Danny Ward:
CLASS OF 1968
Tecumseh High SchoolClass of 1968
New carlisle, OH
Warder Park - Wayne Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
Springfield, OH
Oscar T. Hawke Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
New carlisle, OH
Olive Branch Middle SchoolClass of 1968
New carlisle, OH
Donnelsville Elementary SchoolClass of 1962
Donnelsville, OH
Danny's Story
Life
Kids are all grown up and have kids, which makes me a grandpa 6 times over. Planning to retire in the near future and become a missionary in the Philippines, the island of Mindanao, General Santos City. We will live in a Muslim community and work directly with them. We have a rice feeding program in place right now having partnered with Lanton Alliance Fellowship. Our ministry is called Naomi's Heart and for a time will be an extension of Cebu Missionary Foundation until we can get our foundation certification.
Workplace
After spending 7 years in the Navy, 5 of which was sea duty, I got a job working for the Springfield News-Sun. I truly am glad to be out of that hole. I worked for two years in construction as an assistant site manager for a national builder. I helped oversee the building of production facitlities in Sayre, Pa., Valparaiso, Indiana and another in Zanesville, Ohio. Each site was unique to our company who as a rule built warehouses. The job I presently have is the greatest thing that has happened to me. I fell into the perfect job working at Autologic Information International. They build and repair imaging equipment that produces either a negative or a plate that can go straitght to a printing press. I worked on this equipment while at the News-Sun, it's just that I get paid a lot better now to run around fixing other peoples equipment. Ironically, I have had to visit the News-Sun on several occasions to install and repair their equipment. We have been aquired ...Expand for more
by AGFA and now I am learning new equipment and traveling more to install/repair that equipment also. Life is good. Even though the pace is getting much more hectic these days with a new region to cover. I still am the primary technician for all of Ohio, I am now covering eastern Indiana, northern Kentucky, and at times western PA. There are 2 newspaper service technicians that cover a small area of 50 states and none of us is bored. Still keep in contact with a few of our classmates on a regular basis, via e-mail and hope we can get together again.
Military
I spent a mere 6 years 10 months and 21 days in the Navy. I enlisted (a draft notice will make you do that) for six years as to not throw away the schooling that I was drafted away from. I spent two years in a Technical School when I received my draft notice. I went to Navy Schools in San Diego, San Francisco, and Norfolk, Va. I served on two ships, the USS Henry W. Tucker DD=875 out of San Diego, which was decommissioned in December 1973. I was privileged to have served upon her during our conflict in sunny Southeast Asia from June 1972 until January 1973. Aboard the USS Whipple FF(DE)-1062 from January 1974 until I was discharged in April 1977. I made two West Pacs on this ship that was home ported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I was married and had my son at the Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego. Unfortunately I had to leave for Viet Nam a few months later and missed out on a lot of good things that he learned while I was away.
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