Donald Blankman:  

School Although I went from Kindergarden through the 11th. grade at Pacific Avenue and La Salle Jr. & Sr. High Schools, I actually graduated from high School in Santa Ana, California. My studies at Santa Ana College were interupted in my fourth semester by a Naval Reserve call up during the Korean War. After the war I used my G.I. Bill to attend Leopold-Franzens Universitat in Innsbruck, Austria for two years, where I studied languages and history. Over the years I have taken numerous courses at various schools including Michigan State U. and The U. of Oklahoma. Military I joined the Naval Reserve at Fort Niagara and the next week we took a cruise on a minesweeper on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. When I moved to California in 1949 I went on inactive status, but with the beginning of the Korean War I joined ZP 952 at the Blimp Base in Santa Ana, and attended weekend drills once a month. In my fourth semester at Santa Ana College I was activated and went through boot camp at San Diego Naval Training Station, Class 2027. From August 1952 through January 1953 I was at the Hospital Corps School at Balboa Hospital in San Diego. My first duty station was at Mare Island Naval Hospital in Valejo, CA. Then I spent about a year at the Naval Air Station Infirmary in Monterey, CA., after which I was honorably discharged. The war was over. Working Life After leaving the U. of Innsbruck in June 1956 I worked 10 months for Americana Corp. and sold 176 sets of encyclopedias to the U.S. Troups stationed in Germany and France. Thereafter, I sold Life Insurance, working out of Nurnberg, Germany and then became Sales Manager for France for Investor's Planning Corp, selling mutual funds. In late 1958 I returned to California and became a Title Officer for Titile Insurance and Trust Company in Santa Ana. From 1963 to 1973 I worked for Rossmoor Corporation at the corporate headquarters in Lagu...Expand for more