Warren Manning:
CLASS OF 1950
Winslow SchoolClass of 1950
Everett, MA
Northeastern University - EngineeringClass of 1961
Boston, MA
Everett High SchoolClass of 1956
Everett, MA
Albert Parlin Junior High SchoolClass of 1953
Everett, MA
Lincoln Elementary SchoolClass of 1950
Everett, MA
Warren's Story
Life
I retired (OCT 2006)from Raytheon after 40 years. The majority of my career was spent designing Communications Systems to support the sale and deployment of HAWK and Patriot missile systems to countries of the middle east and NATO &Korea. I started with Greece(1970),Iran(1972), Saudi Arabia(1973-75),(1998), Jordan (1976-79),Kuwait(1977-82),(1991-97),UAE (1983-98),Greece(1998-2003), Korea (2001). Went to War(Desert Shield and Desert Storm) in UAE ( Aug 1990-Mar 1991).
I am married for a second time to Mary Alice Myers. This Oct it will be 25 years. Between us we have 4 daughters and 8 grand children ranging in ages from 30-9. as of August 2018. We also will have three great grand children.
One grand daughter graduated from University of Maryland Pharmacy school .
A grandson graduated from Northeastern University (3rd generation) in May 2011,studying Political Science. He's had a heart transplant on 3 Dec 2012 and is doing very well .He works for Mass General Hospital setting up testing studies of new drugs. He currently is getting his Masters Degree from Northeastern.He's engaged to marry in Sept.2019.
Another grandson , finished a six year hitch is in the Navy, where he is a translator in Spanish. He got married in July 2014 and is taking courses at the U of Southern Maine,Portland under the GI bill..He graduates in May 2018 and may go into teaching in elementary school.
We also have a grand daughter who graduated Nursing at Simmons College in May 2014. She is currently enrolled in a Nurse Practitioner program there and is scheduled to finish in November 2019. She's getting married in May 2018.
Another grand daughter has finished her studies at the University of New Hampshire,graduating in May 2016.
Another grand daughter is graduating in the nursing program at Towson State,Md in May 2018.
Another grand daughter is in the 10th grade. We also have a grandson who is nine and is finishing the 3rd grade.he is also having his First Communion in May 2018
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After graduating from Northeastern I was commissioned in July (1961). The Berlin Wall was put up 3 weeks later.I was called up as part of the Berlin Wall Mobilization, entering into Active Duty in May 1962 .Under went Basic Signal officer training at Ft Gordon, Ga and Signal Maintenance officer training at FT Monmouth. I was shipped overseas in Sept62 to Poitiers , France, Where I was assigned as Chief of Avionics, Theatre Maint Div, responsible for the Retrofit and Maintenance of all Army Aircraft in Europe and North Africa& Turkey ,for communications and navigation equipment. I remained in this capacity until completion of my tour in April(64). In 1965 I was assigned as an Instructor at the Officer's C...Expand for more
ommittee, Ft Gordon , Ga.I remained in that assignment through 1969.
In 1970 , I was assigned as an Enlisted Instructor to the Boston USAR School. In 1973 I was appointed as ASST S-3, In 1975 I continued in this capacity with the Lowell USAR School. In 1976 I was appointed Instructor US Army Command & General Staff College. I remained in this capacity for seven years. In 1981 I was appointed Chief of Training , 94th Area Command. The next year ,I was appointed Asst Deputy Chief of Staff , Operations and Intel. In 1983 I was appointed Battalion Commander 187 Support Bn, 187 Separate Infantry Brigade.I remained in this capacity until Nov 1984 when I was promoted to full Colonel and out of a job.
From 1985-until retirement in 1991 ,I served various tours of active duty at the Directorates of Combat Development at the Army Signal School, Ft Gordon Ga. and the Air Defense Artillery School, Ft Bliss, Texas.
Along the way , I graduated from various military schools to include Officer Advanced Courses in Air Defense Artillery (1974), Ordnance (1984), Quartermaster (1984) and Command and General Staff College (1974) and the Army War College , Carlisle Barracks ,Pa(1986).
During my careers , both civilian and military, I was blessed with a intertwining of each with the other that cross fertilized one with the other,reinforcing of one to the benefit of the other. My military communications background provided me experience that allowed me sustain a forty year career niche within Raytheon. Similarly, my co-op missile systems work assignments at the Westinghouse Air Arm Div, Baltimore , Md (1958-1960), carried over to my intial post graduate job at AVCO's MinuteMan Missile System (1961-1966).
Little did I dream ,when I was pulling a tour as Staff Duty Officer in Poitiers , France (1962-64) , sleeping on a GI cot to be available to process high priority parts requisitions coming in from throughout the European Theatre for the HAWK Missile System that some 5 or 6 years later ,that I would begin working on the HAWK missile system for Raytheon (Sept 1969) and continue for the next 35 years.
Among the hobbies Mary and I share is our love of European travel.We go at least once a year. in 2010 year we went to Norway and later to central Italy (St Michele de Serino ), near Avellino, where my mother's parents were from. In(2014) we were revisited our friends from Oslo and Voss, Norway .This year, we were joined by our Army friends ,Joyce and Mike McCall who served with me in Poitiers ,France , 52 years ago, at our vacation home in South Harpswell ,Maine.
We often visit Ireland. We particularly like Kinsale , located on the coast of Cork, Just below Cork City.We were last there in Oct 2006.
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