Author: Earle N. Lord

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2001-06-22

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1453582762

A Saturdays child, the author has had many jobs since beginning to support himself at age 16. Grocery and bank clerk before the Second World War, Coast Guard seaman, merchant marine A., and army landing craft coxswain during it, and teacher-counselor for thirty years after the war. While teaching, he moonlighted in an amusement part and as an adult school teacher and librarian. After retirement he served on the 80 Olympic Games staff, put in fourteen years as an L.A.P.D. volunteer in a detective squad room, and is presently serving his Congregational church as a deacon. He has one wife, three children, nine grandchildren, and three great grandchildren, with more on the way.