Hello fellow Kentuckians, Floridians, Hoosiers, Buckeyes, Texans and Coloradans! These states have been my home. While New Jersey, New York, Virginia and West Virginia are other United States locations. All originated from Richard Halsey circa 1455 a.d. from Great Gaddesden Parsonage, England of Great Britian and my other Halsey forefathers left Hertfordshire, England. Likely, so is elsewhere in the United States.
Thomas Halsey of Flamstead, Herfordshire, England arrived at Lynn, MA (1633) then relocated to Southhampton, Long Island, NY sometime between January 2, 1592 and built the oldest and still standing house in the United States at Long Island, New York by August 27, 1678 at Southhampton.

My eldest identified genealogy, customs and heritages began in England's Hertfordshire where Richard Halsey circa 1455 was married in Great Gaddesden Parsonage. My Grandmother Rachel Isabel Anderson Halsey's descendant's husband-wife surnames lineages are:
Rutherford-Hash
Hash-Cornett
Peak-Cornett
Cobb-Buchanan
Sandford-
Jaggers-
Stansborough-
Barrett-
Griggs-
Wheeler-
Alley (Cooke)
They are part of my Halsey bloodline.

My greatest, best and most beloved role in life is my marriage to Bonnie Arnelle Swisher and father of Brian Keith, Christopher Scott and Kyle Douglas and grandfather to 5 grandsons, Noah Riley, Brian Alexander, Hunter James, Logan Cale and Liam Cole. All mean so much to me and my joy to live. My love to them!

I was born in the Somerset City Hospital in Kentucky. For a few weeks, we lived with Pop's parents Ira and Della Bogle at 338 Monticello Street in Somerset. Destroyed by a highway interchange & overpass in 2006. Ira was a Somerset councilman for nearly 27 consecutive years until his death. Also, I am related to Admiral William "Bull" Halsey via Reverend Edgar Jackson Halsey (tombstone name Jackson E. Halsey), my grandfather. Thus, both grandfather's surnames have historical backgrounds.

Somerset and Pulaski County, Kentucky are well known for many reasons. Andrew Carnegie funded terrific architecturally designed buildings in Somerset. Nearly all still stand except the demolished Somerset Methodist Church at Waite's Hill. Carnegie often visited Somerset and stayed at the Hotel Beecher downtown. Famous naturalist photographer, Al Greene toured Pulaski County. He proclaimed it to be his favorite location to take landscape pictures.

My hometown and adjoining Town of Ferguson, where I too briefly lived from June 1961 to October 1962, were once major Southern Railroad (SOU) steam and diesel locomotive hubs. Somerset had a railyard and depot. A few miles downline, Ferguson Shops maintained these powerful trains and had its own depot. Ferguson Shops stopped operation in the late 1950s. Ira Bogle and son-in-law, Huston Hudson worked at the Shops until it closed. Huts transferred to Danville, Ky. as a dispatcher until retiring. Ira lost his left hand's 2 middle fingertips by 2 different railyard incidents at the Shops. Ira's son Parker Francis Bogle was a train engineer stationed at Somerset and Danville, Ky. Also, his son-in-law, David Tyree was a Southern Railroad employee at Cincinnati's railyard. Ira's youngest child, Albert Jerry Bogle, was yard foreman for 41 years at the Somerset Depot and an Assistant Fire Marshall and City Councilman, too. He was an official for the local VFW, yet never served in any war.

Somerset resides along beautiful Lake Cumberland among the Appalachian foothills and knolls. It is covered by acres of bluegrass fields. Pioneers settled near Cumberland Falls, the Niagara of the South. I walked beneath Cumberland Falls at age 5 from side to side. Wow! However, today its wooden walkway is gone. The Falls, Lake Cumberland, Cumberland River, Mill Springs, and the numerous creeks, streams and springs crisscrossing the county makes my Kentucky hometown a beautiful place to visit.

A few weeks after my birth, my parents squatted rent free inside a small, rustic cabin in Eubank near Science Hill, Kentucky (1950 census and Brownie family photo). It was built by Samuel Bonifacius, a sharecropper. Subsequently, it was occupied by Clarence Breeze Bonifacius and family, Sam's son.

Anna Lee Bonifacius Schroeder said their small cabin had one dark room with 2 windows. It was without electrical wiring, running water, sink, bathtub or indoor toilet. Inside were bare wood studs, no plaster or wallboard nor were any pictures hung. Just the rough, back side of drab, outdoor siding showed. The cabin was heated by a cook stove. Small beds congested the tiny, less than 150 square feet of living space. It had one room that combined some beds, family chairs and kitchen areas. No knob on the door and the only lock was an exterior eye hook latch. They used a stone to keep the door shut inside. Altogether, a very stark dwelling.

The cabin was located near the source of Indian Creek. It was less than a mile due south of my Grandparents Halsey's farm. It stood between Old Stilesville Road and Hargis Lane north of Old Bull Road. I resided here for about 2 years inside Anna's old Kentucky home.

Anna stated her father, Clarence Breeze and family abandoned it in the summer of 1949 to move to an Indiana field permanently. They traveled west on US 236 from North Salem, Hendricks County, Indiana. Then took the 1st road south at Barnard, Jackson Township, Putman County, Indiana as stated in the April 1, 1950 Putnam County Enumeration District 67-18 census. Today, the road is known as E County Road 1225 N. Coincidentally, from October 1962 to December 1975, I lived nearby in Brownsburg, Hendricks County, Indiana.

Once my childhood brain cells formulated both cognitive language skills and comprehension it retains a vast and lasting memory. Decades later my memorization condition was diagnosed as hyperthymesia. Defined as a very rare mental condition when an individual possesses a superior autobiographical memory that recalls a person's life experiences or observes external events. Alternatively called HSAM, acronym for Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. An ability to accurately recall extraordinarily large quantities of life experiences by date and/or time periods about events that happened during one's life.

About 2 years after my birth, a few months more or less, Pop rented a house in or near Somerset's city limits. The dark roof, white clapboard house sat on top of an incline. It had 3 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom, a wood covered front porch and floor plus a 2 story tall, elevated, rear tower with about 20 wooden steps. The driveway had 2 paved concrete strips with grass and oil patches between them. Front windows for the parlor and master bedroom faced the street. Bogle relatives and friends visited us often. Family and friendships seemed to matter more then.

Underneath those tall, rear steps, I played with miniature, heavy equipment Tonka toys in clay soil among the spiders' cobwebs. My favorite toys were a road grader, earth mover and a black baby doll. Using large cardboard slabs, I enjoyed sliding downhill along the back yard's long slope towards a pasture's wire fence. Also, I rolled sideways or flip-flop style or ran down it, too. What fun!

Shortly afterwards, when I was 3 years old, my parents bought their first residence at 108 Losey Street in West Somerset, an unincorporated postal community. The deed is dated April 11, 1953. The 2 story house had no driveway, but had a full basement with a coal chute and a big garden that Grandpa Halsey plowed by using his 2 horses. Across the street was a grassy field that he plowed and planted into a corn field, too. I was enthralled and intrigued about plowing.

At 5 years old, I began 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset School District. It stood by the Northwest corner of Columbia Street and US-27, now a Taco Bell. How rude!

There is a photograph of Tommy Lee, James Robert and me sitting on a flowery fabric couch. Jim was 1 year old that day and Tom was nearing 3 years old. I remember the day very specifically.

On November 4, 1955 my third and youngest brother and last sibling, Glen Richard was born. The same morning, our Losey Street house burned to the ground and caved into the basement. The basement coal furnace caused the fire. I am the only family member to see our home burn. In class at school, all the students heard an explosion. Some school windows shattered or cracked.

Quickly, the school's principal entered our classroom. He and our teacher went and stood in the second floor hallway by the classroom at a large "spy on the school kids" window. Suddenly, my teacher came back into the room. She hurriedly walked down the aisle to my desk. Grasping my wrist and yanking me out, she said, "The principal wants to talk to you now!"

Instantly fearful, I stood nearby the window with the principal and teacher. Standing at the window, he pointed outside. He asked me, "Is that your house burning over there?" I replied, "I don't know." It was. Flames were visible through some bare tree limbs. Pillars of smoke like a chugging steam locomotive puffed skyward.

The Somerset Fire Department refused to come to extinguish the blaze because we lived in unincorporated, postal community West Somerset (Somerset Journal's 3 of 4 newspaper articles about the fire). Uncle Albert Jerry Bogle was a volunteer fireman. Prior to the fire, he was busy transporting my mom, Geneva, to the Somerset City Hospital to give birth to Glen. Then he drove to the Halsey Farm to find George who was hunting squirrels. There wasn't any telephone service at Grandpa Halsey's house. On their return, Jerry heard about the fire on his citizen band radio. They both raced to the hospital for different reasons. Jerry told Pop about the fire before they went inside to see Mom and Glen.

Three days later, the fire department extinguished a wood fabricating building fire in the same community. See Somerset Journal's subsequent fire reports in their 2nd, 3rd & 4th newspaper editions after the fire. The Fire Department extinguished it creating a big controversy. Ira's response was, "Oh, they'll save wood furniture, but not a family's lives or home." He created a new fire department regulation that became town policy. It read, "If life may be in danger and when called upon the Somerset Fire Department shall go anywhere."

Nobody was hurt except Frosty, our white Labrador Retriever dog. My parents lied about his fate for years claiming he escaped. They finally told me the truth inside their Somerset's Southern Hills subdivision home when I sponsored their 50th wedding anniversary. Frosty hadn't survived. Of course, I had already come to that conclusion as a young, pre-teenager.

