Married to JoAnn Gabarron (LHS '56) for 49 years.
Children: Julie Bensley, Paul Young, Laura Young (for more details, see JoAnn's bio)
Fifty years of "Life After LHS" inmore than one page: When I began college one lonelylate, I had little direction toward a career. After four years at UN, married, two children, anda third on the way, working full time at night for the Burlington Railroad, I graduated and accepted a job at the Central Power & Gas Company, working in Personnel, Sales and Labor Relations. I was always looking for a better job and more money. It was fortunate that married an equally ambitious woman and had responsibility for three other lives. My best work was with Lipton Tea, first at Morton House Kitchens in Nebraska City, then on to New Jersey, where I was always involved in problem divisions. These assignments gave me many opportunities to find new solutions to our business problems. I was fortunate to be in the right place almost all the time, and had a great boss and mentor. I take pride in the success enjoyed by my wife, JoAnn, and in the success of our three children. There have not been any significant events which will create fame or notoriety for me, but I count financing four college degrees (JoAnn's and our three children's) as an important contribution to the future. Special remembrances in my life were the births of our children, seeing JoAnn graduate (summa cum laude), the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, the animals of Kenya, Machu Picchu, and this memorable moment: JoAnn was working on "In Performance at the White House" for public television and I was invited to attend the taping. The day after she began, I arrived at the main gate, was checked in and was told to "go on up." Alone, I proceeded up the main drive, knocked on the front door, and since one came to the door, I just walked in, unescorted. WOW!
Thirty-one years with Lipton, ending my career as Vice President of Manufacturing, is a very long journey from the Whittier school ground -- shooting baskets in the mud, kicking field goals, and playing midget league baseball all summer with Yogi Hergenrader, Roger Krhounek, Dean Guild, Mike Keim, Rudy Stoltz, and many others from LHS.