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After stumbling upon the MRHS59.org Website launched by Don MacLean, I have had emails exchanges from almost a dozen old friends that I have not had contact with in almost fifty years. What an honor, what a privilege.....how exciting. So here is a profile of what I have done in fifty years. Briefly.......I have had two marriages.....the first was fine, the second continues to be spectacular! I have six children........three with the first marriage.....three acquired by virtue of the second marriage We have 12 grandchildren... I have lost one parent, my Dad, and one brother, Gaylen (MRHS63) We have lost one child, our daughter Raylene who died by stroke at 31 years of age and one grandchild, Thomas, who died from leukemia at age 10. I attended Lower Canada College Senior Matriculation year - successful. I played football for LCC and won the school's Brooke Claxton Public Speaking Contest that year. I spoke on why I believed the Law of Gravity should be repealed. Then I attended first year Engineering - Queens University - Not Successfully - I was a disk jockey on the Queens Radio Station - that provided many opportunities to meet girls. - Bought my first car - needed car to take out dates - disaster - required many $'s - Delivered 350 papers every morning around Kingston to pay for car. - Spent the rest of the day in bed recovering from nightly partying and early morning paper delivery. Returned to Montreal and my my Dad got me a job at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, Accounting firm. (They were his Company's auditors) Attended first year Accounting for CA at McGill - night classes - Received perfect score at Christmas Exam - top of class - 450 in that class - Never went back to another McGill accounting lecture. - attended Sir George William's University Night Classes first year commerce. - became Vice-President of the Evening Students and sat on their council. - met my first wide, Marilyn, who was a full time secretary for the Evening Students Council - When Peat Marwick learned I no longer attended accounting classes they asked me to leave. I married Marilyn, converted to the Orthodox Jewish Faith (that's a story I will write some day). Marilyn's Dad helped me enter the schmatte trade (rag trade) Thus, my next job was becoming a Receiving clerk in maternity clothing manufacturer - "Precious Secret Maternity Wear". Rolls and rolls of fabric arrived, and I helped receive and carry the rolls to the cutting tables for the cutters. Staying in the rag trade, I moved up to become a shipper for a Cocktail Dress Manufacturer - "After Dark Fashions" and shipped dresses all over Canada. Then I moved back to the primary side of the textile industry. I became the production manager for two large textile mills. One in Frandmere, Quebac manufacturing acrylic knitting yarn for the sweater industry, and a spinning mill in Sutton Quebec manufacturing carpet yearn for the large carpet tufting industry. Within a year or so I was promoted at Yarntex to be a salesperson to the Carpet, Cloth and Knitting Manufacturers.

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