Nowell MacArthur:  

CLASS OF 1959
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John Swett High SchoolClass of 1959
Crockett, CA
Garretson Heights SchoolClass of 1955
Rodeo, CA
Hercules Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Hercules, CA
Hillcrest Elementary SchoolClass of 1955
Rodeo, CA
Pinole Hercules 2 Elementary SchoolClass of 1953
Pinole, CA

Nowell's Story

Life I've been in the East Bay since 1946 except for three years away in the army. My wife Sharon was born and raised in Stockton. We met in Berkeley and were married in 1965. We have two sons, two daughters, two granddaughters and two grandsons. We live in Hercules. School Grade School: K - 2, Bayo Vista School; 3, Garretson Heights School; 4 - 5, Hillcrest School; 6, Pinole-Hercules School #2; 7, Pinole-Hercules School #1; 8, Garretson Heights School; 9 - 12, John Swett High School; Night classes in Oklahoma at Cameron State Agricultural College, Lawton. College I attended the Univ. of California at Berkeley from 1962 to 1967, with a year and a half out to work and get money to continue. My major was Asian languages with emphasis in Japanese. I needed a correspondence course to complete my units requirements, and got a BA in June 1968. Workplace During the first two years of...Expand for more
college I worked at a sheet metal shop summers. I worked at a land title insurance company for three years total, 1964 to 1969, with time out to finish college. In 1969 I started a 24-year career as a contract specialist at the Naval Supply Center in Oakland. After retirement from the civil service at the end of 1993, I have been working in office jobs, purchasing, mail, etc. I quit my last job at the end of September 2009. Military I enlisted in the Army in June 1959, and started basic training at Fort Ord, California June 18. I went through a crane-shovel operator's course at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri in September and October 1959, and arrived at the Engineer Depot, ASCOM City, Bupyeong, Korea in November 1959. In July 1960 I was transferred to a security company (guard duty) at Seongwol Ri, Korea until November 1960, when I was assigned to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma until June 1962.
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Yearbooks

John Swett High School 1959 yearbook cover photo
1959 Yearbook
John Swett High School
CROCKETT, CA
John Swett High School 1958 yearbook cover photo
1958 Yearbook
John Swett High School
CROCKETT, CA
John Swett High School 1957 yearbook cover photo
1957 Yearbook
John Swett High School
CROCKETT, CA
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Nowell MacArthur's Classmates profile album
Nowell MacArthur's Classmates profile album
Nowell MacArthur's Classmates profile album
My Granddaughter
From a City of Hercules Powerpoint presentation
Wow they came from all over. Sharon visiting with Popi and Amy in Maryland when her niece and nephews drop in from Philly and D.C.
Nifty view of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from across the Schuylkill River taken by niece Alessandra, the opposite side from where Sylvester Stallone ran up the stairs
Chère Karen, nous sommes arrivés en sécurité
#ParkBenchesoftheWorld Been a long time since I was here last. This road is new.
Dim sum with the house guests before they head back home to France
Last day of Leilee's cooking camp
Nowell MacArthur's album, Mobile Uploads
Under attack by weird rays at Evan Mew's moon yuet - with Lisa Lim Boock
Evan Mew's one-month red-egg-and-ginger party
#TBT We weren’t allowed to have radios in the guard towers at Ammunition Storage Area 053 in Seongwol, Korea. But, for some reason, we were required to wear pistol belts with bandage pouches. A small short wave transistor r
A mantra is recommended to be recited seated, with one’s back straight. But because of a bone-contact arthritis between the first and second lumbar vertebrae, that position is too painful for me so I stand. A good mantra I’
Our mothers got together from time to time. They didn’t know each other’s language, but that didn’t stop them from chatting and having a good time. Sharon’s mother passed away the year our eldest child was born, so the two
Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva wearing a war hat in the audience last Tuesday at the Victory Day parade in Moscow.
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