After the fire, we stayed on the Halsey Farm for about 2 weeks. Soon, Pop rented a house at 1027 W. Columbia Street for us to occupy. It was around the corner from our burned home and closer to my school. We barely had anything. Christmas 1955 was bleak. It began years of poverty and transience. For over 8 years us 4 boys laid on the floor upon a few bedspreads. Later laying upon one beat up, worn out, old mattress without a bed frame. We slept on the cold floors. We lay 2 abreast, feet towards feet with heads in opposite directions.

Unexpectedly, we moved again a few days after the 1956 New Year. We relocated into a rental house in Hialeah, Florida some 1,000 miles south. It was near Pop's sister, Margaret Young. I was barely 6 years old. First travel day, I broke out with the measles. So did Tommy and James the next day. We parked along the side of the highway for 2 nights while cars and semi-trucks honked at us. I didn't sleep for 3 days, but I did scratch.

We lived in Hialeah about 6 months. Pop's brother-in-law, Larry Young's cabinet fabricating business filed bankruptcy. Pop lost the $5,000 from our home's fire insurance settlement that he invested into this business. We were beyond broke.

Using what little money he had, Pop drove us 1,250 miles to Indiana to live in the countryside at 6605 Wilson Road (formerly Fayette Road) and the corner of S. Indianapolis Rd (originally US 52 aka Lafayette Rd). We lived with Uncle Ellis Halsey and Aunt Kathy in their rural Zionsville postal area home on that SW corner's intersection. The two families with 4 children each roomed together in a 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom. Pop began work at a new job.

During late fall, we rented a Whitestown farmhouse nearby Uncle Ellis on US 52 a few miles north. The tiresome moves continued as Joseph Wayne Wethington (FindAGrave Memorial ID 87429911) of Joe's New and Used Furniture, Lebanon, Indiana, moved us to Thorntown into a tiny Main Street house. We moved again in the spring into a dilapidated farmhouse along Old US 52's east side. It stood cattycorner to Uncle Ellis & family's home. Today, the Little League Baseball Central Regional Baseball field occupies this same land.

We lived almost 3 years in various Indiana homes (my ages 6 to 8 years old). I attended Indiana schools at Zionsville twice, Whitestown, Thorntown, and 3 Lebanon elementary schools, Central, Harney and Stokes.

We returned to Pulaski County, Kentucky after living in Thorntown, Indiana. Near Nancy, Kentucky, we lived along Fishing Creek Road (892 State Hwy 1278) arriving on November 4, 1958, Glen's birthday. Tom (1st grade) and I (4th grade) attended a 2 room schoolhouse at Saline Elementary. I mostly studied and became the 4th grade's highest grade point average student (based on school transcripts). Nell Lee had taught Pop in the 3rd grade, now she taught Tommy and me. The Pulaski County Bookmobile librarian chose Jack London's "Call of The Wild", my first and favorite novel. Next, she chose, "Treasure Island" then "Lost Horizon" and more great books to read. Thanks to her, I became a book worm.

In May 1960, of course, Joe arrived to move us to Lebanon, Indiana where he owned his furniture store and part time Bogle moving company business. We lived first at Superior Street, then Garfield and lastly, Walnut Street homes where I attended Central, Harney and Stokes Elementary schools in 2 years.

I played 1st base in the Lebanon Little League beginning at age 10 for First Baptist Church, minor division baseball team. The next year I played for the Little League major division's Commercial Filters team. Baseball manager, Coach Gerald Cohee, selected me as the team's starting 1st baseman. Both years, Mom and us boys walked to the baseball field in the dark. Pop did not go to any games. I played until the last week of May when we suddenly moved again. Twice Coach Cohee asked Pop to let me stay the rest of the season by living with his wife and him. After the season, he would drive me home to Kentucky. Pop refused.

Joe moved us from Lebanon, Indiana to Ferguson, Kentucky during 1961 Memorial Day weekend. I attended their Junior High's 7th grade & only 6 weeks of the 8th grade before moving again. I had lived in 16 different homes and studied at 11 different schools 12 times (Zionsville's Eagle Elementary twice).

At 11 years of age, I was a star player at center for the undefeated 7th grade Ferguson Junior High basketball team. At age 12, I played Little League baseball for the Little Giants Major League team (2nd place standings) during the 1962 season. I led the league with a .691 batting average (Somerset Commonwealth newspaper), 3 home runs, and most Runs Batted In (RBI), a triple crown feat. League pitchers walked me rather than give up an extra base hit or run batted in (RBI) or both.

I used a 31", hickory wood, thin handle bat that I bought after working odd jobs like dumping cellulous insulation bags into a blower for 8 hours, picking 3 cherry trees bare plus shovel coal into the basement, mow a lawn twice, hoe garden and wash interior windows for an elderly lady's land .

On June 7, 1962, I hit the season's first home run for the Somerset Little League. It soared over the left-center outfield's 30' light pole. After running fast around 1st base, the umpire yelled to me, "Slow down! You hit a home run out of the park!"

Two unrelated boys about 9 or 10 years old stood near the outfield fence. It was measured by a local surveyor the next day. Coincidentally, he had stood beside these 2 boys. The ball landed 365 feet away from home plate across the Southern Railroad yard's 4 sets of railroad tracks into the opposite side's ivy bank. The ball's stitching put an imprint into the clay soil. One boy inserted a concession stand cola cup to mark the ball's location. The home run was hit against the 1st place Dodger's ace pitcher, David Padgett. A record that shall remain unbroken at the GE Somerset Little League field that ceased play in 2008.

The second home run cleared the center field fence, but was not measured. I hit an inside the park, third home run, too. I never tried to hit any home runs, yet am certain I could have hit more. I wanted our team to win thus home runs were incidental and secondary to victory.

At baseball season's end, Coach Barnett told me to listen to the WTLO or WSFC Saturday morning broadcasts on our home's radio. Luckily, we finally had a radio. I waited impatiently for over 3 hours before hearing any baseball news. It hurt when I heard I was the last alternate player selected for the All-Star team. Worse, the announcer said. "Alternate players are not to attend any practice sessions unless the All-Star manager invites you."

Devastating news. How could 3 top batting titles for highest batting average, most home runs and runs batted in (RBIs), the league's highest fielding average player who never made an error, with great baseball savvy and foot speed, a long stride as a first baseman, and team cheerleader be chosen as the last alternate All-Star team member? Why?

Our Little Giants team manager, Charles Barnett, a Somerset Assistant Postmaster knew what happened. So did Grandpa Ira Bogle, city councilman. I asked Coach Barnett 11 years later, while he was working at the Post Office, to confirm this story.

He said, "The league's Board of Directors weren't sure whether a player from Ferguson was within the league's official recruiting boundary for All-Star competition." Somerset and Ferguson towns south/north boundaries adjoin, side by side and still do. The selected alternate all-star players were deemed ineligible to play on the team unless any 'Regular All-Star player' was unable to compete before the first game. Coach Barnett protested my situation. He told the Somerset Little League Board of Directors to remove his son from the All-Star team and replace me into the vacancy.

All-Star Assistant Coach Charles Taylor (1st year Somerset High School varsity baseball coach) had a different approach. He asked the Board, "Shouldn't the coaching staff decide who are the team members and alternates?" The Board members had reviewed the Somerset Little League boundary and determined Ferguson was included. The board agreed with Coach Taylor. So, any eligible All-Star player was permitted to tryout and to be selected for the tournament team.

Unexpectedly, after the 1st All-Star practice, Coach Barnett came to our house. I was in the front yard tossing a baseball against the porch's brick wall to field erratic ground balls. He said, "Why weren't you at All-Star practice yesterday? Go get your baseball hat, glove and shoes. I'll take you." Thereafter, I walked 5 miles each way to every All-star practice as Mom, my brothers and I did for games all season. During one All-Star team practice, the coaches held a homerun derby contest. I won it easily by hitting nearly every pitch over the fence. I already had earned a position as the All-Star team's starting 1st baseman.

I became the first baseball player from Ferguson to be selected and to start on the Somerset Little League All-Star Baseball team. I was 6' tall. I started both games at 1st base and batted 3rd, my preferred batting position. I batted the first, last and 3 other hits and 1 walk in 6 at bats for the All-star team, 4 singles then a double that ricocheted off the right-center fence's top metal bar onto the field. I had other hits and the highest batting average for the tournament, too. Our team finished as runners-up for the tournament after losing to Corbin, Kentucky's All-Star team, final score 4-2.

Afterwards and still 12 years old, I started first base for the Ferguson High School varsity baseball team while in the 8th grade. I should have been in the 7th grade because of my 12 year old age. My first at bat was a bunt single. My picture while bunting against Pulaski County High School appears in a fall edition of the Somerset Journal newspaper. Earlier, I caught a high flying, line-drive ball and base tagged out the 1st base runner for a double play. I never struck out while batting for the Somerset Little League and Ferguson's Varsity baseball teams during the game against Pulaski County High School on September 13, 1962.

That 1st grading period Fall, 1982 school days, I competed for the Ferguson Spelling Bee championship during the pre-noon English period for 2 days. All the boys decided to misspell their first word in protest. I did not agree. They threatened retaliation upon me. I rejected their intimidation. During English class, every boy did misspell and were eliminated. I had to defeat every girl one to one to win. I began to eliminate 1 girl each round. Eventually, the boys started cheering for me to win. All the girls were eliminated except Barbara Flynn. We remained tied when neither of us misspelled any word after two days. The school got the Pulaski County Spelling Bee Committee to approve both of us as co-competitors.

