College Golf Tourney

Wow it's been a long day. I had to drag myself out of bed once again this time for an 11am breakfast lol. Mmm apple pancakes homemade. Then it was time to jet off to help out the CENG Golf Tournament at the SLO Country Club. High rollers! Geeze I wish I had dressed up more lol.

So here I am the only student at this function welcoming guests...some who would look at me and smile as I greeted them and others who would never even notice I'd said hello. Everyone was very nice though. Proper...I'd say not lol. A lot of them had played golf that morning, and I was on the shift for the wine tasting function. So that's what I did. :) I had my glasses of wine and fair share of cheese and veggies. I talked to reps from Raytheon and the CENG staff. I made friends with Bill Swanson's personal driver (wall-be) who convinced me to stay for dinner and talked with me the rest of the afternoon. As well as Kurt whom I'd been my Raytheon contact with for the past two years and finally was able to meet in person. People at this event were...whew...the titles were almost overwhelming. It was a small group really. President Baker, Dean Noori, all the rest of the important CENG staff...Joe, Debbie, Donna, Jeff, Zahed...Department Chairs like Dr. Griffin from Biomedical and Dr. Puig-Suari from Aerospace. CEOs from Raytheon like Bill Swanson and from Northrop Grumman and Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.

I like the keynote speaker's line stating that with all the defense system head honchos, this is probably the safest place we could all be right now. Either that or a gigantic target on the map.
I got a very nice Cal Poly polo and hat. Very nice. Perhaps I'll be back someday on the corporate end. Someday. It is fun to be wined and dined!