. Life after Gables also
included more schools. After attending UF (BS ’62) and FSU (MS ’64
– PhD “68) I went to work for E. I. duPont at the Savannah River
Laboratory in Aiken, SC. 25 years later we moved to La Jolla, CA for a temporary
2 year assignment to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(ITER) Project. This collaboration to develop a fusion power reactor involved
the US, Russia, European Union and Japan. ITER involved a lot of international
travel and Barbara Anne “volunteered” to keep me company on several
trips. It must have agreed with her because we have continued to global wander
with our most recent foray into Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay.
It has been an interesting 45 years and I am looking forward to more adventures
with my cute (not so young) thing.