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Gerald Thomas Richards
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When I was born, my father was Chief of Police in Arcadia, California and my mother, a former Oklahoma sharecropper who went west to avoid starvation when crops and the economy failed, worked as a homemaker. In 1937 after her second marriage failed, she took me to Mangum, Oklahoma where she married her former landlord who was recently widowed. I attended the Mangum public schools until 1947 when the education process became a bore. That year I began hitchhiking around Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. I worked as a stock-boy in Roswell, New Mexico, set pins in a bowling alley in Junction, Texas and, during the school year, lived with my grandparents in Junction while attending high school. In the fall of 1947, I joined the Oklahoma National Guard and returned to high school in Mangum. I dropped out of school in the spring of 1948 when the National Guard called me to active duty to attend radio operators school in New Jersey. I enjoyed my military experience so well that I joined the U.S. Army which posted him to occupied Germany from late 1948 until the middle of 1951. When I was discharged from the army in 1952 as a Sergeant, I joined my biological father in Iran where I attended a missionary high school for a year. In Iran, I witnessed a coup d'état removing the Shah and a palace revolution that restored the Shah to the throne. Returning to the United States, I spent five years at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, four as a student and one as an Insturctor in Mathematics. My first novel, "Jimmy" draws heavily upon my experience in Occupied Germany.
With my new college degree, I took an appointment as instructor in mathematics at Lafayette College and enrolled in graduate school at nearby Lehigh University to study physics. A year later, I took a job as a management science trainee with SOHIO (formerly Standard Oil of Ohio) in Cleveland where I worked at the number one refinery on the manager's staff until March 1959 when I accepted a Regularly Army appointment as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army. After a two year detail to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, I attended a special Army-designed graduate program at Purdue University in Engineering Science from which I received an MSE. Thereafter, I was assigned to the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory as a Research Associate working in a nuclear weapons design division for two and a half years. I resigned his commission with the rank of Major in 1967 after a tour in Korea with the Second Infantry Division. Soon thereafter I secured a job as a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory working in the same group where I worked as a Research Associate. After seven years and assignment as supervisor of the programmers supporting a weapons design division, in 1973 I resigned to attend law school at Golden Gate University in San Francisco from which he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1976. After passing the California Bar Exam in 1976, I practiced law in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California in private practice for a few years and with the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laboratory Counsel’s office until retirement from paid law practice in 1993. Since that time, I have filled several different volunteer attorney positions in Santa Barbara, San Diego and Contra Costa Counties California.

I made the Dean's List all four years as a student at Lafayette College. During my junior year, I earned election to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi Honor Societies. That year I also won a General Electric Scholarship to help with tuition my senior year. During my senior year, I was a teaching assistant in the Industrial Engineering Department, teaching a 3 unit course in industrial statistics to juniors, which I designed and taught without assistance. I graduated with a BS in Industrial Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, in 1957. While attending Purdue University, I was elected to Sigma Pi Sigma, the Physics Honor Society. I received an Army Commendation Medal for service in Korea in 1966 and left the Army as a Major in 1967. My biography appears in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who in the West and Who's Who in the World.



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