Irvin Lee McKlenshaw:
CLASS OF 1963
North High SchoolClass of 1963
Torrance, CA
California State UniversityClass of 1970
Fullerton, CA
University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 1966
Los angeles, CA
Kaiserslautern American High SchoolClass of 1960
Kaiserslautern,
Kaiserslautern American Junior High SchoolClass of 1959
Kaiserslautern,
Irvin Lee's Story
I live in Garden Grove, CA and retired from the Orange County Health Care Agency in 2021 after working there as an Information Processing Technician since 2013. My husband James of nearly 8 years died in 2016. We were legally married in 2008 in a civil ceremony at the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana (before Prop. 8 was passed that year), so we would have celebrated our 8th anniversary in 2016. We changed our respective surnames to McKlenshaw by order of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, in 2009 so we would both have the same last name. I had two straight marriages, both of which ended in divorce after about 7 years each; I'm now a widower, having been married to the man of my dreams for far too short a time. I have 5 adult children. 14 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren. I started working in 2013 as an Information Processing Technician for the Orange County Health Care Agency. I'm active in the LGBT civil rights movement and serve as the Convener of the Orange County Community of Reconciling United Methodists (OCCORUM), a community of individual United Methodists who actively work to get The United Methodist Church to fully welcome persons of all gender identities and sexual orientations to participate fully in the life of the church as both lay persons and ordained clergy. If you would like to learn more about me, you can look me up in the 2018 (or earlier) edition of Marquis "Who's Who in America." I'd love to hear from any of you to exchange email! I'm planning to get married again in 2022 to a robotics engineer who currently works for a company in Fremont. that contracts with Tesla.
School:
1957-59, Kaiserslautern American Junior High School, Kaiserslautern, West Germany: 8th-grade spelling bee winner; Valedictorian, Class of '59; Earned Boy Scouts of America Eagle Scout rank and elected to Order of the Arrow in 1959.
1959-60, Kaiserslautern American High School, Kaiserslautern, West Germany: Earned Bausch & Lomb Award for Outstanding Freshman Science Fair Project.
1960-63, North High School, Torrance, CA: Forensic team (1960-61), Most Promising Boy Speaker Award (1961); Tennis team manager (1961-62); Advanced Placement courses in Russian and Mathematics at El Camino College (1961-62); Resident Honors Program for High School Seniors at USC (1962-63); Bank of America Achievement Award in the Field of Science and Mathematics (1963); Co-valedictorian with Elias (Bud) Baumgarten for Class of '63.
1962-63, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Resident Honors Program for High School Seniors.
2012, Central County Regional Occupational Program/Garden Grove Unified School District (CCROP/GGUSD); Completed first two of three courses to become a back office clinical medical assistant. The 3rd course, including an internship, is being postponed while I work full time for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, processing Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications under President Obama's executive order allowing undocumented immigrants who were bro...Expand for more
ught to the U.S. as children, and who meet certain other critera, to remain and work legally in the U.S.
College:
Most of my undergraduate work was done at USC (1962 to 1966) in mathematics & music. I transferred to Calif. State Univ., Fullerton in 1966, from which I received a B.A. in mathematics in 1970. I did some graduate work in business administration at CSUF, with an emphasis in quantitative methods, before moving to Denver, CO in 1980.
I did some post-graduate work in religion at the Summit School of Theology in Denver, CO, purely out of personal interest. I do not wish wish to become an ordained minister, but I graduated from the Lay Ministry Academy at the Claremont School of Theology in April 2012.
After returning to Orange County from Denver in 1998, I took several courses in psychology and sociology at both Fullerton College in Fullerton and Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, with some thought of later pursuing a master's degree in psychology and/or counseling.
Purely for fun, I took aviation ground school at Orange Coast College in 1971. After completing my ground school, I took flying lessons at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Base (now closed) Flying Club in Tustin. I soloed in a Cessna 150 (2-seater) but did not log enough hours to get my private pilot's license before I decided to give it up and get married.
Workplace:
2021-present, Officially retired!
2013-21, Information Processing Technician, County of Orange Health Care Agency, Behavioral Health Services, Adult and Older Adult Behavioral Health, Crisis Stabilization Unit, Santa Ana, CA
2012-13, General Clerk I, LongView-FedConsulting Joint Venture, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Laguna Niguel, CA
2010-12, Various temporary jobs
2006-10, Film Crew Associate, AMC 30 at The Block, Orange, CA
2005-06, Asst. Proj. Mgr., Soc. Sci. Rsrch. Ctr., Calif. State Univ., Fullerton, CA
2004-06, Owner & Gen. Mgr., McClendon Professional Services, Garden Grove, CA
2004-05, Tutor (math & English), Disability Support Services, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA
2003-04, Copy Editor, Orange County and Long Beach Blade, Laguna Beach, CA
1998-2002, Information Processing Technician, Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, CA
1990-97, Technical Writer/Editor, Technology Training Systems, Inc., Aurora, CO
1988-89, Technical Writer, CDI Corp., Arvada, CO
1987, Engineering Writer, CalComp-A Lockheed Co., Hudson, NH
1981-86, Systems Analyst & Technical Writer, Auto-trol Technology Corp., Thornton, CO
1967-80, Member Technical Staff, Rockwell International Corp., Anaheim, CA
Military:
1962-67, AFROTC at USC.
1963, Awarded a medal by the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution as Outstanding Freshman Cadet for 1962-63 academic year.
1963-67, Air Force Merit Scholarship (National Merit Scholar) at USC.
1965-67, Lt. Paul O'Hare Squadron of Arnold Air Society (honorary AFROTC fraternity) at USC; Squadron chaplain.
1967-68, Air Force Reserve, March AFB.
1968-70, Air Force Reserve, Norton AFB.
1970, Honorably discharged as E-5 (Staff Sergeant).
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