Frank Harris:
CLASS OF 1960
St. Mary's High SchoolClass of 1960
Manhasset, NY
Valparaiso University - LawClass of 1985
Valparaiso, IN
C.W. Post College - Long Island UniversityClass of 1965
Brookville, NY
Notre Dame SchoolClass of 1956
New hyde park, NY
St. Patrick SchoolClass of 1956
Brooklyn, NY
Frank's Story
Updated 25 September 2015.
I've been receiving notices that people have been dropping by and that some have left notes or messages, so I figure I ought to come back at least to straighten some things out and maybe tidy up a bit. I haven't the time or the energy to re-write what follows below, so please bear in mind that time doesn't stand still and any events mentioned below are now a few years old.
As for the profile photo, early in 2008 I received an invitation to the House of Lords in London and decided to accept. My wife had business to attend to, so it was just young Eduard and I who went.
Anyway, that's Lord Wade of Chorlton on the left who invited me, then Eduard and me in the Lords' Dining Room at the House of Lords.
After St Mary's H.S. I went off to college, but I don't think I was really ready for it. i worked for a while and went back to college at night and finished at Post in 1965. Stayed there to start a master's program, but the army got me and I was "sort of busy" for the next four years.
In many ways my time in the army was really rather "interesting". Still, some of it was quite boring, so I volunteered for airborne training and served in an airborne division before getting into Special Forces. Thought I'd have my "green" beret "bronzed" as part of an ash tray, but it's still in the back of my sock drawer.
Did most of my time--nearly three years--at Stockerbush Kaserne (5th Group) near Buren in North-Rhine Westphalia, Nidder Kaserne (501st ADA) in Kilianstadten, Hessen, and Rose Barracks (8th Inf Div ABN) in Bad Kreuznach. Jobs were difficult to find when I got home in December 1971, so I joined a reserve unit on Long Island to get a little cash for monthly duty, but got bored and in mid-April 1972 transferred to the 11th SF in Tappan, NY and was on active duty with them from mid-June to just before Christmas 1972 but an LOD injury had me going to the St Albans Naval Hospital and then to the VA.
When my time in the army was over I finished a master's at Post and decided to use the GI Bill to study at a university in England and lived there for five years from 1973 to 1978; a very interesting experience during which I acquire...Expand for more
d quite a few friends, became an ardent football/soccer fan of both Everton and Liverpool, but I found English food to be a contradiction in terms.
My father had become ill just a few months before I got out of the army and his condition got worse while I was in England. That required frequent visits home, but after a gruelling student experience in England I passed all the requirements and returned home after the oral defense of my dissertation but before graduation, so I received the Ph.D. in absentia and published a few pieces mostly on Irish legal history in academic journals such as "The Irish Jurist" and "Studia Hibernica" and some reviews in the "American Historical Review".
Jobs were difficult to come by, so I took an offered scholarship to go to Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana, passed the NY bar examination and would later be admitted to various federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court, and began working for Denis Dillon who was then the Nassau County District Attorney. I retired from the DA's Office in September 2002.
A few months later I was offered a teaching position at Farmingdale State College (SUNY) and have been there ever since.
I am married to the lovely Lidiya Petrovna Imanova (I had a Top Secret Crypto security clearance while in the army and her maternal grandfather was a colonel in the KGB and two of his brothers out-ranked him and were KGB generals--go figure) and our family includes two sons (Anar, an old family name on my wife's side, who is chief engineer at a factory building seaplanes) and Eduard (currently a student at Baruch College, City University of New York) and Donny (the only other Mick in the household, but, unfortunately, he's the family dog).
Hope my friends and the people I knew at St. Mary's and CW Post and Valparaiso as well as those from Buren, Kilianstadten, and Bad Kreuznach are all doing well and leading happy lives.
P.S., There are some notes and photos from my time in the military of some of the places I was stationed such as Kilianstadten and Bad Kreuznach in Germany (sorry but there are none from my SF time) and some from my time as a student in England in a photo album here.
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