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David Heil Class of 1967
Dave and Leila Heil David E. "Dave" Heil Married Retired U.S. Department of State, Information Management/Communications after six embassy tours. I was posted to Helsinki, Finland 1985-87; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau 1987-89; Freetown, Sierra Leone 1989-1991; Gaborone, Botswana 1992-95; Helsinki, Finland 1995-98 and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1998-2000. Residence: Atop a rural ridge near Cameron, West Virginia. Hobbies: amateur radio since 1963--on the air I'm K8MN, guitarist since '63, computers, audio recording, videography, reading, writing, history, genealogy, current events, politics. We left Miami for northern Kentucky/Cincinnati in early '68. I joined the Air Force later that year for a four-year hitch. I'm a Vietnam vet. We came to Miami from Oak Hill, West Virginia in the middle of my Junior year so I didn't get to spend that much time getting to know many of you. In my Miami days, my dad was the rector of St. Simon's Episcopal Church on SW 34th Street near the dirt road that was then 110th Ave. Classmate Terry Bielecki lived across the street and Renee Hightower lived on the same street, closer to SW 107th Avenue. Nicky Hidu lived a few blocks on the other side of 107th. I spent a lot of my free time working at Sears in Coral Gables, performing in folk music spots and in giving guitar lessons. I also went through the now defunct Broadcast Training Studios above the Gables bus station at Aragon and LeJeune Road and afterward worked as an announcer at WAEZ-FM in the lower lobby of the Deauville on weekends. My wife and I have been back in the United States for ten
years now and we've gotten used to a quieter life.
The coal company is longwall mining near us and its contractors are
pumping methane gas from two nearby wells.
If we're bought out, we may opt for somewhere warmer, especially after
the record snows of this past winter. Bio Date 3/9/10
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