Meanwhile, Varsity Coach Herbert Childers, Jr. decided to have our 7th grade (now 8th grade) previous season's undefeated basketball team play against this year's 7th grade players during the last school period. The students and many local citizens attended. They filled the gymnasium. Childers coached the 7th grade team. We were on our own. Before the 3rd quarter ended, we outscored them 63 to 7. The game was stopped. Not convinced, Coach Childers set up a match against a fine Freshman basketball team the next day. We annihilated them, too. Day 3, we played against the Junior Varsity team comprised of sophomores and some of the freshman team's best players. Once again, our 8th grade team won easily.

The Ferguson's returning Varsity Basketball Team was loaded with talent and had won the Kentucky High School District's championship the prior winter season. They were awesome. Seems Coach Childers had some reason for this mismatch. He did. The Ferguson gym was packed including some of Somerset's Volunteer Firemen, including Assistant Fire Chief Uncle Jerry Bogle plus a few town Police Officers came to watch the game.

The Ferguson varsity players steamrolled over us with elbows and knees smacking into us players. Our 8th grade team had 6 really good players. I was the team's starting center and prime target #1. It was lopsided by half-time something like 60+ to 3. We were soar, ached, and hurt while bent over. During our half-time huddle, a teammate said, "We're getting killed out there!" Out of breath and rubbing injuries, nobody spoke, just shook our heads agreeing. Donnie Wheeler said, "We can't go inside against them. They're waiting for us. So, let's pass the ball once and shoot from the outside perimeter. Then run to the backcourt defensively." We gruntingly agreed and continued to ache.

Third quarter, we scored 25 points using this strategy. Didn't matter, the score was 90+ to 28. Coach Childers mercifully stopped the game. In our postgame huddle, we were tending to our wounded bodies. The Varsity players and Coach Childers stood at the other side of midcourt laughing at us. We wondered, "What lesson are we supposed to learn by being demoralized?" Momentarily, the Varsity team came over to our huddle. We were told, "You guys are good and have a lot of talent, but there is always some team better. Don't get cocky and think you can win every game. Play hard and smart. Good luck this season."

That was the lesson we were taught? Did we have to be beaten to smithereens to learn it by losing?

Next day, upon arriving home from school, Joe Wethington was at our house to move us again. Pop's surprise move tactics happened on the first Friday of October 1962 after we came home from school. I hated moving, especially from Ferguson where I became a successful student (1st by grades) and a top athlete. It meant not competing in the county's spelling bee nor play on a prior year winning basketball team and no more Varsity Baseball games for Ferguson.

My parents gathered our belongings to move. So, I secretly walked to ask Grandparents Bogle to live with them to continue to attend Ferguson Junior High school. They said, "No." I cried while walking home.

We moved to 406 W. Janet Drive, Sunny Knoll subdivision in Brownsburg, Indiana. I attended schools at Brownsburg Junior High 8th grade and through High School graduation on May, 1967. Coach Fred Schmidt cut Kent Lockwood, a popular student, from the previous year's team. I was selected onto the basketball team as its starting center. I led the team in points and rebounds until becoming sick with bronchitis. I never played another second that season nor did any other substitute player aka bench warmer. It became an issue when another subs father, a local doctor, confronted Coach Schmidt about favoritism and lack of substitution. He didn't get Schmidt to substitute any bench team member. We lost every game for the remainder of that season.

Before age 13, I mowed lawns with an unpowered push mower, washed and ironed clothes plus wash and dry dishes without any allowance. I washed windows, gardened, picked 3 cherry trees bare, shoveled coal, did cellulous insulation for pay, but tarred Ford's tire recapping garage's roof without pay.

My first steady job was as an Indianapolis Star morning newspaper paper carrier in Brownsburg, Indiana. I began in June 1963 delivering papers until June 1968. I had helped David Meadows by carrying the Star paper 7 days a week for 2 weeks when his family went on vacation during June 1963.

Afterwards, a different route came available requiring a $200 bond payable over 52 weeks from a share of the route profits. My first route went from College Avenue beginning at Green and along Grant Street including between the side streets of Lincoln, Jefferson and School that ends at Tilden Drive. The route had 28 daily (Monday thru Saturday) and 31 Sunday papers to deliver 365 days a year. I increased the customers to 34 daily and 38 Sunday papers earning at best $6.00 with very few tips. I arose at 4:00am and arrived home before 6:00am every day.

David quit his route after Christmas bonus season ended in January 1964. This route began at South Green Street to Maple Lane along Acres Avenue towards Southtown subdivision to conclude at Sunny Knoll subdivision. Sunny Knoll is where he and we lived. I took over the route and Tommy, my brother, replaced me. My second route increased from 50 daily papers to 79 and from 58 Sunday papers to 129. It became the largest paper carrier route in 3 central Indiana counties.

At Brownsburg, I was on the freshman basketball 1 season, varsity basketball 3 seasons and varsity baseball team for 2 seasons. I ran on the cross country team for 4 years. My senior year I led the team with a season free throw average 78.7% and second in field goal average by 00.04% difference from first place with 45.58% shots made.

At 16 years old, I worked at Carlson's Standard Oil Service Station and next at Frank Burrus Standard Oil I-74 Interstate Station, as a gas attendant and mechanic for 3 years, both in Brownsburg, Indiana. I still delivered those newspapers every morning.

After Bonnie graduated from Brownsburg High School, we married 6 months later. We lived in 2 residences for 13 months. January 1970, we purchased our first home at 514 Alpha Avenue in Brownsburg, Indiana. We were both 19 years old. We owned 3 more homes,. Next home was in the countryside near Morrow, Ohio; then Timberlane Subdivision of Spring, Texas for over 11 years; moved to Midland, Texas occupying 2 rental homes; and now live in our Centennial, Colorado home. We have 3 successful sons and 5 talented grandsons. We love all our boys.

I graduated Cum Laude (3.25 grade point average (GPA)) on May 10, 1981 from prestigious Miami University, Oxford Ohio. Miami University was rated #2 best United States public university by Richard Moll's 1981 research book "Public Ivys". I'm a proud alumnus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree. Majors were in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics plus English (1 credit shy of a major) and Science minors. I am still the only evening student to receive Miami University's English Personal Narrative Scholarship (1977), 3rd place honorable mention.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University, Denver Colorado, a top 100 rated college (57th), in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate (18 credits) on December 2, 2005, with a perfect 4.0 Grade Point Average. My thesis study, True Leadership, received Graduate Professor's 2005 Most Outstanding Thesis award.

Simultaneously with Masters program, studied 2 years in Fine Arts at Arapahoe Community College (ACC), Littleton, Colorado. Achieved 47 credit hours in Fine Arts courses in music, piano, singing, acting and creative writing with a 4.0 GPA. Music courses totaled 41 of the 47 credit hours and became a 5th major. Piano was my 1st and only musical instrument. I learned to read, interpret and play from sheet music.

Won audition at age 55, after competing against 11 younger (ages 18-24) classmates, for male lead role of 'Tony' on stage as an actor and singer in the musical "West Side Story". The performance was taped at Arapahoe Community College Theatre. Sang 'Maria' solo and 'Tonight' plus 'Somewhere' as a duet with female companion.

Previously, sang solo performances of "Oklahoma" and "Ol' Man River" as well as other famous musical or movie melodies. Acted excerpts on same stage as attorney Henry Drummond's character role in stage and movie "Inherit The Wind". Auditioned and offered acting role by Boulder Actors Guild's Vice-President and Acting class instructor. I chose not to accept her offer preferring to be with my 4 toddler grandsons.

Completed Financial Planning courses, 18 credit hours, at Metro State University, Denver, Colorado with a 3.83 GPA in Certified Financial Planning from September 2013 until December 2, 2015.

Summarizing, my college studies began at Indiana Central College, now Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, Indiana from August 22, 1967 until July, 1974 totaling 46 credit hours. During 15 calendar years I enrolled in college courses for 11 years.

After moving to Morrow, Ohio, I attended and graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio from September 1976 until July 1979 totaling 72 credit hours.

Transferred credit hours to Miami University earned at North Harris County College, renamed Lone Star College (LSC)-North Harris College, Houston, Texas, from Spring Semester, January to May, 1979 totaling 9 credit hours.

Transferred additional credit hours to Miami University earned at University of Houston, Houston, Texas, from January, 1978 to May, 1981 totaling 18 credit hours to complete my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate on December 2, 2005, 18 credit hours with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Simultaneously, I attended Arapahoe Community College from August, 2004 to May 13, 2006 to earn 47 credit hours with a 4.0 GPA. I need only 17 credit hours for an Associate Degree in Fine Arts.

Finally, I took Financial Planning college courses at Metropolitan (Metro) State University, Denver, Colorado totaling 18 credit hours from September 2013 to December 2015.

A total of 228 college credit hours overall a 3.25 GPA at 7 colleges.

I delivered Indianapolis Star morning, daily paper route at age 13 beginning in June 1963 through May 1968. My adult (age 16+) employment began with Ole and Beulah Carlson's Standard Oil service station (May 1966 to April 1968). They closed the evening shift. I transferred to Frank Burrus' I-74 Interstate Standard Oil service station and worked into 1969. Both jobs were as a service attendant and mechanic.

I was hired by Link Belt as an inventory specialist. Next, I worked for Allison's Division of GM as a machinist on a vertical lathe, chucking lathe and many other machineries, but got laid off after 16 months. Hired at First Bank & Trust Co., Indianapolis, Indiana for 1 year. Returned to Allisons only to be laid off a second time after 4 months. I had to draw unemployment benefits for 6 months.

