Matlack Personnel Information

Currently: NDSU dept of Architecture - studio technician

Email:    oceanair63@yahoo.com

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Hobbies: boats, woodworking, shoveling snow on this iceburg

Matlack job: driver, Charlotte 015

Not unlike some of you, I think about Matlack everyday. Some days, this is simply because I still wear a "Matlack 100" hat. I left the day Mike Stritch was introduced to his replacement. 015 is like family to me. In many respects I grew up there. Not that I wasn't of legal age upon arival, just that I learned and earned a right of passage. Guys like Bob Jenkins (first 015 TM), Clifford "Mr. C" Young, "Smile'n" Lee Milam, Chris Haltom, Donny "don't pee till it's runnin down your leg" Reckers, Bobby "Bayou Bandit" Grimes, Carl "June Bug" Ladd, Mike Powell, Dave Jackson, of course Mike Stritch and others are what made 015 and Matlack what it used to be. Upon my departure, I spent 3mos with CSX BIDS, 1 year at Quality Carriers and 3 years commercial fishing and messing around with boats. Now I work for North Dakota State University. I'm on staff with the dept. of Architecture and Landscape Architecture as the studio technician. If your ever at NDSU in Fargo ND just ask about the redneck with the green hat... I'm the ONLY one out here. I really do wear a Matlack 100 hat. Gary H. I finally grew up... I think? I know I was a pain in the "Biblical era mode of transportation" at times. I want you to know I always respected you. In 8 years I saw the Pipline go from the leader to a struggler. The Day Mike was introduced to his replacement, I knew it was over. I have my own opinions as to the what and why of it all... but it's over now either way. Like the Pipline, Bobby Grimes and Chris Haltom are no longer with us. I've not heard from the others in years and hope all is well for them. I'm hoping to soon splash my 33' Chris Craft in Duluth and make the passage through the Great lakes, Erie Canal, Hudson River and south back to North Carolina.