Eldon Mead

Woodward High School

Class of 1964

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Eldon Mead - Class of 1964 - Woodward High School

First Name	Eldon
Last Name	Mead
Graduation Year	Class of 1964
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	AR
Country	United States
Occupation	Teacher
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	My memories of my days at WHS are the greatest. Just getting to be with the other members of the Class of 64 is my favorite memory of HS. How fortunate we were to have gotten to grow up when and where we did.
About Me	After HS I went to Basic Training and completed the 6 months of training for the National Guard. I then enrolled at Northwestern State College in Alva. In 1966 I married Mary Ann and 2 years later our first son arrived. Just after graduation in January of 70 our second son was born. I started teaching that August and we stayed in the states for the next 8 years. In 1978 we went to work for the DoDDS and moved to Germany. In 1991 we went to Romania and were fortunate enough to adopt our daughter, Adina. In 2008 we finished our 30 years with the Department of Defense and we retired. We've moved back to NWA to our home on Beaver Lake. In January of 2009 we headed to Belize, CA to begin the long journey of building a house in a section called Maya Beach (7 miles north of Placencia a small fishing village on the coast of Belize). We go to Belize every winter to live in and work on the house which is 56 ft from the oceans edge. We stay there until April when we return to Arkansas for the summer. My sisters Becky and Libby both live in Rogers too. My Dad, Burton, passed away this past July at 94 1/2 years young. Mary Ann and I spend part of our stateside time traveling in our truck while pulling our travel trailer. We've found that the US is a huge place and it takes lots o...(read more)