Gail Linnell

After NTCHS, I got my BS & MS in Math from MSU and then went to Florida State University in Tallahassee to pursue a PhD in Statistics. In my one year there, I met (and soon married) my wife - Virginia (Ginny) Velasco (now Linnell). After my one year at FSU, I returned to MSU to complete my doctorate and graduated for the third time in 1978. I went to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. Since that time, the Bell System was split up by the US Government and a new company to Bellcore was formed. Bellcore served the local Bell companies for many years but in 1997 they decided to sell us to SAIC and we became Telcordia. Later, SAIC sold us to investment bankers, who in turn sold us to Ericsson where we became Applied Communication Sciences. They just sold us to "The SI org". So I have worked for the same company for the past 37 years (under 4 different company names). 3 years after I married, we added a second daughter (Christine). Two years after that, we added our son, Bruce. Christine is married (2002) to Jonathan Wollschleager. They have two adorable daughters and a baby boy in June - Sophia (8 ), Gwen (6) and Sebastian.
Wonderful to see all in July 2010.

Sophmore year at NTCHS, ended up in the hospital following the Browning football game - still do not remember what happened.