Kingma,+Mel

17855 Bennett Road Mount Vernon, WA 98273 360-424-2159
 * Mel Kingma**

 **1969: **Since graduation I completed my apprenticeship as carpenter and am presently employed by Eberharter and Gaunt, Inc. I have been with the company for 7 years and I am a superintendent. Our company specializes in commercial work. My wife Jan and I have three boys. Michael 6 and Scott and Shawn (twins) age 5. Jan is employed by a Seattle painting contractor where she is a bookkeeper. She also teaches several evenings a month for the Kathleen Peck Finishing School and is a professional model for the agency. I find my weekends busy doing many things such as working on our new home as well as fishing and hunting which will always occupy much of my time, as do our family hobbies—camping, waterskiing, swimming and the outdoor sports in general. **1979: **I am still employed with the same company, now as a supervisor. We have three teen-age sons: Michael age 17, Scott and Shawn age 16. Our family enjoys fishing, hunting, camping, and family related activities. Scott and Michael enjoy motorcycling and Shawn shows a quarter horse. These activities keep us busy. My wife Jan enjoys working in the fashion business and presently I am finishing a Fire-Rescue building for the Port of Seattle, located at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Five years ago I built a home on two acres in Alderwood Manor with room for the horse and a beautiful salmon-spawning creek runs through our backyard. When you visit the new Alderwood Mall that will open in Oct. or Nov. of this year, wave—we’re just across the freeway. In January of this year Jan and I took a seventeen day trip to Hawaii, visiting three islands—Oahu, Hawaii and Molokai, where I took my first and last mule ride down three miles of sheer cliff to the village of Kalaupapa