You may recognize my childhood friend that I lost touch with. He was in engineering school at VT (probably mechanical) in the mid to late sixties perhaps. Maybe later. His name was Jay Byrd but his real name was Javie An Byrd III. He died in 2019. I lost touch with him when we went into the eighth grade. Never heard a thing about him until I found his obituary. Here is where it gets interesting. The high school yearbooks showed him in the eighth grade for three years, 60, 61 and 62. Also, the city directory had him as being employed at a local machine manufacturer along those same years (at 15yo or less). That is puzzling. He has on his Face Book page that he got an engineering degree from VT. I know there are some remarkable stories about people overcoming their struggles but this one is close to home. Can this be true though? Yes, according to the obit, he was a vp at Georgia Pacific so something changed.