Lester (Les) Norman

Joined Navy in 1966, Viet Nam 68-69. Naval Academy Prep school, 1967-1968. UNM 1973. Love to ski and scuba dive. Lived in Steamboat Springs, CO from 1994 to 2008. We still have a home there. Pat and I love to scuba dive and enjoy the Pacific. Have done multiple trips to the Philippines, Fiji, Great Barrier Reef and many locations in the Carribean. Love to bow hunt, mountain bike, and garden. Biggest adventure remains the time spent with the Grandchildren. Life has been very good to us. Pat and I have been married for 42 years.

We were blessed to have been born in such an exciting place that provided adventure and a good education. I started skiing at a very early age and continued that for a lifetime. As children, we hiked in the woods and played many sports. Schools were amazing and looking back, a good education is what we all got. Looking back we were part of a community with some of history's best scientific minds. My pride in the mission of Los Alamos is strong to this day. Many of our fathers fought in World War II, came home and worked to keep our country strong and free.