Michael Harmon:
CLASS OF 1962
Washington Union High SchoolClass of 1962
Fresno, CA
California State University Class of 1966
Fresno, CA
Sylmar High SchoolClass of 1965
Sylmar, CA
American Elementary SchoolClass of 1958
Fresno, CA
Lowell Elementary SchoolClass of 1952
Fresno, CA
Michael's Story
After graduating from WUHS I joined the Navy Reserve and went to Boot Camp for the summer. I attended Fresno State for a couple of years and then transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, graduating from there in December 1966 with a B.S. in Ag Business Management. During the summers at Cal Poly I attended Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, earning a commission as an Ensign upon graduating from Cal Poly.
I was on active duty in the Navy from December 1966 through 1969, based in Long Beach, CA on an ocean-going minesweeper. This included a tour of duty in south-east Asia, patrolling the coastline of the northern part of South Viet Nam. As the junior officer on board the ship,...Expand for more
I was the Boarding Officer and spent a lot of time boarding/searching junks and sampans for Vietnamese draft dodgers and contraband.
Following the Navy I got married and went to work for the California State Division of Highways, now known as Caltrans, as a Right of Way Agent in the San Bernardino office. I also worked in the Los Angeles office for nearly three years. My wife passed away in April 2004, and I retired from Caltrans in October 2005.
Since retirement I have occasionally worked part-time for Caltrans, and spend most of my time working on the house, dabbling in photography, and occasionally traveling. Karen Andersen (WUHS '64) and I reconnected at a class reunion, and married in 2016.
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