Gregory Lewis:
CLASS OF 1966
Henry James Memorial High School Class of 1966
Simsbury, CT
Palmyra High SchoolClass of 1966
Palmyra, NJ
Gregory's Story
Life
Born Gregory Paul Lewis to Dr. Garner Lennon and Grace Virginia Rist Lewis on September 24, 1948 in Kingston, NY. He grew up in a military family. For over twenty years his father was in the US Navy Medical Corp, serving as ship's doctor, an atomic scientist, and later specializing in radiology, retiring from active duty in 1964. Greg's family then moved to Simsbury, CT where Dr. Lewis entered a private practice.
Greg attended H. James Mem. H.S. in Simsbury, graduating in 1966. He then entered Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and majored in English literature in the pre-law curriculum, graduating in 1970. Greg intended to go on to Case Western Reserve School of Law, but was preempted by the Viet Nam War. The year of his graduation, law school deferments from military service were discontinued, so Greg decided to go on vacation in the Rocky Mountains and await a call from his draft board.
While on vacation, he met Kathryn Jo Rogers in August...Expand for more
, 1970. They were wed June 8, 1974 in the Paradise Valley just north of Yellowstone Park where they worked as star route postal carriers for a few years before Greg took a job as a carpenter with the Burlington Northern Railroad. They moved to Aurora, IL in 1987 when Greg, a dedicated trade unionist, was appointed to the position of assistant to the international president and worked at the National Railroad Adjustment Board in Chicago. After his appointment to the Board ended, Greg embarked upon a new career rather than return to Montana as a railroad worker. He became a labor journalist at first, writing for the Fox Valley Labor News; then a free lance columnist, writing under the name Upton O'Goode for SPI; then he added an advice column called "Time You Asked," by Father Justin Thyme.
The Lewis family resides in a 10,000 square foot tudor mansion in the Garfield Historical District. Greg's latest literary project is editing an on-line magazine, AriseMag.org.
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