BOMBER MEMORIAL

JAMES FRANKLIN "JIM" FELDER ~ Class of 1967
August 28, 1949 - February 10, 2024



Written by Jim from Columbus, Ohio for the 40-year Class Reunion in 2007:

"After graduation in 1967 I spent a year at CBC taking engineering courses.

Then there were 2 years, 10 months and 11 days in the U. S. Army (Fort Lewis; Fort Lee, Virginia; Okinawa; Vietnam; and Fort Carson, Colorado).

After the military I got involved in construction on the Hanford Reservation, took more college courses in engineering at the University of New Mexico and CBC which was followed by more years of traveling around constructing more nuclear plants.

I took a years' sabbatical in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska as a welding superintendent. I hired on in engineering with a large, mid-west utility, American Electric Power, at their corporate office in Columbus, Ohio in 1985. In 1996, the company relocated all of the nuclear contingency to their Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in southwest Michigan. I retired a year and half ago from engineering construction project management, bought myself a new motor home and have been doing some traveling.

Over the years, I managed to get married/divorced twice and have four children (three boys and one girl) that are all grown now. My youngest son is taking engineering classes at Ohio State University in Columbus and says he wants to do what I did, construction management.

I still enjoy hunting, fishing and my Labradors. I gave up golf and softball several years ago due to arthritis in my lower back. As my wise Dad used to tell my brothers and me, 'It's Hell to get old!' I finally realize what he was talking about. Both of my parents have departed this world.

I currently have several medical issues keeping me here for another year or two, but I plan on moving back out to the northwest (the Port Angeles area) when the time is right. Other than that, life is good!"

Bomber Memorial put together by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66).