Jerry McGuire:
CLASS OF 1965
Lenape High SchoolClass of 1965
Medford, NJ
Bradley UniversityClass of 1969
Peoria, IL
Fair Park High SchoolClass of 1965
Shreveport, LA
Midway Middle SchoolClass of 1961
Shreveport, LA
Claiborne Fundamental Elementary SchoolClass of 1958
Shreveport, LA
Jerry's Story
Life
You can catch up with my life on my web site at jeremymcguire.com which is rather constantly under construction since I can never make up my mind how it should look. Sheesh! Artists!
I am celebrating the publication of my childrens book, "O'Shaughnessey: A Boy and His Leprechaun," which is available on Amazon.com, which I both wrote and illustrated using the pen and ink techniques of the 19th Century.
I am currently working on the second book which will come out soon.
I am an artist and writer, formerly an actor and director, now working in a law firm to pay the mortgage and buy me paint and paper. My dear wife Kat is an artist and a police officer, mostly an artist.I am living with my wife, Kat and her two cats, in a Queen Anne Home in Chicago (circa 1883) and my daughter Patty, a veteran of the Air National Guard and graduate of Illinois State University, now has gotten a Masters Degree in Social Work at the University if Chicago. The other daughter is married and a mama, with two daughters, Cori Lynne and Ellie Marie. She also has a Masters in Education and teaches third grade in Bemidji, Minnesota. My two sons, Dave and Dan, studied in the Film Department of Columbia in Chicago. (Theatre is a genetic condition.)
Dan is working as an assistant editor and Dave is free-lancing as a screenwriter.
School
I moved to New Jersey from Shreveport, Louisiana in 1961 and entered ...Expand for more
Lenape Regional High School in Burlington County as a Freshman. My chief interests were art and girls, not necessarily in that order, although, I must confess, most of my successes were in the former. I was, to be frank, a geek, more Richie Cunningham than Fonzie. I got better. By the time I was a senior, I had managed to get the lead in the school play as "The Boyfriend" and started getting a lot more attention. My girlfriend, Doreen Bakely, was the love of my life until I moved to Illinois and that was that.
Military
After three years of college, the Army caught up with me in 1968. I took basic training at Fort Leonard Wood and was assigned to Fort Bragg where I promptly took up with the gang at the Ft. Bragg Playhouse. If my children ask what I did in the VN War, I can say I was in the Venetian campaign with Othello, and laid waste to the world in "Skin of our Teeth." I also fomented rebellion as Mr. John Adams in "1776."
A brush with the overseas replacement station saw me almost go to VietNam, but, as luck would have it, I never did go.
I got out in February of 1971.
Then, I got married.
College:
After my first abortive attempt to get a degree, spending three years as a poor scholar at Bradley University, I went back to Illinois State after the Army and eventually pulled off a Master of Fine Arts.
Children:
Angie
David
Patty
Daniel
Grandchildren
Cori
Ellie
Kaitlyn
Racelyn
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