Joe Powell
Family Information: Melynda (Luckie)
and I have been married for 22 years. We have three children, Whitney is 16,
Derek is 13, and Taylor our youngest, she is 10.
Occupation: Design Engineer for Salt
River Project
Mailing Address: 6616 E. Holiday
Drive, Mesa, AZ 85215
Email Address: Not available at
this time
What I have been doing since 1975:
After
Melynda and I were married in 1978, we stayed in Miami where I worked for
Occidental Minerals for one year. In 1979 I started working for Magma Copper
Company and worked there until they shutdown in 1982. During that time we
decided to make a move to the valley. We lived in Apache Junction for six years
before moving to Northeast Mesa, which has been our home for the last 15 years.
I began working for Salt River Project in 1982 in the Generation Engineering
department that provides the engineering and design to the SRP power generation
sites.
The years have passed quickly (I don’t
even remember my 30’s) and now I know that I am getting older because they’ve
started playing the songs that I remember in High School on the oldies station.
And I find it hard to watch "That 70’s Show" because I know I have
seen that guy wearing my "Tie-dye’ pants and platform shoes
Life has been good for Melynda and I,
we have been blessed with three wonderful children and they have made us very
proud. It seems we spend most of our time in our vehicle shuttling kids from
field to field, or program to program, but wouldn’t have it any other way.
My memories of M.H.S.:
When I think of the memories I have of
high school, I think of the summer I started driving and finally getting to
cruise Globe. I remember driving to school one winter in my Camero with 6 of us
in the car (only room for five and I had to give my Mom a ride to work too), and
because I had no heater the windows would get all fogged up, so we had to have a
designated wiper, which was usually my Mom, she got to sit shotgun.
I remember the cheerleaders weaving
the hoop so tight that the football team couldn’t break through it (my neck
still hurts). I remember when the band would play the fight song and how it
really got our adrenaline going.
I think about Coach Vargas and Coach
Chisum, who were such a positive influence in my life. But most of all I think
about the friendships that were made and the great times we had.
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