Tom Roberts

Wayne High School

Class of 1951

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First Name	Tom
Last Name	Roberts
Graduation Year	Class of 1951
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	NE
Country	United States
Occupation	Retired
Married	No
Favorite School Memory	My senior year I was on the basketball team that was undefeated regular season and Nebr,state finalist.
About Me	Worked at Beechcraft in Wichita, Ks, After the Army, 3and one half years at WSC and graduated in 1959. Played varsity tennis and basketball at WSC. Attended A. C. Nielsen Marketing Research School in Evanston, Il.1959-1960 and assigned to Chatanooga, Tenn. , Davenport, Iowa and Omaha each for two years each. Production management at Dale Electronics in Columbus, Nebr. for 6 years. Took early retirement and then handled the above mentioned tennis jobs on a mostly volounteer basis.. Traveled entire Western USA states and all the national parks. Spent 10 winters in Las Vegas, Nv. and 11 in Arizona prior to buying a home in a 55 plus retirement community in Sun City, Az. and spend 6 months there and the other 6 months in "good old Wayne, Nebr" Was the catalyst for a Wayne High all 1950's reunion in 1994. The four day event had 336 participents and I was the emcee and 4 star general Jim Burr Davis was the decade;s guest speaker. He had 129 missions over Vietnam and was a 1953 Wayne High grad and then went on to bigger and better things. We had a blast and I have been approached by other WHS decades to manage a comparble reunion for their particular decade. Needless to say, it just was not to my interest as I was not a part of their school days. I did get over 100 letters of appreciation for my involvement in our "Nifty Fifties" reunion!!! We had several grads videotaping the proceedings and they all volounteered to allow me to combine them to make a 4 hour plus video and make it available to those interested. One hundred and forty one were then sent the video tapes. I have been asked why I put all my effores into this venture and I simlpy said. "It was ...(read more)