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Thomas Spettel '54
| Years in BERLIN: | |
| 1947 - 1948 & Mannheim 1946-1947 | |
| Education: | |
| BS math major, Chem & Music minors, MS Advanced Technology (Computer theory stuff) |
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| Military Service: | |
| 1954-57 US Army Security Agency, Ft. Devens MA, Frankfurt IG Hochhaus: crypto repair (worked in a pretty big comm-center, but the secondary assignment was the one I kept waiting for: if the Cold War went Hot, we were to demolish all our equipment, grab our carbine, and procede to Paris by any means we can find ... Darn! it never got that hot! Grrr...) | |
| I spend my day (job/position): | |
| retired; position: alternating supine & prone | |
| My Hobbies Include: | |
| Sailing, reading, travel, museums, try to keep up with grandson's activities | |
| Sibling Brats: | |
| Three brat siblings (sister born Philippines), but in graduating classes of '38, '40, 42. These three siblings became or married Lt. Cols US Army. Hummm... I 'spose that when folks become officers, they don't count as brats no more? | |
| Partner: | |
| Eileen wife 1st/class for 50 years | |
| Dependents: | |
| a son all grown up | |
| Pets: | |
| rescue cat Alex | |
| Extra Stuff About Me: | |
| I just realized that there are MANY brats amongst my nieces/nephews who would have graduated HS between 1965 and maybe 197x. So maybe some Berlin Brats might know them from other duty stations? Spettels: Mike (class '65), Pat, Mark in Rouen & Berlin 1956-59; Nancy, Scott (b. Nurenburg), Marti (b. Germany), Stewart.
Ware: Pat, Caroline, Ginny (b. Frankfurt), Tom III. [I observe that NONE of them joined the military!] Marti married an EU ambassy worker, assignments included. China, Philippines, Korea,
Brussel, but she didn't go along on current assignment Afganistan... My career : check here whether my work involved YOUR weapon or system: Technician/engineer manufacturing crew-training simulators for LEM/Apollo, F4s dog-fighting, F14 with BIT, B52-KC135 refueling, Space Shuttle visual scenes and comm networks; B2 ELF radio; NATO Brussel Den Hague programming admin tools, air-battle command display (so was in Europe 18-months of 1992-1996 period). In 1948 I helped elevate the US cultural scene at Harnack Haus, Berlin: In July the American Little Theater offered a melodrama (for SURE a US acquired taste!) for a week. I see 2 brats on this website whose family names match people in the play (actors Laughlin Campbell I guess Harnack Haus hosted a BOQ, because we had a few little groups at their cafe-seating tables of officers-or-gentlemen who could really warm up to a work of art with a little (ahem) lubrication. The play's poster says "cheering, whistling, hissing and beer-drinking permitted." It did NOT say that the audiuence may shout out prompts to the cast if they forget their lines for a second or two!! Since these O-or-Gs showed up every night, they'd seen the play enough times to remember OUR lines... Goethe Hall will probably NEVER see a higher class artistic presentation!! And hummm... I wonder if management swept them out the night that Germans in the commercial movie business were in the audience ... I wonder what the Germans did with the movies they took that eve?! |
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if you have any additions/corrections/deletions. And ideas!