Warren Banta:  

CLASS OF 1967
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Pottstown, PA

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I was on the Wrestling Team and in the Machine Shop. My family moved to Pottstown in the summer of 65. I inlisted in the Navy in Feb. 1967 and was supposed to go to Great Lakes Training at the end of August. In the middle of August. I flipped my black 1939 Ford 2 door sedan and got my first concussion. The Navy gave me an honroable discharge. My parents talked me into going to Montgomery County Community College and majoring in Biology and Psychlogy. My brain injury caused me to forget a lot. I turned into a hippy!! I still could not spell very well and later found out I have dyslexia and an IQ of 110. I left MCCC and went to Northeastern University in Boston, same dual major. To pay for school i worked as a welder at the Falls River ship yard at night. I got tired of the hippy life and drugs and moved back to Indiana to help with the family farm. Meet my wife who had grown up 3 miles from my grand parents. We moved to Muncie, IN and I got a Degree InIndustrial Education and Vocational Technology from Ball State University. My first teaching job was in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City IN. I taught an Associate Degree program In Welding Technology to 24 maximum security Inmates for 3 years ( I got to go home every night ). I got tired of the inmates getting out after finn...Expand for more
ishing my one year class and robbing the same gas station. I worked at several diffrent industrial construction jobs for a few months and was hired to be a maintanance suppervisor by the electrice and gas utility that generated and supplied the northern third of Indiana. I showed skill in operating their control room simulator, so I became the operatore trainig instructor for all their units. I began modifing the simulators and a company in New Jerrsy moved me to Toms River. I helpped develope simulations for many industrial prosseces which were sent all over the world. As project manager I would travel a great deal ( around the world 5 times one year ) and finally quit to be home in Toms River, NJ with my wife and son. and daughter. I started teaching Shop classes in Freehold Township High School during the day and Cisco classes at Ocean County Community College at night. The 9th day ( 9/17/2007 ) at a new high school for me I got my second concussion and some disc damage. My short term memory is geeting better. My wife/Nurse have been married 41 years. We have a son and daughter and 3 grand children. We now live in Pooler , GA and our grand children can walk down the street and visit any time. We left the Jersey Shore 17 months before super storm SANDY blew into town.
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