Synopsis
My early years of recollection were when my Grandmother would read to me from the Bible when I was old enough to understand. The "Great Depression" had started. She was the one who would raise me. My mother had to work along with my dad in order to keep food on the table before I started work in the movies. All of the stories she read seemed to be about women and their dominant part in the narration of the events. Where as, when I went to school the forming of history was done by men. A good example was Jochebed, mother of Moses and Miriam, his sister. As a baby he was set adrift in a basket by them. Where was the father, Amram? The same can be asked when Moses married Zipporah and had a son by her. It was she who "cut off the foreskin and cast it at his feet". Exod 4:24. Circumcising should have been done by the father, I should think. It came to me that a tome in the form of a reference book should be made available. Hence, this manuscript. Charles "Doug" Greer
About the Author
About the AuthorCharles Douglas GreerFrom the onset he was called "Doug" Born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1921.Both parents from Scotland.Moved to California in 1924.Settled in Glendale.In 1928 won a freckled-face contest.Because of this he got work in the movies.His first days work was in a crowd screen in one of the first talking pictures,"Sunny side Up". 1929He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, #11732He worked with Jackie Copper in many of the "Our Gang" comedies as well aswith Mickey Rooney in the "Mickey McGuire Comedies".As a teenager, he worked again with Jackie Copperin "When a Feller Needs a Friend", M G M.After working on many pictures and meeting many movie stars,it was time to move on.This inappropriate career he had as a young man was not for him.It had interfered with his educationWhile attending Burbank High School, "Doug" studied Aircraft Sheet Metal.When he graduated he went to work for Lockheed Aircraft Company in Burbank, Ca.World War II having started, he volunteered for and joined the Tenth Mountain Divison,the Ski Troops. ( He had learned to ski in the mountains of California.)When his Battalion prepared for overseas service,he was transferred to "Inactive Duty" to go back to Lockheed for a specific job.When this was finished, June 8th, 1944,he was called back into service with the 1267th Combat Engineer Battalion.He "visited" England, France, Luxemburg and Germany.When the war in Germany was over, he went to Marseille, France.There he boarded a ship that took him through the Panama Canaland ended up in the Philippine Islands, as part of an invasion force to go to Japan.While in the Philippines, he contacted Malaria.He was Honorably Discharged June 8,1946.After the war he went to work for Laboratory Furniture Company, Burbank, California.There he learned the ins and outs of the trade.He formed his own Corporation, "American Northern",specializing in Fume Hoods and their exhaust systems.He was married for 40 years, 7 months, 7.days.He lost her
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