Grump compiled this summary in response to questions from Charlie, for research into her familly's psycho-geneological history, 2012. 
 
Mema and Grump married on June 14 1947
 Grump education:
graduated from UNH in 1948 with a BA in psychology
graduated from Ohio State in June 1958 with MA in psychology
pursued his PhD from 1958 through 1959, completed all but dissertation, studied psychology
graduated from Radar Maintenance School (Electronics Officers Ground Equipment Course) 1951
graduated from Air Force Command & Staff College July 1955
  
Mema education:graduated UNH in 1947 with BA in government
graduated from University of Texas SA in MA in Spanish 1979 (straight As)
summer study in Mexico or the Canary Islands annually between 1979 and 1990
 
Military historyDeep in depression (about 1939) joined NH National Guard  172 Field Artillery (primarily for the $10 per month)
1940 NH National Guard was nationalized and sent to Camp Blanding in Florida
When war started in December 1941 the NH National Guard units were broken up into non-home-town units to prevent all the young kids from any given community from being lost at the same time.  Grump was transferred to a tank destroyer unit in Columbia South Carolina and became a tank scout on a motorcycle to locate tanks and advise the destroyer units where to attack (before cell phones and GPS).  There was closed by our camps in Columbia the flying training school. Once I saw the airplanes flying overhead, I decided that was for me.  I applied for aviation cadets.  I didn't  have a high school diploma and most cadets were required to have two years of college or pass a demanding physical and mental exam.  Somehow I muddled through and was accepted to the flying cadet program i 1942.   The training program had four stages:  Preflight at Lackland AFB  in SATX.  Primary where you first start to fly in Pine Bluff Arkansas.  Basic where you flew bigger and more complicated airplanes in Coffeeville, Kansas.  Final stage is advanced (more complicated and fast planes) Eagle Pass, Texas from which I graduated in July 1943 as a Second Lt. Pilot.  I was expecting to be sent overseas to help win the war but I was disappointed because I was selected as a pilot instructor and attended instructor pilot training in 1943 at Randolph AFB.  Upon graduating from there I was send to Enid Oklahoma as a basic instructor flying BT13s and BT15s (B for basic).  I instructed there for almost two years and never flunked out a student.  Then I was returned to Randolph AFB to attend advanced pilot instructor school for T6s.  When I graduated from that the T6 program eliminated and I was sent to Laughman AFB in Del Rio Texas to transition to Martin B 26 airplane, twin engine bombers.    When I finished the training I expected again to be sent to Europe but instead they kept me at Laughland AFB as a B 26 instructor where I remained until the end of the war. 
 
 When the war ended I had the option of discharge or staying in the AF as a Master Sargent but not as a pilot.  I accepted the discharge and returned to NH and went to  UNH even though I didn't have a HS diploma.  I was given about a year of college credits for the training and experience I had while on active duty during the war.  I met Mema in college in 1945 and we married in 1947. 
  
After graduating from UNH my mentor Dr. Philbrooke somehow managed to convince someone at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio that I would be a good candidate for the psychology branch at the aero-medical lab at the base.  I reported to the aero-med lab was assigned to flight research branch and was given a Link trainer (stationary precursor to video games).  While i was there the branch acquired a C 47 fully equipped with multiple research devices.  Dr. Grether who was our branch chief decided that I should be recalled to the AF as "on flying status" so i could conduct research on flying using the C 47 acquired by the lab.  Happily I was recalled in July 1950.  I went from $240 a month to First LT flying pay which was over $600 / month.  Everything was going fine and the lab got some requirements to do research on electronic equipment.  Dr. Gerther assigned me to go to the Radar Maintenance school at Kessler (see above).  Unfortunately, when I graduated from Radar Maintenance school I had a directed duty assignment as a radar maintenance officer and was not allowed to go back to the aero-med lab.  My directed duty assignment was to Freising Germany as a Radar Maintenance Officer.  By that time I had two little girls who arrived in Germany two months after I arrived.  I spent three years as a radar maintenance officer in Germany, maintained my flying status.  There was an interim three month assignment to Skullthrop England where I was commander of a small radar unit.  I returned to Germany briefly.  
 
After Germany Dr. Grether somehow got me reassigned to the Aero-med lab where I was chief of the inflight research section.  The C47 was still there and I did considerable inflight research with it using college students from several universities, giving them basic instrument flight instructions with several different instrument configurations, to determine which configuration was the most proficient. 
  
