Robert (Red) McClurg:  

Life After graduating in '49 and going to DC on the senior trip, I worked the summer at CGW. Then after 2 years at Alfred University, and 1 1/2 years between the IR and CGW I was drafted and spent 2 years in the army. I was stationed for 15 months in Korea, '53 to'54. I worked at various plants of CGW and I got married in '60. I gave up 9 years seniority and went to work with Prudential Ins. After 9 years ( living in Bath then Kingston and back to Bath ), I divorced and transferred with Prudential to Orlando. I finished my 30 years with Pru and retired in 1990 at age 58. My mother, Ruth Belden McClurg Anderson graduated from Cortland Normal School ( SUNY now ) and taught in PP in '25 and '26, marrying my father and moving to Dundee as a barber. He had been a NYS Trooper but at that time only single men could be troopers. He was killed in an auto accident in 1934; I was 22 months old and my brother Bill was 3 1/2. Mom went back to PP grade school to teach kindergarten. She remarried in '39 to my step-father, Ken Anderson, and stopped teaching shortly thereafter. She was called very often to be a substitute at P. Post and corning Northside Blodgett. She finished up at the Corning Winfield St. scool, retiring at age 62. They rented in FL for 6 months each year in the Canaveral area. I was able to visit with them often. After the '72 P. Post flood they sold...Expand for more