Larry Shields:
CLASS OF 1961
Hempfield Area High SchoolClass of 1961
Greensburg, PA
Larry's Story
Life
After leaving Hempfield in '61 I entered the USAF for 4 years. I was based in Texas, Michigan with the Strategic Air Command and Japan with an Air Rescue Unit. I enrolled at Penn State's Fayette campus upon my discharge and met and married my wife Diane, a '64 Connellsville graduate.
I secured a job with Bell of Pennsylvania in Wilkes Barre and quit to secure a Penn State Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. I returned to Bell in Stroudsburg upon my graduation. I retired in December 2002 (Verizon) after 34 years and various engineering and/or staff support positions in Reading, Norristown, Valley Forge, Philadelphia and Silver Springs, MD.
Diane and I have been married for 48 years. She is a Registered Nurse. We had daughter's Jennifer in '71 and Amy in '75. Jennifer graduated from the University of Penna with a Masters in Nursing and from Millersville University with a Nurse Practionisher's degree. She has given...Expand for more
me 3 grandchildren and has her own midwifery and medical practices in the Amish community in Lancaster County. Amy graduated from Harcum as a Vetenarian Technician and worked in the University of Penna small animal clinic as Technician and Recruiter. She was head of the Veterinarian Nursing staff at Frazier Vet Referal Service until taking the Director of Marketing and Development position with Hope Veterinary Referral Hospital in Malvern.
College
Penn State Fayette Campus and Penn State Middletown for Mechanical Engineering. At this point in my life I had already seen 4 years of military service. I watched other's squirm over the Viet Nam draft.
Workplace
Retired in December 2002
Military
September '61 to March '62 was in Texas for basic and administrative schooling. I was with the 379th Bomb Wing in Oscoda, Michigan through April '64 and was sent to Japan with the 36th Air Rescue Squadron until my discharge in August '65.
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