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Gerald "Jerry" R. Hill
From Jerry Hill to all my former classmates. With your patience and permission, I would like to bring you up to date with an overview of my comings and goings after graduation. I joined the U.S. Air Force in August 1954 and I stayed in the service for 20 years, retiring in 1974 as a Master Sergeant. My Military assignments, (there were several), included a two year tour at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippine Islands, and from October 1959 to March 1967, I was stationed in The Pentagon, Washington D.C. I had the distinct pleasure and honor of serving there during the entire administration of President John F. Kennedy. I was part of a task force breifing team during the "Bay Of Pigs" insident and The Cuban Crisis. I had the honor of meeting President Kennedy on two different occassions, and my first wife, (whom I met in Washington D.C. and married in Sept. 1963, and I were priveledged to attend his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in 1963. After my retiremnet, I went to work for the Federal Government Civil Service and I retired from that in November 1993. My first wife and I were divorced in 1986. We had been living in Midvale, Utah. I moved to Tooele, Utah because I was working at the Tooele Army Depot, from where I eventually retired. I met a great lady in Tooele. We were married in 1988. We were married for 22 years when she took ill from two strokes and passed away two years ago. All of my children from my first marriage, live in the Salt Lake City area, so I moved over here to be closer to them. I have had the pleasure of attending every class reunion up through the 40th, but after that I had some medical problems which kept me from attending the 50th, ( the big one that I did not want to miss), and any subsequent gatherings after that. But I am grateful for this web site that I am now a part of, and I hope to hear from any of you who would like to get in touch. Jerry Hill 3 May 2012.
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