Kenn Hinick:  

Hi fellow classmates. Who am I? I, like most, am a product of my environment. I learned a lot from those around me and the situations I was in. To understand who we are we must look at where we have been, so read and understand who I am. I wish this site had a "Spell Checker." English was not one of my better subjects in school. Miss Rink took a slight dislike of me in the 7th grade after I killed a bee by throwing a book through her 3rd floor classrom window. It wasn't the killing of the bee or breaking the window that upset her. It was the discovery, after I went down and recovered my book, that the book I chose to throw through the window was an English book. After graduation from IASHS in 1966, I went to work for Campus Sportswear. During the fall of 1967, I was laid off and went to work for Delta Drilling. In early 1968 I buried one of our classmates and one of my best friends, Wayne (Buck) Lewis. He was killed in Viet Nam as were many of our friends and classmates. In March, 1968, I joined the Army Security Agency. This was the start of a rewarding and adventurous career. I had stated in our yearbook that I planned a career with the Air Force. More on that later. The ASA began all the checks for my clearance and on July 7th, 1968 I went to Ft. Dix, NJ for Basic Training. T...Expand for more