Philip MacDonald

Profile Updated: March 27, 2023
Residing In: mesa, AZ USA
Spouse/Partner: Paula Fiorillo
Occupation: Mechanical Engineer, Re-Tarred, Purdue, 1975
Children: Kelly Christina MacDonald Weeks- born 1981, PhD in American Studies at Bowling Green, OH, now living More…on The Right Coast, near Boston. Teaching any subject she can manage ("Tenure" is a thing of the past, friends?) Her hubby does same. She has two boys.

Nicole Marie MacDonald Holyoak - 1983, Interior Architect, Project Manager at a trendy Los Angeles architectural firm, doing work for FOX, GOOGLE, CNN and the like. She even bought original furniture (found original furniture) for the restoration of Ennis House, a Frank Lloyd Wright home in LA. One daughter.

Kelly (daughter #1) & Hubby have given me two grandsons, about 5 and 3 years of age as of today.

Nicole (daughter #2) and spousal unit have given me a granddaughter in March of 2021.
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"PHIL" got left at HHS. I've been MAC since then!

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More or less retired after 25 years at Hewlett-Packard - Agilent Technologies (a spinoff of the original part of HP), 4 years at NTS, a mechanical test lab, 2 years at Hunt Wesson foods, Packaging Lab, and Hughes Aircraft, mechanical analyst, around 18 months.

For years, persons who retired would tell me the same old saw, "I don't know how I ever had time to work!" My response was universally "F**K YOU!

And now? I know they were right. Where in the hell does all the time go?

Used to roam the Southern California deserts with the family in my 4WD Blazer, but after a broken knee (ask me about that at the reunion) I haven't been back.

I'm seriously into firearms and target shooting. A licensed firearms dealer just for fun & a minor bit of profit.

I've left The People's Socialist Republik of Kalifornia for Greater Phoenix, AZ,

"Where Free men live!"

School Story:

I miss " chasing goats* " with Jerry Curtis, Mark MacPherson, Bill Berg, and occasionally, Dave Missal.

*being intoxicated and driving down alleys knocking over trash cans in JC's mom's Pontiac? That poor, sorry, beat up automobile?

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Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Victor Beauprey.
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Nov 19, 2023 at 9:06 PM

My 7th & 8th grade math teacher, Carmen Ponader, was an HO train freak, and a seriously grumpy old man (he was probabably younger than I am now, but he was LOTS grumpier, methinks?)  

:D

I do believe that he and Victor got to be friends over this hobby?

Ponader would find train enthusiests in his classes by dropping subtle hints, and those kids would swarm to him like moths on a porch light, as Ponader has so much more money and space to pursue his hobby.

 

Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Victor Beauprey.
Nov 19, 2023 at 9:06 PM

My 7th & 8th grade math teacher, Carmen Ponader, was an HO train freak, and a seriously grumpy old man (he was probabably younger than I am now, but he was LOTS grumpier, methinks?)  

:D

I do believe that he and Victor got to be friends over this hobby?

Ponader would find train enthusiests in his classes by dropping subtle hints, and those kids would swarm to him like moths on a porch light, as Ponader had so much more time, money and space to pursue his hobby, than would a 7th or 8th grade kid?

 

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Jul 09, 2023 at 10:07 PM

Happy Doodah Rita!

You are finally a Very Old Person!

Welcome to the club, dearie!!!

mac

Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Jo Faye Dick Walker.
Jul 09, 2023 at 10:02 PM

I went thru gradeschool @Foreman with Jo Faye.

Oh, and, her name was never just "Jo Faye."  She ALWAYS introduced herself as, "Jo Faye Dick."

Always. Always. Always. 

   --->>> There you have it, classmates!

I always felt she was daring you to make a joke about her surname?  Who knows?

She was always a most kind sweety.  I did not know Joe Faye all THAT well, but she was always KIND and PLEASANT when I interacted with her. 

