Rich Wissner

I moved to the East Side after getting my first real job in Redmond as an electronic technician at AKI. 
I soon purchased a house in Bellevue just east of Crossroads area.  I enjoyed the outdoors with backpacking overnight hiking trips and day hikes mostly in the Cascades.  When not playing outside,
I would work on my cars and do some woodworking.  I started snow skiing and went to Whistler most years for a three-day ski trip. 

I soon got into organic gardening and started beekeeping in 1981.
I have kept up with the beekeeping all but a couple of those years. 
I would have many people at work ask if I had any honey for sale. 
I typically would sell 24lb every year if I had it; of coarse keeping my own supply.  My efforts other than enjoying working and learning about the bees was to inform people about bees and remove their fears and misunderstanding about them.  You have no idea how many people don't know the difference between a honey bee and a hornet.  I could talk for hours on honey and bees and never run out of information.

Not long into my career, I moved to the engineering group at CX Systems in Seattle.  It later became Gretag Imaging, Inc.

I got married in 1985 to a sweet lady, Carol, I met in the Mountaineers.  We have two kids, now adults, Jenn and Brian.  In 1988, we moved all the way from Bellevue to Redmond; a whole mile north and a few blocks east; near Idylwood Park.  Thirty years later, Carol and I are still in the same house.

I currently work at Micro Encoder Inc. in Kirkland as a Senior PCB Designer. 
I have been designing Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), for a global company that manufactures metrology equipment for the last 20 years.  Micro Encoder Inc. is one of the research and development design groups of Mitutoyo Corp.   Any of the boards on these pages were done by me.

I plan on showing up to talk with all of you and see how your life turned out at out 45th reunion.  I hope you can make it this year. 

To enlarge them, click on the pictures of me and my beautiful wife Carol.