First Name  Kenneth

Last Name   Mitchell

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Spouse s Name     Vicki

Address     PO Box 1186

City  Cosmopolis

State WA

Zip Code    98537

Hm Phone    360-537-0077

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      I DO authorize sharing all of this information on the Class of 1961 Web Site.

 

Q1    What are some of your positive and some of your negative experiences with modern technology?

 

Positives of technology?  Is there such a thing?  (You see I am handwriting these answers.) 

 

Negatives of Technology:  The day I turned my TV remote into a UFO due to frustration trying to make it work!

 

Q2    What are some of your most memorable experiences?

·         Present at births of son and daughter.

·         Watching early morning light come through stained glass windows of Charter Cathedral alone with wife.

·         Watching wife lecture to students in the Louvre and in the Colliseum.

·         Watching wife graduate at Univ. of Texas with Ph.D.

·         Seeing 46 years of students graduate high school and college (I was an art teacher.)  Standing on battlefields of Normandy, Gettysburg and Antietum.

·         Almost run over by Queen of England (in her chauffered car) rushing to see Prince William on day of his birth.

·         Seeing my son as a teacher and grade school principal and being selected for summer studies at Harvard Univ. (B.A. nd M.A.)  Seeing my daughter receive "Joe Patuno" scholarship(costuming at Penn State and go on to design/build costumes for National Opera (Kennedy Center) Georgetown Univ., Maryland Univ., Constellation, Adventure and Imagination Theaters (B.A. and M.F.A.)

 

Q3       What fun activities/hobbies, etc. do you participate in?

·         House design/construction

·         Model railroading

·         Walking four miles per day for eight years  Photography  Travel  Teaching art to adults/children  Lions Service Club Church

 

Q4    What are some of the major changes in your life?

·         Earning B.A. and M.A. in Art

·         Marrying (married 44 years)

·         Teaching college/universities -- 35 years  Influenced by history teacher to study Art -- Dr. Reynolds -- U.N.C.

·         Teaching art, math and science to alternative high school students--10 years (high risk kids)  Traveling three months in Europe with wife  Traveling seven times to Europe with college students "Art Study Tours"

·         Painting large murals in three states (published in Murals of KS)

 

Personal narrative 2011