As I grew up in Hopedale and in Chapel St school...Park St... Dutcher St and you know where. Went into service as soon in '44 as I turned 18 and ended the war in a foxhole in Czechoslovakia with the First Infantry !

From there I went to Drapers as an apprentice draftsman . 32 years and 9 months of labor and 11 years of night school, I retired as the head of R & D of Rockwell's Yarn Machinery Division, looking out the same window on Hopedale St.
Pretty mundane stuff.

R H R '44