Hal Narus:  

Life My bio, in a nut shell, and without life's dramas. I was born at Ft. Munroe, VA where my father was assigned to an Army mine planter, 5 months into WW11. I spent the next 17 years as a military dependent moving every couple of years. Starting with my teen years, I lived on Governor's Island (Fort Jay) N.Y. (1956-1959), and left Curtis H.S.(Staten Island) during October 1959 of my senior year. The choice was not mine. My father's military career had ended due to illness. It was also difficult to leave my friends, and not graduate with my class. Over the years I would often travel to New York on business, and the shuttle plane from Wash.DC would fly over Governor's Island, reminding me of my teen and high school years. I often wonder what my N.Y. friends have done over the years, and I would like to hear from them. I finished H.S. at Christopher Columbus in Boston, and graduated with a class of 90, so it was not difficult to make new friends, and know everyone. It was difficult to adjust to a life of not living on an Army base. After H.S. I was not sure what I wanted to do as a career. Several turning points directed my life. I started my education at Boston University, interested in the sciences, but left at the end of my second year. Over the next dozen plus years I tried different jobs for experience, and kept working toward my education. In looking back, work and study came before any social life. In the end I obtained a BSA, MBA, JD and later an LLM. I did not plan on going to school as long as I did, but I did not enjoy working in finance or business management; however, after working for a company that exported arms and technology, I decided I wanted a career in international business/law, and applied to law school. This decision resulted in the second turning point in my life. The first was declining Navy flight training. At the last minute and with some guilt, after going through the medical and testing, I used my 4-A classification, and avoided...Expand for more