Hi everyone, I'm Bruce Scherzinger, the current webmaster for hixnews.com. Maybe you've been curious just how I became affiliated with this newsletter and website. Well, there's definitely a story there. First of all, my wife's maiden name is Eileen Goldstein, HHS class of 1977. Her good friend and fellow HHS classmate, Maureen (Monahan) Schumann, worked alongside me in the early 1980s at Magnavox Govt and Industrial Electronics Corp (MAGIEC, pronounced "magic!") in Fort Wayne, IN. Maureen and I became fast friends. At the time, she was engaged to be married. She had a photo of Eileen on her cubicle...
Many of us have probably passed the brown brick buildings and tall smoke stacks on S. Broadway while on the way to the gym, or to grab a bite to eat at McDonald’s. However, few understand these buildings' history and impact on our community. In 1936, Grumman and the US Navy would go on to create these facilities for different testing and research applications of aerospace technology. Throughout World War II and the Korean War, these facilities would create pivotal aircraft such as the Hellcat, Tigercat, and Albatross. Over 17,000 aircraft were produced by Grumman in Bethpage, making...
I graduated in 1966... following April off to boot camp Great Lakes in Ill. Upon graduation received orders for Washington Navy Yard...one year... worked in a small supply office... from there SK A school for ten weeks in Newport Rhode, Island... then orders to a ship that was about 95% completed, being built in San Diego... assigned to base in December of 68... boarded ship four months later... plankowner... honorable discharge after serving 26 months on USS San Diego AFS-6 two med cruises..left SK2... E5 Awarded Navy Achievement Medal... good memories... have lots of pictures... USS San Diego (AFS-6) was a Mars-class...
