Wayne Geehan:  

I live in Acton, Massachusetts with my wife Susan and we have four grown children, Greg, Jonathan, Douglas, and Amy. Three children are married so far and we have eight Grandchildren at this time. In my young years I grew up in Manchester, CT and lived there until I was in my Sophomore year of High School. My family moved to Tolland and I spent the last two years of high school going to Ellington High. I was warmly received by everyone at Ellington and I made a good number of friends. After graduation, myself and three other Ellington graduates, Bob Knox, Manny Simmons, and Don Garrett, went to Boston to go to the Art Institute of Boston, a commercial art school. I met my future wife Susan in the summer of "66" when, after my freshman year, I stayed and worked in Boston with Bob Knox. We all went our separate ways after the first year and I lost track of my roommates after that. After art school I was drafted by Uncle Sam and was sent to an Asian country of Sam's choosing. What a guy! I moved back to Boston when I got back from "vacation". I got my first job in the art field at that time and married my girlfriend, Susan. My first art job was working for a jigsaw puzzle and game company, American Publishing Co., in Watertown, MA. I learned quite a bit there, giving me the foundation of knowledge needed to pursue a career in commercial art. American Publishing gave me my first opportunity to have an illustration published when I illustrated dinosaurs for a j...Expand for more