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Welcome
to "Another Point of View," the personal
side of The
Point.
While my website, The Point, emphasizes my Consulting
and Support Services
activities, this page and its links are purely family oriented. So if
you want to get to know us a little, spend a few minutes here,
checking out the connecting pages .... and pictures. Make
sure you take a look at our "Roots."
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It
is nice to have you with us.
Art
and Doris Guyer
Here
we are today.....
Doris
[Kirkpatrick] and I married after we graduated from High School in
Waynesboro, PA. We have two great children --
grown now, of course --;
you will meet them later on the page.
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While
I went to Shippensburg University, in Pennsylvania, we both held
jobs to get through. On
graduation, in 1964, we moved to Alexandria, VA and I went to work
for the US General Accounting Office in Washington, DC. In 1968, I
went to work for the US Atomic Energy Commission and we moved to
Gaithersburg, MD. I continued to work for the successor energy
agencies, the US Energy Research and Development Administration and
finally, the US Department of Energy. During my tenure there, I
worked at both the Washington, DC and the Germantown, MD sites. Our
family moved a couple of times during that period -- first to
Frederick, MD and then, in 1986, Doris and I moved to Germantown, MD.
During
our time in Maryland, Doris has worked as a manager of a women's
clothing store, and for a number of child care providers. She really
enjoyed working with children and they all loved her. She has
a very nice collection of
Boyd's Bears, so you might want to check out
Doris's Bear
page. Doris also is a Wizard
of Oz fan.
The
family has been coming to the Outer Banks of North Carolina since
the early 1970's, first bringing a travel trailer down from Maryland
and always staying at Rodanthe. Later we started renting cottages for
our trips down to the "banks" we were falling in love with.
In 1988, Doris and I decided we wanted to eventually move to the area
permanently and bought a two-story condo at Sandpiper Cay in Kitty
Hawk. Finally, in 1991, we bought a larger house a few miles up the
road. On January 3, 1997, I retired from the Federal Government and
we sold our Germantown house and moved to our home in Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina.
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This
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Northeast
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Doris
and I both like to fish.
While
on a deep-sea fishing trip last year, we encountered a school of
tuna, feeding on the surface. When we got close to them, we could see
sharks also feeding in the melee, as well as birds picking up
floating pieces of fish.
We
broke out the casting rods and threw plugs into the feeding tuna. It
was quite a struggle when you hooked on to a good one. |
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On
a different trip on the Country
Girl, the
charter boat we have been using, Doris fought this white marlin for
45 minutes and received a citation for the fish. It was released
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Our
Family's Point of View
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We
have two children, Curtis
[1960], married to Gail,
and Candy
[1965], married, to Derek.
Curt and Gail have a son, Patrick.
Candy and Derek have two children, Talia
Cay and
Taylor
Chase.
The
portrait (below, left) was taken in May of 1995, before Taylor was
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Derek,
Gail
Talia,
Candy, Curt, Pat |
Here
he is today! |
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