Michael Clemens:  

I started school in the Catholic school system, OLBD, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, in North Philly, under the St. Joseph nuns, 1951. Parents broke up about 1956 and all of my brothers, Bip and Butch were sent to St Johns Orphan Asylum at 47th and Walusing Ave Philly. Bip and I reached ages 11 and 12 and were transferred to Saint Francis in Bensalem pa. We both attended Father Judge until our mother got us out in the winter of 1964. Bip and I left St Francis and attended Roman Catholic for a few months and we both dropped out and graduated from Simon Gratz H.S. After graduation I entered into the US Army and became a Nike Hercules Missile Equipment Repairman. I served 2years in Germany and 6 months in Korea at a Hawk missile battery. After mustering out of the Army I continued working as a 62C20 Missile equipment repairer as a civilian at a much better pay rate. The missiles became obsolete in 1972 and I went and drove for Grey Hound Lines East out if Philly. Fast forward about six years and I found I missed the Tech field and got a job with Clayton Mfg. working on dynamometer equipment, auto analyzers, steam boilers and compressors. About in the late 1979’s I moved to West Virginia and utilized my nuke background, from the Nike Hercules missile and started doing Nucl...Expand for more