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To see my information since college graduation, click on the link below:
JohnMyers after OSU Graduation
To see my information since college graduation, click on the link below:
JohnMyers after OSU Graduation
I completed 4 years of Air Force ROTC at OSU and was the Administrative Officer of the Drill Team (which included trips to places like WDC for the Cherry Blossom Festival). It also meant I escorted the OSU Air Force ROTC Queen to the Military Ball (mainly because I was the only officer without a girlfriend). I qualified as a Pilot Candidate but I had found Computers and had a great San Francisco computer job offer, so to SF I went.
Photos below relate to my spending most of my OSU time in the Stadium Scholarship Dorm.
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I was appointed to the OSU Student Senate to represent the residents of the Stadium Dorm. The Senate met in the previous version of this room (we did not have microphones). It was a quick lesson about where most of our politicians get their early experience in getting power and making private deals. It had little to do with representing all the students. I did not apply for re-election and instead concentrated on getting the best Engineering Education I could.
During the summer of my 4th year in OSU Engineering School, I worked in the New Orleans Offshore Engineering Dept of Shell Oil. Above photos show my windowless living space I rented above a family's garage in the Garden District. It was just me and the cockroaches! One trick I learned from the locals was to leave a cockroach food source outside your dwelling so that the cockroaches would not go looking for food inside your dwelling. That trick somewhat worked.
I worked at Goodbar's Gulf Service Station at the intersection of 3C Highway (22) and Route 72 at Reesville. Ralph Leslie worked there also. I continued to learn about cars and about serving the public in a retail environment.
Above: the 1934 five-window Chevy Coupe
Story from Brother Philip:
John and I pooled our money (US Savings Bonds included) to raise the $100 purchase price set by a very old retired resident of Washington Court House. John was not old enough to have a driver's license, so I was the designated driver. It turns out this was the only Myers vehicle that would reliably start anywhere, anytime, always. So, sometimes it served as the "go to work" vehicle for the Superintendent of Wayne Local Schools. This created murmured conversation among many at the school.
Story from Brother Philip:
John and I pooled our money (US Savings Bonds included) to raise the $100 purchase price set by a very old retired resident of Washington Court House. John was not old enough to have a driver's license, so I was the designated driver. It turns out this was the only Myers vehicle that would reliably start anywhere, anytime, always. So, sometimes it served as the "go to work" vehicle for the Superintendent of Wayne Local Schools. This created murmured conversation among many at the school.
- Then there was mother's need to go shopping in Sabina. So again, the trusty old '34 was rolled out for duty. Now understand, this was the first time mother had driven it, floor shift and all. The Chevy was on a short wheelbase as mother was to discover on her way back to the farm. While making the required left-hand turn from 3 & 22 onto 72, she cut the corner too short and drug that little coupe along a marker post on the left lane. No big damage but it was the brunt of jokes for some time.
- John and I had little money, so in the winter we would always drain the cooling system after each use of the car since we couldn't afford antifreeze. Which leads us to the "David" episode.
- David was employed at a truck stop in Sabina. He needed reliable transportation to the job one very cold night and he borrowed our 34 Chevy. We explained that the car had no antifreeze and that he needed to drain the cooling system at work and then refill it when he drove home. Maybe he ate too many pickled "trucker" eggs that were always on sale there; anyway, he forgot to drain the cooling system. You guessed it: a cracked engine head.
- It was following this event we decided to install a powerful Chrysler Hemi V-8 engine. We changed out the front-end hydraulic knee-action suspension for a dropped Plymouth tubular axle, installed a Chrysler automatic transmission and a Mercury rear-end. The required welding modifications were performed by a welding expert in Sabina named (wait for it)..............Roy Rogers.
- Now, the rest of the story. John and I used this trusty steed to go to school frequently without mishap. Well almost. Leaving the school parking lot one day to enter Larrick Road required moderate use of the throttle on the powerful Hemi V-8. Moderate throttle wasn't used that afternoon. The open exhaust was testimony to excess throttle being used as the modified Chevy did a 360 when turning onto Larrick Road. No damage resulted; well, except for a need to change underwear.
- Now you know some of our adventures with that $100 worth of great fun. Kinda wish we had kept it for old time's sake.
- We reversed the trunk lid so that the hinge was on the bottom edge and the lid would then open at the top edge. Then we put in an old car bench seat and now we had a rumble seat like the fancy Roadster cars of the era.
- The car had a new special type of front suspension. If you Google "1934 Chevrolet knee-action suspension", you will find articles and photos.
- In a Perfect World, our 34-Chevy 5-window coupe would have turned into the car shown below!
Boy Scout Troop 35 in Lees Creek
Kneeling, front row, left to right: John Myers, Dale Knox, Frank Morton, Joe Martin, Walter Lambke, Carl Hartley, Paul Hartman) . Second row, kneeling, left to right: Mike Blair, Lees Creek Troop 35 Scoutmaster, Donald Gibson, Reesville Troop 62 Scoutmaster. Standing, first row, left to right: Jack Selvey, Bob Morris, Bob Walker, Eddie Morton, Herman Lambcke, Marvin Bond, Jim Leslie, Richard Leslie. Second row, standing, left to right, Bob Carroll, Dick Grove, Bob Truman, Jim Georges, Earl Murphy.
High School Academic Awards