Mark Angeledes
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: engineering / Rancher / Musician
Residence: Fort Worth, Texas
Last Updated: 10.14.09
Bio: Since it looks like work commitments will keep me away from the reunion, I’ll just have to write something up instead…
There are some events that you can remember in amazing detail, and for me one is the Chinook talent show our freshman year, where “The Elvis Allen Band” (Keith Allen -vocals, Bob Brave -bass, Gary Fuller -drums, me -guitar) performed “Jailhouse Rock”. We probably really didn’t sound all that great, but that event got me hooked on an activity that I would enjoy from then on.
Over the summer of 1978 I joined a band with some other misfits from Mt.Rainier HS, and ended up transferring there for Senior year. Being the “new rockstar guy”, I had a really, really great time that year.
Went to Arizona and got an engineering degree, also playing in some bands and doing some studio recording. Four years of being a poor student (and driving a 1967 Firebird without A/C!) in the hot-hot desert convinced me to never return to to such a hell hole.
Moved back to Seattle and over the next 15 years was an engineer in the aerospace, forest products, and audio/video recording fields, as well as, you guessed it, playing in some bands. At the beginning of the Seattle grunge movement, I ventured into business ownership, starting up a recording studio/video production facility. We did well and I got to work with quite a few extremely talented bands that most people have never heard of, however I eventually tired of the extremely long hours and stress levels involved, closing down in the early 90’s, and returned to the similarly exciting engineering profession.
Married in 1993 to Delana, and started a family, having two boys Arie (now 15) and Alex (12). Going against my previous vow, we moved to Arizona for several years and found it to be much nicer than I had remembered (could have something to do with now being able to afford a nice house with a pool and air conditioning?).
Next (and hopefully finally) we found ourselves mosey-ing on out to Texas, where in addition to my engineering career, we have a small ranch and raise critters of various size. We also picked up another boy, Logan (13) who is our little “heredity -vs- environment” experiment, rescueing him from a path and homelife that was sure to not turn out well.
Overall I feel quite fortunate about how the past 30 years have gone, and the fact that I’m still alive and kicking. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it to the 40th reunion and catch up with y’all there!
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