Edwin Clawson:  

Life After graduating in June of 1957, I worked some construction jobs and then went to work at the Mahwah Ford plant in September. I was laid off in December of '57 and worked in a Shell station on North St. near where the old Sears was until I went on active duty in the Navy in February '58. I served on an aircraft carrier, the USS Lexington CVA-16, in the Pacific until January of '60 when I was discharged. I met Gary Lewis on one of our stops in Hawaii. I worked at various jobs for a year and a half before starting at OCCC. Paul Vignola and I were going there at the same time both having served in the military. Paul was in the Marines in Beruit while I was defending Taiwan and the off shore islands of Matsu and Quimoy. I was at OCCC from 1961-1965 mostly part-time while I worked a number of jobs to pay expenses. In September of 1965, I transferred to University of North Dakota where I earned my BA in 1967. I went back the following year to start Law School and completed my first year. During that year I married Annette Beaulieu. We have been married for thirty nine years and have three children and one grandchild. Neither of our boys Peter and David, both in their thirties, are married. Our baby girl, Regan was married in 2003, and in 2006 she and her husband Pete had a baby girl named Cicely whom I babysit at least two days a week. I call her my little girl's little girl. After leaving the Universi...Expand for more