Fred Farner:
CLASS OF 1959
Benson Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1959
Portland, OR
Linfield CollegeClass of 1982
Mcminnville, OR
Clatsop Community CollegeClass of 1982
Astoria, OR
Laurelhurst Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Portland, OR
Oroville Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Oroville, WA
Fred's Story
Life
I joined the U S Coast Guard right out of Benson High School. Seven years later I had the opportunity to go to OCS and was commissioned an Ensign in 1966. I spent a total of twenty years in the service. I was a Federal Marine Investigator and Marine Inspector with specialties in non-destructive testing. Near the end of my career I was loaned to a civilian government agency and spent two summers as a Federal Inspector on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Project. Along the way I picked up an AA and an AS.
After service I used my GI Bill and graduated from Linfield College with a BS in Business Management. The next chunk of my life was spent as owner/manager of a tax preparation business in Astoria, Oregon. I had passed my Consultan...Expand for more
t exam and had up to fifteen employees.
Overlapping both my military service and tax business, I taught business, income tax, and first aid classes at various community colleges.
In 1992, I went back to school at the University of Oregon. In 1996 I was awarded my MS in Human Resource Management. That led to a tenured professorship at the University of Nevada, Reno [Dodd-Beales Fire Protection Training Academy] where I chaired the HAZMAT training school and also taught SAR Search Management, Vertical Rescue, and Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting.
In 2002 my wife if 38 years died. In 2003 I re-married a family friend. We are now happily retired in the Oregon High Desert, at Madras, Oregon on ten acres of solitude.
Life is good!
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