You may remember I hung around with folks like Ken Winters and Chuck Vestal,and spent lots of time talking about science fiction and space travel. I wrote a couple of fantasy and science fiction stories
around then, and started another the summer we graduated. That story (about a chimpanzee connected to a computer) eventually was published.

I went to MSU for four years, living at home in Okemos. Then I went to graduate school at UC·San Diego. My major was always math, but I kept writing science fiction as a hobby. In 1972, I was hired
by the Math Department at San Diego State University.

From 1972 to 1979 I was married to Joan Dennison. Joan is also a science fiction writer (byline Joan D. Vinge).

I retired from SDSU in 2000 and now I write science fiction full time. Over the years, the combination of math and computers and science fiction has been a lot of fun.

High school can be a traumatic time. I feel very fortunate to have been at Okemos High and I have fond memories of you all and of our teachers. Best wishes to everybody.

Editor's note: Vernor is far too modest. He has had a remarkable career in science fiction and is undoubtedly our most famous classmate. He is a five-time winner of the Hugo Award (this is the Pulitzer of sci-fi writing). He's also won numerous other awards and is well-known for his remarkable essay in 1993 about the future of artificial intelligence. Vernor is unable to attend the reunion, but my family and I met him in San Diego for lunch in 2000. He was gracious, modest, and, of course, brilliant.
--Linda Miller Rockey 2012
More notes: To read and read about some of Vernor's books, Google: A Fire Upon the Deep; A Deepness in the Sky; Rainbows End