I left the Aero-Med lab in 1957 (meanwhile, Clint was born in 1955) and went to graduate school for my PhD at Ohio State in Columbus.  The intent of my advanced education at OSU was that I was to be sent to the AF Academy in Colorado Springs to teach psychology to AF cadets.   However while I was at OSU changes in programs at the AF Academy eliminated the position I was grooming for.  Instead, I was transferred to Griffiths AFB in Rome NY as a Chief of electronics psychology research section.  We stayed in NY for three years. 
  
I was assigned as AF Systems Command Liaison Officer to Air Training Command at Randolph AFB.  I spent three years at RAFB, was transferred to headquarters AF Systems Command at Andrews AFB in Washington DC.  I stayed there until 1967 when I retired to SATX. 
  
After retirement:  While in the service I became close friends with Clark Aylsworth and he and I started an investment club (Ventures Investment Club).  He remained in Washington and I took over operation of the club in Texas.  Finally we built the club to over 100 members and about $150K in the club.  He and I both became certified investment advisers and without the help of legal advisers we registered the investment club as a mutual fund.  At that time there were fewer than 150 mutual funds in the US and the registration process could cost up to several hundred thousand dollars.  When Clark retired and moved to SATX we had a small office and picked up a few more partners.  Somehow things didn't work out the way we had hoped and I decided to leave the mutual fund business and started a small R&D company with Glenn McClure.  In the meantime my experience as a research human factors psychologist became known to industry and I was hired as a consultant to Bell Telephone Labs and eventually wrote for them a specification to develop a human factors approach to equipment development for Bell Telephone Companies.  The proposal that I wrote was eventually given to me as a contract to develop the procedures for Bell.  I hired about 18 to 20 people and in about a year we completed the project.  Glenn McClure decided he was getting too old so we dissolved the company.  That was my last adventure as a small business owner.  I did some consulting after that from time to time. 
  
During all this period, Mema was getting her Masters Degree, teaching school as a substitute, and finally as a full teacher at UTSA. 
 
 Major local, national, world events that made an impact on my life:1.  The single biggest event was Pearly Harbor.  This changed the way I thought about my future and made me aware of the possibilities that were out there for me.  I took advantage of all opportunities for training and education. 
2.  The end of WWII with the dropping of the atomic bombs.  I have some regret  that we did drop them but I am totally convinced that we saved more lives (both Japanese and American) by dropping them that we would have lost invading and devastating all of Japan. 
  
Grump's parents and siblings:Father: George, born about 1888, in NH.  Grandpa Gardner.
Mother: Vera (nee Walsh), born about 1889, in NH. Nanny
They had three children:  George (Sunny, born 1918) and Robert (Buffy, born 1923) and John (Grump, born 1921). 
  
Mema's parents and siblingsFather: Clinton Farrow, born about 1895.  He was adopted. Gramp.
birth Mother: died when Mema was 8 or 10.
A couple of step mothers then Eleanor (Mummy Bug) when Mema was about 16.
Mema had one brother George.  He was a few years older and they were not close.
  
Grump's Father:   Brothers Fred, Zepp, Charlie; sisters Margaret and Annie.  Not a very close knit family.  Was a cigar maker which, prior to 1936 or 38, was a pretty good job.  But as the great Depression took hold and technology took over making cigars my father (who had little or no education) lost his job and kind of drifted away when I was about 8 or 10.  I didn't see too much of him after that and he provided no support to the family.  In his later years he spent some time with my older brother Sonny, and later sometime with Buffy.  He died in NH in 1970 (ish).  We were not close and became disappointed in him as I grew older because of his lack of helping to raise his sons and support his wife.  He just walked off.
  
Grump's Mother (Nanny):  Sisters Mary (Mae), Peggy, Ginny  Brother John.  (Grump was named after this Uncle) They all lived in Manchester except Peggy who moved to Florida with her husband Uncle Buster, (school teacher taught electrical engineering, only educated one in the family).  Uncle Buster's wife died in about 1975.  He left $5,000 to each of Vera's boys and to the other nieces and nephews;  they had no kids. Nanny visited Florida often and the NH siblings were pretty close.  If you want more info on them, just ask.  Nanny was married when she was late teens or early 20s.  She never went beyond 8th grade.  She was the oldest sibling and had considerable responsibility for bringing up the siblings. Grump barely remembers Nanny's father.  Nanny's mother was a "bitch", not very friendly (for example, she accused Grump of stealing a nickle... she lived with them periodically in very cramped quarters ... She insisted that Grump took the nickle (he swears he didn't)  Nanny believed Grump but she (the grouch) told all the people in the family that Grump was a thief.)
  
