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Hometown

Teaneck, NJ. First child born on Howard Street. Grew up in a summer cabin @ Highland Lakes, NJ. Moved to the Sparta, NJ area in 1961, built a big house with my dad and older brother. Left home in 1969 (more to come....)

Places I've been

High School Name (City, State)
Pope John XXIII (Sparta, NJ). Was in the band (2nd trumpet), played football (pulling guard, 4 ltrs.), Track, Wrestling, Fencing (Un-beaten in 8 matches in which I fenced; all 3 disciplines), Drama Club (LBJ in "Mouse that Roared", Doc in "West Side Story", Gravedigger/clown in "Hamlet", Harvey Feihnstein in "Bye Bye Birdie", Student Director of "Sound of Music" (You try to get 6 h.s. girls to perform different religious gestures while singing "How do you solve a problem like Maria"; not pretty
College Name
Penn State (Mont Alto, PA) 6 months in '69-70. Majored in Forestry/Technology; was going to be a U.S. Park Ranger. Dropped out. Went to Woodstock. Drifted. Joined the Navy for 15 years. Attended Sussex County Community College (on the G.I. Bill) graduated with honors and an Associate of Science, majored in Medical Transcription, that was 1996
College Graduation Year
The year of the lord nineteen hundred and ninety six Anno Domini (How do you get 500 characters out of a year) Here's 388, someone write a nice Haiku or something.
College Graduation Major/Concentration
Major Stress / Minor Concentration Medical Transcription, Medical Terminology, Honors Humanities, Honors English (Only one in the whole class who knew what a Limerick was!), Marketing, Bus.Admin, Biology, All the routine 101's...
Occupation(s)
Did lawn/yard work. Worked in a foam rubber factory. Did tempwork for Manpower: made clorox bottles, salvaged railroad ties, Ladies undergarments warehouse, a bulk-mailing center; many others. Worked construction on Vernon Valley Ski Resort (Now some other name). Made Bayer Aspirin (don't ask!). Picked fruit. Did Youth Ministry. Harvested chickens. Joined the Navy for 15 years. Sold flags and flowers on the street. A plastic factory. Medical Transcription at Newton Memorial Hosp. more

More about me

55 Ess. Double-Yew. Emm. Laid back lifestyle. Living in an RV 'cause I want to be away from my bro' but still close enough to visit. Got a little, fluffy, white bichon named Cuckoo who is crazy, too. My 26 y.o. son lives with his mom and I never get to see him enough.

Favorite Movies

What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Harold and Maude, The Head with Two Things, High Anxiety, Mad mad mad mad world, Dr Strangelove or..., Failsafe, An American Tail (Fievil), Analyse This, Zelig, Deep Throat, Girl Interrupted, 200 Cigarets, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ed Wood, Kentucky Fried Movie, Planet of the Apes, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Brokedown Palace, Shawshank Redemption, the World According to Garp

Favorite TV Shows

The Prisoner, Dr. Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus

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