W C GorskiAs Kalgarad is so fond of saying, First things First... On September 20, 1970, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal Savior. It is important to note that none of the following would have had any real consequence or meaning if that life chaning event had not occurred. My parents were immigrants to the United States. My father migrated from Tsarist Russia as a very young child with his parents during the Bolshevik revolution, and my mother from Ukraine to Canada; then to America. My father fought in World War II. As an adolescent in high School, I played drums in a Michigan Rock Band called The JuJus, (follow the link for more info: michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/109-jujus, Note: also can be found on Wikipedia) and produced a record You Treated Me Bad, which made it to the top-ten (WLAV) for eleven weeks; reached the #2 position on the charts, surpassed only by the vaguely familiar song Yesterday by the Beatles. I Graduated in the top 10% of my class at Muskegon Business College (now Baker College) with a 4.0 GPA, Graduating Summa-Cum-Laude, on the Dean's List every quarter. Top 1/3 of Class at Aquinas College. Promoted to Interim Editor during my college Externship from Aquinas College to the Hackley Hospital Community Relations Department. Received the Army Commendation Medal during my service in Viet-Nam for Bravery and Outstanding Performance against a Hostile Force. Owned and operated MicroScribe, a Court Reporting agency. MicroScribe was considered by many to be the premier Court Reporting firm in Western Michigan. My work brought me to Pittsburgh in 2005, where I became a rabid Steelers fan, and eventually transferred to operating my own office in Akron Ohio. In addition, I have been a past member of the iiar, and have worked within the Industrial Refrigeration Industry for 47 years, starting as a Chief Operating Engineer and eventually drifting into Sales & Marketing. During that period I had written a version of an OSHA Mechanical Integrity Inspection and created an annual Operational Audit, both of which are still widely in use throughout the industry today. While in the business, I had written and published a myriad of refrigeration related articles, many of which have been downloaded from my Linked-In page by other engineers and used as supplemental material in company training manuals I have done a quantity of traveling in Eastern Europe to Warsaw, Uman, Delgorod-Dnestrovski, Nikolayev and lived in Odessa, Ukraine near Shevchenko Park for a short period of time. During my travels overseas, I was able to visit places that the largest part of the population has only read about and have found that most people are generally friendly and seemed to be as curious about me as I was about them. I enjoy sailing and have been a former Junior Yachtsmen Board Member of the Muskegon Yacht Club and involved in many church activities as-well-as writing a book. Read More Read Less