Darryl Daudet:  

Elementary & High School: Attended McDonald grade school grades 1 thru 5. After two months of 6th grade at McDonald we moved and I attended Robinson Twp. School from 6th through 8th grade and then it was back to McDonald High School for grades 9 thru 12. My brother had a Studebaker convertible which he sold to me in the summer of 52. Thinking back I was pretty lucky to be a senior in high school driving a convertible to school. After my military service in the Marine Corps it was back to school evenings at Penn Technical Institute (PTI) while working full time at Ambridge until I graduated in 1960. Jobs: Paper route for Pittsburgh Post Gazette, pin-setter at Moreau's Bridgeville bowling alley, poster change person for Dreamland theater, Jerk (Soda) at Bard's Dairy Store on Lincoln Avenue, McDonald during summer of 52 and winter and summer of 53. American Bridge Steel Fabricating (Ambridge, Pa) the fall after graduation. That was interrupted by a stint in the Marine Corps and then back to Ambridge. My first job after graduating PTI was at Farrington Electronics in Alexandria, Virginia. That was where I learned computer programming. After Farrington went bankrupt in 1971 the engineering division was purchased by Lundy Electronics in Charlotte, NC. After a year in Charlotte I transferred to the field office back in Annendale, Virginia. After a couple of years it was off to the (so called) Beltway Bandits. That is the term given to the companies that work under government contract most of who were positioned just off the beltway around Washington, DC in Maryland and Virginia. I found myself following the government contracts working for whichever company won the next contract. Some were: CSC where I honed my computer programming skills and then, TRW, CACI, Grumman, Logicon and many more. Some companies I worked for twice. After 1974 the maximum time at any job, until I retired in 2005, was five years. The ...Expand for more