The Mitchell Family, Port Angeles, Washington, USA

Tom & Karen and the Statue of the Pilgrim Monks, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

DISCLAIMER: Under the Engineering Point of View, which says that "anything which CAN be done, MUST be done", Tom has taken the ultimate narcissistic yuppie step of setting up this web page. Karen bears no responsibility for this outrage; however, once the deed was done, she has certainly had her input!

And in the same spirit, Tom has found it necessary to have a Blog. In the unlikely event that anyone remotely wants to see it, it's at kg7u.blogspot.com

We have lived in Port Angeles since 1981. Karen (Bower) was born and grew up in Port Townsend; Tom was born in Chicago and grew up in Seattle. We met at Seattle University and married in 1970. We moved to Washington, DC in 1972.

Our arrival in Port Angeles in 1981 was our return home.

We have been members of Queen of Angels Parish ever since our arrival in Port Angeles.

We are both citizens of the U. S. and of Ireland and the European Union.

Karen is the Librarian, and teaches Computer Science, at Queen of Angels School. The library's page is here.

Karen has worked at public, university, and federal government libraries during her career. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree (magna cum laude), with a major in history, and a member of Gamma Pi Epsilon (Alpha Sigma Nu since 1973), the Jesuit honor society, from Seattle University in 1970.

On 2006-12-29, Tom retired as a Registered Nurse in the Critical Care Unit at Olympic Memorial Hospital, which is part of Olympic Medical Center, in Port Angeles. He now occasionally teaches CPR and ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) there, and serves as a per diem nursing supervisor.

Tom also serves as a volunteer paramedic, and is the district emergency medical services officer, with the rank of captain, with Clallam County Fire District #2. He received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Science degree, with a major in physics, from Seattle University in 1971; and an Associate of Applied Science in Nursing degree (cum laude), from Northern Virginia Community College in 1981.

Tom has been a computer systems analyst and a paramedic in his past two careers; and was a Radioman Third Class in the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve.

We teach CPR and first aid classes together for the Olympic Peninsula chapter of the American Red Cross. .

Both of us are members of Mensa (Mensa of Western Washington) .

And we have rats (the pets, not the vermin)! Help celebrate World Rat Day April 4!

Tom is a (20 WPM, FCC examined) Extra class Amateur Radio operator, KG7U; Karen is Novice class, KA7REN.

We belong to the Clallam County Amateur Radio Club; and Tom also belongs to the Clallam County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, here in Port Angeles.

We have two daughters, Frances and Beth.
Frances works at the Wal-Mart in Port Angeles. She received both an Associate of Applied Science in Fisheries Technology and an Associate of Arts degree from Peninsula College in Port Angeles in 1996.
Beth resides at Clallam County Hostelries in Port Angeles.

Here is a look at our beautiful Olympic Peninsula, and links to sites about the peninsula.

E-mail us at kg7u AT olympus DOT net.

And Tom's "ARobot" page at: Arrick Robotics

Here is a treatise on "Kissing the Willamette Stone".

The weather and time in Port Angeles:

National Weather Service Menu for our area

The University of Washington's weather site

And:

The Correct Time from the U. S. Naval Observatory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Our web site originated on 1999-04-19; and this page was last revised on 2008-04-14. (This is the International Standard Date format. Get with it!)