Floyd "dennis" roberts

1960

Following high school, I worked as a frame man and linesman for Mt. Bell.  My attempts at U of A night school were short lived.  Climbing telephone poles and hanging cable during a couple of Tucson summers motivated my follow-on studies at Eastern AZ and NAU, followed by post grad at Univ. of the Pacific and back at NAU, with extension studies at UCLA and Cambridge.  Professional mgt. time spent with Shell Oil Exploration & Production, and Shell Chemical & Development in Labor & Industrial Relations, then Pacific Bell Commercial Systems, and following post grad, experience with Sherwin Williams Pain Co. as HRO Director for the Western US, Alaska, & Hawaii were all good experience foundations for my follow-on years in government service. Migdalia, my wife for the past 34 yrs, and I met 38 years ago, following a short embassy assignment in the Philippines.  She was an FA with Pan Am Air based in Hawaii, and I was a Federal civilian assigned to the Western US, Pacific and Asia, and living in the SF Bay Area.  We’ve been fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel, work and live internationally throughout a good portion of the world.  We have five shared children, four are mine, and our youngest, Ryan, now 27 and a displaced Texan living in Wisconsin, was born during a seven yr assignment to the Caribbean.  Since retirement in ’95, Migdalia and I keep active with travel, and volunteerism, plus elder parent involvement that live in Tucson and San Juan, PR. We sit several different county, city and local appointments, along with some social and club volunteer boards and committees within our expanded So. TX community.  My latest over-achievement adventure was as Rotary International’s District Gov. for So. TX.  It was an involved, exciting, and rewarding experience attempting to maintain the common interest of 2.200+ successful business and professional mostly type As.  Living adjacent to the TX Gulf for nearly 20 yrs, I’ve had the opportunity to learn and enjoy boating, fishing and hunting, Texas style.  Yard work and handyman repair efforts, and small-time cattle ranching also keep me physically active.  Socializing, dining and occasional travel make for an enjoyable lifestyle.  

(Last Updated: 2010)

Floyd and Migdalia
2010