Robin Merrifield
272A Lost River Road
Mazama WA 98833-9700
509.996.3863
I left high school and entered the Air Force where I served from 1956 to 1959. I was stationed
the whole time at the Little Rock AFB. I then went to the University of Arkansas from 1959 to
1963 where I obtained the Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering (BSEE) degree. I
married for the first time while I was in college.
From there I went to Southern Cal and started studying engineering. I dropped out of that
program in 1969 and got my Masters degree in Counseling and Guidance. I went to the Esalen
Institute in Big Sur, California, in the mountains south of Monterrey. At one point I ran a
spiritual retreat in the Ventana Wilderness in the mountains above Big Sur. It was more of
a Budhist denomination.
I then went to the Bay area and tried my hand at promotion. I promoted a show called the
Psychic Explosion in 1977. In 1978 I was back to Engineering. I went to Seattle to Boeing. At
one point I dropped out again for a 3 year sabbatical in Big Sur, then back to Boeing. I was a
staff scientist in instrument technology. I was one of the guys who put the cathode ray on the
Boeing 767. I received an award from the Society of Information Display for my work there.
I retired from Boeing in 1995 and worked for two years for an electronics company in Atlanta.
I finally retired for good in 1997
came back to Washington and built a house here in the Mazama valley using my own
architecture and construction.
I finally remarried quite successfully in 1989. My wife was Susan Christian.
She is originally from Benumclaw, Washington. I
have one child by my first marriage, and she has two by her first marriage. So we have a
composite of 7 grandchildren among them.
I will be unable to attend the reunion right now because we are putting this house up for sale.
But I hope you have a successful reunion.