On December 15, 1945 the crew and the ship LST-543 were nearly lost in a winter
typhoon in the Yellow Sea. The ship had just dropped off Korean prisoners and were headed to China to transport Japanese prisoners back to Japan.The wind was 70 mph with 50 ft. waves snow and freezing rain. An entire chapter from Byder Wilde's book "A Ship Remembered" is devoted to this immense storm. All on-deck watches were canceled and all hands were ordered below deck because the conditions were so bad that any one falling overboard was doomed. As the storm subsided, the crew noticed a large crack in the ship's hull and as the book says, " a little longer in the storm and we would have gone to the bottom".   

When I was in High School, Dad helped guide me into an education/career direction that he thought I would be good at and also like.

My senior year, he suggested I take some Business classes AND some Science classes, since I liked both. Science won.

He then heard about the Engineering Program at the University of Cincinnati that included the Co-op program working 18 months during the 5 year degree. He then

recommended Industrial Engineering since it had a Business/Operations orientation.He was right-on with his advice and it has served me well during my professional career. 

Dad was pretty smart!