Allan Dean:
CLASS OF 1952
DeLand High SchoolClass of 1952
De land, FL
Mary Karl Vocational SchoolClass of 1960
Daytona beach, FL
Boston Avenue SchoolClass of 1946
De land, FL
Wisconsin Avenue Elementary SchoolClass of 1945
De land, FL
Allan's Story
Life
My Spouse
I met Elizabeth in Cocoa Beach in 1962.
We were living in the same apartment complex on South Atlantic ave. "Van Horns" as I recall. Liz was teaching at Meadow Lane Elem. school in West Melbourne. I was working for Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. as a Missile & Spacecraft Systems Technician on the Polaris missile program. It was her beautiful face, pearly white teeth and big, big smile that got me, and her laugh was uniquely southern; it reminded me of my favorite female cousins laugh. Her name was Loraine and she lived in Mobile Ala. on Dolphin Island. Their smiles were even similar.
My Pets
My birds are black Marlins and our friendship is seasonal. I have a eight room house for them in the back yard.
My snakes are permanent residents in the back yard. They sometime (fall and winter) live under the wood pile. They sometime live in the bushes (spring & summer). I feed them on occasion and show them to our grandchildren and my neighbors grandchildren. My neighbor, Tad Allen, portrays Abraham Lincoln and travels all over the south giving lectures about him and the Civil War. He is quiet a charachter and a good friend and neighbor.
Well, here it is several years after the above inputs. We moved to Vero Beach in August of 2005 to be near two of our 3 children and five of our seven grandchildren. My health is declining faster than I expected, as is Elizabeth's but we don't fear the future because we know that HE has prepared a place for us. The ages of our 7 grandchildren run from Ellyn (18) who is a Freshman at U of Tenn Chattanooga, to Mason (3). It is great being in the same city with the majority of my immediate family. We do a LOT of sitting for people our age, but we love it.
College
I attended Mary Karl Vocational Technical School from 1957 - 1960. While attending, the Vocational Division became a branch of The...Expand for more
Daytona Beach Jr. College.
My studies were entirely about electronics and math.
I was working and going to school during those three years. I remember it as long and labourous. Not that I didn't have some fun...I met several guys that I had played football against or had run against in track and field while at DeLand High School. We did the things that young men who have completed their military obligations usually participate in....had a few beers together...visited the beach and watched all those pretty Florida, South Carolina, Tenneessee, North Carolina and Georgia young ladies. Met Grover (Red) Potter there and his lovely wife Jan. We were friends all during those three years and even socialized for a while after finishing school. Met each other several times while working at The Cape and The Merritt Island Launch Area (MILA). Have lost contact with Red and Jan now. Red and his children used to run a restaurant on one of the causeways that cross the Halifax river somewhere from Daytona Beach to south of New Smyrna. We (Liz and I) visited them once upon a time in their home in southwest Daytona. Jan stopped by our home in Rockledge way back in...the year escapes me...too long ago. Grew up in June 1960 when "school was out"...had to find a full time job now...no more burning the candle at both ends now (attending school 5 days a week and working part time 6 days a week)...went to work for General Dynamics Corp. (Convair) at The Cape on the Atlas/Mercury Program...worked in electronics one way or another at The Cape or MILA for 38 years and retired in July 1998.
I would have to say that all the hard work (school and working at the same time) was well worth the sacrifice. Don't really know how I got thru all those Math, Radio and TV Electronics Technology classes on my own, but I did. Used up my entire GI School funds doing so. That's It Folks!
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