Jerry Chenot:  

Life As most of you know, following graduation from Bayless, I enlisted in the U.S. Navy. I got married the first and only time around in 1980 to a gal I met while I was stationed with the U.S. Navy Showband out of New Orleans, La. After many duty stations and tours around the world with U.S. Navy Fleet Bands, I retired from the Navy in 1987..putting in 21 years service. Following the service I attended The College Of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois and obtained a degree in Middle Management...graduated there in 1989. Took a postal exam in 1990 and began my second government job with the U.S. Postal Service as a City Letter Carrier in Waukegan, Illinois. In 1994 we transferred to Greenleaf, Wisconsin...just 20 miles south of Green Bay...yes home of the Famous GREEN BAY PACKERS....and by the way, we ARE season ticket holders! I continued on with the Postal Service as a City Letter Carrier in Green Bay until my disability retirement in 2004. Had a total of 14 years with the Postal Service. My Mother...God rest her soul..I loved her dearly..passed down her lousy knees to me, so following my retirement in July 2004, when September 2004 rolled around I had both my knees replaced! What an awesome feeling to be able to walk without pain and to have really "straight" legs! My wife Lisa is in sales..she works for a company called Hill-Rom. She is a sales rep and has a huge territory in N.E. Wisconsin and all the way over to Mayo in Rochester, MN. We never had any children. My hobbies are building and driving street rods. I presently have a '23 Ford t-bucket that I built in my shop and have on occasions brought it down to St. Louis and you know back in high school we ALL had a particular area that we kroozed over consistantley...you know like from Chuck-A-Burger back by Bayless, in and around Indian Hills...over to Steak-N-Shake ad nauseum.... I just had to do the same with the bucket...only took me 40 p...Expand for more