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John Vaughn

I graduated in 1966 and went on to recap tires at rossini motors for $1.25 an hour. I then got a job at Lockheed Georgia Corporation for a big raise to $2.32 an hour. I left the company in Uniontown to go to their Burbank California company. When I got there I was so impressed with the warm weather. When I woke up the next morning in Los Angeles the kid were walking down the street in t-shirts at 6 AM. That was a sight to see since I had left the Masontown area to go to California in January which is cold, and snowy.

I couldn't work on the assemblies there so I had to or could have gotten a job as a secretary. I would have had to gone back there to the employment center the next day after arriving there.

I would have lost money on this job or so at least it felt like it. I was making about $18.00 a day now and I had to take a cab the only transportation back to the job at Lockheed. The cab fare was $10.00 each way which would have meant that I would have to spend $20.00 just to get back and forth to work. So I decided to come back to Pennsylvania to get my car. And being the person that I was at the time a speed demon, I blew up the 1967 camaro.

So, of course after breaking my leg in 1966, I did it again in 1968. I got in a program to learn heavy equipment and I did. I was trainee of the year with 6000 hours of training. Good I was, the company made me a foremanin 1978. Of course after getting hit in the eye by a nail which halted my excercise routine. I was getting in good shape too.

I had gotten married when I was 22 years of age and got divorced after having two daughters in a period of 10 years. The two daughters were Melissa Sue Vaughn who graduated Penn State and is married to a lawyer and they have two childern which makes me a grandpa. My other daughter Amy Marie Vaughn, also graduated Penn State after having gone into the Navy. She was teaching and now she is attending a chiropractic school in the New York area.

I was single for about four years and I met my now wife Catherine. We have been married for about 18 years now. We have two children Jared Anthony Vaughn who is now 15 years of age and Jonah Samuel Vaughn whose middle name is my father's name. He is 10 years of age now.

I still operate heavy equipment and my wife is a registered nurse. I likes heavy equipment ever since I saw Solomon and Teslovich doing work from route 21. So in my yearbook that was what I wanted to be a equipment operator. And I guess I am successful at what I set out to do. This is one of the most lucrative and rewarding profession that I know.

So we are in the process of building a new home for this is our fourth home and we are excited because it is in the sunshine state of Florida. I always wanted to live in warm weather. I think that I have had enough of the cold and dreary weather to last me a lifetime. But, I do miss the cold and snow but not the ice and dreary days.

I am in the process of starting some new business and branch out on my own and become independent.

I was a licensed real estate agent, a real estate appraiser, Construction foreman, Labor foreman, equipment operator.

I did attend some college Penn State, started out in electrical engineer but never finished. I also went to some community colleges and got some credits but never did anything with it.

So as life goes on and I continue to learn more and more about life. I see all of the good and all of the bad about my past. I wish I would have known more of what I know now than what I had known then I would have turned out to be a very different human. But I like how I am now and I guess I would have had to gone through all that I did to get to where I am now and I like me and my life now and things can only get better. The rest of my life is going to be the best of my life.

Good wishes to all those who I knew who graduated with me and my under graduates. Many of you influenced my life and many brightened my life and to all of you I owe a thanks.

John J. Vaughn

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