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John Gaines, Jr.

I joined the LHS class of 62, during the second semester of our freshman year(1959).

After graduation in 1962, I attended William Jewell College for one year and CMSC at Warrensburg for one year, then worked for several years at various jobs around KC, before being introduced to my future wife (Ruth) by Judy and Jerry Bush.

I enlisted in the US ARMY military intelligence in Feb 1966, just ahead of the draft. After basic training and marriage in April 1966, the Army sent me to Monterrey, CA to attend the Defense Language Institute to study Korean. So my wife and I spent our first married year in Monterrey, CA. Then it was on to Ft. Benning, Ga, then Ft. Devens, MA, Korea ( for a year), then Ft Huachuca, AZ, our son Todd was born at Ft. Huachuca. We then went to Ft. Holabird, MD, and on to Omaha, NE to get my bachelors degree at University of Nebraska at Omaha, then Okinawa, Japan, our daughter Stefanie was born there in 1973. Then back to the states to Arlington Hall Station, VA (suburb of Washington, DC), finally back to the midwest at Ft. Riley, KS, then another 12 months in Korea and then back to Ft. Leavenworth, KS. Where I received my masters degree from Webster University in 1984.

I retired from the US Army at Ft. Leavenworth, KS in 1986.

We then moved to Dallas, TX in 1986 where I worked for Texas Instruments and then Lockheed Martin, in their respective Security Departments, helping protect DOD classified information each held while working on classified DOD projects.

I took an early retirement from Lockheed Martin in 2000, and in 2003 we relocated back to my wife's hometown of Washington, KS where we purchased an old home and have spent the better part of 7 years constantly working on it or repairing something.

I began a brief career as a Nursing Home Administrator in 2007, from which I semi-retired in November 2010.

So over the years I have been lucky to work in several different and challenging areas plus have an opportunity to travel the US and the world, including Europe and the Far East.

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