Way Corp group(s) I was in
8th Way Corps
Where I live
Near Raleigh NC
Married or Single
Married
About Me
I am living in North Carolina after having lived in California for about 20 years. I am fortunate to still have Lyn Neal Morrison (11th) as my wife. She is sexy, beautiful, and a great believer. I have two great sons, Nick 20 and Mike 15.
My Interests
Besides trying to diligently seek God on a daily basis (I'm not trying to sound "religiously correct" here, it's just that I have found that I'm either seeking or drifting away. Since drifting away doesn't offer me much, I am trying to seek). I also am into mountain biking, a sport I just picked up in the last year (because my knees are funky). Mountain biking is an adrenaline rush. We went to the Blue Ridge Mountains three times this summer to let me race down. I only planted my face on the trail once!!!
Employment or Career
UPDATE: I presently work for the FDIC - the people who insure the banks - in an elite section called the Professional Liability Group and Financial Crimes. When a bank is closed, we go in with investigators and determine if the bank's failure was due to the negligence or fraud of the directors,officers, accountants or attorneys and if so, sue to recover the losses from the individual or their insurance. When you read about a bank failure on Saturday morning, we went in Friday night to take over the bank and get it ready to reopen by Monday morning so that depositors can get their money. We are the reason that there are not runs on the banks. We are the financial "EMTs" rushing to the scene of a badly injured bank in order to stop the injury from spreading to every other bank. It is exciting and intellectually challenging and I believe what I am doing helps keep the American economic system afloat. It is a federal agency, but it is the only one that is totally supported by no tax money.
BACKGROUND: I had a law firm in California. Early on, Bryce Shirley and I were partners, then he moved on to work for Pepsi. Later I partnered with a great believer from Puerto Rico named Manfredo Lespier (he also plays a judge on the Spanish language TV show Divorcio Court or something). I then became Chief Legal Officer for Peter Coad's company TogetherSoft located in NC. That professionally was the best time in my career. Pete is absolutely brilliant and I got to work with many great people including Judy Coad (my officemate), Randall Michek, Frank Baker, Art Poling, Gary King , Don MacMillan and others. The company was bought out in 2003 and then I became president for a time of Dale Cain's software company. I then sued NC for the right to practice law here, and the case went to the US Supreme Court. I now practice law in Raleigh doing injury cases, class action construction defect cases, and more. I also have a realtors license.
Music I Like
UPDATED: I really like country music best now: Zac Brown, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, etc. I can see where Dr. Wierwille was trying to go with High Country Caravan.
Classic Rock (Zeplin, Lynard Skynard), Blues, and now Country Rock (Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Willie, etc)
Books I Like
Freakonomics, detective novels, etc., but I don't like John Grisham novels about attorneys because they are SO implausible.
Television I like
Earl (reminds me of people I knew in Indiana), 2 & 1/2 Men (reminds me of people I knew in California)
Movies I like
Comedies, and some action stuff, but the last Die Hard was overboard. Come on, Bruce Willlis wrestles a jet after jumping off his moving semi-trailer
Sports Teams I like
College Sports. This place is college crazy with Duke, Carolina, Wake Forest, ECU, NC State. The pros are too polished. The kids can win any game on any particular week.
Comments
Are you Sandi's brother? If it's who I'm thinking of, we go way, way back to Chicago days. Would you ask her if she remembers Terri Schock?
Thanks!
Terri
My sister and her family live in Raleigh. It is beautiful there. We almost moved there, but decided on Orlando instead. I saw them last March when I went up for Dr. Rawlins' memorial service.
We are coming to NC in january to play music at Steve Axtel's coffeehouse. That is january 26th. We would love to see you guys. check out our website at www.myspace.com/hisong
Thanks for the welcome! I don't think I know Diane, but perhaps if I saw her I might. I tend to be much bettter with faces than names. Speaking of which, I bet this site will continue to remind me of a high school class reunion. Where you have to see the picture of them on their nametag to know who they are. Of course some people never seem to change. Anyway, this site will be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to seeing it grow as word of mouth (or links via email) are sent out. I am going to have to dig out some old photos and get them on here. Take Care!
Thanks for the greets. You know, I've found that the one who says watch out for someone else is usually the one to watch out for ;-)