MY LIFE

I was born and grew up in a rural part of Pennsylvania. It was a good life working on the farm and attending school, then when I was 13, my father died and life for me changed forever! My mother was left with me and a younger brother who was 3, and an aged grandmother to care for. Times were tough for several years, but we survived and I went on to The Pennsyvania State University for a degree in Secondary Education, and upon graduation, was commissioned a second lieutenant in The Unied States Marine Corps.
After ten years in The Marine Corps, I left to enter into the business world and worked for a number of America's larger companies in various capacities from managment trainee to plant manager. Along the way, I married a terrific woman who bore me two wonderful children, a girl and then a boy.