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When I was a kid, I really liked to read. There was
this big, leather Morris chair my Grandparents had,
and I spent a lot of time there with library books. I
liked to write too. I also wanted to play sports, so,
when I started High School, I tried out for football
and got wiped out after a couple of scrimmages.
Plan B then presented itself. I was living in the town
of Orange, MA, and the daily paper was published
in a town 5 miles away. The fellow who had been
covering their sports news in Orange had just
graduated, and with my English teacher’s
recommendation, I got the job.
Not the big time you say? Well, rivers start as drops
of water that get carried away. Anyway, it was pretty
cool for a 13 year old: keeping box scores, learning
a new vocabulary, deadlines . . . oh yeah,
deadlines. Not much money, but I got a press pass.
The next year I moved to another town 50 miles
away, so I lost that job. I had a year of school there.
The next year, we moved to New Hampshire, where
I was really bored with the school and dropped out.
I figured that if I wanted to write, I ought to have
something to write about, which at that time I
counted as zero. My mother thought I should be a
lawyer. I don’t know where that came from since
even college was both academically and financially
unfeasible. The GI Bill was a possibility. So I got
some life experiences until I was old enough to
become a soldier. In 1947 they took a look at my
test scores and stuck me in the Air Corps, just
then becoming the U.S. Air Force. Stationed in
Texas, New York, and Ohio, I went overseas in June
1950 to Saudi Arabia, then to Western Germany,
rotated stateside in November 1953 to Syracuse,
NY, and finally Boston, MA. Plenty of life
experiences; not much formal education.
Fortunately, I had entered the service from New
Hampshire which granted equivalency high school
diplomas, so I took a few tests and didn’t have to
complete the two years of high school I’d skipped.
Boston University gave me a few tests and
honored the diploma, so I was in to night college
while I was still working for Uncle Sam.
In 1956 I got an Honorable Discharge and entered
B.U. full time, graduating in 1958. After a couple of
years in the business world, I decided to make my
mother happy and entered law school. I got my
Juris Doctor from Boston Univ. in 1963. But I
didn’t care much for the practice of law, all that
arguing. I found arbitration satisfying, but
opportunities were lacking. Since I liked books and
research, I got a job with a legal publishing
company for 27 years; marriages; divorces;
children; lived in Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA,
Columbus, OH, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL. where I
started in Science of Mind in 1989. In 1992 came
retirement and a move to Ocala.
Met Drena in 2001 and we’ve been married about
a million years. Time flies and we’re having fun.
Ken Green
2007
this big, leather Morris chair my Grandparents had,
and I spent a lot of time there with library books. I
liked to write too. I also wanted to play sports, so,
when I started High School, I tried out for football
and got wiped out after a couple of scrimmages.
Plan B then presented itself. I was living in the town
of Orange, MA, and the daily paper was published
in a town 5 miles away. The fellow who had been
covering their sports news in Orange had just
graduated, and with my English teacher’s
recommendation, I got the job.
Not the big time you say? Well, rivers start as drops
of water that get carried away. Anyway, it was pretty
cool for a 13 year old: keeping box scores, learning
a new vocabulary, deadlines . . . oh yeah,
deadlines. Not much money, but I got a press pass.
The next year I moved to another town 50 miles
away, so I lost that job. I had a year of school there.
The next year, we moved to New Hampshire, where
I was really bored with the school and dropped out.
I figured that if I wanted to write, I ought to have
something to write about, which at that time I
counted as zero. My mother thought I should be a
lawyer. I don’t know where that came from since
even college was both academically and financially
unfeasible. The GI Bill was a possibility. So I got
some life experiences until I was old enough to
become a soldier. In 1947 they took a look at my
test scores and stuck me in the Air Corps, just
then becoming the U.S. Air Force. Stationed in
Texas, New York, and Ohio, I went overseas in June
1950 to Saudi Arabia, then to Western Germany,
rotated stateside in November 1953 to Syracuse,
NY, and finally Boston, MA. Plenty of life
experiences; not much formal education.
Fortunately, I had entered the service from New
Hampshire which granted equivalency high school
diplomas, so I took a few tests and didn’t have to
complete the two years of high school I’d skipped.
Boston University gave me a few tests and
honored the diploma, so I was in to night college
while I was still working for Uncle Sam.
In 1956 I got an Honorable Discharge and entered
B.U. full time, graduating in 1958. After a couple of
years in the business world, I decided to make my
mother happy and entered law school. I got my
Juris Doctor from Boston Univ. in 1963. But I
didn’t care much for the practice of law, all that
arguing. I found arbitration satisfying, but
opportunities were lacking. Since I liked books and
research, I got a job with a legal publishing
company for 27 years; marriages; divorces;
children; lived in Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA,
Columbus, OH, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL. where I
started in Science of Mind in 1989. In 1992 came
retirement and a move to Ocala.
Met Drena in 2001 and we’ve been married about
a million years. Time flies and we’re having fun.
Ken Green
2007
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