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NAME:                             James A. McDonough

AGE:                               35 for the second time around

LIVED in HAWAII:             39 yrs as of 8/8/08.

LIVED in WAIMEA:           19 yrs as of 9/1/08

LION OFFICES HELD:  Prexy -2 terms

                                        Public Relations Chair

                                        Vice Membership Chair … many yrs            

                                        Membership Chair … many more yrs

MILITARY SERVICE:   USAF, 20 yrs, 2mos and 1 day … but who’s counting?

                                         Boot camp … Sampson AFB, NY       (which no longer exists) 

                                         Radar training  …    Biloxi, MS

                                         Radar Squadron  … Winnemucca, NV           “    “      “         “

                                             “         “           … Santa Rosa Island, CA    “    “      “         “

                                             “         “           … Highlands, NJ                  “    “      “        “

                                          Truax Fld,          … Madison, WI                    “    “      “        “

                                          K.I. Sawyer AFB,  Marquette, MI                  “    “      “        “

                                          Offutt AFB,            Omaha, NE

                                          Wheeler AFB,        Wahiawa, HI                   (now Wheeler Army Air Field)

Other Careers:                     Honeywell Info Systems (Computer Systems Analyst)

                                          Ticket agent, Aloha IslandAir

                                          Assistant Manager, Ace Hardware

                                          Owner, Sugar n’ Spice

                                          Waikoloa Post Office part-time clerk

I was born in Cleveland, OH in a log cabin I had helped my father build.  Attended/graduated from St. Joseph’s High school in Dover, OH, which also no longer exists ( the high school not the town).  Enlisted in the AF one week after graduation since I had no affinity for coal mining, steel mills or being the town drunk, pumping gas, any of which I could have easily mastered, since I was amply prepared by the ‘college prep’ courses offered by St. Joe’s which allowed me to matriculate in the top half of a graduating class totaling 28 students.  Most of the 28 were girls since most of the boys dropped out and joined the Marine ( a brotherhood for which I also had no affinity, but the utmost respect).  Since leaving Ohio I have returned for an aggregate of probably 100 days, which I sometimes regret since it really is a beautiful State that my Dad really loved. 

Luana and I have grand-children and great-grand-children scattered across the great US of A, and time and distance from them is the only drawback to living in the land of Aloha.