Gary Stowe:  

After graduating from MHS in 1960, I continued my education at MCC, graduating in 1962, I then joined the US Navy, with boot camp in San Diego, CA, then to Dam Neck, VA for missile technician training. After going to school for a year and a half, I was assigned to the USS Proteus AS-19, located in Holy Loch, Scotland. I rode the Proteus back to Charleston, SC in Jun/Jul 1964. I was then transferred to the USS Holland AS-32, located in Rota, Spain. I was discharged from the Navy in Aug. 1966, and headed back to Marshalltown. I then enrolled at Northeast Missouri State College and completed my undergraduate studies in Aug. 1968 with a BSE degree in physics. I taught school in Iowa for 2 years, then went back to NMSC for graduate school, receiving my MA degree in May 1971. Then it was one more year of teaching in Iowa. It was then time for a career change. While looking for a job, and living at home, working for Russ Franke's dad, hauling corn to the elevator, I found and got a job working as a quality control chemist for American Cyanamid Co. in Hannibal, MO. I relocated to Missouri in mid Dec. 1972 and stayed at the same plant, doing several jobs, ending when I was downsized in Jun. 1999(26 1/2 years on the job). After being forced to retire at the age of 56, I was fortunate that I haven't had to go back to work. I'm still retired, playing a lot of golf, active in the First Christian Church, Palmyra, MO, Kiwanis, ...Expand for more