Tom MacLeran:  

I was born in Glendale, CA. When I was two moved to LaGrange. We had a cabin in Minnesota (well, a 100 acre farm with farm house, barn, mile of shoreline on Lake Ida near Alexandria, about 150 miles NW of the Twin Cities). I went to a one room school there for awhile. In 1955 moved to Downers. Went to Pierce Downer, Longfellow, Herrick. Made horrible grades but aways dated the smartest girls. In college I managed to finish with a 3.85 average and on the Presidents' List (that's being on the Deans' List four times in a row while going full time in each of the quarters). After high school joined the NAVY. Was stationed at Great Lakes just north of Chicago, SanDiego, Seal Beach, Long Beach, and Mare Island, at Vallejo, CA. Was also stationed on a cruiser and an oiler. Overseas bases was in Yokohama, Japan, and Subic Bay in the Philippines. On the crusier, the U.S.S. Galveston CLG-3, was a mess cook, a deck ape, a missile technician, and the Master at Arms of the mess decks. It's a long story. Was on the Hassayampa AO145, an oiler, for a couple of months u...Expand for more