Paul McDonald:  

After high school, got a political science undergraduate degree from Purdue University. Then, still not quite with it, worked in landscaping for the next 5 years, the last 3-1/2 in Seattle. While living in Seattle, i worked for the Boeing Company for almost 5 years and met and married my wife - in 1980.. For economic reasons, my wife and i moved to Tucson, AZ where i got 2 masters degrees (MBA and MS-Management Information Systems) and my wife ended up getting a Ph.D in business (Management Information Systems) and is now a professor at the Harvard Business School (teaching executive programs for entrepreneurs) - so we ended up in Boston. We owned a house there from 1987-2013. We had a son in 1990. He ended up doing lots of athletics stuff and chose to go to the University of Puget Sound (UPS) in Tacoma, Washington - where he played soccer as their #1 goalie. Despite the team never making the NCAA Division III post-season tournament, he is in the NCAA Division III record book tied for 6th all-time in career shutouts. He got a call to try out for the Chivas USA MLS professional soccer team but, before that could take place, Chivas was put into receivership and, within a year, disbanded. He is a medical resident at Brown University in Providence, RI, in Orthopedic Surgery. after getting his medical degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. He graduates from the residency program at the end of June 2023, then has another year at Brown as a fellowship in Orthopedic Trauma. That will be followed by a year in Utah in another fellowship in Spine Surgery. My wife and i bought a house in Tacoma so we could watch his soccer games while ...Expand for more