CARL YAFFEY

Carl Yaffey was born in 1941 in Norfolk, VA and lived there until 1966 when he graduated from Old Dominion University. He then enlisted in the Coast Guard Reserve where he spent 6 months on active duty. Upon completion of his active duty requirement, he moved to Columbus, OH to take a system analyst/programmer job with Bell Laboratories, now Nokia. While in Columbus, he spent another 4 1/2 years attending Coast Guard reserve meetings and attending Ohio State University part-time. Carl earned a Computer Science degree in the engineering department (Cum Laude) in 1977. Carl retired from Lucent in December, 1989 and started his own business in order to do independent database design, retiring again in 1999. Carl also became more active in music at that time. He had been playing banjo, guitar and bass since his Old Dominion days back in Norfolk. Now having more free time, he began to play more often in various bands and to teach. He retired from giving regular lessons at the end of 2012..