Worked at Electric Steel Castings for 2 years in Payroll & Personnel. Summer 1972, I held a second job as an Indianapolis Star & News recruiter. I quit Electric Steel during a walkout strike by the Union members. I was hired as a Star & News Division Manager, but quit in October after my life was threatened by a hostile, 6' 9" tall, black man, age in the 20s, and using psychedelic drugs. I was at work in the neighborhood collecting past due bills. He owed over $30. He held a blackjack club & chased me through the neighborhood late night at 9:30pm. I was saved by a small, older black man who heard my attacker threateniing my life. The older man came out of his house with a shotgun. He ran across the street and surprised the attacker by pressing the gun barrel against the attacker's skull. He told the attacker to leave or die.

Two weeks later, I worked as an analyst for College Life, University Life Insurance Company. During training and Thanksgiving week, my trainer took vacation. One task was to check insurance agents' claims for duplicate commission submittals. Not wanting to be remiss, my inquisitiveness added extra screening procedures. My new method discovered duplicate request for payments. I backchecked for other duplicate payments. In 2 days there were 10 more duplicate payments. My trainer's confirmation was on each voucher. I was scared that my procedure wasn't accurate.

Wednesday, hesitantly, I informed my department manager. He reacted immediately saying, "Wait here!" During a 40 minute wait, his phone kept ringing. I didn't answer it assuming each call was for him. Wrong. He returned and asked, "Why didn't you answer my phone?" He took me to the top floor to meet the President. I was sure it meant termination.

In the President's office sat him with 4 men around a worktable. I had found fraudulent payments totaling over $10.000. They asked, "How did you discover these duplicate payments?" I explained every step. They asked me to work only nights while we audited the books for more "overpayments." She was arrested on Monday after Thanksgiving by the FBI while entering the office's front door.

I continued to locate more overpayments to her and 3 insurance agents. The total fraudulent overpayments exceeded $250,000. During a severe ice storm, I quit at 1:30am on February 8, 1973. The sleet on the parking lot was so slick I had to crawl to my car to get inside it. I arrived home 3 hours later. I took a shower then worked at Texaco without sleep. College Life's 3 auditors never found one cent! I had worked 2 fulltime jobs for 10 weeks.

I was employed for 30 years at Texaco Inc. at Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Houston (4 offices), Midland and Denver with jobs in marketing, real estate, finance, lease ownership and land departments.

In Finance, I proposed the formation of, appointed to, led, and created Texaco's first W. Edward Deming's Quality Circle project. The first project was a 6 month Finance training program involving 26 different courses for all Finance and Accounting employees. It had never been done before. It was a HUGE success. Later, I created 16 Land Department training programs. None were in my job description duties. My typical behavior was to create an environment of success for all employees.

I created, developed, and established the first Land-Legal Forum that lasted over 6 years. Initially, this 2-way training program only had the Legal Department and my team's support. It received the Star Quality Ambassador for Excellence Award. Charles Irwin, Lead Attorney, accepted Texaco's highest corporate award.

The Forum's best achievement was the 300 employees attendance from every Denver Region's departments jointly with the Southern Ute Tribe's chief and Tribal Council and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It took over 2 patient years to accomplish the meeting, a lesson taught well by the tribe. It was an outstanding event and established an understanding of the tribe's approach and cooperation built upon a new trust of one another.

Retired as an Area Land Manager after 30 years at age 52. Returned to employment 6 years later at Delta Petroleum Corp, Denver, CO. as Executive Land Director for 4 1/2 years and Board of Directors member for 2 years.

St. Malachy Catholic Church, Brownsburg, Indiana, Teen Girls Kickball Coach (1966 season). Baseball coach or manager at Brownsburg, Indiana Little League (5 seasons), Cincinnati Babe Ruth (1), Texas Youth Baseball (1), NW45 Little League (2) and Pony League (3), Spring, Tx., in Colorado, Highlands Ranch Youth Sports (1), Dry Creek Little League (2) Hidden Lake (1) and Cherry Creek Little League (3) baseball organizations.

Umpired youth baseball for 19 years and 1 year each for IHSAA at Brownsburg High School, Houston NCAA college baseball, Texas State 14-15 Age Girls High School Soccer Tournament Championship game and Spring High School soccer referee.

NW45 Pony League Baseball Vice President Board Member (1986-1988) and 1984-1985 Little League Baseball Registrar and Board Member. As a 1985-1988 NW 45 Baseball Association boys team manager finished 1st place 3 of 4 years. Coached NW45 Pony League age 13-14 boys to 1st place 2 consecutive years. Each team had only 1 loss. Selected as All-Star coach for 1983 NW45 Little League and 1985 thru 1988 NW45 Pony League.

1988 Pony Boys All-Stars defeated Kingwood, TX and defending champion Vidor, LA All-Star teams on their home fields twice each. All 4 games went 10 innings and 1 run victories. Result, our team won 1988 Pony League Boys Allstars (ages 13-14) Texas Southwest District and Division tournament titles and as 1988 Regional runner-up, lost to Pasadena 4-2.

Simultaneously, coached boys soccer teams for 12 seasons (fall and spring) during 8 years from 1982-1988 for Timberline Youth Soccer Association (TYSA)'s Spring Club. Chosen by Board of Directors as Elite Select Coach 5 years and 9 seasons. Board member as Registrar 7 years. Refereed TYSA soccer (8 years), Spring High School Soccer (1 year) and 1987 Texas State Girls Youth Soccer (age 16-17) championship game.

2nd year coaching soccer and 1st year with the Cosmos (10-11 age boys) of TYSA Youth Soccer, Spring, Texas. Team won club championship (9-1 record) and Texas Youth Soccer State's District, Division, Region and State championships (15-1 record over 8 weekend days). Defeated Sagemont Spurs (3 years undefeated and 2 years defending Texas State champions) in a double overtime (no shootout) State quarter final game; final score 2-1. Won 3 of 4 games in 1982 Texas' State tournament quarter finals. Finished 3rd place in Texas Youth Soccer State Championship.

Spring Streak (age 10-11 boys) team played up 1 level and next higher age group; yet, won 1984 San Antonio Labor Day tournament defeating select 12-13 years old boys. Fall season, they tied for first place for TYSA Soccer Club champions. 1985 spring season's Spring Flame boys soccer team went undefeated. I never played recreational or high school soccer. Only 1 losing season (1st year) all other seasons finished 1st or 2nd as soccer manager.

Continued coaching my grandsons' youth league baseball teams from 2012 for 7 years in Colorado and as All-Star coach 2 additional years.

Other Elementary and Middle Schools beginning at age 5 while in the 1st grade through 8th grade are in order; Elementary schools: 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset, Kentucky (Sept 6 to Nov 4, 1955 and Hialeah, Florida (January 9 to May 31, 1956); 2nd grade at Zionsville, Indiana and Thorntown, Indiana; 3rd grade at Whitestown and Zionsville, Indiana; 4th grade at Zionsville, Indiana and from November 4, 1958 through June 5, 1959 at Saline, Kentucky (2 room school, 1-4 and 5-8 grades); 5th grade at Central Elementary (Fall into January, 1960) and Harney Elementary January thru May, 1961); 6th grade at Stokes Elementary all 3 in Lebanon, Indiana; Junior High: 7th grade September and 8th grade until October 7, 1962; remainder 8th grade at Brownsburg Junior High School the all 4 High School years until graduation at Brownsburg High School, Indiana.

Am writing numerous novels involving different themes and am releasing first book in 2023 and other books soon thereafter. Most importantly is being a husband, parent, grandparent and relative. The best roles I'll ever do.

Altogether, college studies were at Indiana Central College, now Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, Indiana from August 22, 1967 until July, 1974 totaling 46 credit hours; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio from September 1976 until July 1979 totaling 72 credit hours; North Harris County College renamed Lone Star College (LSC)-North Harris College, Houston, Texas, Spring Semester from January to May, 1979 totaling 9 credit hours; University of Houston, Houston, Texas, from January, 1978 to May, 1981 totaling 18 credit hours to complete Bachelor of Science degree.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate started August, 2004 and graduated December 2, 2005 earning 18 credit hours in 6 semesters. Simultaneously attended Arapahoe Community College from August 2004 to May 13, 2006 earning 4.0 GPA for 47 credit hours, Finally attended Metro State University, Denver, Colorado totaling 18 credit hours from September 2013 to December 2015.

Elementary and Middle Schools beginning at age 5 while in the 1st grade through 8th grade are in order; Elementary schools: 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset, Kentucky (Sept 6 to Nov 4, 1955 and Hialeah, Florida (January 9 to May 31, 1956); 2nd grade at Zionsville, Indiana and Thorntown, Indiana; 3rd grade at Whitestown and Zionsville, Indiana; 4th grade at Zionsville, Indiana and from November 4, 1958 through June 5, 1959 at Saline, Kentucky (2 room school, 1-4 and 5-8 grades); 5th grade at Central Elementary (Fall into January, 1960) and Harney Elementary January thru May, 1961); 6th grade at Stokes Elementary all 3 in Lebanon, Indiana; Junior High: 7th grade September and 8th grade until October 7, 1962; remainder 8th grade at Brownsburg Junior High School the all 4 High School years until graduation at Brownsburg High School, Indiana.
© 2023 Earl H. Bogle

Hello fellow Kentuckians, Floridians, Hoosiers, Buckeyes, Texans and Coloradans! These states have been my home. While New Jersey, New York, Virginia and West Virginia are other United States locations. All originated from Richard Halsey circa 1455 a.d. from Great Gaddesden Parsonage, England of Great Britian and my other Halsey forefathers left Hertfordshire, England. Likely, so is elsewhere in the United States.
Thomas Halsey of Flamstead, Herfordshire, England arrived at Lynn, MA (1633) then relocated to Southhampton, Long Island, NY sometime between January 2, 1592 and built the oldest and still standing house in the United States at Long Island, New York by August 27, 1678 at Southhampton.

