Information taken from May 25, 2003 Decatur Alumni Banquet Booklet.

Spouse:  Kay Miller

After graduation from Decatur High, I entered Wayne State College and attended the summer session of 1953.  At the end of the summer I applied for and received the position of "teacher at the Deman school just west of town.  When the school year ended, I married a local girl and two days later reported for the draft.

After 4 months of drudgery at Fort Leonard Wood I was assigned to the Machine Accounting School in Indianapolis.  Although I did not know it at the time, Machine Accounting School set me on the road to my future career.  From Indianapolis I flew to Seattle.  There on the 24th of December I boarded  a one stack troop ship to Korea.  It was a miserable trip in heavy seas.  After arriving in Korea, I was reassigned three times ending up in an infantry regiment north of the 38th parallel.  After 6 months in Korea I was transferred to Fort Lewis, WA where I was discharged.  A divorce followed.

I was able to put my Machine accounting to work when I began my computer career in Seattle.  In 1957 I married Kay MacDonald, a girl I had known since I was 8 years old.  We are still going strong. 

Over the years I worked for companies whose services evolved with the computer age.  During the mid 70's we were transferred to England for 1 1/2 years.  It was a wonderful experience.  When we returned to the United States we settled in Portland, OR., where the company headquarters was located.  A few years after our return, the company was sold and I accepted a job with Consolidated Freightways.  Their data processing was the second largest computer set up in the state of Or.

I suffered a massive stroke that ended my working career.  We moved to Bella Vista and a whole new and very enjoyable life.