Martin Van Dyk:  

While in Bowmanville High, I rather detested schooling. Instructors were readily interpreted as blockages. After High School, I studied Horriculture at the University of Guelph. Graduation from there led me to the cities of Calgary and Ottawa. Somewhere in there I married a girl from Chicago. I frequently comment that I 'rescued' Hattie Lyn. She became a Canadian citizen with a wonderful smile! Increasingly I became a changed person. My 'eclecticism' spanned my education. Blockages were removed. After Guelph....then, over the next few years, the University of Ottawa, Dordt College, York University, Queen's University. Each had a role to play. Namely in the fields of History, Education Theology, Philosophy, Mediation and Small Business. In the meantime, I surrendered my inclinations to mechanically maintain my automobiles. In 1984, when GM (next year Ford and Chrysler), introduced electronic carburetors, I 'hung up' a number of my wrenches. The lawnmowers and snow lowers retain the needed mechanical challenge. My employment was to be had in tree nurseries and greenhouses, class rooms, vice principal and principal offices, facilitation facilities, social services employment strategy implem...Expand for more