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The Chicken Yard
The Chicken Yard
The Chicken Yard
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The Chicken Yard

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We begin with stories Billy has heard about events in his parent’s lives before he was born: His father Frank Grinnell, an aviation enthusiast in Topeka, Kansas, built and flew planes before marrying Marie MacConnell, Billy’s mother. He has both the first aircraft license and first pilot’s license in Kansas.

They marry and go to Hollywood, where she works in a photographer’s studio and he works in a garage, repairing tires and rebuilding batteries. On weekends he barnstorms, flying a WWI Jennie. He also rides a motorcycle in the Motor Drome and acts in several movies as an extra.

Returning to Topeka, Frank teaches tire repair and battery rebuilding and gives up flying when Dianna, Billy’s sister is born. Later when Billy is two, Frank and Marie agree he should start his own business in Tulsa Oklahoma. Later the family moves to Tulsa and build the house they will call home until Billy is in high school.

An angry rooster chases Billy from the chicken yard when he is four, an event that haunts him through his youth. Failing the fourth grade in school while Dianna skips a grade also lowers his confidence. But he takes pride working in the Grinnell Tire And Battery Shop at age nine.

Doing well after the seventh grade, Billy races in the Soapbox Derby and builds model airplanes. He writes the music for the school song and starts college on a band scholarship. During WWII in 1942 he joins the Army

After infantry training and a year of army engineering school, he is sent to the 103rd Infantry Division as a rifleman. His Division lands in France in 1944 and joins the front line at Saulcy. After five months he is promoted to Staff Sergeant and sent on furlough to London. He meets Joy Crawford and wants to marry her but finds she is already married.

The war is over and Bill is back in Tulsa, going to college; he buys a car, has a shotgun wedding and a divorce. While he is earning two bachelor’s degrees and a Master’s degree, he meets BB Danton, who sings soprano in the radio choir with him. He thinks she is the girl for him and against her mother’s wishes BB marries him.

They go to Knoxville, Tennessee where he is in graduate school; his GI benefit is running out and BB stops sleeping with him. They return to Tulsa and he goes to work for Frank. Bill buys BB a new car and new house, and after six months she starts sleeping with Him again. He thinks things are looking up but a day or two later he discovers she is three months pregnant.
Bill divorces her and vows to never marry again.

He attends a couple of 103rd Dvision reunions and Mac, one of his Army buddies advises him to go back to college and get a Ph.D. Bill likes the idea, but first gets a position, teaching at SUCO (State University of New York, Campus at Oneonta). He loves teaching and wants to spend his life at it. So after a year, he takes a leave and earns a PH.D. in mathematics education.

He signs a one year Contract to teach at Oklahoma City University but Marie wants him to teach

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PublisherRoger Greider
Release dateFeb 14, 2012
ISBN9781466012653
The Chicken Yard
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Roger Greider

Roger Greider was born in Topeka, KS in 1924. In 1928 he moved with his family to Tulsa, OK where he lived until 1943. Graduating from Will Rogers High School, he attended Tulsa University for one year before enlisting in the Army at age nineteen. On the front line in Europe, he was promoted from Private to Staff Sergeant, earning three ‘Bronze Stars. After his honorable discharge in 1945, he attended Tulsa University, earning Bachelor of Arts Degrees in both music and mathematics and a Master of Arts in Math. He was employed as a mathematician in the Basic Research Division of Jersey Production Research Co. And in his thirties, while taking graduate work in both music and math at The Univ. Of Tennessee, he played first desk second violin in the Knoxville Symphony. From 1945 to 1970, he directed church choirs, played in many string quartets and Sang in barbershop quartets. From 1961 to 1964 he was an associate professor of mathematics at The State University of New York, campus at Oneonta. And while he was there, he played in the Oneonta Symphony, sang in a barbershop quartet and directed the Sweet Adelines In 1965 he enrolled at the University Of Oklahoma, where he earned a second Master of Science degree in math and a Ph.D. in mathematics education. He then taught mathematics at Oklahoma City university, The University of Central Oklahoma and Rose State College, where he was the Dean of the Engineering And Science Division. Roger now lives in Oklahoma City, happily married to his beautiful wife, Judy, who is a retired Doctor of Pharmacy. They enjoy membership in Quail Creek Golf and Country Club. Between them they have three sons, a daughter, six grandchildren and, at the moment, eight great grandchildren. He has published his war memoirs, “Warrior, A True Account of a WWII GI,” a 2nd edition, “Temporary Warrior” and five novels: “Moonfall,” “Time Tangle,” “The Chicken Yard,” “Time Ship,” and “The Trust.” As of November, 2013, he continues to write.

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