First Name Charly

Last Name Bullock

Maiden Name

Spouse s Name Cathy Hill Bullock

Address 3948 Oxbow Village Lane NW

City Albuquerque

State NM

Zip Code 87120

Hm Phone 505.899.4394

Web Site URL Facebook: Charly Bullock

Email charly_b@comcast.net

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

Q1 POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WITH TECHNOLOGY:

During the years that Cathy and I worked in Native American education, we helped coordinate the First Peoples Project that connected indigenous children around the globe via email, Internet websites, and video phones, enabling students to collaborate on curricular topics, cultural and social issues, and art exchanges. We were connected with Australian Koorie Aboriginal children; Myanmar Karen tribal children living in refugee camps in Thailand; Roma (Gypsy) street kids in Hungary; Mapuche students in Argentina; Quechua youth in Ecuador; Zapoteca students in Oaxaca; Inupiat students in Barrow, Alaska; Mississippi Choctaw youth; and Navajo, Zuni, Santa Domingo, and Taos students from New Mexico. We joined participating students and adults in a different country each summer to plan projects for the coming school year. Our technology acquisitions, international connections, and travel were supported by Save the Children, iEARN, and philanthropist George Soros.

Q2 MEMORABLE EXPERIENCES:

US Army medic 1964 - 66

Marrying Cathy Hill at CSU in 1969

Spending several months in Mexico 1972

Operating a drop-in center for kids in Denvers Five Points neighborhood 1973 Adopting six-year-old twin boys, Vicente and Victor, in 1979 Living for a year in Havasupai village located in Cataract Canyon (Grand Canyon) 1984 First grandchild born in 1998 (we now have 5 girls and 2 boys) Spending 15 years remodeling our ancient adobe home in the Zuni Mountains Teaching (and loving doing it) for 31 years Spending the past three years researching my dads military service:

· Meeting with 4 veterans (ages 87 to 95) last June who served with him;

· Visiting the home where he lived in England during the buildup for the Normandy Invasion;

· Walking on Normandy’s Omaha Beach with a historian who showed me the spot where my dad was wounded and the location of the aid station where he was taken before he died. Visiting the cemetery where he was buried. This has been a very emotional and healing journey for me.

Q3 FUN ACTIVITIES:

Time with family; daily long walks with Cathy; bicycling; volunteering at my granddaughters schools; taking our sons and their families on trips; staying in touch with friends and relatives; reading; cooking; photography; serving meals at a local homeless center; volunteering in political campaigns; participating in our Unitarian Church activities; volunteering with Tres Islas Orphanage Fund in Mexico; taking classes and “field trips” through Oasis; gardening and yard work; writing my dad’s military story; writing my “memoirs;” enjoying nature; loving life.

Q4 LIFE’S CHANGES:

As an inconsiderate teenager who partied and drank too much after high school and during the Army and college, it took a lot of mistakes before I understand what Robert Frost meant when he wrote, “How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” I’ve spent years trying to develop a kinder heart.

I’m taking advantage of advancing medical technology – I’ve had a knee replacement, hip replacement, and I am having rotator cuff/shoulder surgery in June. My new titanium body parts set off the alarms at airport security and I become the subject of many friendly TSA pat downs.

Personal narrative 2011 I plan to attend the reunion. See you there!