Don Underhill:
CLASS OF 1949
Hempstead High SchoolClass of 1949
Hempstead, NY
Don's Story
Those were not my best years I guess. I remember being sick with pneumonia for a long time in my senior year and had to repeat in 1949 to graduate as I missed so much schooling. Did join the service after graduation and did four years in Medical /Dental attached to the Marines for two and 1/2 yrs during Korean Conflict and ended up in Kwajalein and Pearl Harbor after being all over the Pacific for the remaining time.
Stayed in Hawaii after I got out of Navy and did the beach bum routine for two years while I went to the University of Hawaii and lived off my Goverment Subsistance. Finally went back to the states and got married which turned out four children and a divorce after 18 years. She died several years later. Spent two years single and got married again to a wonderful woman and now after 36 years and one daughter am reti...Expand for more
red from 45 years in the Automotive Industry as a Sales Rep, Sales Mgr, Marketing Mgr, MGR.Customer Service, handling product, administration, forecasting and customer relations.)
Retired at 62 and ran my own computer business for 20 years (10 of those while I was working for Johnson Controls) and finally sold out. Did go to the University of Cincinnati, Marquette and UW Milwaukee for what I needed along the way. Not very exciting but I did finally find my best friend John MacDonald after looking for him 50 years and we renewed our friendship until he died in 2002 of a heart attack.
Currently have two houses on a lake here in the great Northwoods of Wisconsin, play a lot of golf and do a lot of biking (the manual kind) . We go to Flordia Panhandle or Arizona in Feb/Mar every year to get out of the snow and cold for a while.
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