Jerry Banks:
CLASS OF 1960
Willow Glen High SchoolClass of 1960
San jose, CA
Almaden Elementary SchoolClass of 1956
San jose, CA
Jerry's Story
Life
Sept. 1959: After my 11th grade I quit High School and joined the Navy.
Dec.20 1960: Got married to Lynda and we have been married 55 years.
Lynda made me take correspondence courses and I received my HS diploma from WGHS Mrs. Rudd.
We had two daughters while I was in the Navy. I got out of the Navy in August 1963 just before all the Vietnam stuff started.
I went to work as an environmental ordnance test technician and worked on the Apollo and Gemini space programs, then onto R&D of the space shuttle and military ordnance.
We bought our first house in 1967 in Blossom valley then moved to Almaden Valley in ...Expand for more
1975 and stayed there until 2003 when I retired.
We had another daughter in 1969.
In 1975 I went to work for Air Products and Chemicals where I became a plant operator running air separation plants making liquid nitrogen, oxygen and argon.
In 1978 I was promoted to Assistant plant mgr and managed a 95 mile long nitrogen gas pipeline that served silicon valley electronics mfg..
I am now retired and am living in El Dorado Hills, CA.
I have 13 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
I had a heart attack 2007 that came out of the blue two weeks after my 65th birthday. Had a stent put in and am doing fine now.
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