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Virgil Jackson [e-mail Virgil by clicking here], our club's Secretary/Treasurer, is originally from Cleveland. Virgil served in the US Army for two years, one of which was in Vietnam with the First Infantry Division. This duty helped prepare him for the summers here in Phoenix. Virgil has noted that like Phoenix, people there carried weapons and random gunfire could be heard throughout the night.
After leaving the Army, Virgil got a degree in printing management from the Rochester Institute of Technology, building on his high school learning and his pre-military work experience. While at R.I.T., he experienced two loves of his life; owning his first sports car, a 1966 Austin Healey Sprite (not a bugeye); and meeting and marrying his lovely wife, Lorraine. The car is gone, but he still has Lorraine.
Virgil worked for Hallmark cards in Kansas City, MO; a printer/packager in Indianapolis; and a web printer in Phoenix that specializes in catalogs. He is most recently retired from a position as Western Region Sales Manager for The Peerless Group, which produces color separations for catalogs from its base in Little Rock, AR - and started a new career with Vanguard. Lorraine is a software engineer. And the Jacksons have a daughter, Tamara, who is twenty eight and has a family of her own living in San Luis Obispo, CA. Virgil and Lorraine are proud grandparents of a two-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy.
While in Kansas City, Virgil bought his first new car, a 1972 BMW 2002 tii. He still has fond memories of that car and the fun people they met through the BMWCCA club there. In Indianapolis, they replaced the 2002tii with a 1978 320i. And in 1998, the M-Roadster became their third BMW. According to Virgil, the M-Roadster "has been, by far, our most fun BMW, but the Z Club goes a long way towards enhancing the enjoyment factor of a truly great car." (Thanks for that endorsement, Virgil!)
Virgil's other interests include computers, woodworking, investing, and tinkering with cars.
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