My eldest identified genealogy, customs and heritages began in England's Hertfordshire where Richard Halsey circa 1455 was married in Great Gaddesden Parsonage. My Grandmother Rachel Isabel Anderson Halsey's descendant's husband-wife surnames lineages are:
Rutherford-Hash
Hash-Cornett
Peak-Cornett
Cobb-Buchanan
Sandford-
Jaggers-
Stansborough-
Barrett-
Griggs-
Wheeler-
Alley (Cooke)
They are part of my Halsey bloodline.

My greatest, best and most beloved role in life is my marriage to Bonnie Arnelle Swisher and father of Brian Keith, Christopher Scott and Kyle Douglas and grandfather to 5 grandsons, Noah Riley, Brian Alexander, Hunter James, Logan Cale and Liam Cole. All mean so much to me and my joy to live. My love to them!

I was born in the Somerset City Hospital in Kentucky. For a few weeks, we lived with Pop's parents Ira and Della Bogle at 338 Monticello Street in Somerset. Destroyed by a highway interchange & overpass in 2006. Ira was a Somerset councilman for nearly 27 consecutive years until his death. Also, I am related to Admiral William "Bull" Halsey via Reverend Edgar Jackson Halsey (tombstone name Jackson E. Halsey), my grandfather. Thus, both grandfather's surnames have historical backgrounds.

Somerset and Pulaski County, Kentucky are well known for many reasons. Andrew Carnegie funded terrific architecturally designed buildings in Somerset. Nearly all still stand except the demolished Somerset Methodist Church at Waite's Hill. Carnegie often visited Somerset and stayed at the Hotel Beecher downtown. Famous naturalist photographer, Al Greene toured Pulaski County. He proclaimed it to be his favorite location to take landscape pictures.

My hometown and adjoining Town of Ferguson, where I too briefly lived from June 1961 to October 1962, were once major Southern Railroad (SOU) steam and diesel locomotive hubs. Somerset had a railyard and depot. A few miles downline, Ferguson Shops maintained these powerful trains and had its own depot. Ferguson Shops stopped operation in the late 1950s. Ira Bogle and son-in-law, Huston Hudson worked at the Shops until it closed. Huts transferred to Danville, Ky. as a dispatcher until retiring. Ira lost his left hand's 2 middle fingertips by 2 different railyard incidents at the Shops. Ira's son Parker Francis Bogle was a train engineer stationed at Somerset and Danville, Ky. Also, his son-in-law, David Tyree was a Southern Railroad employee at Cincinnati's railyard. Ira's youngest child, Albert Jerry Bogle, was yard foreman for 41 years at the Somerset Depot and an Assistant Fire Marshall and City Councilman, too. He was an official for the local VFW, yet never served in any war.

Somerset resides along beautiful Lake Cumberland among the Appalachian foothills and knolls. It is covered by acres of bluegrass fields. Pioneers settled near Cumberland Falls, the Niagara of the South. I walked beneath Cumberland Falls at age 5 from side to side. Wow! However, today its wooden walkway is gone. The Falls, Lake Cumberland, Cumberland River, Mill Springs, and the numerous creeks, streams and springs crisscrossing the county makes my Kentucky hometown a beautiful place to visit.

A few weeks after my birth, my parents squatted rent free inside a small, rustic cabin in Eubank near Science Hill, Kentucky (1950 census and Brownie family photo). It was built by Samuel Bonifacius, a sharecropper. Subsequently, it was occupied by Clarence Breeze Bonifacius and family, Sam's son.

Anna Lee Bonifacius Schroeder said their small cabin had one dark room with 2 windows. It was without electrical wiring, running water, sink, bathtub or indoor toilet. Inside were bare wood studs, no plaster or wallboard nor were any pictures hung. Just the rough, back side of drab, outdoor siding showed. The cabin was heated by a cook stove. Small beds congested the tiny, less than 150 square feet of living space. It had one room that combined some beds, family chairs and kitchen areas. No knob on the door and the only lock was an exterior eye hook latch. They used a stone to keep the door shut inside. Altogether, a very stark dwelling.

The cabin was located near the source of Indian Creek. It was less than a mile due south of my Grandparents Halsey's farm. It stood between Old Stilesville Road and Hargis Lane north of Old Bull Road. I resided here for about 2 years inside Anna's old Kentucky home.

Anna stated her father, Clarence Breeze and family abandoned it in the summer of 1949 to move to an Indiana field permanently. They traveled west on US 236 from North Salem, Hendricks County, Indiana. Then took the 1st road south at Barnard, Jackson Township, Putman County, Indiana as stated in the April 1, 1950 Putnam County Enumeration District 67-18 census. Today, the road is known as E County Road 1225 N. Coincidentally, from October 1962 to December 1975, I lived nearby in Brownsburg, Hendricks County, Indiana.

Once my childhood brain cells formulated both cognitive language skills and comprehension it retains a vast and lasting memory. Decades later my memorization condition was diagnosed as hyperthymesia. Defined as a very rare mental condition when an individual possesses a superior autobiographical memory that recalls a person's life experiences or observes external events. Alternatively called HSAM, acronym for Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. An ability to accurately recall extraordinarily large quantities of life experiences by date and/or time periods about events that happened during one's life.

About 2 years after my birth, a few months more or less, Pop rented a house in or near Somerset's city limits. The dark roof, white clapboard house sat on top of an incline. It had 3 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom, a wood covered front porch and floor plus a 2 story tall, elevated, rear tower with about 20 wooden steps. The driveway had 2 paved concrete strips with grass and oil patches between them. Front windows for the parlor and master bedroom faced the street. Bogle relatives and friends visited us often. Family and friendships seemed to matter more then.

Underneath those tall, rear steps, I played with miniature, heavy equipment Tonka toys in clay soil among the spiders' cobwebs. My favorite toys were a road grader, earth mover and a black baby doll. Using large cardboard slabs, I enjoyed sliding downhill along the back yard's long slope towards a pasture's wire fence. Also, I rolled sideways or flip-flop style or ran down it, too. What fun!

Shortly afterwards, when I was 3 years old, my parents bought their first residence at 108 Losey Street in West Somerset, an unincorporated postal community. The deed is dated April 11, 1953. The 2 story house had no driveway, but had a full basement with a coal chute and a big garden that Grandpa Halsey plowed by using his 2 horses. Across the street was a grassy field that he plowed and planted into a corn field, too. I was enthralled and intrigued about plowing.

At 5 years old, I began 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset School District. It stood by the Northwest corner of Columbia Street and US-27, now a Taco Bell. How rude!

There is a photograph of Tommy Lee, James Robert and me sitting on a flowery fabric couch. Jim was 1 year old that day and Tom was nearing 3 years old. I remember the day very specifically.

On November 4, 1955 my third and youngest brother and last sibling, Glen Richard was born. The same morning, our Losey Street house burned to the ground and caved into the basement. The basement coal furnace caused the fire. I am the only family member to see our home burn. In class at school, all the students heard an explosion. Some school windows shattered or cracked.

Quickly, the school's principal entered our classroom. He and our teacher went and stood in the second floor hallway by the classroom at a large "spy on the school kids" window. Suddenly, my teacher came back into the room. She hurriedly walked down the aisle to my desk. Grasping my wrist and yanking me out, she said, "The principal wants to talk to you now!"

Instantly fearful, I stood nearby the window with the principal and teacher. Standing at the window, he pointed outside. He asked me, "Is that your house burning over there?" I replied, "I don't know." It was. Flames were visible through some bare tree limbs. Pillars of smoke like a chugging steam locomotive puffed skyward.

The Somerset Fire Department refused to come to extinguish the blaze because we lived in unincorporated, postal community West Somerset (Somerset Journal's 3 of 4 newspaper articles about the fire). Uncle Albert Jerry Bogle was a volunteer fireman. Prior to the fire, he was busy transporting my mom, Geneva, to the Somerset City Hospital to give birth to Glen. Then he drove to the Halsey Farm to find George who was hunting squirrels. There wasn't any telephone service at Grandpa Halsey's house. On their return, Jerry heard about the fire on his citizen band radio. They both raced to the hospital for different reasons. Jerry told Pop about the fire before they went inside to see Mom and Glen.

Three days later, the fire department extinguished a wood fabricating building fire in the same community. See Somerset Journal's subsequent fire reports in their 2nd, 3rd & 4th newspaper editions after the fire. The Fire Department extinguished it creating a big controversy. Ira's response was, "Oh, they'll save wood furniture, but not a family's lives or home." He created a new fire department regulation that became town policy. It read, "If life may be in danger and when called upon the Somerset Fire Department shall go anywhere."

Nobody was hurt except Frosty, our white Labrador Retriever dog. My parents lied about his fate for years claiming he escaped. They finally told me the truth inside their Somerset's Southern Hills subdivision home when I sponsored their 50th wedding anniversary. Frosty hadn't survived. Of course, I had already come to that conclusion as a young, pre-teenager.

