A Salute to Dave's Retirement

Aug 5-7, 2010.

We have been very busy for several days with invitations, plans and preparations to hold a social at our home on Saturday. The idea was to reunite as many former team members from the group in which Dad and Dave Gardner worked as well as other friends and family of Dave and Laurene's. Dave officially retired from ON Semiconductor, formerly AMI, on Monday, August 2nd. Dave and Laurene have been great friends going back to our days at ISU when we were married. Dave and Dad went through ISU together and have worked together at three different employers for the past 42 years. Our social was attended by 30 people including ourselves. A wind storm just a couple of hours before we began threatened to cause problems but when the time came to begin the weather was nice and we all had a great time. We had grilled sirloin burgers, hot dogs, home made root beer and all the wonderful pot luck salads, chips, veggies and appetizers we could hold. A nice cake scribed with "Happy Retirement" and ice cream topped of the meal. Evan and Cathy Harrison and Craig and Maggie Gardner brought their kids and Lance and Aubri brought Taylor. The kids all had a good time playing ladder golf, doodling on the walls inside the tree house, swinging and playing around the creek. After conversation and dinner, those who could stay were treated by Paul Petersen, Dad and Dave's former boss, to a couple of hours of viewing various stars and star clusters, nebulae, galaxies and planets in a beautiful clear moonless sky with his huge auto-tracking 14" telescope. By the time we concluded and returned Paul's telescope (over 160 pounds of equipment) to his home on Mink Creek and retired for the night it was a little past 2:00 AM. CONGRATULATIONS DAVE!