AARON CLYDE RANDALL
My years at MHS, because of my perceived liberating maturity, were shaky at best. Some would say that I was a non-conformist. It would seem that no matter what I did as a student there, I usually stumbled over one rule or another. Consequently, my early departure was not unexpected or unappreciated by some quarters. So while most of you were studying Political Science and planning your Senior Trip, I was going through the USAF boot camp in NY, tech school in Ill., then on to my first working assignment in Pa.
On June 4, 1954, the day following her graduation from Godwin HS, I married Nancy Lynn Chase-whom I had met a year earlier while she was camping at Teals. Laurie Lynn, my first of three daughters, was born July 22, 1955. Then Terrie Lee-April 8, 1959 and Cristie Lane-September 9, 1960 were both born while I was on a three year assignment in Beausejour Manitoba Canada.
It was in 1962, while I was assigned to an Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron near Sacramento California, that I had the opportunity to finish my high school requirements so that I was able to physically graduate from Grant Union High School, North Highlands, Calif. I was also able to attend a couple of semesters at American River Junior Collage, where I studied Mathematics and Electronics. During my twelve and a half years in the US Air Force, I traveled across our great nation, was in Alaska, Canada, Iceland, and Europe.
After my leaving the Air Force in 1966, I worked a number of years (1966-1969) in the Electronics field: where I worked on the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) project at Lear and in the background music design and up-grade engineering department at Rowe International. Since my grandfather and father were both carpenters, and the fact the I had had considerable experience working with them during my younger years, I went into the Residential Building business. Then in 1980 I went to work for USDA Farmers Home Administration as a Construction Inspector in west-central Michigan. It was in 1984 that I left USDA and went on an eight year sabbatical for an in-depth study of Theology. The product of that lengthy study is- www.the-aaron-papers.net . I presently work on website design and hosting, as well as the promotion and management of The Aaron Papers.
The saddest day of all of these years came on March 5, 1997 when Nancy unexpectedly passed away in her sleep form an embolism.
I have nine grandchildren and two great-grand-daughters born here in 2006.
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