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To: Myrddin

That was well done. And graduating at 16 implies that you might have skipped a grade at some point. Your dad was USN?


124 posted on 04/03/2023 2:28:24 PM PDT by Pelham (Joe Biden, Brain of the American Left)
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To: Pelham
That was well done. And graduating at 16 implies that you might have skipped a grade at some point. Your dad was USN?

I petitioned the school district to define a "senior" by the number of classes completed (as is done is colleges) rather than by the number of semesters attended. Because I took Summer school classes every year starting after 8th grade, I accrued enough to skip from 10th grade to 12th grade in consecutive years. I moved from class of 74 to class of 73. I retained that behavior at UCSD to accrue credits in physics, organic chemistry, abnormal psychology in the Summer quarters. I wasn't the only beneficiary of the re-definition of a "senior". 15 other people in my class of 74 moved to class of 73.

My dad was in the Navy. Port 5" gunnery officer on the USS Iowa in Korea (his crew destroyed the ammo dump at Wonsan Harbor in Sept 1952), engineering officer on the DeHaven (aircraft carrier), XO on USS Marshall destroyer, XO on USS Prairie destroyer tender, project officer for the patrol gunboat hydrofoil program (USS Tucumcari/Flagstaff), XO of USS Arlington communications ship on station for splashdown when the astronauts returned from the moon, CO of USS Arlington to decommission, XO 32nd St Naval Station, San Diego 1970-1977. He also did 2 years a CincPacFlt in Hawaii 1961 to 1963. We moved every two years.

126 posted on 04/03/2023 3:39:07 PM PDT by Myrddin
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