After the fire, we stayed on the Halsey Farm for about 2 weeks. Soon, Pop rented a house at 1027 W. Columbia Street for us to occupy. It was around the corner from our burned home and closer to my school. We barely had anything. Christmas 1955 was bleak. It began years of poverty and transience. For over 8 years us 4 boys laid on the floor upon a few bedspreads. Later laying upon one beat up, worn out, old mattress without a bed frame. We slept on the cold floors. We lay 2 abreast, feet towards feet with heads in opposite directions.

Unexpectedly, we moved again a few days after the 1956 New Year. We relocated into a rental house in Hialeah, Florida some 1,000 miles south. It was near Pop's sister, Margaret Young. I was barely 6 years old. First travel day, I broke out with the measles. So did Tommy and James the next day. We parked along the side of the highway for 2 nights while cars and semi-trucks honked at us. I didn't sleep for 3 days, but I did scratch.

We lived in Hialeah about 6 months. Pop's brother-in-law, Larry Young's cabinet fabricating business filed bankruptcy. Pop lost the $5,000 from our home's fire insurance settlement that he invested into this business. We were beyond broke.

Using what little money he had, Pop drove us 1,250 miles to Indiana to live in the countryside at 6605 Wilson Road (formerly Fayette Road) and the corner of S. Indianapolis Rd (originally US 52 aka Lafayette Rd). We lived with Uncle Ellis Halsey and Aunt Kathy in their rural Zionsville postal area home on that SW corner's intersection. The two families with 4 children each roomed together in a 3 bedroom house with 1 bathroom. Pop began work at a new job.

During late fall, we rented a Whitestown farmhouse nearby Uncle Ellis on US 52 a few miles north. The tiresome moves continued as Joseph Wayne Wethington (FindAGrave Memorial ID 87429911) of Joe's New and Used Furniture, Lebanon, Indiana, moved us to Thorntown into a tiny Main Street house. We moved again in the spring into a dilapidated farmhouse along Old US 52's east side. It stood cattycorner to Uncle Ellis & family's home. Today, the Little League Baseball Central Regional Baseball field occupies this same land.

We lived almost 3 years in various Indiana homes (my ages 6 to 8 years old). I attended Indiana schools at Zionsville twice, Whitestown, Thorntown, and 3 Lebanon elementary schools, Central, Harney and Stokes.

We returned to Pulaski County, Kentucky after living in Thorntown, Indiana. Near Nancy, Kentucky, we lived along Fishing Creek Road (892 State Hwy 1278) arriving on November 4, 1958, Glen's birthday. Tom (1st grade) and I (4th grade) attended a 2 room schoolhouse at Saline Elementary. I mostly studied and became the 4th grade's highest grade point average student (based on school transcripts). Nell Lee had taught Pop in the 3rd grade, now she taught Tommy and me. The Pulaski County Bookmobile librarian chose Jack London's "Call of The Wild", my first and favorite novel. Next, she chose, "Treasure Island" then "Lost Horizon" and more great books to read. Thanks to her, I became a book worm.

In May 1960, of course, Joe arrived to move us to Lebanon, Indiana where he owned his furniture store and part time Bogle moving company business. We lived first at Superior Street, then Garfield and lastly, Walnut Street homes where I attended Central, Harney and Stokes Elementary schools in 2 years.

I played 1st base in the Lebanon Little League beginning at age 10 for First Baptist Church, minor division baseball team. The next year I played for the Little League major division's Commercial Filters team. Baseball manager, Coach Gerald Cohee, selected me as the team's starting 1st baseman. Both years, Mom and us boys walked to the baseball field in the dark. Pop did not go to any games. I played until the last week of May when we suddenly moved again. Twice Coach Cohee asked Pop to let me stay the rest of the season by living with his wife and him. After the season, he would drive me home to Kentucky. Pop refused.

Joe moved us from Lebanon, Indiana to Ferguson, Kentucky during 1961 Memorial Day weekend. I attended their Junior High's 7th grade & only 6 weeks of the 8th grade before moving again. I had lived in 16 different homes and studied at 11 different schools 12 times (Zionsville's Eagle Elementary twice).

At 11 years of age, I was a star player at center for the undefeated 7th grade Ferguson Junior High basketball team. At age 12, I played Little League baseball for the Little Giants Major League team (2nd place standings) during the 1962 season. I led the league with a .691 batting average (Somerset Commonwealth newspaper), 3 home runs, and most Runs Batted In (RBI), a triple crown feat. League pitchers walked me rather than give up an extra base hit or run batted in (RBI) or both.

I used a 31", hickory wood, thin handle bat that I bought after working odd jobs like dumping cellulous insulation bags into a blower for 8 hours, picking 3 cherry trees bare plus shovel coal into the basement, mow a lawn twice, hoe garden and wash interior windows for an elderly lady's land .

On June 7, 1962, I hit the season's first home run for the Somerset Little League. It soared over the left-center outfield's 30' light pole. After running fast around 1st base, the umpire yelled to me, "Slow down! You hit a home run out of the park!"

Two unrelated boys about 9 or 10 years old stood near the outfield fence. It was measured by a local surveyor the next day. Coincidentally, he had stood beside these 2 boys. The ball landed 365 feet away from home plate across the Southern Railroad yard's 4 sets of railroad tracks into the opposite side's ivy bank. The ball's stitching put an imprint into the clay soil. One boy inserted a concession stand cola cup to mark the ball's location. The home run was hit against the 1st place Dodger's ace pitcher, David Padgett. A record that shall remain unbroken at the GE Somerset Little League field that ceased play in 2008.

The second home run cleared the center field fence, but was not measured. I hit an inside the park, third home run, too. I never tried to hit any home runs, yet am certain I could have hit more. I wanted our team to win thus home runs were incidental and secondary to victory.

At baseball season's end, Coach Barnett told me to listen to the WTLO or WSFC Saturday morning broadcasts on our home's radio. Luckily, we finally had a radio. I waited impatiently for over 3 hours before hearing any baseball news. It hurt when I heard I was the last alternate player selected for the All-Star team. Worse, the announcer said. "Alternate players are not to attend any practice sessions unless the All-Star manager invites you."

Devastating news. How could 3 top batting titles for highest batting average, most home runs and runs batted in (RBIs), the league's highest fielding average player who never made an error, with great baseball savvy and foot speed, a long stride as a first baseman, and team cheerleader be chosen as the last alternate All-Star team member? Why?

Our Little Giants team manager, Charles Barnett, a Somerset Assistant Postmaster knew what happened. So did Grandpa Ira Bogle, city councilman. I asked Coach Barnett 11 years later, while he was working at the Post Office, to confirm this story.

He said, "The league's Board of Directors weren't sure whether a player from Ferguson was within the league's official recruiting boundary for All-Star competition." Somerset and Ferguson towns south/north boundaries adjoin, side by side and still do. The selected alternate all-star players were deemed ineligible to play on the team unless any 'Regular All-Star player' was unable to compete before the first game. Coach Barnett protested my situation. He told the Somerset Little League Board of Directors to remove his son from the All-Star team and replace me into the vacancy.

All-Star Assistant Coach Charles Taylor (1st year Somerset High School varsity baseball coach) had a different approach. He asked the Board, "Shouldn't the coaching staff decide who are the team members and alternates?" The Board members had reviewed the Somerset Little League boundary and determined Ferguson was included. The board agreed with Coach Taylor. So, any eligible All-Star player was permitted to tryout and to be selected for the tournament team.

Unexpectedly, after the 1st All-Star practice, Coach Barnett came to our house. I was in the front yard tossing a baseball against the porch's brick wall to field erratic ground balls. He said, "Why weren't you at All-Star practice yesterday? Go get your baseball hat, glove and shoes. I'll take you." Thereafter, I walked 5 miles each way to every All-star practice as Mom, my brothers and I did for games all season. During one All-Star team practice, the coaches held a homerun derby contest. I won it easily by hitting nearly every pitch over the fence. I already had earned a position as the All-Star team's starting 1st baseman.

I became the first baseball player from Ferguson to be selected and to start on the Somerset Little League All-Star Baseball team. I was 6' tall. I started both games at 1st base and batted 3rd, my preferred batting position. I batted the first, last and 3 other hits and 1 walk in 6 at bats for the All-star team, 4 singles then a double that ricocheted off the right-center fence's top metal bar onto the field. I had other hits and the highest batting average for the tournament, too. Our team finished as runners-up for the tournament after losing to Corbin, Kentucky's All-Star team, final score 4-2.

Afterwards and still 12 years old, I started first base for the Ferguson High School varsity baseball team while in the 8th grade. I should have been in the 7th grade because of my 12 year old age. My first at bat was a bunt single. My picture while bunting against Pulaski County High School appears in a fall edition of the Somerset Journal newspaper. Earlier, I caught a high flying, line-drive ball and base tagged out the 1st base runner for a double play. I never struck out while batting for the Somerset Little League and Ferguson's Varsity baseball teams during the game against Pulaski County High School on September 13, 1962.

That 1st grading period Fall, 1982 school days, I competed for the Ferguson Spelling Bee championship during the pre-noon English period for 2 days. All the boys decided to misspell their first word in protest. I did not agree. They threatened retaliation upon me. I rejected their intimidation. During English class, every boy did misspell and were eliminated. I had to defeat every girl one to one to win. I began to eliminate 1 girl each round. Eventually, the boys started cheering for me to win. All the girls were eliminated except Barbara Flynn. We remained tied when neither of us misspelled any word after two days. The school got the Pulaski County Spelling Bee Committee to approve both of us as co-competitors.

