Ronald Acker
Ronald Acker was born in 1935 and raised on a small farm in New Lennox, Illinois.
I attended public school my first four years of grammar school. For the fifth through the eighth grade of grammar school, I attended Wyler Military Academy in Evansville, Wisconsin.
After grammar school, I attended college preparatory at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee. I graduated in 1952, eighth in a class of 94 students.
I then attended University of Illinois at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois for three years.
By 1955, I had gotten married and started a family. This required my attending seven years of night school at Illinois Institute of Technology to obtain my metallurgical degree while working as a metallurgist in a grey iron foundry.
As you can see, my education was directed toward mechanical and metallurgical engineering when the United States economy was manufacturing and construction.
By 1965 I had become a consulting metallurgist, and owned and created the largest expanded metal plant west of the Mississippi in Chandler, Oklahoma. In 1977, foreign competition demanded my sale to a larger Eastern expanded metal producer in order to fight the competition with economy of scale. Five years latter that Eastern Company went bankrupt.
By 1975 the EPA requirements dictated heavy equipment production and the associated pollution was being transferred to third world countries. My consulting metallurgical knowledge became obsolete.
By 1978 I became interested in physical therapy, natural healing, and anti aging. For four years I owned and operated South Coast Fitness in Costa Mesa, California.
Fifty percent of my clientele were physical therapy patients and fifty percent were cosmetic, such as sun tans and Electro Muscular Stimulation. Unfortunately seventy-five percent of our profit was generated by the cosmetic portion which came to a stand still in 1982 when Ronald Reagan increased the Federal discount rate by 16% to st
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I attended public school my first four years of grammar school. For the fifth through the eighth grade of grammar school, I attended Wyler Military Academy in Evansville, Wisconsin.
After grammar school, I attended college preparatory at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee. I graduated in 1952, eighth in a class of 94 students.
I then attended University of Illinois at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois for three years.
By 1955, I had gotten married and started a family. This required my attending seven years of night school at Illinois Institute of Technology to obtain my metallurgical degree while working as a metallurgist in a grey iron foundry.
As you can see, my education was directed toward mechanical and metallurgical engineering when the United States economy was manufacturing and construction.
By 1965 I had become a consulting metallurgist, and owned and created the largest expanded metal plant west of the Mississippi in Chandler, Oklahoma. In 1977, foreign competition demanded my sale to a larger Eastern expanded metal producer in order to fight the competition with economy of scale. Five years latter that Eastern Company went bankrupt.
By 1975 the EPA requirements dictated heavy equipment production and the associated pollution was being transferred to third world countries. My consulting metallurgical knowledge became obsolete.
By 1978 I became interested in physical therapy, natural healing, and anti aging. For four years I owned and operated South Coast Fitness in Costa Mesa, California.
Fifty percent of my clientele were physical therapy patients and fifty percent were cosmetic, such as sun tans and Electro Muscular Stimulation. Unfortunately seventy-five percent of our profit was generated by the cosmetic portion which came to a stand still in 1982 when Ronald Reagan increased the Federal discount rate by 16% to st
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