George Osborne:  

Although I was born and raised in Conneaut I have not been there but a handful of times since leaving in 1964. I attended K-12th grade with the Class of 1964 and should have graduated with them but because of my rowdiness and poor class attendance I ended up with 15.25 credits instead of the required 16 credits to graduate. I enrolled in summer school to make up the credit but an opportunity to go to California with two friends presented itself and I took it. I stayed in Anaheim, CA for a year and then joined the Army in 1965. The following year I got married and once I got settled down (I was kind of rebellious in my younger days) I started thinking about furthering my education. Although I had taken the GED I still wanted to graduate from the High School I had attended from 7th-12th grades so I wrote to Mr Macmillan and he hooked me up with Mrs Yohe who helped me enroll in two Carnegie correspondence courses for which I completed the requirements for 11th Grade English and received my diploma from Conneaut High in 1972. (I was hoping my diploma would indicate 1964 as the graduation year, however, the diploma the Principal (Mr Colson) sent me was for the then current 1972 year. I apologize to the class of 1972 as I know this must drive them crazy trying to figure out who I am.) We had three children during my first marriage and we divorced in 1981 after returning from a second tour (7 years total) in Germany. I got married again in 1982 and had two more boys during this second marriage. In 1985, I retired from the Army at the rank of Chief Warrant Officer Three (CW3) after 20 years of active duty service with...Expand for more