Raymond Gorton:  

CLASS OF 1973
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Hackensack, NJ

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After BT I avoided the Draft by it stopping by Nixon the day I got drafted. So, most of my life I thought I'd got to War and Die. But nope. So, I followed my Heart and got Married at 19 to Nancy my HS sweetheart and worked at a screen print shop. Meanwhile went to Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts for advertising and Photography, plus Hawthorne Bible College and joined Sudan Interior Missions. At age 22 we had my first Child Joel and I was still with the same firm. Got promised work in Texas and moved there and it lasted 1 year and moved back to Jersey. At that time I got involved with a Firm in Communication work(Cable) in it's infancy and built whole Towns and was recommended to do Military Installations. This cannot be discussed because of the Nature of the work. During this time Nancy fell into drugs and committed suicide while with my other child. I raised my son on my own, but fell far from the faith I had in G-d. The state took my son and gave him to his grandmother, they said I was unfit. I went crazy after that and had a tramatic motorcycle accident. Almost died. The agency took me back and got me a contract to remove certain equipment for a Ship going to be turned into a Museum. I stayed with Museum and became it's Exhibit Director "The USS Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum" while in NY went to Parsons Institute for glass blowing and theater arts. Was going to work and got hit by a NY Bus and was DOA and broken in many parts and they put me back together (foot was taken off and reattached) can still walk. Live with much pain. During this t...Expand for more
ime a met a girl in the scene I was in (Hardcore Punk) We got married and after my 6 year contract was up, moved to San Diego to take on a project with the Aero Space Museum there. It fell through and and became an exhibit Designer for a premere Exhibit Firm and did the designs for the San Diego Zoo, US navy, Sea World and Balboa Park. Kept up my Art and have on perminent display several works at the San Diego Art Institute. my wife died and I remained there until I had to go back to NY to be with my Mom and take care of matters as my Brother Billy and Sister Betsy were dying a horrible slow death from AIDS. Remained there for 2 years and met a new girl fell in Love and moved back to Old position in California and we got married. After a few years I got tired and was convinced to get a builders contract license and did. On a job site I got disable from a huge Hit to the head. After a year we decided to move to NC to be near Eileen's Mom and Cherokee Res. Started my own Business here and built my dream B&B and retired a year ago. But that was after a Colon Cancer that was healed and now heart failure. My son is a genius and works for Merck in NJ and is married to a school teacher. I also, with my family have 2 Missions in Costa Rica, to serve my G-d. I lost my faith once, but He found me and brought me back into the fold. I don't preach, but I do teach all who want to know of His saving grace. They just have to look at me. Now at 55 I have found out that i will be a grandfather. I actually made it this far with the help of G-D and really not on my own.
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