I was born on the seventh day of September, 1927, in the town of Johnson
City, N.Y. I have light brown hair, blue eyes, stand five feet ten inches, and
weigh 170 pounds.
At the age of five I started school, and I spent the next twelve years doing
the things that are typical of a grade school and high school fellow; I was
among the top half of my class and was always interested in mathematics and
physics.
Athletically; I was a member of the varsity squad in football and took part
in all other types of sports.
For entertainment I attended several dances and parties, and always enjoyed a
good movie or athletic contest. At the age of seventeen, I graduated from
Johnson City High School, in the January class of 1945. During this time and to
the present day, I believe and will continue to believe in religion and a clean
way of life, this is due I believe, to the proper bringing up in a good
respectable home. Immediately after graduation, I enlisted in the Army
Specialized Training Reserve Program and in February, 1945 I started classes in
the B 60 at Rutgers University. After completing three terms I left the
University for active service.
As a member of the Army of the United States, I was sent to Fort Belvoir,
Virginia. Where I took basic training. At completion, I was sent to the Army
Engineers Aerial Photo topography coarse which was three months in length and
dealt with the principals and applications of terrestrial Photogrammetry. I
graduated second in a class of Forty seven and was held over for the purpose of
instructing in the coarse I had just completed. Since then, I have been
lecturing and instructing on the theory of stereoscopy and its relation to the
mechanics, opperations and applications of the stereocomparograph along with the
computation and preparations of terrestrial maps. In my spare time, at nights
and weekends, I have been working at the Post Library as librarian, and have
been taking Army night class in Calculus.
In May of this year, I will be discharged from the Army and I am hoping to
enter Syracuse University in September to continue my education in
Photogrammety.