   --->>> Never heard that woman say an unkind thing about anybody.  Nope.  Never.

~~~~~
How many of us are now gone that we know of?

   --->>> It seems a frightful percentage of our graduating class to me have passed on, my friends.

mac

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Summer of 2009 with my Aunt Rosemary @ The Elks; Rosemary is Karen Ensign's mom.
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Oct 11, 2021 at 10:35 PM

Rod:

Sorry I din't make it this time. I really wanted to be there. Oh, Lord, did I want to be there?

I was undone by the lack of vaccination in Indiana (not that much different than Arizona?)

I have a 7 month old granddaughter in Los Angeles I've never met. Don't want to have no "sleeper infection" when I go to see her around thanksgiving.

So sorry.. I'd been looking forward to this for ever so long.

Oct 06, 2021 at 10:25 PM

Hey Patty!

I'm not going to make the reunion. However I would dearly love to zoom with Peggy Nier (Schammert) while you are providing this awesome service to us.

tanks

pcmacd

Sep 08, 2021 at 4:57 PM

I heard that you won’t make it to the reunion. I enjoyed your stories about me at the last one. I really wanted to hear more. Lol

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Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Randy Stevenson.
Jun 09, 2021 at 8:39 PM

Randy was in my catechism class at Augustana Lutheran Church for several years.  He was also a serious electronics nerd, as was I.  He knew lots more than I did about electronics so I befriended him over that.  

Further, we were both crazy into bicycles, riding over 40 miles per day in the summer of, probably, 1968.  I lost ten pounds that summer!  Only ten pounds?  Sheesh.

We rode our bikes up and down unfinished portions of I-65! 

It was Randy who turned me onto this craziness.  It was AWESOME, to have this stretch of concrete at our feet, unencumbered by automobiles!!!

We had to be careful when we came to overpasses, as they were not all complete.....  think about that?

Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Edwin Rearick.
Jun 08, 2021 at 7:39 PM

Ed's parents introduced mine.  My parents lived with his when mine were first married.  I have pictures of Ed and me side by side in kiddie chairs around a year of age - thus, I knew Ed all my life.  The last time I saw Ed was at my Dad's wake at the Hobart VFW in 1984 not long after Thanksgiving.

I was corresponding with Chris Schenk much later asking if she knew where he could be located.  She said she'd look into it.  I found out about a week later from my mom  that he died right about the time I was thinking about him.  Heart trouble, I expect.  His dad had all manner of heart issues.

Ed was just a really, insanely crazy guy at heart, and was always getting into me into all manner of mischeif when we were very young.

Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Don Nelson.
Jun 06, 2021 at 8:45 PM

"DA" was in all of my Foreman classes.  He was quiet as a kid, but more voluable at our last reunion.

What a nice guy he was...., and, oh, the crazy autos he used to draw.  The man had talent, indeed.

 

 

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Posted on: Mar 30, 2021 at 10:02 PM

Rodney:

I will likely attend with my cousin Karen Ensign.

Don't know why they want us to snail mail stuff.

When my plans become more solid, I'll be happy to do the snail mail thing and send a Czech.

Still, we should be offered an e-option for estimates.

After all, this is the 21st century? Eh?

Sure glad we were not the class of '70? Imagine how their 50th went into the shitter?

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Philip MacDonald has left an In Memory comment for Danny Cole.
Nov 23, 2020 at 5:27 PM

I knew Danny from Boy Scouts around 6h grade.  He was a nice guy with a great attitude, and well liked.

As I recall his arm was amputated due to cancer... I actually asked him what had happened to it.

I think I remember him around at the beginning of 7th grade, and then I realized he was no longer around and figured cancer had gotten the best of him.  Danny was likely the first person not a relative that I knew who passed on.

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Posted: Mar 27, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Summer of 2009 with my Aunt Rosemary @ The Elks; Rosemary is Karen Ensign's mom.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
Daughters Kelly (left) and Nikki, around 1987.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
Daughters Nikki (left) and Kelly, around 1988.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
GEEZ this was sure a long time ago
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
My dad was a tinsmith, but really a pent up artist. He made stuff like this years ago before he died in 1984.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
#2 Daughter Nikki (around 2009) couldn't find work in LA so she's working in Cordoba, Argentina until May. Her Spanish is getting LOTS better. Now they can't tell if she's Cuban (her mom) or Argentine.

See that Associated Press rendering of the new LA football stadium? Her group did that!
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
#1 Daughter Kelly (left) is about to get a PhD in American Studies from Bowling Green in Ohio. She's getting married next June to a nice guy from Taxachussets.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
Me, Nikki, Kelly around 2005. Nikki looks like her Cuban mom, and Kelly looks just a wee bit Scottish. See what a month in the hospital will do to your waistline?
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
#1 Kelly on our Road trip to Bowling Green. You'd be shocked what you can get into a Honda Civic.
Posted: Dec 17, 2013 at 1:14 AM
Within 2 minutes of getting out of the car, people were asking me directions. I finally figured out they thought I was a ranger...