Butte High School reunion DEM

"the Ways & Days of Ol Dave Marshall".

Worked summers of 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, & 66 for the Forest Service as a trail laborer, packer, and smokejumper.

1959 married Suzanne Sweeney, from Yreka, CA, in Missoula, with a weekend honeymoon around Flathead Lake. Children born 1961 (Peggy), 1963 (Lisa), 1964 (Adam), and 1978 (Zachary), who have now produced 6 grandchildren, ages 18, 15, 14, 14, 1.75, & 0.25; children living in Butte, Helena, and Torrance, CA.

1956-61 Attended college at MT Tech, MSU, & U of M.

1961: graduated from U of M with a B.S. in Wildlife Technology.

1963- 64 Worked briefly in Everglades Park as a Ranger, and then for the U of Miami as a field biologist in Florida Bay.

1964-66 Drove truck in the Berkeley Pit, worked at a slaughter house, & returned to school for one quarter to get a secondary teaching certificate.

1966-67 Taught math and science at Seeley/Swan High School

1967-70 Graduate School at the U or M & the Univerisity of North Carolina, but my hippie habits and peacenikking precluded completion; one salt marsh paper published.

1971-73 Lincoln County Sanitarian, the 1st ever.

1973-76 Back to the land training on a 130 acre rental farm, subsidized by food stamps, at Heron, MT.

1976-78 Sanders County Sanitarian, also the 1st ever.

1978-84 Natural Resources Dept. Head and Instructor at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo.

1984-87 Co-owner of Bread & Barter Second Hand Store in Polson.

1988-92 Lewis & Clark County Santiarian (one of several), and Manager of the County's "Scratchgravel" Landfill.

1992-95 Jefferson County Sanitarian.

1995-03 Solid & Hazardous Waste Program Mgr. for the Salish & Kootenai Tribes.

2003-06 Retired, with brief stints of summer field work in pursuit of the wily freshwater mussel, Margaritifera falcata, and occasional trips to Mexico.

I think I thought career meant careen!

We live in a friendly suburban Polson distant-lake-view acreage with roommate Rose, our horses, dogs, a cat, and a backyard full of old pickups. Suzy teaches Spanish part-time at Salish Kootenai College, and is active in church. My Mom is quite senile, and lives nearby in a small rest home (Dad died in 2002). We see the kids every month or so.