Michael Doyle

circa late 2019. After being Florida snowbirds since December 2005 (returning to Indiana up to 3 times a year for Special Olympics, the Indy 500 and Boilermaker football), we finally decided that we were missing what matters most by living away from the university environment. We sold the house in Florida 11/04/19, moved the contents back to Indiana, and are enjoying being a year-round Boilermaker again. Not to mention that most of our really close friends from adulthood still live in the area. And it's nice to be closer to Battle Creek more often to attend more lunches and visit friends from high school.
circa 2015. My life continues with almost the same interests as 10 years ago (see my story below from 2005). Still retired, now for 14 1/2 years. We continue to travel, just recently returning from a 6850 mile driving trip to San Francisco and back. We needed to come back through Idaho and Montana because those were the 49th and 50th states we'd visited -- another bucket list item off the list. We love to watch racing, mostly Formula 1 and INDYCAR. We just watched our favorite driver, Juan Pablo Montoya, win his second Indy 500 race. My wife, Lyn, attended her 55th Indy 500 race. She grew up in Speedway, IN, just blocks from the track. I sold my Harley in July 2014. We've belonged to several car clubs during the last 40 years. (motor vehicles are an important part of our lives!)
Since August 2014 I've been working with the great reunion committee to plan the BCCHS 50 year reunion and maintain the website.
But our main passion remains the Special Olympics Athlete Leadership Programs (ALPs). We've continued to expand the ALPs program in Indiana and Florida. We taught ALPs classes in Massachusetts, Arizona, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Hawaii. ALPs conferences has taken us to New York, Morocco, Athens, Ireland, Vancouver and California. But more important than the travel, we've passed on valuable life skills to our Special Olympics athletes. They're accomplishing feats they never thought they could ever perform. They are teaching classes, coaching teams, raising funds, giving speeches, providing leadership; they are advocates for other athletes. They are moving from individuals receiving services to individuals providing services.

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This has been an exciting year for me. I retired 4 1/2 years ago from Purdue University after 34 years of working mostly as a Systems Programmer and Capacity Analyst for their IT department. I've been married to my wonderful friend and dearest companion, Lyn, for just shy of 37 years. We didn't have any children, but for the last 21 years we've been deeply involved in Special Olympics as volunteers, county coordinators, coaches and most recently as teachers and deans of the Athlete Leadership Programs (ALPs) and ALPs University. We train our athletes to be involved in leadership roles within Special Olympics so they can become a guiding force within the program and give something back to the program that helped them to get where they are. During the past year, we bought a home near Lake Harris in Florida and in July we moved about half our household down there. We will keep a condo in West Lafayette for the fall Boilermaker football games and the Indiana Special Olympics summer games. My other main interest is chocolate. I write about it, study it, travel for it, collect wrappers and paraphernalia, bake with it, and of course eat more than my fair share. We teach classes about the history of chocolate to various groups. Other interests include: visiting friends, running and working out, reading, traveling, R/C helicopters, flying stunt kites, riding my Harley, studying math (go figure!), and studying longevity & health. Come visit us in Florida whenever we are there. We are only about 40 minutes north of Disney World. Go Bearcats!