Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

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After graduating from the University of Minnesota, I began my career at the Austin (MN) Daily Herald for nine months until I enlisted in the regular Army for three years. I completed the Counter Intelligence Special Agents School at Ft. Holabird, MD, and was next assigned to the Canal Zone for two years. I was discharged from the Army in December 1954 and returned to Austin. I continued in the newspaper and also owned a print shop until the newspaper was purchased by Thomson Newspapers in 1962. In 1965 I was sent to Greenville, OH, to be publisher of that paper just purchased by Thomson. In January 1968 I purchased the weekly newspaper and central printing plant in Forest Lake, MN, and returned to Minnesota. I built that business to a fairly large company printing some 90 newspaper-formatted publications in the Twin Cities area, as well as our own two weeklies, an area shopping news and community booklets. In 1993 I sold the business and retired with a seasonal home in Port Isabel, TX. In 1997, my wife and I bought our current home in Laguna Vista, TX, just 4 1/2 miles from Port Isabel, on the Laguna Madre. I continue to write, have written a book, and am active in the local Masonic Lodge and American Legion.