Sharon Butler Clarke

	Notes	Then	Now
	After graduation from OU with a degree in engineering, I went to Seattle to work for Boeing as a structural test engineer. I met my husband, Bill, at Boeing and we were married in 1962. Since Bill was an accomplished snow skier, I took up the sport and subsequently taught skiing for about fifteen years. I quit Boeing when my daughter, Whitney, was born. She is now the mother of my granddaughter, Lindsay, and works as a project manager for Microsoft. I have a step daughter, Sheri, who is a paralegal in Portland, Oregon, and a step son who is an architect in Las Cruces, New Mexico and has our other granddaugher, Alida. After ten years as a housewife and mother, I went to work for a small structural wood roofing firm where I was the engineering department. In the early 80’s I got the computing bug and went back to school to get my degree in Computer Information Systems. After graduation, I returned to Boeing in the Scientific Systems department. I was the lead programmer analyst and wrote programs to test various parts of the 767, 777, Titan IV missile, and the stealth bomber. I retired in 1995 and took up golf. Since my spinal bleed which left me partially paralyzed, golf is what I miss the most. In 1999 we built a house in Tucson. We now spend the winters in Tucson and the summers in Redmond, Washington.
	Daughter Whitney Ferguson	Step Son David Clarke	Step Daughter Sheri Grether

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