Just Reminiscing
By Larry Rummell and Paul Pendell Mok
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For that matter, the coauthor started out as a farmboy yearning to enlist in the US Navya yearning that grew more intense when his mom intercepted his army draft notice, and suddenly it disappeared.
Once fulfilling his dream of becoming a sailor, who would have guessed hed wind up getting slammed by an errant fuel hose, landing him smack into the Atlantic Ocean without a paddle.
This little book of vignettes relates the very personal and sometimes sad, sometimes downright silly and funny experiences and adventures of two old guys whove seen it all.
The authors Paul Pendell Mok and Larry Rummell enjoy telling tales and hope you enjoy reading them as much as they did writing them.
Larry Rummell
Paul Pendell Mok has had seven books published. “Just Reminiscing” is his first autobiographical series of vignettes. Mok spends most of his time in the western U.S. and Europe. Larry Rummell is an entrepreneur and has owned several successful companies. “Just Reminiscing” is his first professional writing effort.
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CONTENTS
Biography Paul Pendell Mok
Biography Larry Rummell
Foreword
The 1930’s and 1940’s in New York
Kansas
About Mike
1937
Jump
Saving Betsy
Burglary-in-Progress
Washed Overboard
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Pendell Mok was born at New York City’s Poly Clinic on West 50th Street. It was the start of The Great Depression. Paul and his family lived in a fourth floor walk-up apartment in Brooklyn near Prospect Park and The Botanical Gardens.
He was graduated from Collegiate School in Manhattan in 1947 and then studied at Cornell University. He graduated from Cornell in 1951.
Six weeks after his graduation he entered the U. S. Air Force as a second lieutenant. He served during the Korean War but did not see action.
Paul won a Ford Foundation Fellowship to attend Harvard. He obtained a Master’s Degree in teaching and subsequently was accepted in the counseling program at the Graduate School of Education. He won two university wide Lehman Scholarships for academic excellence. Additionally he earned a Milton Fellowship and a Tinkham Fellowship. In his spare time he taught two psychology courses at Suffolk University in Boston. In 1959 he obtained his doctorate degree from Harvard in education with concentration in counseling. He became a licensed psychologist in the State of New York.
Paul served as school psychologist at the Bronxville School for four years at which point he sought a different challenge. He found that in Monrovia, Liberia where he served as Director of the US AID Testing Center. Most of his clients were large multinational companies such as Pan American World Airways, Bong Mines and Barlowe Rand. He gave non-verbal aptitude tests to determine what kind of training was most relevant.
From 1966 until his retirement he served as a counselor and consultant in the field of communication. He also tried his hand at writing. His works include the Survey of Communicating Styles and the books Pushbutton Parents and the Schools and a novel, The Year of the Quicksand.
BIOGRAPHY
Larry Rummell was born in Pawnee City, a small farming community in the south east corner of Nebraska in the late 1930’s. Times were tough in the Post-Depression era, work was hard to come by and wishes didn’t always pan out.
Larry’s school achievement was academically unremarkable; however, understanding mechanical things came easily. Modifying mechanical equipment and making repairs were challenges he enjoyed. These skills would later serve him well. He graduated in the top half of his class in 1956 and enlisted in the Navy just ahead of an Army Draft Notice. After Boot Camp he was assigned to a newly-constructed ship nearing completion at Boston Naval Shipyard. He participated in the preparation for the ships Commissioning and Sea Trials in the very cold winter of 1956.
After Honorable Discharge from the Navy he took the examination for Police Officer, passed and was hired. He spent 20 years dealing with family disputes, suicides, auto thefts, armed robberies and other police issues.
Now retired, Larry looked for a new career that would optimize his mechanical skills and security knowledge. He took the contractors license test, passed and started his own business. Located in a large metropolitan area, leased office building managers and homeowner associations were experiencing crime on their premises and were demanding security solutions to protect their tenants and residents. Police work knowledge was instrumental in shaping his understanding of these issues and their solutions. He decided