 My name is David Gillam. I was born in Colorado Springs in 1957 and moved to Texas when I was four years old. When my dad retired from working at NASA we moved to Alaska, where I attended Clark, Service, and Bartlett. After high school I attended college in Oregon for one year and returned to Anchorage where I finished at U.A.A. I had the unenviable task of following my mom through the education program at U.A.A. and had professors asking if I was her son. After graduation my first teaching job was at Chester Valley. At the end of that year I married my wife Lori. After a year at Birchwood I landed at Susitna, which has been my home for most of the rest of my career, with a couple of breaks work in the Science Department for the district. I have two children, a son who is tennis pro, and a daughter who is in grad school studying geology. Along the way I have earned two Master’s degrees, one in Adult and Community Education and one in Geosciences. I have a passion for science, but I am also interested in history and digging in the dirt during the summer.
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