Carl Walker
Hello! I am Carl Walker, a CHS graduate with the class of 1960. After graduation, I
went to Detroit where I joined the Army. I spent boot camp at Ft. Leonardwood, MO.
After boot camp, I was sent to Ft. Bliss, TX for additional training in missile fire
control and then on to Korea for 14 months on top of a mountain overlooking the
DMZ Zone with North Korea. I met my dear wife in El Paso, TX just before leaving for Korea.
We only had two dates before I left. When I returned from Korea, I stopped in Oakland,
CA and purchased a set of rings for her. Then on to Dallas to see her. After two days,
we drove to Cairo so I could introduce my future bride to my mom. When we returned
to Dallas, we were married at the court house on the steps by a pastor who just
happened to be there. After 38 great years of marriage, my wife passed away. We
had three children: two boys and one daughter. Our oldest son lives in New Mexico
and the other two live in the Dallas area also. I have two grandsons and two
great-grandchildren. I have been living in the Dallas area most of my adult life.
I tried working at the post office, but it reminded me too much of the Army, so I
went to work for Collins Radio. I worked on the First Global Communications system
and even helped install a system in the Presidential plane. I also worked on the
C-System Computer which was the largest computer in the world in 1970. After the
salary for high tech workers went into the dump, I went into sales and marketing.
Most of my professional career was as a sales and marketing manager traveling 26
states and some South American countries. I started a number of companies: Walker
Enterprises was a mail-order catalog business; Precision Electronics was a repair
and service company for lab instruments in colleges and universities; Unique
Marketing was sales and marketing of bar-code printing and scanning systems;
Star Concrete was in the construction industry. My attention span was short for
some of these. I retired in 2004 and have enjoyed doing what I want when I wantI
have had no problems adjusting to retirement. I did, however, have to slow down
a bit after my five by-pass surgery in June of 1999 and a stint in 2003. All in all...
it's been a great life!