Meanwhile, Varsity Coach Herbert Childers, Jr. decided to have our 7th grade (now 8th grade) previous season's undefeated basketball team play against this year's 7th grade players during the last school period. The students and many local citizens attended. They filled the gymnasium. Childers coached the 7th grade team. We were on our own. Before the 3rd quarter ended, we outscored them 63 to 7. The game was stopped. Not convinced, Coach Childers set up a match against a fine Freshman basketball team the next day. We annihilated them, too. Day 3, we played against the Junior Varsity team comprised of sophomores and some of the freshman team's best players. Once again, our 8th grade team won easily.

The Ferguson's returning Varsity Basketball Team was loaded with talent and had won the Kentucky High School District's championship the prior winter season. They were awesome. Seems Coach Childers had some reason for this mismatch. He did. The Ferguson gym was packed including some of Somerset's Volunteer Firemen, including Assistant Fire Chief Uncle Jerry Bogle plus a few town Police Officers came to watch the game.

The Ferguson varsity players steamrolled over us with elbows and knees smacking into us players. Our 8th grade team had 6 really good players. I was the team's starting center and prime target #1. It was lopsided by half-time something like 60+ to 3. We were soar, ached, and hurt while bent over. During our half-time huddle, a teammate said, "We're getting killed out there!" Out of breath and rubbing injuries, nobody spoke, just shook our heads agreeing. Donnie Wheeler said, "We can't go inside against them. They're waiting for us. So, let's pass the ball once and shoot from the outside perimeter. Then run to the backcourt defensively." We gruntingly agreed and continued to ache.

Third quarter, we scored 25 points using this strategy. Didn't matter, the score was 90+ to 28. Coach Childers mercifully stopped the game. In our postgame huddle, we were tending to our wounded bodies. The Varsity players and Coach Childers stood at the other side of midcourt laughing at us. We wondered, "What lesson are we supposed to learn by being demoralized?" Momentarily, the Varsity team came over to our huddle. We were told, "You guys are good and have a lot of talent, but there is always some team better. Don't get cocky and think you can win every game. Play hard and smart. Good luck this season."

That was the lesson we were taught? Did we have to be beaten to smithereens to learn it by losing?

Next day, upon arriving home from school, Joe Wethington was at our house to move us again. Pop's surprise move tactics happened on the first Friday of October 1962 after we came home from school. I hated moving, especially from Ferguson where I became a successful student (1st by grades) and a top athlete. It meant not competing in the county's spelling bee nor play on a prior year winning basketball team and no more Varsity Baseball games for Ferguson.

My parents gathered our belongings to move. So, I secretly walked to ask Grandparents Bogle to live with them to continue to attend Ferguson Junior High school. They said, "No." I cried while walking home.

We moved to 406 W. Janet Drive, Sunny Knoll subdivision in Brownsburg, Indiana. I attended schools at Brownsburg Junior High 8th grade and through High School graduation on May, 1967. Coach Fred Schmidt cut Kent Lockwood, a popular student, from the previous year's team. I was selected onto the basketball team as its starting center. I led the team in points and rebounds until becoming sick with bronchitis. I never played another second that season nor did any other substitute player aka bench warmer. It became an issue when another subs father, a local doctor, confronted Coach Schmidt about favoritism and lack of substitution. He didn't get Schmidt to substitute any bench team member. We lost every game for the remainder of that season.

Before age 13, I mowed lawns with an unpowered push mower, washed and ironed clothes plus wash and dry dishes without any allowance. I washed windows, gardened, picked 3 cherry trees bare, shoveled coal, did cellulous insulation for pay, but tarred Ford's tire recapping garage's roof without pay.

My first steady job was as an Indianapolis Star morning newspaper paper carrier in Brownsburg, Indiana. I began in June 1963 delivering papers until June 1968. I had helped David Meadows by carrying the Star paper 7 days a week for 2 weeks when his family went on vacation during June 1963.

Afterwards, a different route came available requiring a $200 bond payable over 52 weeks from a share of the route profits. My first route went from College Avenue beginning at Green and along Grant Street including between the side streets of Lincoln, Jefferson and School that ends at Tilden Drive. The route had 28 daily (Monday thru Saturday) and 31 Sunday papers to deliver 365 days a year. I increased the customers to 34 daily and 38 Sunday papers earning at best $6.00 with very few tips. I arose at 4:00am and arrived home before 6:00am every day.

David quit his route after Christmas bonus season ended in January 1964. This route began at South Green Street to Maple Lane along Acres Avenue towards Southtown subdivision to conclude at Sunny Knoll subdivision. Sunny Knoll is where he and we lived. I took over the route and Tommy, my brother, replaced me. My second route increased from 50 daily papers to 79 and from 58 Sunday papers to 129. It became the largest paper carrier route in 3 central Indiana counties.

At Brownsburg, I was on the freshman basketball 1 season, varsity basketball 3 seasons and varsity baseball team for 2 seasons. I ran on the cross country team for 4 years. My senior year I led the team with a season free throw average 78.7% and second in field goal average by 00.04% difference from first place with 45.58% shots made.

At 16 years old, I worked at Carlson's Standard Oil Service Station and next at Frank Burrus Standard Oil I-74 Interstate Station, as a gas attendant and mechanic for 3 years, both in Brownsburg, Indiana. I still delivered those newspapers every morning.

After Bonnie graduated from Brownsburg High School, we married 6 months later. We lived in 2 residences for 13 months. January 1970, we purchased our first home at 514 Alpha Avenue in Brownsburg, Indiana. We were both 19 years old. We owned 3 more homes,. Next home was in the countryside near Morrow, Ohio; then Timberlane Subdivision of Spring, Texas for over 11 years; moved to Midland, Texas occupying 2 rental homes; and now live in our Centennial, Colorado home. We have 3 successful sons and 5 talented grandsons. We love all our boys.

I graduated Cum Laude (3.25 grade point average (GPA)) on May 10, 1981 from prestigious Miami University, Oxford Ohio. Miami University was rated #2 best United States public university by Richard Moll's 1981 research book "Public Ivys". I'm a proud alumnus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. I earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree. Majors were in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics plus English (1 credit shy of a major) and Science minors. I am still the only evening student to receive Miami University's English Personal Narrative Scholarship (1977), 3rd place honorable mention.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University, Denver Colorado, a top 100 rated college (57th), in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate (18 credits) on December 2, 2005, with a perfect 4.0 Grade Point Average. My thesis study, True Leadership, received Graduate Professor's 2005 Most Outstanding Thesis award.

Simultaneously with Masters program, studied 2 years in Fine Arts at Arapahoe Community College (ACC), Littleton, Colorado. Achieved 47 credit hours in Fine Arts courses in music, piano, singing, acting and creative writing with a 4.0 GPA. Music courses totaled 41 of the 47 credit hours and became a 5th major. Piano was my 1st and only musical instrument. I learned to read, interpret and play from sheet music.

Won audition at age 55, after competing against 11 younger (ages 18-24) classmates, for male lead role of 'Tony' on stage as an actor and singer in the musical "West Side Story". The performance was taped at Arapahoe Community College Theatre. Sang 'Maria' solo and 'Tonight' plus 'Somewhere' as a duet with female companion.

Previously, sang solo performances of "Oklahoma" and "Ol' Man River" as well as other famous musical or movie melodies. Acted excerpts on same stage as attorney Henry Drummond's character role in stage and movie "Inherit The Wind". Auditioned and offered acting role by Boulder Actors Guild's Vice-President and Acting class instructor. I chose not to accept her offer preferring to be with my 4 toddler grandsons.

Completed Financial Planning courses, 18 credit hours, at Metro State University, Denver, Colorado with a 3.83 GPA in Certified Financial Planning from September 2013 until December 2, 2015.

Summarizing, my college studies began at Indiana Central College, now Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, Indiana from August 22, 1967 until July, 1974 totaling 46 credit hours. During 15 calendar years I enrolled in college courses for 11 years.

After moving to Morrow, Ohio, I attended and graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio from September 1976 until July 1979 totaling 72 credit hours.

Transferred credit hours to Miami University earned at North Harris County College, renamed Lone Star College (LSC)-North Harris College, Houston, Texas, from Spring Semester, January to May, 1979 totaling 9 credit hours.

Transferred additional credit hours to Miami University earned at University of Houston, Houston, Texas, from January, 1978 to May, 1981 totaling 18 credit hours to complete my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate on December 2, 2005, 18 credit hours with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Simultaneously, I attended Arapahoe Community College from August, 2004 to May 13, 2006 to earn 47 credit hours with a 4.0 GPA. I need only 17 credit hours for an Associate Degree in Fine Arts.

Finally, I took Financial Planning college courses at Metropolitan (Metro) State University, Denver, Colorado totaling 18 credit hours from September 2013 to December 2015.

A total of 228 college credit hours overall a 3.25 GPA at 7 colleges.

I delivered Indianapolis Star morning, daily paper route at age 13 beginning in June 1963 through May 1968. My adult (age 16+) employment began with Ole and Beulah Carlson's Standard Oil service station (May 1966 to April 1968). They closed the evening shift. I transferred to Frank Burrus' I-74 Interstate Standard Oil service station and worked into 1969. Both jobs were as a service attendant and mechanic.

I was hired by Link Belt as an inventory specialist. Next, I worked for Allison's Division of GM as a machinist on a vertical lathe, chucking lathe and many other machineries, but got laid off after 16 months. Hired at First Bank & Trust Co., Indianapolis, Indiana for 1 year. Returned to Allisons only to be laid off a second time after 4 months. I had to draw unemployment benefits for 6 months.

