Alumni Spotlight:
Tom Williams,
Class of 1982
The Son of a Banquet Waitress and Mill-worker, the Son of an Angel and a Master Sergeant.
Spotlight: Tom Williams, Class of 1982
Interviewed by Paul Shanahan, Class of 1990
1983 - Small town boy. Fresh out of high school, standing at the corner of Market Street and Fremont in San Francisco’s financial district. It’s 4:00 PM and huge crowds of people are pouring out of the tall buildings all around. As he watches, he wonders to himself what all these people do in these glass towers.
2016 - Fast forward: Small town boy all grown up. Standing at the window of the executive level of the 50 Fremont building, he can see the same corner. He is moved, not by a feeling of accomplishment but a feeling of emptiness. He knows that life should be bigger than this.
Tom Williams is a difference maker. I sat down with Tom in July and went for a great ride through memories that started in Eureka and ended along the Willamette River in Portland.