Darryl Davis:
CLASS OF 1957
Aberdeen/Weatherwax High SchoolClass of 1957
Aberdeen, WA
University of Washington - EnglishClass of 1967
Seattle, WA
Grays Harbor CollegeClass of 1959
Aberdeen, WA
Darryl's Story
Life
Completed high school at the very top of the lower third of my graduating class! At 18 the Army said I was unfit. At age 22, I was not! Enlisted for radar school, went to Germany. Finished UW & looking for a job in 1967 when Boeing died. After many months, went to work for Social Security in Baltimore for 6 years then in Seattle since, & retired in 2011. Worked for Div. of E & A, Div. of Initial Claims and then Continuing Entitlement, then DQB, have been a Disability Examiner Vocational Consultant since 1974 off & on. In the mid-1980s I learned that the tests I took during Army pre-induction testing in 1961 had high scores, good enough to get into Mensa. So I joined Mensa. As I am incredibly boring in a large number of topics, it gave me a new audience. Have a daughter in her 20s. Things have been mercifully uneventful. (Caught downtown in Baltimore during the riots, was at work when the police raided SSA HQ arresting almost 30 people for numbers rackets etc., was in SSA HQ during 9/11 and flew back to Seattle on 9/15, otherwise uneventful.) Used to take still pictures for fun, using film - remember film? For a while I was getting little articles published in the Marine Corps "Gazette." (I was in the Army, trained as a radar repairer I instead ran a library & education center as the Army was short of money for radar and librarians. The articles were on rifle marksmanship in live-fire.) Attaining retirement age, I find myself slowly becoming a troll-stomached elf with wisping hair, counting the passage of days by popping open the sequence of trapdoors in the pill organizer. And my daughter now refers to me as "Geezer-boy." Did some geneology research as my daughter supposedly could be in the Daughters of the American Revolution per family scu...Expand for more
ttlebutt. Fat chance. She is a United Empire Loyalist, formed by King George III, a membership including all Tories expelled to Canada from the US in 1791 and their descendants. One ancestor was almost hung as a horse thief in the 17th Century, but the young widow woman owning the horse decided he would work out as a hired man. A German ancestor was suckered into a get-rich scheme working to cut timber for the Royal Navy up the Hudson River. The developers got rich and the immigrants were stranded. The United Empire bunch had lived through the Scotch revolt against the king in the 1760s and fled to Maine, were expelled to Canada, then participated against Queen Victoria in the Revolt of 1837 and had to flee to Michigan to escape treason charges. Then there were ancestors on both sides in the Civil War. My wife's family has none of this. Hers comes from Central Europe where they lived ordinary lives and did well and were clever enough to flee Hungary, Austria etc. a number of years before Hitler came to power. But on my side, nothing but things that could be movie plots about making big mistakes. Oh, I forgot to mention the ancestor, Samuel Wardell, who was hung as a witch at Salem. He told his wife he was going to plead guilty as those doing so were not getting hung. He pleaded guilty and he was the first guilty plea hung, another ordinary person with bad luck.
My wife died unexpectedly in 2012. Since then, I have been working on taking care of about a decade's worth of household projects neglected while doing other things. Next is to go through the mass of family documents and pictures - there must be facial recognition software for that - to get the volume down. My reading continues as there is always the need for more topics to be boring in.
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