John McClellan:  

I spent all but my senior year at Charles Bender High School in Humble, TX. I spent my senior year At Southwest Bible Institute (SBI) in Waxahachie TX and graduated with the class of 1955. After graduating I worked various jobs until joining the US Coastguard in 1957. After boot camp in Cape May, NJ I was sent to Key West, FL for Sonar Training. After finishing the training I was sent to New London, CT and served as a Sonarman on the US Owasco a (weather patrol cuter) in the North Alantic. Upon my discharge in 1959 I worked for a while for Robert H Ray, Inc on a seismograph crew win west texas. I met my wife to be at my Dad's (Rev JW (Jimmy McClellan) Church ( Burbank Assembly of God in Houston). I then moved back to Houston and we were Married Sept. 2, 1960. We had three wonderful children, John Patrick (Rick), Howard Wayne, and Hollie Rena. Around 1961 I went to work for IBM and was a service engineer on Main Frame Computers. After a few years with IBM, I was offered more money to go to work for a computer service company as a product specialist. After a while IBM monopoly was broken allowing anyone to build peripheral equipment to connect to I BM's main frame and they would pay a computer service company (such as I was working for) to do the repair and maintenance on their equipment A lot of this equipment was poorly engineered and didn't brake, they just did not work to st...Expand for more