As a single mother, Nanny worked mostly in a hat store.  Didn't make much money but somehow we managed.  She refused to take any welfare so John and George were pretty much on their own for funds... shoveling snow, mowing lawns, packing and delivering groceries, all for spare change. One of Nanny's final jobs before John started supporting her was working in the same cigar factory where Grandfather Gardner had previously worked.  Nanny ran a cigar making machine.   Grump started supporting her around 1939 he was making $21/month and it was increased to $50/month.  He sent her half his pay every month.  when he made corporal he made $54/month.  In 1943 when he got commissioned he started sending her $100 per month and continue to support her until she died.  Grump never really asked the brothers if they were also sending her money but assumes that they did to some extent.  Nanny came to live with John and Jean a number of times over the years and after John retired in SATX he bought her a house just a few blocks away.  She wasn't happy there and decided she didn't want to live in that house or neighborhood.  Grump got her into a silver residence house for elderly ladies in New Braunfels Texas.  She stayed briefly, then moved back to Manchester.  In about 1975 she had a stroke and ended up in a nursing home.  She came to stay in SATX at John's again but it got to be too much for Jean to handle so Grump drove her back to NH to the nursing home where she finally got space in  a Catholic home in Manchester where she was relatively happy (she was a life long catholic).  She died in that home in the late 1970s.
  
Mema's Father (Gramp):  Was a salesman, Chicago Pneumatic, sold heavy road building equipment.  Also had a pretty good side line selling used heavy equipment.  He didn't make a lot of money but he had a 5 to 6 acre spread in Northwood NH (John and Jean lived there a few months after they were married) and he was a pretty good farmer.  Grew corn, peas, beans, tomatoes, and he had bee hives.  He smoked a lot and drove a lot for his job.  He had a car accident that made it hard to travel and couldn't get up to the second floor to sleep.  His lungs were trashed and he died one night coughing. 
  
Mema's Step-Mother (Mummy Bug):  John doesn't know how they met but they travelled together for several years and finally got married.  They bought the house in Northwood together.  Mummy Bug was fairly educated and raised Jean from about age 16.  She was a reasonably good step-mother to Jean but brother George didn't get along with Mummy Bug and moved out.  Married an older woman (Aunt Lou), had a few kids, marriage didn't last.   Never amounted to much. Jean and George were not close.  Mummy Bug remarried the udnertaker (Pinkham) that buried Gramp and they stayed married a long time (until he died).  They ran the mortuary together.  After Pinkham died, MB moved to a trailer park.  She and Mema were in okay touch over the years.
 
Grump medical history: heart bypass, arthritic joints, blind eye, pacemaker.
Mema medical history:  She was very healthy, moderately high blood pressure. 
  
As a youngster, Grump's only aspiration was to be a salesman.  When Grandpa Gardner's mother died she left him (Grandpa Gardner) a few thousand dollars;  she also left a few thousand dollars each to John, George, and Robert, making Uncle Charlie the executor.  This provided about $20/month for raising the sons.  Grandpa Gardner took his share and opened a cigar store in Lawrence Mass, called The Buck Eye.  In the back of the Buck Eye he had a little bookie operation and a card game.  He finally ran afoul of the police and wound up in jail for a year or two.  In the front of the store where he sold cigars he had sundries and notions (WaWa).  John inherited the inventory from the store.  It was about $200 to $300 worth of odds and ends.  Large sections of Manchester were apartment buildings where the mill workers used to live.  John rigged up a tray and walked those sundry things around from apartment to apartment knocking on doors selling stuff for 10 or 15 cents.  He did such a good job selling the stuff (pity? liked his personality) John decide he might be a good salesman.  Nanny's brother John (Grump's uncle) was a salesman who was a travelling salesman who was run over at night while changing a tire on his car.  This salesman dream went kaput with the outbreak of the war and I became a pilot instead.