Worked at Electric Steel Castings for 2 years in Payroll & Personnel. Summer 1972, I held a second job as an Indianapolis Star & News recruiter. I quit Electric Steel during a walkout strike by the Union members. I was hired as a Star & News Division Manager, but quit in October after my life was threatened by a hostile, 6' 9" tall, black man, age in the 20s, and using psychedelic drugs. I was at work in the neighborhood collecting past due bills. He owed over $30. He held a blackjack club & chased me through the neighborhood late night at 9:30pm. I was saved by a small, older black man who heard my attacker threateniing my life. The older man came out of his house with a shotgun. He ran across the street and surprised the attacker by pressing the gun barrel against the attacker's skull. He told the attacker to leave or die.

Two weeks later, I worked as an analyst for College Life, University Life Insurance Company. During training and Thanksgiving week, my trainer took vacation. One task was to check insurance agents' claims for duplicate commission submittals. Not wanting to be remiss, my inquisitiveness added extra screening procedures. My new method discovered duplicate request for payments. I backchecked for other duplicate payments. In 2 days there were 10 more duplicate payments. My trainer's confirmation was on each voucher. I was scared that my procedure wasn't accurate.

Wednesday, hesitantly, I informed my department manager. He reacted immediately saying, "Wait here!" During a 40 minute wait, his phone kept ringing. I didn't answer it assuming each call was for him. Wrong. He returned and asked, "Why didn't you answer my phone?" He took me to the top floor to meet the President. I was sure it meant termination.

In the President's office sat him with 4 men around a worktable. I had found fraudulent payments totaling over $10.000. They asked, "How did you discover these duplicate payments?" I explained every step. They asked me to work only nights while we audited the books for more "overpayments." She was arrested on Monday after Thanksgiving by the FBI while entering the office's front door.

I continued to locate more overpayments to her and 3 insurance agents. The total fraudulent overpayments exceeded $250,000. During a severe ice storm, I quit at 1:30am on February 8, 1973. The sleet on the parking lot was so slick I had to crawl to my car to get inside it. I arrived home 3 hours later. I took a shower then worked at Texaco without sleep. College Life's 3 auditors never found one cent! I had worked 2 fulltime jobs for 10 weeks.

I was employed for 30 years at Texaco Inc. at Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Houston (4 offices), Midland and Denver with jobs in marketing, real estate, finance, lease ownership and land departments.

In Finance, I proposed the formation of, appointed to, led, and created Texaco's first W. Edward Deming's Quality Circle project. The first project was a 6 month Finance training program involving 26 different courses for all Finance and Accounting employees. It had never been done before. It was a HUGE success. Later, I created 16 Land Department training programs. None were in my job description duties. My typical behavior was to create an environment of success for all employees.

I created, developed, and established the first Land-Legal Forum that lasted over 6 years. Initially, this 2-way training program only had the Legal Department and my team's support. It received the Star Quality Ambassador for Excellence Award. Charles Irwin, Lead Attorney, accepted Texaco's highest corporate award.

The Forum's best achievement was the 300 employees attendance from every Denver Region's departments jointly with the Southern Ute Tribe's chief and Tribal Council and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It took over 2 patient years to accomplish the meeting, a lesson taught well by the tribe. It was an outstanding event and established an understanding of the tribe's approach and cooperation built upon a new trust of one another.

Retired as an Area Land Manager after 30 years at age 52. Returned to employment 6 years later at Delta Petroleum Corp, Denver, CO. as Executive Land Director for 4 1/2 years and Board of Directors member for 2 years.

St. Malachy Catholic Church, Brownsburg, Indiana, Teen Girls Kickball Coach (1966 season). Baseball coach or manager at Brownsburg, Indiana Little League (5 seasons), Cincinnati Babe Ruth (1), Texas Youth Baseball (1), NW45 Little League (2) and Pony League (3), Spring, Tx., in Colorado, Highlands Ranch Youth Sports (1), Dry Creek Little League (2) Hidden Lake (1) and Cherry Creek Little League (3) baseball organizations.

Umpired youth baseball for 19 years and 1 year each for IHSAA at Brownsburg High School, Houston NCAA college baseball, Texas State 14-15 Age Girls High School Soccer Tournament Championship game and Spring High School soccer referee.

NW45 Pony League Baseball Vice President Board Member (1986-1988) and 1984-1985 Little League Baseball Registrar and Board Member. As a 1985-1988 NW 45 Baseball Association boys team manager finished 1st place 3 of 4 years. Coached NW45 Pony League age 13-14 boys to 1st place 2 consecutive years. Each team had only 1 loss. Selected as All-Star coach for 1983 NW45 Little League and 1985 thru 1988 NW45 Pony League.

1988 Pony Boys All-Stars defeated Kingwood, TX and defending champion Vidor, LA All-Star teams on their home fields twice each. All 4 games went 10 innings and 1 run victories. Result, our team won 1988 Pony League Boys Allstars (ages 13-14) Texas Southwest District and Division tournament titles and as 1988 Regional runner-up, lost to Pasadena 4-2.

Simultaneously, coached boys soccer teams for 12 seasons (fall and spring) during 8 years from 1982-1988 for Timberline Youth Soccer Association (TYSA)'s Spring Club. Chosen by Board of Directors as Elite Select Coach 5 years and 9 seasons. Board member as Registrar 7 years. Refereed TYSA soccer (8 years), Spring High School Soccer (1 year) and 1987 Texas State Girls Youth Soccer (age 16-17) championship game.

2nd year coaching soccer and 1st year with the Cosmos (10-11 age boys) of TYSA Youth Soccer, Spring, Texas. Team won club championship (9-1 record) and Texas Youth Soccer State's District, Division, Region and State championships (15-1 record over 8 weekend days). Defeated Sagemont Spurs (3 years undefeated and 2 years defending Texas State champions) in a double overtime (no shootout) State quarter final game; final score 2-1. Won 3 of 4 games in 1982 Texas' State tournament quarter finals. Finished 3rd place in Texas Youth Soccer State Championship.

Spring Streak (age 10-11 boys) team played up 1 level and next higher age group; yet, won 1984 San Antonio Labor Day tournament defeating select 12-13 years old boys. Fall season, they tied for first place for TYSA Soccer Club champions. 1985 spring season's Spring Flame boys soccer team went undefeated. I never played recreational or high school soccer. Only 1 losing season (1st year) all other seasons finished 1st or 2nd as soccer manager.

Continued coaching my grandsons' youth league baseball teams from 2012 for 7 years in Colorado and as All-Star coach 2 additional years.

Other Elementary and Middle Schools beginning at age 5 while in the 1st grade through 8th grade are in order; Elementary schools: 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset, Kentucky (Sept 6 to Nov 4, 1955 and Hialeah, Florida (January 9 to May 31, 1956); 2nd grade at Zionsville, Indiana and Thorntown, Indiana; 3rd grade at Whitestown and Zionsville, Indiana; 4th grade at Zionsville, Indiana and from November 4, 1958 through June 5, 1959 at Saline, Kentucky (2 room school, 1-4 and 5-8 grades); 5th grade at Central Elementary (Fall into January, 1960) and Harney Elementary January thru May, 1961); 6th grade at Stokes Elementary all 3 in Lebanon, Indiana; Junior High: 7th grade September and 8th grade until October 7, 1962; remainder 8th grade at Brownsburg Junior High School the all 4 High School years until graduation at Brownsburg High School, Indiana.

Am writing numerous novels involving different themes and am releasing first book in 2023 and other books soon thereafter. Most importantly is being a husband, parent, grandparent and relative. The best roles I'll ever do.

Altogether, college studies were at Indiana Central College, now Indianapolis University, Indianapolis, Indiana from August 22, 1967 until July, 1974 totaling 46 credit hours; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio from September 1976 until July 1979 totaling 72 credit hours; North Harris County College renamed Lone Star College (LSC)-North Harris College, Houston, Texas, Spring Semester from January to May, 1979 totaling 9 credit hours; University of Houston, Houston, Texas, from January, 1978 to May, 1981 totaling 18 credit hours to complete Bachelor of Science degree.

Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Regis University in Executive Project Management, Masters Certificate started August, 2004 and graduated December 2, 2005 earning 18 credit hours in 6 semesters. Simultaneously attended Arapahoe Community College from August 2004 to May 13, 2006 earning 4.0 GPA for 47 credit hours, Finally attended Metro State University, Denver, Colorado totaling 18 credit hours from September 2013 to December 2015.

Elementary and Middle Schools beginning at age 5 while in the 1st grade through 8th grade are in order; Elementary schools: 1st grade at Columbia Elementary, Somerset, Kentucky (Sept 6 to Nov 4, 1955 and Hialeah, Florida (January 9 to May 31, 1956); 2nd grade at Zionsville, Indiana and Thorntown, Indiana; 3rd grade at Whitestown and Zionsville, Indiana; 4th grade at Zionsville, Indiana and from November 4, 1958 through June 5, 1959 at Saline, Kentucky (2 room school, 1-4 and 5-8 grades); 5th grade at Central Elementary (Fall into January, 1960) and Harney Elementary January thru May, 1961); 6th grade at Stokes Elementary all 3 in Lebanon, Indiana; Junior High: 7th grade September and 8th grade until October 7, 1962; remainder 8th grade at Brownsburg Junior High School the all 4 High School years until graduation at Brownsburg High School, Indiana.
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