Duane Calvin:  

Life I graduated from Arlington HS in 1966, and went to Dutchess Community Coll for 18 months, supposedly working on pre-engineering. I was more interested in rebuilding my '55 Ford, and grades slipped. So did my 2S draft deferral, and I beat the draft by enlisting in the USAF from 1968 - 1972. While in, I served for over 2 years at Yokota Air Base in Japan. While there, I started playing bluegrass banjo (I have played guitar since high school). On returning home in 1972, I worked briefly at Lafayette Radio in Poughkeepsie until a representative from Fargo Mfg's engineering department came in to buy something, and practically offered me a job on the spot. I worked there until 1973 when IBM hired me as a technician on their high end mainframes. I worked for IBM for 37 years, with a brief intermission to finish my electrical engineering degree at Brigham Young University in 1975-77. That was an interesting time to live amongst those who have very different beliefs, and it drove me into the Bible to understand what God has t...Expand for more