William Gorski:  

My father and his parents migrated to the United States from Russia during the reign of the Romanovs at the time of the Bolshevik revolution. My mother’s parents left Ukraine for Canada at roughly the same period. The two met in a chance encounter during World War II and married. I was born in Grand Rapids Michigan shortly after the war. In high School, I played drums in a Michigan Rock Band called The JuJus, (More about that on Wikipedia) and produced a record “You Treated Me Bad”, which made the top-ten (WLAV) for eleven weeks; reaching the #2 position on the charts, surpassed only by the mega-hit single “Yesterday” by the Beatles. Graduated in the top 10% of my class at Muskegon Business College (now Baker College) with a 4.0 GPA, Graduating Summa-Cum-Laude, on the Dean’s List every quarter. Top 1/3 of Class at Aquinas College. Received the Army Commendation Medal during my service in Viet-Nam for Bravery and Outstanding Performance against a Hostile Force. 1st Cav Air-Mobile 1968. Owned and operated MicroScribe, a Court Reporting agency, considered by many to be the premier Court Reporting firm in Western Michigan. Industrial Refrigeration Sales & Marketing brought me to Pittsburgh in 2005...Expand for more