Al LaCroix:  

You may remember me as moderately active in high school; no band, no big sports, but an active thespian who also enjoyed photography and radio club. I never seriously studied, but enjoyed business, co writing the Wall Street Wizards column in Wy-Hi with Doug Jose in my junior year and getting active in politics in 1968. My circle of friends at RHS was limited, but I had lots of friends in Riverview, Trenton, Grosse Ile and elsewhere. Immediately after graduation I enlisted in the U.S. Navy. I spent my first year and half working my way through training in Tennessee and California. I met the love of my life in December 1970 and a month later I joined my squadron, VP-46 in Adak Alaska. After three years of active duty serving mostly in the Far East, including flying combat missions off the coast of Vietnam in 1972, I returned not to Wyandotte, but rather to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Susan, my wife of thirty-five years had moved there with her family. I proposed to Susan the night I came home from the Navy. A week later I started college, with a whole new appreciation for academics. The discipline I learned in the Navy prepared me for school. The GI Bill and part-time work allowed me a degree of freedom to live on my own and avoid a roommate. I never lived in a college dorm or frat house, but I figured my time in Navy barracks around the world was a good substi...Expand for more