Lester Greenup:  

Les Greenup So Far Looking back since high school, there have been lots of ups and downs, but WOW, did things turn out !! What a great big bowl of cherries my life has become. At the end of my not so wonderful twelve years in the Southgate school system, I wondered like so many others: ¿which plant am I going to get into ?¿ Then a wonderful thing happened to me; I got drafted. I quickly entered college only to stay out of the war. It would pay off amazingly in my life to come, although I¿ve been deeply haunted by the guilt of not going when so many others did. I had a bit of a personality change at college. People didn¿t poke fun at the kid who was too tall. Nobody picked on me. Girls smiled back. I discovered just how much fun life should be. I finished a degree at HFCC and joined American Motors as a lab technician. After three years, I was at Ford. Thirty-two years later I retired as a supervisor of the Ford Climate Control Test Laboratory. Along the way I married and had a child. Soon thereafter we divorced for no particularly good reason except my immaturity. I married again to a wonderful woman I met years later and we have had three more children. We honeymooned in Switzerland and have traveled continuously ever since. The three youngest kids are in or finishing college and will soon be on their own. My oldest is on her own and living happily ever after. I am looking forward to grandchildren, but the kids decide things like that for me now. Going to HFCC opened my eyes; the people were so different here than where I grew up. After my divorce I moved to Dearborn and for thirty years it¿s been wonderful. The kids breezed through school and were accepted at every college they applied; their peer-pressure was so different than mine. We built a nice cottage on a lake up-north many years ago. My wife was a teacher and would spend the entire summer there with the kids with me showing up for long w...Expand for more