Sherman Ball:  

Sherman, AKA Hardee, Ball went into the Navy right after graduation. My naval career consisted of about 18 months of boot camp and schools and 6 months Portsmouth Naval Hospital and temporary retirement with a 50 percent disability. I spent one semester in Buena Vista college and decided college was not for me. A short time later the VA counselled me and recommended going to engineering school in Indiana. The good part was I finished with a degree im electronic engineering but the bad part was I got out in the middle of a recession and couldn't get a job. After a couple of months, I got a job teaching electronics at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas where a few months later I interviewed with Raytheon for an engineering job in Massachusetts While at Raytheon, I met my wife Adrienne who worked for Raytheon also and we bought our first home in Southborough and a year later had a daughter and I went to Boston College evening college and earned a degree in business. A couple of years later I went to Babson College and earned my MBA. During my career, I worked for Raytheon, GTE Sylvania, Honeywell on defense programs. Later, I struck out on my own and did independent contracting for 25 years with companies including Northrop, Xerox, Honeywell, and my best job of all, with 7 years at Polaroid. My work covered the spectrum from doing design, to managing US Naval and Israeli programs, to writing proposals for Drivers License programs, including the State of Iowa. Adrienne and I had a wonderful life working together by working together on our homes and different projects. Adrienne and our daughter did a lot of craft work together. Our daughter Franny went to Boston College and to Babson College and received degrees in Business and an MBA. During her MBA studies, she met a Japanese student from Tokyo who we thought she would break up with when he...Expand for more