Terrance (Terry) Brown:  

Upon graduation from Knoch HS, class of '61, I wasted a semester at Syracuse U. (too damn cold and snooty) before returning home and attending Slippery Rock U. I graduated from The Rock in 1965 with a BA in Health and Phys. Ed. but learned in my final student teaching semester that teaching wasn't for me - the kids were out of control. So, I was 22 years old, a college degree in-hand, no job prospects, and heading for trouble on some back streets of Pittsburgh. With less than clear logic but guided by unrecognized grace I enlisted in the U.S, Marine Corps the summer of '65. That impulsive action may have saved my life and through 13 weeks of Marine bootcamp I finally grew up. However, I obviously failed as a Private First Class, because within the year I was shipped off to OCS (Officers Candidate School), evidently to see if I could do better with a bar on my shoulder. That seemed to do the trick as thirty-one years later I finished my tour in the Marine Corps and retired as a Colonel in '96. Along the path of my military service, I obtained both a master's degree in physical education (exercise physiology), which the Corps never really used, and a master's degree in counseling psychology which I DID use to launch a second career worki...Expand for more