Where Are They Now? — Tony Abbott

Many of you probably don't remember me, let me give you the top 10 ways to remember me:

10. 4.0 GPA
9. Honors student
8. Sterling Scholar
7. Q.B. of football team
6. Student body president
5. Future G.Q. model
4. Time Magazine Man of the Year
3. Billion-air
2. Heart Throb
1. Valedictorian

That should jar your memory.



Well as you can tell from the 1st photo, I took a different path then the rest of you. Since no one from Provo High would date me in high school or after, I went out and turned polygamous. It is awesome. 3 wives, 3 kids and only 1 mother in law since I married all sisters. (2) of them work to support me while the other tends to the kids. I rotate through them weekly with work and home duty so nothing ever gets bland. I am retired and basically hang out all day.

And to think all of you girls from high school could of had that life instead of the one you ended up with but you would never give me a chance, your loss. I will bring them all to the reunion for you to meet (does that mean I need to buy 4 tickets). They are all well behaved and very happy. I am glad to have done society a favor and taken 3 women out of the pool all the while being the envy of my fellow classmates.

On a more serious note, my wife is the blond with the glasses and brown shorts (Shannon), the other 2 are Olympic Bobsled medalists and are friends of mine. As you can tell from the 2nd photo I raced in a celebrity race at Larry H. Miller track and they were participants as well ( me a celebrity, Ha Ha) but it is what it is.



But if anyone from the class of 88 could of handled 3 wives it would of been me.

I went on a mission to Houston Texas, got home and found a California beach girl who actually liked me. I was married 10 months later (I knew her before the mission but nothing serious). I had to go to California since all my classmates knew my tactics. We started having kids in 1994, as you can tell from the photos I figured out how kids were made after the 3rd unlike most of you with 4 or more. I took matters into my own hands (actually it was the doctors) and ended my ability to reproduce. Jake 13, Jessie 9, Shelby 5.



As for school goes you all know my track record. School work was a menace to me to say the least and how I graduated is a story for another day. I enjoyed the social aspect but book work sucked. But lets just say I graduated and didn't waste any time going to college. My claim to fame at Provo High was lunch line bouncer, it gave me a free lunch everyday with an extra milk, plus I let all the hot chicks go to the front of the line thinking it would score me some action, (I am still waiting for the action). Also I think no one has ever graduated with a lower G.P.A. then me I think it was 1.3.

After marriage in December of 1991 I started my professional career at Ashton's Chevron by BYU Stadium. That lasted about 4 months until I realized that $5.25 / hr doesn't pay the bills. My wife graduated from BYU in 1992 as a school teacher, that to say the least didn't pay the bills either. We spent a summer in Cali working only to come back to Happy Valley to settled down.

I really never found my nitch until 1998 when I started my own business (Abbott Consulting) lets just say I am in the outdoor business and I will let the rest of the photos do the explaining. I worked for a couple Non-Profit Wildlife groups and then went on my own. I basically book hunts for people all over the world and miserably have to go with them. As you can tell from the photos I hate my job and would much rather of gone to college and be working from 8-5 for someone else making them money hoping to retire when I am 65.

I also have my own radio show in SLC that is on every Tuesday night from 7-9 pm mst on am 1320 kfan. It is called "The Big Outdoors" and I have been doing that for almost 5 years now. People say I have the face for radio. A few weeks a year I get bumped to Wednesday or Thursday depending on the Utah Jazz schedule. If you want to waste a couple hours you can tune in on the radio or anywhere in the world on http://www.thefansports.com/ just log in and get a user name then you can all hear how funny I really am.

I have been fortunate enough to hunt all over the world, Argentina, New Zealand, Alaska, Mexico, Arctic Circle and in June I will be on my 1st trip to Africa. Unless I get shot while I am there I will be back for the reunion. As you can tell from the photos I take my son almost everywhere I go. The funny thing is he has to have all A's and B's in order to go with me on a hunt and I was lucky to have C's and D's. It has been a great motivator for him and it is defiantly a double standard compared to my days, but it works.

When I am on the road I do my radio show from my Satellite phone, it makes for a great show and adds a little different approach.$3.00 a minute for 2 hours hurts but who cares it is only money.

We live in Mapleton, Utah in a house I built, not literally, but I subbed it out and was the General Contractor. It is a nice home that would be the right size if I really had 3 wives. It has my Theater room with a 119" projection screen and 4-42" plasma (I need 5 T.V.'s because on Sunday's I host The Church of the NFL and need to watch 5 games at once) and I also have a trophy room with all my dead stuff. That is basically the whole basement.

Yes 20 years has gone fast and furious but it has been very very rewarding. The reason I am most excited to come to the reunion is to see all the Fat, Bald and/or graying guys I went to school with. Yes I still have all my hair and none of it is gray.

I look forward to seeing you all this summer.

Feel free to shoot me an email at tonyabbott@digis.net

Your Hero

Tony Abbott



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