Wayne Flook:  

Wayne attended St. John’s and Frederick High schools (HS). Rather than complete HS, he served three years in the paratroops attaining corporal. He used some of his 82nd Airborne free time as an off-post laundry agent. In 1957, Wayne obtained his Maryland High School equivalency. Wayne earlier worked at newspaper delivery, grocery clerking & delivery, food cannery, and in the hosiery mill, then he joined army. In 1958, a civilian again, he got his Private Pilot license, but soon thereafter aborted aviation as a career. He next became a telecom (OJT) cryptographer, mostly nights, for the US Atomic Energy Commission (1958-1962) in Germantown. He attended college and worked in USAEC full-time all along mostly. A weekend attendant at the Frederick Municipal Airport in 1959 caused some to say that he burned the candle at both ends and in the middle. Moreover, he earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Class of 1963, from Mount St. Mary’s College. In his senior year he quit his USAEC job. He later worked as a Jr. accountant: first for (Rimler, CPA) in Frederick, then for (Carter, CPA) in Hagerstown. Degreed, he chose private accounting as the Internal Auditor with Investors Loan Corp. in Frederick. However, disenchanted with experienced personal-loan business, he turned his efforts elsewhere. He entered industrial accounting with Fairchild Aircraft. His later spare-time employer (F.Turner) hired him full-time as Comptroller & Corporate Secretary for Turner Enterprises. In 1967 - burning the candle at both ends - he founded a modestly successful Grumman Canoe Sales, Rental & Tour-Guide Outfit which he operated and grew until his 1975 divo...Expand for more