Dave Batron:  

Life: I was born in Cambridge, MA and raised in Portland, Bangor, and Presque Isle, Maine. I attended Bangor High School, John Bapst Memorial High School, and graduated from Presque Isle HS in 1964. I met Linda Allison at PIHS in October, 63, and we were married in June 67. We both graduated from the University of Maine, Farmington with degrees in Special Education. We received our M.Ed's from U Maine-Orono in 1971; and I received an MA in Organizational Behavior and Leadership from Catholic University, Washington, DC, in 1983; and an MA in School & Career Counseling from Chapman University in Colorado Springs in 1991. I supplemented that degree with 24 credit hours at the University of Colorado to obtain licensure in the State of Colorado as a Secondary School Counselor. I have also completed 90% of the MA in Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Subject to the draft in 1971, I enlisted in the Army in April while completing 21 graduate hours (7 courses)to earn an M. Ed at University of Maine in Orono. I attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, SC and Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, OK. I was commissioned in the Air Defense Artillery, April 1972. We spent 22 years on active duty with assignments in New York City, Korea, North Carolina, Germany, Washington, DC, Colorado, and ultimately back in Maine where I was the Professor of Military Science at the University of Maine - Orono for the Army ROTC program. We had school and training tours at Fort Jackson,SC, Fort Sill, OK, Fort Bliss, TX, Fort Benning, GA, and Fort Leavenworth, KS. We had a great career with tours of Command at the Company and Battalion levels, as an Aide de Camp, the Army Staff, as well as Battalion level staff as an S-1, S-3, and XO. I retired in 1992 as a LTC and returned to public education as a teacher, counselor, and soccer, football, and basketball coach. We had 2 children, Allison, now 36, and Garrett, who would have been 31 in 2008. I lost my son at the age of 30 on 9 January 2008 after a long illness. I miss him everyday. My 'closure', if that exists, is to think of him and say his name each day. My daughter, a graduate of DePauw University, attended on a 4 year Army ROTC Scholarship and served her country for 6 years as an Army Chemical Officer through the rank of Captain. She is married to an Army Major and they currently live here in Colorado Springs at Fort Carson. He has seen 6 deployments and during his most recent (second with the 4th Infantry Division) in 2012, became a wounded warrior compliments of an Afgan IED. I thank God everyday for His mercy and keeping him with us. (He had already served our nation in Afganistan,Bosnia,Kosovo,and Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY) and has currently returned from a year long assignment in Saudi Arabia and will be assigned to the 4th Infantry Division G-3 (Operations and Training), hopefully to be non-deployed any time soon. I have been given four wonderful grand daughters: Megan, Aileen, Haley, and Emily. They are, without doubt, among the very best that has happened for me. After 15 years in the Public School systems here in Colorado Springs, we retired in May 2006 and will continue to spend our days being close to family here in Colorado and/or wherever they may be, connecting with friends, volunteering in our district schools, and traveling. Update; After 30 years living and working and retiring in Colorado Springs, we have relocated and right sized our residence. We have moved to Gulfport, Mississippi choosing to reside in a Gated Community close to Keesler AFB and other amenities. We are now closer to our daughter and her family now living in Indiana after retiring from the Army in November 2016 and have traded the mountains for the ocean, the Gul of Mexico which is not more than a kilometer from our front door. Life is good. School Attended various elementary schools in Massachussetts and Maine - Cambridge, Machias, Portland, and Bangor; 5th Street Junior High in Bangor, and Ba...Expand for more