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My life began on June 16, 1919 in a little town of Washington, Louisiana. I went to elementary and high school in this town and graduated from high school in 1937 with average grades. My father was a farmer and I tried farming, growing sweet potatoes and cotton. At harvest time I sold the cotton for $.05 per pound. The sweet potatoes crop was also practically worthless due to the depression. I attended college during this time and was taking Agriculture as my major and with the poor results of my farming experience I decided that farming was not for me.On November 8, 1938 I joined the Navy and after boot camp I went to service school for nine months then I was assigned to USS Kilty 137, a World War One destroyer which I remained on for the balance of my time in the Navy. The bulk of this time was spent in the southwest Pacific during the entire World War Two. We made thirteen initial invasions of different islands in the southwest Pacific. I started my career as an apprentice seaman and finished as a Chief Petty Officer in charge of the engineering section of my ship. I was discharged on September 9, 1945.
Shortly before I was discharged, I returned to my home and met and married my wife who remained with me for forty-eight years until she died of breast cancer. After my discharge from the Navy, I obtained employment with Esso Standard Oil Refinery of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I remained with this job for four years, then requested that I be allowed to take classes while employed and the answer was no. This necessitated that I resign from this job and pursue my educational ambitions with the aid of my G. I. Bill of Rights for veterans. I completed my degree in Electron Physics at Louisiana State University in three and one half years.
I obtained a position in Washington, D. C. with the National Bureau of Standards and remained there for two years when my wife requested that we move back to Louisiana. While there, I was granted two patents which were classified and were assigned to the Government. On my return to Louisiana, I was hired by the Cities Service Oil Company of Lake Charles. While there, I was classified as a Chemist working on mass spectrometer and X-ray equipment. The department head of physics at McNeese State University needed a physicist to teach and offered me a position at the University and I accepted and remained there for twenty years. While there, I designed and built a mechanical model of a reversing magnetic field which simulated the action in the earth due to positive and negative charges both moving eastward. This model required two separate dc power supplies as well as two concentric electric coils. The electrons in the outer coil flowed in the eastward direction and the electrons in the inner coil flowed in the westward direction. Electrons moving in the westward direction is magnetically equivalent to positive charges moving in the eastward direction, therefore this model was the equivalent to negative and positive chargers moving eastward just as in the earth.
After retiring from McNeese State University I sought and obtained employment with the Department of Defense in their gravity and magnetic section. This required sea travel on a yearly basis taking gravity and magnetic data for the Department of Defense. On January 1, 1992 I retired from this position.
Since my retirement I have purchased a computer and have been busy writing papers and presenting papers to various organizations. During my career I have been affiliated with the
Louisiana Academy of Science, the American Association of Physics Teachers, Sigma Xi, the American Geophysical Union, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, and Toastmasters.