From Florida-
Jim Yeakey spent his work life in pursuits that'd seem dizzyingly technical to most ordinary mortals: aeronautical, aerospace and manufacturing engineering.
Career highlights?
"Oh," the 84-year-old says offhandedly, "I worked on a few things here and there."
Press him a bit further, and you learn that those things included designing jet turbo engines and cruise missiles. And a little project called the space shuttle.
But now that he's retired, Yeakey has a new passion (please, no jokes about it not being rocket science), but one he finds equally challenging: stained-glass windows.
Working in his Cape Coral garage, Yeakey fashions intricate and luminous glass window panels for churches.
After learning how to cut, assemble and solder stained glass at an adult education class, Yeakey got to work in earnest. His first set of 10 went into his home parish in Cape Coral, the Episcopalian Church of the Epiphany, in 1990.
More here-
http://www.news-press.com/article/20110217/LIFESTYLES/102170356/1013/LIFESTYLES/Episcopal-church-Cape-Coral-swathed-parishioner-s-stained-glass
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