Wayne Rash Jr

Lynchburg, VA
Charlottesville, VA
Erie, PA
Schenectady, NY
Macon, GA
Albany, GA
Newport, RI
Norfolk, VA
Athens, GA
Jacksonville Beach, FL
Columbus, OH
Norman, OK
Fairfax, VA
Clifton (Fairfax County), VA
Madison Heights, VA
Manassas, VA (current residence)

Marisa Marietta Adair Lawther b 2011

Erie, PA

I'm a retired naval officer, now working as a journalist. I'm currently a contributor to Forbes, CNN, US News and I'm the former Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Columnist for eWEEK which is a technology magazine. I'm also a contributor for Contrails Magazine, which is available only to people who own their own jets. Previously I was executive editor for eWEEK, before that I was Editor of InternetWeek. This being the media, there were several different publications before that. I got my start in media at WLVA (now WSET) and then I went to WSLS in Roanoke where I was the Lynchburg correspondent.

I went to The Mill, of course, where I mostly cruised around looking for a place to park. I had secret crushes on Cindy Creasy and Jane Kreger, but never got the nerve to tell either of them until much later.

Random and sporadic emails with Tim Shelton. Occasional email with John Schlotterbeck. I hear from Hunter Garrett on Facebook. I also sometimes hear from Jane Kreger. Now that the reunion is over, I talk frequently with Cindy Hauer, whom I've known since elementary school. In the previous years that I've lived in the area, I had the opportunity to see many of you. I saw Jane Kreger on a regular basis and I run into a surprising number of my Glass classmates at Kroger and the City Market.

I attended the University of Oklahoma to study engineering after high school, but shortly after my sophomore year I got word that I was about to be invited on a scenic tour of Southeast Asia, so I requested active duty in the Navy Reserves. I was ordered to Vietnam anyway, but only made it as far as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Went back to school at Lynchburg College, graduated, went to OCS in Newport, RI. Deployed to the Mediterranean and to Cuba. I retired and went to work for AMS, where I traveled extensively implementing global network systems. Retired from that and went to work as a journalist. That wasn't the end of my travel, though because journalism has taken me all over the world following stories.

Marrying the lovely Carolyn Hall from Madison Heights, followed by the birth of our three children. Professionally it was being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles on resources for people fighting breast cancer.

I used to own a horse farm in Fairfax County. I never knew I was the horsey type. Neither did the horses. Fortunately for all concerned, those horses now have other homes, thus turning it into a horseless farm.

That I would travel to most of the nations in the Northern Hemisphere, and get paid to do it.

Surviving cancer

Everywhere, almost. I'm still traveling for work where I go to Europe two or three times a year and to New York and San Francisco regularly. I also travel to random and unplanned locations when I'm on a speaking tour, but those hardly count. There's nothing quite like a one-day trip to San Francisco where your only meal is breakfast at the airport. Lately, meaning while I've been back in the area, I've been to the West Coast more times than I can count, Germany five times, England twice, Russia twice and Portugal twice. I've been to Japan five times, the Philippines and China twice, France at least five times, the rest of Europe at least once.

Somebody said I should make a list. I'll add to it as I remember (or can admit to) places:

Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Bahamas
USVI
Jamaica
St. Martin
Martinique
Antigua
Barbados
Cayman Islands
Puerto Rico
Aruba
Antigua
England
France
Wales
Scotland
The Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Sweden
Luxembourg
Monaco
Morocco
Libya
Lebanon
Israel
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Russia
China
Singapore
Malaysia
Indonesia
Japan
Philippines
Guam
Belgium
Malta
Vatican City
Gibraltar
(2 I can't mention)

Eastern Europe and South America

Relax?

I'm still a ham radio operator, a skill I learned at the Lynchburg Amateur Radio Club and I volunteer doing emergency communications. These days I'm an official with the ARRL, which is the ham radio national organization. My call sign is N4HCR, so listen for me when I make myself known when I'm in Lynchburg.

Just me and a cousin in Amherst County. I own a house in Amherst County in addition to the one in Manassas. And now an update. My son, Wayne Rash, III got married in Lynchburg over Labor Day 2018 at the Craddock Terry Hotel. His fiancée, whose family was forced from their home by political strife, knows little of her roots, and together they decided to create their own roots in our hometown. She said that because she does not know where she's from, she wants her hometown to be ours, so they're making Lynchburg the beginning of their ancestral home. Fortunately, we already have the ancestral estate.

Classical

The Art of Racing in the Rain

French and Virginia style barbecue

I gave up alcohol a while back. So now my liquid vice is coffee.

Books I've written and been paid for